Autumn (aki)

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Autumn (aki, Japan) 秋

***** Location: Worldwide
***** Season: All Autumn
***** Category: Heavens

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Explanation

The autumn season in Japanese Haiku
is fixed according to the Asian lunar calendar from the beginning of autumn at the eighth of August until the seventh of November.
In reality the autumn in Central Japan lasts roughly from September to the end of November.
There are many kigo with relation to "Autumn", we will start to pick them up here.
Gabi Greve

WKD : The Asian Lunar Calendar

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Check out the University of Virginia Japanese Saijiki for AUTUMN
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/haiku/saijiki/3au.html

aki : Autumn

The Season .. The Heavens .. The Earth .. Daily Life .. Observances .. Animals .. Plants
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/haiku/saijiki/brief.html


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Worldwide use

Autumn in England

silent willow leather
village green abandoned-
crimson leaves fall

Paul Oxberry, 2007

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By Soji
http://www.haikupoetshut.com/

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The Autumn in Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden
This is the season that we start to feel cool in the stream of winds.Leaves that grew thick in summer begin to change their colours.Flowers overcoming through summer are still modestly blooming.

Link with many flower pictures, names in Japanese and English.
http://www.shinjukugyoen.go.jp/season/english-autumnflower.html

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Things found on the way

Pages of autumn haiku, although the word AUTUMN is not mentioned specially.
http://www.oldgreypoet.com/haiku/autumnhaiku.html
http://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/wlhaiku/autumnhaiku.html
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~philipdnoble/autumn.htm

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HAIKU

autumn dusk
scarecrow points
to the rising moon

Philip D Noble
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~philipdnoble/autumn.htm

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one by one
everyone has left
autumn wind

Issa

Haiga by Jerry Dreesen
http://www.jerrydreesen.com/image.htm?autumn_wind,500,357,Autumn_Wind,hm1
© Jerry Dreesen - all rights reserved

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http://crossspot.net/hoophorn/IkebanaHaiga.jpg

(C) Origa (Olga Hooper)

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Renga by Isabelle, Sakuo and Gabi (translating a bit)
Kigo Discussion Group, September 2005

asa no kumo
aki no owari o
ori ni keri

izuko no aki mo
onaji aki kana

... ... ...

morning spider
weaving
end of summer

where ever there is autumn
it is the same autumn
... ... ...

Spinne am Morgen
das Ende des Sommers
webt sie

wo immer es Herbst ist
der gleiche Herbst

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WHCworldkigo/message/2130

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Autumn Haiku by Louis Osofsky, 2006


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Related words

*****. Autum Cherry Shikizakura (Japan)

***** . Autumn Equinox (aki higan) Japan

***** . Autumn deepens, autumn is deep (aki fukashi) Japan

***** . Autumn Festival (aki matsuri) Japan

***** . Autumn Leaves (momiji) Japan. yellow leaves, colored leaves

***** . Autumn Melancholy Europe


***** "loneliness in autumn" autumn melancholy, aki sabu 秋寂ぶ (あきさぶ)
SABU, means also "getting rusty", autumn is rusting. It may also hint to the color of the autumn leaves.



***** Cold weather in autumn, winter and spring . . KIGO LIST


***** Withered tips, withered scene, uragare 末枯 うらがれ
ura garuru 末枯るる（うらがるる）
kigo for late autumn

kiete yuku no mo uragare no hotoke kana

Fields dying off:
the underside of grasses frozen
hour of my death.

© Gokei

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***** Fine weather in autumn, akibare　秋晴れ
..... aki no hare　秋の晴れ
..... aki biyori 秋日和　あきびより



***** Autumn evening, autumn dusk, aki no kure　秋の暮
Details are here:
. Autumn dusk, autumn twilight (aki no kure) Japan



***** Autumn night, aki no yuube, aki no yoru
秋の夕べ　。　秋の夜
You can feel the red shine of the late sun in the sky, but know it is over soon. So the feeling of things passing, loneliness and melancoly are very strong. Same as in autumn dusk.


***** Autumn deepens (aki fukashi)


***** Seasons coming to an end ..
relevant kigo for all seasons, including AUTUMN.



***** AUTUMN FOOD ... ... a KIGO LIST


***** . HUMANITY and autumn kigo ... LIST


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***** Lamplight in autumn, lanterns in autumn (shuutoo) Japan



***** Lingering Heat (zanshoo 残暑　nokoru atsusa 残る暑さ）：
kigo for early autumn

This referst to hot days after the official beginning of Autumn according to the the Asian lunar calendar of risshuu　立秋, August 8 . The word "lingering" zan in Japanese, gives the haiku poet a feeling of "not for long any more", and the heat will be easier to bear.

A warm spell after it has been cool for a while is rather welcome and called
warm autumn day, aki atsushi 秋暑し


lingering heat
the squirrel runs from
green to brown

Owen Burkhart

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Autumn deepens (aki fukashi) Japan. Basho's famous haiku translations


Spring (haru, Japan)
Summer (natsu, Japan)
Winter (fuyu, Japan)


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