New Year (shin-nen)

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New Year (shin-nen shinnen, Japan)

***** Location: Worldwide
***** Season: a season of its own
***** Category: Season

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Explanation

Please read Part one with the basic information here:
NEW YEAR ... introduction




New Year, shinnen shin nen 新年

あけましておめでとうございます！
Akemashite O-medetoo gozaimasu!

The greeting when seeing a person for the first time in the New Year.


Synonyms with "FIRST SPRING" (hatsu haru　初春)

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First　view of Mt. Fuji,初富士 lit. First Fuji

First sky, hatsuzora 初空

Lion dance, shishimai 獅子舞. Kagura, 神楽

Celebrate with New Year's Soup, zooni iwau (zooni, zoni　雑煮)

Rice cakes for the New Year (kagami mochi)

New Year Arrow (hamaya) Japan


Sacred rope, shimenawa　注連縄
shimekazari 注連飾、kadokazari 門飾、wakazari　輪飾 (round rope)

Read more about these beautiful decorations here.
In many shrines, they are renewed for then New Year to last until the next.
Introducing Shimenawa, Gabi Greve


Pines at the gate, kadomatsu 門松


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First Religious Ceremonies of the Year in Japan

First temple visit, first shrine visit, hatsu-moode 初詣で

hatsu-moode yama no kami ni wa dare mo kon

Fiste Shrine visit -
to our Mountain God
nobody comes

Gabi Greve 2004 : Hatsu Mode



shizukesa ya mori no naka no hatsu-moode

so quiet !
walking in the forest for the
first Shrine visit

Gabi Greve 2005

More about First Ceremonies of the Japanese people

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First sparrow, hatsu-suzume 初雀　はつすずめ


Fern, shida 歯朶　Fern and the Seven Herbs of Spring


Pheasant's Eye (fukujusoo 福寿草)


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Fasting day, sixteenth day, sainichi 斎日,さいにち


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"Little New Year", Ko Shoogatsu, koshogatsu 小正月
January 15


A few more kigo are listed below.

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Interesting Link with Japanese Customs of the New Year
http://www.rotary-no-tomo.jp/eng/j_culture/E-shogatsu.htm

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Worldwide use

California

For New Year's here in Southern California, we have the
Rose Parade in Pasadena.

Deborah P Kolodji

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Hawaii

In Hawaii we celebrate New Years with a feast and lots of music...with many firecrackers to chase away all the bad spirits at midnight.. It is a wonder to see in the morning all the red paper from the fire works... is like snow... we never get snow so anything that resembles it we pounce on it.......

the dragon roars
at midnight for...
mornings blanket of red

children play in
scatterings
of firecracker paper

shanna

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Ireland

Christ Church Cathedral saved by bell
Joe Humphreys

Christ Church is the traditional venue for Dubliners to mark the coming of the New Year and a large crowd is expected there tonight.
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But the campanologists feared the annual event would be spoiled after the 2.25 tonne tenor bell broke during practice a fortnight ago.
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A piece of the bell's tongue, or clapper, fell off, leaving Christ Church with the prospect of ringing in its first new year for decades without the sound of the "Great Tenor". Disappointment was averted however, thanks to the generosity of nearby St Patrick's Cathedral, which has given Christ Church a spare five-foot clapper for the occasion.
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Mr Lesley Taylor, ringing master at Christ Church, said: "We always like to ring the Great Tenor bell, and there was a prospect of us not being able to do so. That would, of course, have meant we couldn't have done the full 19 either.
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"We're very grateful to our friends at St Patrick's. They had a clapper of similar weight and size, and thankfully it works."
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Mr Tony Reale, a civil engineer and one of Christ Church's 28 campanologists, has been given the honour of ringing the "Great Tenor" tonight after helping to install the new tongue.
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Christ Church increased the number of bells in its tower from 12 to a world record 19 as part of its Millennium celebrations five years ago. Since then, however, the tenor bell has gone through three tongues - each of which has failed.
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Mr Taylor said all three tongues had been made of spheroidal graphite, a modern substitute for wrought-iron. As a result, the bell-ringers were now seeking to design a clapper in wrought-iron, which "gives a better sound too".
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However, Mr Taylor said: "as far as we can see there is a dearth of workers in wrought-iron. If there are any manufacturers in Ireland, we would like to hear from them." The tenor will swing into action shortly before midnight tonight with 12 strokes to mark the passing of 2004.
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There will be 10 minutes' silence before midnight when another 12 strokes will ring out, followed by a cascade of all 19 bells - due to last about 20 minutes.
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"Ringing large number of bells like that is prone to disaster," said Mr Taylor. "If one person messes up their timing it can produce chaos. "We are always striving for perfection," he added with a note of confidence. "All our ringers are very well trained."
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http://www.Ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2004/1231/3087096539HM3BELLS.html
Isabelle Prondzynski

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Russia
In Russia, families also get together in parents' home usually, to celebrate New Year. And a buckwheat porridge which I like very much, is a very common meal (now, it's usually a side-dish, or a stuffing).

new-year's goose
with a buckwheat porridge --
grandma smiling

Origa
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cherrypoetryclub/message/21228

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Russian New Year
by Zhanna P. Rader

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Things found on the way

JANUARY FIRST NEW YEAR'S DAY HISTORY
http://wilstar.com/holidays/newyear.htm


CHINESE NEW YEAR
http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/CHINA/chinese_new_year.html


SAMVAT or HINDU NEW YEAR
http://www.hindunewyear.com/hindu/abouthindunewyear/index.html
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=58858

Awaiting welcome
midst the same old worries
the new samvat

R.K.SINGH, India



AULD LANG SYNE

is a traditional song to say good -bye to the old and usher in the new year. Traditions of the season include the making of New Year's resolutions.The tradition of using a baby to signify the new year was begun in Greece around 600 BC.
Many people believe that one could be affected in luck by what theyate on the first day of the year. Here in Trinidad and Tobago; black-eyed pease and rice is a traditionally good luck menu for ending the old year and starting the new.

