Winter (fuyu)

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Winter (fuyu, Japan)

***** Location: Worldwide
***** Season: All Winter
***** Category: Season

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Explanation

The winter season in Japanese Haiku
is fixed according to the Asian lunar calendar from the beginning of winter at November seven until the fouth of February. In reality the winter in Central Japan lasts roughly from December to March.



.. .. .. .. .. .. .. icecold morning -
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. and yet
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. hope on the way

Haiku Winter Wonders by Gabi Greve
http://happyhaiku.blogspot.com/2005/01/winter-wonders.html

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beginning of winter, rittoo　立冬
..... according to the 24 seasons, on November 7.

24 Seasons (nijuu sekki 二十節季) according to the Asian Lunar Calendar

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Check out the University of Virginia Japanese Saijiki for WINTER
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/haiku/saijiki/4wi.html

fuyu : Winter
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 Winter in Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden
This is the season that we feel something powerful of brancheswhose leaves were already fallen.Leaf buds continue to swell even during the sleeping time of trees. Flower buds begin swelling in the feeble sunshine.The twittering of winter birds resting their wings is conspicuously bustlingand resonant in the garden.The winter in Shinjuku Gyoen is going toward spring step by step.

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

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Winter in India has its own entry.

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Things found on the way

Pages of winter haiku, although the word WINTER is not mentioned specially.
http://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/wlhaiku/winterhaiku.html
http://www.zikaden.de/gedruckt/jamben/Winter-Haiku.html

By J.W.Hackett
http://hacketthaiku.com/haiku2005winter.html


Book on Haiku during the Seasons by DAVID BURLEIGH
http://202.221.217.59/print/features/books2004/fb20040516a1.htm

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HAIKU




winter solitude
in a world of one color
the sound of wind

Basho

Haiga by © Jerry Dreesen - all rights reserved
http://www.jerrydreesen.com/image.htm?wintersolitude,500,315,Winter_solitude,hm1

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winter cat
out wants in
in wants out

winter haiku writers
debate their work
the mouse cleans his whiskers


More haiku about winter are here:
http://www.oldgreypoet.com/haiku/winterhaiku.html

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cold winter night -
the way to the outhouse
sooooo far


.. .. .. Look at the cold night here:
http://happyhaiku.blogspot.com/2005/02/outhouse-joy.html

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round and round
in endless circles <>
winter sun

.. .. .. Look at some natural Mandala here:
http://happyhaiku.blogspot.com/2004/08/mandala.html

Gabi Greve

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winter sunrise
in the style of Degas--
misty bands of pastel

Ed Schwellenbach
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cherrypoetryclub/message/21204

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Wintry day
doors of the gipsy vans
all closed

Angelika Wienert, WHCgerman (AW, Dec. 2004)

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lacy winter trees
children walking hand-in-hand
tiny snow printing

crystal blue winter
checkerboard pattern blankets
my apple orchard

Judith A.Lindberg
http://www.bry-backmanor.org/januarypoetry2.html

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winter dawn -
the forest chorus
begins with a squirrel

Cindy Zackowitz

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late winter---
a chicken pecks
at its shadow

Robert Wilson

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"Winter landscape" by Sesshu
Tokyo National Museum

Click on the Photo to read the details.


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Related words

Spring (haru, Japan)
Summer (natsu, Japan)
Autumn (aki, Japan)

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***** Winter fields, fields in winter, fuyuta　冬田

Withered fields, kareta　枯れ田, on the other hand, is a kigo for late autumn.


***** Winter withering, nature withered in winter, fuyugare　冬枯れ
all winter

..... withered trees, kareki koboku 枯木
"naked trees", hadakagi 裸木
bare branches, kare eda 枯枝
road lined with bare trees, kareki michi 枯木道
grove of withered trees, karekodachi 冬木立
withering in the cold, karuru 枯るる
lodge and withered trees, kareki yado 枯木宿（かれきやど）
stars and withered trees, kareki boshi 枯木星（かれきぼし）


***** Cold Spell, Cold wave (kanpa, kampa 寒波)
kigo for all winter


***** Cold (samusa, samushi, kan 寒さ、寒し、寒)
kigo for all winter

cold cold cold
ZEN ZEN ZEN
cold cold cold

remember, zenzen in Japanese can mean : not at all

Read my story about a COLD Zen-Temple, Eihei-Ji.
Gabi Greve
http://darumapilgrim.blogspot.com/2005/02/eihei-ji-temple.html



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Warm Things to keep you warm in Winter in Japan A KIGO list.
.....Including furniture, clothing and food.



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

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***** "Out-of-season blooming" (kaeri-zaku, kaerizaku 帰り咲)

　帰り咲分別もない垣ね哉
kaeri-zaku funbetsu mo nai kakine kana

lacking discretion
out-of-season flowers
on the fence

Issa, Tr. David Lanoue

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