Summer (natsu)

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Summer (natsu, Japan)

***** Location: Worldwide
***** Season: Summer
***** Category: Heavens

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Explanation

The Summer season in Japanese Haiku
is fixed according to the Asian lunar calendar from the beginning of summer around the sixth of May until the eighth of August. In reality the summer in Central Japan lasts roughly from June to the end of August. There are many kigo with relation to "Summer", we will start to pick them up here.

Gabi Greve

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summer holidays, natsuyasumi 夏休み
mostly to describe the school holidays


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Check out the University of Virginia Japanese Saijiki for SUMMER
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/haiku/saijiki/2su.html

natsu : Summer

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

The Summer in Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden
This is the season that trees are verdant.The trees newly in leaf are getting more verdant.Then branches and leaves are growing up toward the sky.Flowers are blooming getting warm sunlight.Dragonflies are flying above the lawn and cicadae are singing in chorus, they are all bustling.The summer in Shinjuku Gyoen comes with a breath of nature.

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

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Things found on the way

Pages of summer haiku, although the word SUMMER is not mentioned specially.
http://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/wlhaiku/summerhaiku.html
http://www.womenfolk.com/anne/haiku.htm
http://vallance22.tripod.com/canadianzenhaikuvol1no42003/id4.html

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HAIKU

Natukusa ya Tuwamonodomo ga Yume no ato
(Matsuo Basho)

Where summer grasses now
grow thick once soldiers fought,
the shadow of a dream

http://vallance22.tripod.com/canadianzenhaikuvol1no42003/id4.html

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waking to sunshine
summer like weather today
humid clouds roll in

Anne Johnson
http://www.womenfolk.com/anne/haiku.htm

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dry brushes -
summer's portrait
almost done

summer's flight
the brief wing-stretch
of memory

Laryalee Fraser

Look at the beautiful haiga by Ashe to go with these:
http://thegreenleaf.co.uk/HP/Duets/Lary/10larybrushes.htm
http://thegreenleaf.co.uk/HP/Duets/Lary/03arymemory.htm

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Related words

***** heat, hot, atsushi, atsusa 暑し (あつし)
atsusa 暑さ（あつさ）

sweltering, atsukurushi 暑苦し（あつくるし）
heat, sho 暑（しょ）, feeling hot, shoki 暑気（しょき）
hot month, shogetsu 暑月（しょげつ）
summer heat, shonetsu 暑熱（しょねつ）


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***** Spring (haru, Japan)

****** Autumn (aki, Japan)

***** Winter (fuyu, Japan)

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