Other words that can be kigo in Trinidad and Tobago:
Black-eyed peas, Tournament of Roses, Whistles, Party hats, Auldlang syne, New Calander, Champagne, Kisses, Hugs, Fire works.

Gillena Cox
http://www.wilstar.com/xmas/auldlangsyne.htm

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HAIKU

a new year---
the old dog
runs out of tricks

andrew riutta 12.30.04
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cherrypoetryclub/message/21214

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new year
old load still
in the washing machine

Ella Wagenmakers, WHCworkshop

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ring out the old
embrace your near and dear ones
ring in the new

Isabelle Prondzynski, Ireland

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new year born
fire-works all over
I sit alone ~

new year midnight ~
through wild fireworks
troubled bird songs ~

new year dawn
the sun blooms again
in cool breeze ~

Narayanan Raghunathan, 2004

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蓬莱や只三文の御代の松
hoorai ya tada sammon no miyo no matsu

my eternal youth ornament --
just three cents
of emporer's pine

Kobayashi Issa
Hoorai is a mythical island of eternal youth. On New Year's Day offerings are set on a special table in its honor. Literally, miyo no matsu signifies "reign's pine." Issa is referring to a rather cheap pine decoration on the table in honor of the new imperial year.
Tr. David Lanoue

hoorai kazari 蓬莱飾 hoorai decoration
. . . CLICK here for Photos !


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Related words


***** Little New Year .. ko shoogatsu (January 15) Japan.
Women's New Year (onna shoogatsu, me shoogatsu)



***** Ancestors New Year (Hotoke Shoogatsu) Japan


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***** New Year's Food, o-setchi ryoori おせち料理
CLICK here for the New Year Food SAIJIKI!


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***** First Calligraphy, kakizome 書初め、Japan

taking the brush
365 days
first calligraphy

Gabi Greve
Read about Zen Master TANCHU TERAYAMA and Zen Calligraphy: Hitsuzendo
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Darumasan-Japan/message/662

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***** New Year's Concert Vienna Austria

One of my favorite events to celebrate a worldwide New Year is the life concert, which starts around seven thirty on Japanese TV. This year, January 2005, the famous Radetzki March was not played with respect to the events in the Indian Ocean.

The New Year's Concert (in German Das Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker) of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is a concert which takes place each year on January 1 in Vienna, Austria. It is broadcast around the world to an estimated audience of one billion in forty-four countries.

The music is mostly that of the Strauss family (Johann Strauss I, Johann Strauss II, Josef Strauss and Eduard Strauss). The flowers that decorate the Wiener Musikverein concert hall are a gift each year from the city of San Remo, Liguria, Italy.
The concert always ends with several encores after the main programme. The musicians then collectively wish the audience a happy new year, and close with Johann Strauss II's Blue Danube Waltz followed by the Radetzky-March. During this last piece, the audience claps along in time and the conductor turns to conduct them instead of the orchestra.

The concert was first performed in 1939 (paradoxically on December 31st of this year) conducted by Clemens Krauss.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_New_Year's_Concert

Click here for some pictures of 2005
Bilder vom Neujahrskonzert


http://wcm.krone.at/hps/upload/hxmedia_slide/2005/01/01/13_f7Nhv0ki0ez6E_0_400x354.jpg
http://www.krone.at/index.php?http://wcm.krone.at/krone/C00/S32/A7/object_id__26016/hxcms/

Neujahrskonzert -
mit geschlossenen Augen
bin ich dabei

New Year's Concert -
with closed eyes
I am right there

Gabi Greve, Japan

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***** January First, Neujahrstag , ganjitsu 元日
New Year's Day

Globally January first (Jan. 1st.) is celebrated as the start of the new calendar year; New Year's Day ; with pomp and festivity. The pomp and festivity associated with this observance is both
secular and religious. But this date is not the only observance of New Years Day.

In adition to this global New Year's Day there are other New Year's Day observances of other global sub cultures. For Example there is Samvat; April 9th of the Hindu New Year, there is the Chinese New Year Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the new year; The Chinese calendar is based on a combination of lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days and ends on the full moon 15 days later, there is First Sunday of Advent the beginning of the church's new year of the Catholic Faith.

The Babylonian New Year began with the first New Moon (actually the first visible cresent)
after the Vernal Equinox (first day of spring).
The Romans continued to observe the new year in late March (Ides of March), but their calendar was continually tampered with by various emperors so that the calendar soon became out of synchronization with the sun. In order to set the calendar right, the Roman senate,
in 153 BC, declared January 1 to be the beginning of the new year.

Gillena Cox

January first
the bride and groom exit
into a new life
2004 Gillena Cox

a drizzle~
backdrops the birds twitter
January first
2005 Gillena Cox

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an old man
stirring the new year
in to a cup of tea

Robert Wilson, 2007


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