The monthly calendar is ideal for managing schedules. The graph paper design is lightly printed to make it easier to write in your plans and take notes in an even line. The blue gray and red print both allow for high visibility when writing in the calendar.

The Cousin contains weekly calendars that are useful for managing detailed schedules for the week. The 2018 edition book features a newly extended timeline, previously 6 AM to midnight but now 5 AM to 4 AM the following day. This allows any and all plans to be recorded in the calendar.

Each header includes the numerical month, the year, the Japanese era name, the traditional Japanese name of the month, and the English name of the month.

Each box is lightly printed with a graph design to make it easy to fill in a full day’s worth of plans. You can also take full advantage of the graph design by drawing out sections to allocate plans or entries visually.

The monthly calendars include the number of the week. The formula we use begins counting with the first week in January that includes a Thursday.

Both the monthly and weekly calendars include free space for taking notes, making plans or decorating the calendars with stickers and washi tape.

(Pictured left: monthly calendar / Pictured right: weekly calendar)

The calendars include icons depicting new moons (●) and full moons (○). (While the moon phase is the same across the world, the exact dates the moon phases land on are listed in Japan time.)

(Pictured left: monthly calendar / Pictured right: weekly calendar)

The monthly calendar days are labeled with rokuyo, a cycle of six days said to predict good or bad fortune that day. The labels are commonly found on Japanese calendars and used to plan weddings and funerals.

The monthly pages for January through May of 2019 have the year in large numbers in the background to easily differentiate them from the 2018 pages.

The weekly calendar has a mini calendar on the top left as an easy reference to the rest of the month. The week displayed on the current two-page spread is outlined.

The weekly calendar contains a timetable that begins at 5 AM and ends at 4 AM the next day. Each hour consists of two lines on the grid, making it easy to write in intervals of 30 minutes.