Frost (shimo)

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Frost (shimo)

***** Location: Japan, India
***** Season: Various, see below
***** Category: Heaven

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Explanation

kigo for all winter

frost, shimo 霜
great frost, ooshimo　大霜, tsuyjimo 強霜
fukashimo 深霜（ふかしも） deep frost
koshimo 濃霜（こしも） "dense" frost
tsuyoshimo 強霜（つよしも） strong frost

frost flowers, shimo no hana　霜の花
mitsu no haha 三の花（みつのはな) "thre flowers
seijoo 青女（せいじょ） "blue lady"

shimodatami 霜だたみ（しもだたみ）
layer of frost "like a tatami straw mat"

hadarejimo, hadareshimo はだれ霜（はだれじも）
frost breaking off

clear and frosty, shimobare 霜晴
frost melting, shimodoke 霜解

asashimo 朝霜（あさしも） frost in the morning
shimoyo 霜夜（しもよ） evening with frost
yoshimo 夜霜（よしも） frost in the evening

voice of the frost, shimo no koe　霜の声

The voice of frost, on a quiet windless night, can be heared when the earth and air whisper: shin-shin. Sometimes I sit at our local temple and listen to this voice. Also in the bamboo grove we hear the shin-shin of frost.


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kigo for early winter

hatsu shimo 初霜 (はつしも ) first frost

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kigo for late winter

jusoo 樹霜（じゅそう)
frost deposit on the branches of trees, rime
muhyoo 霧氷 (むひょう )
muhyoorin 霧氷林（むひょうりん）
sobyoo 粗氷（そひょう）


This develops often in Japanese climat when wind brings icerain that clings to the branches.


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kigo for late spring

take away the frost protection (around the house and for trees or flowers)
shimoyoke toru 霜除とる (しもよけとる)
shimoyoke toku 霜除解く（しもよけとく）
shimogakoi toru 霜囲とる（しもがこいとる）

many homes in the Northern areas have wooden protections for snow and cold.



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shimo kusube 霜くすべ (しもくすべ)
kugushi くぐし


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Frost forms when water vapour freezes into ice crystals on cold surfaces. In winter, temperatures are usually low as the sun is low in the sky during the day and the nights are long. On clear nights, when there is no blanket of clouds to keep the warmth in, then any heat received during the day quickly escapes. The temperature will therefore drop considerably and as the moisture in the air freezes, the ground will be covered with frost.

Frosts occur more often in some areas of the world than others. The tropics rarely, if ever, get frosts, whereas at the Poles, they occur almost continuously. In mid-latitudes (areas between the Poles and the Equator, such as Great Britain), frosts occur whenever the conditions are right. This happens more often inland than near the coast, because the sea retains heat and therefore stays warmer for longer, so making it harder for frosts to form.
http://www.rcn27.dial.pipex.com/cloudsrus/frost.html


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Worldwide use

Frost in India, a season of its own, November and December.

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Things found on the way


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HAIKU





First Hoar Frost - by Ray Rasmussen

Bunches of berries-
the first frost coming
before the colectors

Vasile Moldovan


cheering up winter morn
snow sprinkled
bright frosted berries

Tiong ChungHoo


red-berries gleam in
frost gently awaken to
a new Buddha-Dawn ~

RUDRA

Read more haiku on the frosted berries
http://home.alc.co.jp/db/owa/PH_detail?photo_sn_in=673

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Late frost still lurks but
Warm winter sun entices
Early buds spring forth

Jackie S Brooks (c)9 March 2004
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewpoetry.asp?AuthorID=14746&id=100133

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frost grey grass, pulled tight
here and there, a bright pumpkin
a pheasant leaps out.

© 1990 - 2003 Katharina Woodworth
http://www.aquafemina.com/frost-grey-grass.html

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asa shimo ni ushio o chirasu miyai kana

morning frost melts
in the floodtide...
Shinto shrine

Issa

Here are 35 Issa haiku about Frost.
http://cat.xula.edu/issa/searchissa.php?a_id=134&show_e=T&colors=T

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windless garden
a thin coating of frost
on the sprouts

Geert Verbeke
http://happyhaiku.blogspot.com/2004/01/friends-geert-verbeke.html

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sul muschio brilla
il velo della brina
ancora intatto

on the moss
the hoarfrost veil
still untouched

Moussia
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WHCworkshop/message/40329


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Related words

***** Late Frost, wakarejimo 別れ霜
kigo for late spring

left-over frost, traces of frost, shimo no nagori 霜の名残
very late frost, final frost, bansoo 晩霜
forgetting the frost, wasurejimo 忘れ霜

William J. Higginson, in Haiku World, qutes the following:
The Japanese literally says"forgotten frost", meaning that it was left behind by winter, or that we had forgotten that frost was still possible. Placement if this topic in late spring shows that the tradition recognizes how late such a frost may be [...] also called: "farewell frost"(wakarejimo).



morning sun <>
the late frost glitters
before it dies

Morgensonne <>
der spaete Frost glitzert
bevor er stirbt

© Photo and Haiku by Gabi Greve

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the king crow
preening his wings
late frost

Catherine J.S. Lee, USA
March 2008

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***** First Hoarfrost, Prima brumă
(Romania)
as early as September, Kigo for Autumn

the year’s first hoarfrost
even the old scarecrow is
a little scared …

joyfully meeting
the first hoarfrost as well:
I guess I’m lucky!

an alternative:
chose between the first hoarfrost
and some old poems

Cristian Mocanu

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***** First Frost, Primul îngheţ (Romania)
usually November, Kigo for Autumn


first frost came early:
am I getting much older?
should I just move south?

Cristian Mocanu, 2005
Romanian Kiyose (05)

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***** Ice (koori　氷）
Ice (koori　氷


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