The old Japanese calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms (二十四節気) and each term into three micro-seasons of about five days (七十二候), named for what is happening outside: east wind melts the ice, peach trees first blossom, fireflies rise from the damp grass. This planner walks through them a week at a time. The start date of every term and micro-season is worked out for each edition's year from the sun's position and given in Japan time, the way Japanese almanacs print it.

At the front, the seasons of the year in order, about four pages: each term as a tinted heading with its date, then its three micro-seasons, numbered 1 to 72, with the English names we wrote for them (and the Japanese names in the en-ja files). Each month has a spread with the day a term begins marked in its square. Each week has a spread: on the left, seven day rows with a box to mark each day, the start of a season named in the row where it falls, a small calendar of the month, a focus line and a to-do line; on the right, the micro-seasons of the week, each with its number, its dates and its name, then lines for notes.

Includes 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030 editions and an undated edition. Each dated edition follows the techo year: it starts in December of the year before (the 2027 edition runs from December 2026 to December 2027) and every week runs Monday to Sunday. No holidays are printed; every day has a small box instead, to mark whatever matters to you. The undated edition lists the 72 micro-seasons with their typical start dates and has write-in weeks and months, with a line on each week for its season.

Every file comes in English and in English with Japanese: in the en-ja files each label carries its Japanese beside the English, set smaller and lighter (MON 月, Notes メモ), and each month also shows its traditional name, such as 師走 for December. Set in Instrument Serif and Instrument Sans, with Noto Sans JP and Shippori Mincho for the Japanese, in a deep indigo ink (never black) with hairline rules in pale indigo. Saturdays are indigo and Sundays vermilion, as on Japanese calendars, and each month has its own small seasonal sprig, from plum blossom in January to nandina berries in December.

You get 10 PDFs, one for each edition, language and size, plus a one-page how-to-print guide and the font licence. Sizes: A5 148 × 210 mm (5.83 × 8.27 in); each PDF page is one planner page at its finished size. Page counts are the same in both sizes and both languages: 2027 edition 150 pages; 2028 edition 150 pages; 2029 edition 152 pages; 2030 edition 152 pages; undated edition 140 pages.

How to print: print at Actual size (100 %) on A4 or US Letter, one page to a sheet, and trim; the guide gives the trim distances for both papers. Spreads always begin on an even page, so pages printed double-sided and stacked in order open as spreads. The pages are light on ink: fine pale lines and small accents.