Scriptable widget that displays the current sekki ("small season").
Explain! After coming across smallseasons.guide, I liked the idea of having the current sekki shown on my home screen. Quoting from there:
In agricultural days, staying in-tune with the seasons was important. When should we plant seeds? When should we harvest? When will the rains come? Are they late this year? Knowing what was happening with nature was the difference between a plentiful harvest and a barren crop.
Prior to the Gregorian calendar, farmers in China and Japan broke each year down into 24 sekki or "small seasons." These seasons didn't use dates to mark seasons, but instead, they divided up the year by natural phenomena. [...]
Living in cities, most of us don't need to know if the rains are late this year, or when the bushwarblers will start warbling.
But it's nice to have a more fine-grained way of thinking about the year; dividing such a big span of time into four big seasons feels really clumsy. Thinking in two week sekki seems to match how my life and environment changes a lot better.
The background image of this demo screenshot is taken from a woodblock print by Takahashi Shōtei, downloaded from the Mokuhankan Collection, which is a rabbit hole worth falling into.
Any setup required?
Barely more than for any other Scriptable widget! Download small-seasons.js and small-seasons-background.png and place them in the "Scriptable" directory in your iCloud Drive. Then, back on your homescreen, go into jiggle mode and create a new Scriptable widget of your preferred size. Tap it to assign the relevant script to it, then wait a second for it to draw itself for the first time.