daily tear-off calendar; daily pad calendar
A calendar where each day is on a separate sheet, typically torn off or flipped. Similar to 日めくり (himekuri).
See also: 日めくり
Obsolete term for the solar calendar, as opposed to the lunar calendar. Now replaced by 太陽暦 (taiyōreki).
See also: 太陽暦
Every morning, my grandmother tears off a sheet from the daily calendar in the kitchen.
Records state that Japan adopted the solar calendar in the Meiji period.
Compound of 日 (hi, 'day') and 暦 (koyomi, 'calendar'), with rendaku voicing of the second element. The reading ひごよみ is a straightforward combination.