Kigo used by ISSA

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.. .. .. .. .. .. .. List of kigo used by Issa

The first Kobayashi Issa website was launched in May, 2000 by David Lanoue.
It was created at Xavier University of Louisiana as a rich media project sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Teaching. In August 2005, with the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina, the university server that housed the Issa archive had to be shut down.
The present website is the archive's new, permanent home.

David Lanoue and the Issa Pages
http://haikuguy.com/issa.html

Sakuo Nakamura paints a haiga for the haiku of Issa and discusses the translations of David here:

Bilingual, mostly Japanese
http://blog.livedoor.jp/sakuo3903/


English Only
http://sakuo3903.blogspot.com/

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Issa also uses a lot of place names, temple names and other words special to Japanese culture. We have explained some of them in the Forum for Translating Haiku, a list for your reference is here !

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..... ..... ..... New Year



Apprentices' Holiday
Dancing Monkey
First Calligraphy
First Drawing of Water
First Dream
First Sky
Kites
New Year's Day
New Year's Greeting
New Year's Pilgrimage
New Year's Pine and Bamboo Decoration
New Year's Present
Picking Young Greens
Spiced Sake

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..... ..... ..... Spring



Baby Sparrow
Bee
Blossom
Bracken
Buddha's Death-Day
Burning Field
Burning Mountain
Butterfly
Cherry Blossom
Departing Geese
Departing Spring
Doll Festival
Frog
Grafting Branches
Heat Shimmers
Horsefly
Kitten
Lark
Long Day
Lover Cat

　Low Tide (shiohi 汐干)
- "tideland at low tide": shiohi-gata 汐干潟 , shio no higata 汐の干潟

Melting Snow
Nightingale
Pheasant
Picking Tea
Plowing Fields
Plum Blossom
Rape Flower
Rice Seedlings
Servants Leave for New Jobs
Silkworm
Spring Breeze
Spring Haze
Spring Mist
Spring Mountain
Spring Peace
Spring Rain
Spring Snow
Swallow
Violet
Willow
Yellow Rose
Young Grass

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..... ..... ..... Summer

Bamboo Shoots
Bat
Buddha's Birthday
Cicada
Cloudburst
Clouds
Cold Jelly
Cooling Oneself
Coolness
Cormorant
Cuckoo
Deutzia
Duckweed
Fan
Fawn
Fifth Month Rain
Firefly
Flea
Fly
Green Rice Field
Heat
Irises
Lotus
Moonflower
Mosquito
Mosquito Larvae
Mosquito Net
Mosquito Smudge Pot
Moss Blossom
Mountain Cuckoo
Parasol
Peony
Pink
Pure Water
Purification Ritual
Rice Dumpling
Rice Planting
Short Night
Siesta
Snail
Summer Grove
Summer Room
Toad
Young Leaves

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..... ..... ..... Autumn

Autumn Departs
Autumn Dusk
Autumn Rain
Autumn Wind
Bird Clapper
Bon Festival Dance
Bon Lantern
Bush Clover
Chestnut
Chrysanthemum
Cold Morning
Cold Night
Cricket
Deer
Dew
Dragonfly
Earthworms Sing
Eclipse
Fireworks
Fulling-block
Geese of Autumn
Harvest Moon
Insect
Katydid
Lightning
Locust
Long Night
Maiden Flower
Milky Way
Mist of Autumn
Moon
Morning-glory
Mushroom
Pampas Grass
Paulownia Leaf
Red Leaves
Rice
Scarecrow
Snake Enters Its Hole
Sumo Wrestling
Tanabata Festival
Wildflower
Woodpecker

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..... ..... ..... Winter


Basho's Death Day
Blizzard
Brazier
Cold
Fallen Leaves
Forgetting the Year
Frost
Gods Depart
Hail
Hunting
Ice
Icicle
Plover
Quilt
Radish
Sled
Snow
Snow Buddha
Snow Pile
Snowball
Soot Sweeping
Ten Nights
Twelfth Month Singers
Winter Moon
Winter Rain
Winter Seclusion fuyugomori
Winter Wind
Withered Field
Wood Fire
Year's End

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Thanks go to David Lanoue
http://haikuguy.com/issa.html

Illustrations by Sakuo Nakamura
http://sakuo3903.blogspot.com/

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