Cancer Image

About Cancer

  • alphabet
    Crab/Cancer
  • Katakana, Onyomi
    Club/Cancer

Cancer was created by Claudius Ptolemy and has an area of 506 square degrees and 97 stars visible to the naked eye.
Pto is one of the 48 constellation of Eos and one of the twelve ecliptic constellation. It is a dim constellation of about fourth or fifth magnitude, but in the center of the crab's shell is the open cluster M44 Praesepe, which can be seen with the naked eye.

In Mesopotamia, Cancer, it is said that Hera made it into constellation because it fought well.

[Source of the story]
Encyclopedia of the Cultural History of Stars, Hakusuisha Publishing (December 2019)
Encyclopedia of constellation, Kawade Shobo Shinsha (February 2011)

The Story of Cancer

Even the same constellation is viewed and has different anecdotes depending on the era.
We will introduce stories about Cancer in each era and region.

  • Mesopotamian civilization
  • Ancient Egyptian Civilization
  • Ancient Greece
  • Chinese Civilization
  • Ainu
  • Edo period Japan
  • Modern Japan
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  • Ancient South American civilizations
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  • Hawaii, Polynesia
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  • Japanese translation, kun reading
    demon
  • Katakana, Onyomi
    Guy
  • Traditional Region
    China
  • Local Language Expressions
    輿鬼(ヨキ)
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    right ascension (a) … 08h31m35.73082s ~ 08h 44m41.1s
    declination (d) … +18° 05′ 39.9166″ ~ +18° 09′ 15″
    (Wikipedia Chinese version Onishuku)
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Source of the story
"The History of Chinese constellation" by Masatsugu Osaki
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