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Marathon Kenya, worldwide.
..... Including Olympics, Olympic Games. Special Olympics, Paralympics.
Umewaka Memorial Day (Umewaka Ki) and Temple Mokubo-JiJapan
Nobel Prize Europe, worldwide
Mother Goddess in all cultures
Day of the African Child (16 June) Kenya, Africa, worldwide
Cotton rose, Rose-Mallow (fuyoo, fuyo, fuyoh) Hibiscus mutabilis. Japan
Hazel, hazelnut (hashibami) Japan
Chestnut (kuri) Japan
Walnut (kurumi) Japan
Hickory nuts Carya Fruits
Dussera, Dasara, Dussehra: Day Of Victory India
..... Navarati : Nine Nights Of Festivities
Ginger (shooga) Hawaii, India, Japan. Hajikami pickles.
Moss (koke) Japan
Fox God Shrine Festival (Inari Matsuri) Japan. First day of the horse, hatsu uma
Fox (kitsune) Japan
Sierra Nevada North America
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10/31/2006
10/16/2006
Vog (Hawaii)
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Vog (Volcanic Smog)
***** Location: Big Island, Hawaii
***** Season: Non-seasonal Topic
***** Category: Earth / Heaven
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Explanation
I live in Hawaii and we realy have no seasons; i cannot write about fog and have another kigo?????
but then again we have no fog, we have * vog * which is adding volcanoe emissions to it... now it has earth, fetch , from the oceanwind, and fire.
the only season we have here is coffee season.. coffee flower season is spring and coffee cherry season is winter... even school gets out early for coffee picking time... there are three rounds of coffee and then the first rain the coffee blooms..
could then first rain be a kigo.. and now with the vog the coffee pickingtime varies and gos on until school is out
Shanna Moore
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Only in Hawaii can you experience vog. Vog is an atmospheric effect caused by emissions of the Kilauea volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii.
When sulfur dioxide gas is released, it reacts chemically with sunlight, oxygen, dust particles, and water in the air to form a mixture of sulfate aerosols, sulfuric acid and other oxidized sulfur species.
Together, this gas and aerosol mixture produces a hazy atmospheric condition known as volcanic smog or vog.
While for most residents, vog is merely an inconvenience, it can affect people with chronic diseases such as emphysema and asthma, although everyone reacts differently. Potential visitors to the Big Island who suffer from these problems should consult with their doctors before their visit.
http://gohawaii.about.com/cs/weather/a/hawaii_weather_2.htm
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VOG, some links
http://vognet.hpa.edu/
Madame Pele is the Hawaiian Volcano and Fire Goddess
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Worldwide use
India
. smog, black smog - kaala dhua or dhua .
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Things found on the way
Sakuo Nakamura answering to Shanna:
I suppose that Hawaii is nice place without snow, and a paradise, it is spring through all the year.
There is no change of season. Then there is no kigo.
What is a kigo? I think it is time passing by , from present to future. That means life is losing the balance, moving on toward death. So a kigo attracts people’s mind and the a poem will be born.
In Hawaii, there is no season, there is time changing, there is no kigo, there is no poem???
I don’t think so. In Hawaii, does time stop? Does the vog stay at the same place all day long ?
No, the vog always flows from place to place, from time to time.
Time is moving on in Hawaii the same as all over the world.
So people’s mind is moving always, creating poems.
vog from last night
can’t be found
only summer clouds
夜のガス 見えずに夏の 雲ばかり
yoru no gasu miezu ni natsu no kumo bakari
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HAIKU
vog is like a haiku made up from air sunshine volcanoe and sea salt... it makes the coffee bloom longer and bigger it nourishes growing things like the volcanic soil ..
vog disapears
with the tradewinds
another shore
Shanna Moore
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madam pele...
her second hand smoke
creates an atmoshere
Shanna Moore, April 2006
madam pele...
second hand smoke
creates vog
Shanna Moore
ペレ母さん 煙草の息が 煙害に
Pele kaasan tabako no iki ga engai ni
(Tr. Nakamura Sakuo)
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Related words
***** Madame Pele
Non-seasonal Topic for Haiku
The Halemaumau Crater of the Kilauea Volcano is the present home of Madame Pele. Madame Pele is the Hawaiian volcano and fire goddess. Whether or not you see hot fiery explosions and liquidity molten lava on your Hawaii volcano helicopter tour is strictly up to the temperament of Madame Pele.
The story of Madame Pele goes back to centuries-old chants and oral traditions of the Hawaiian people, describing the volcanic explosions and the lava of flows that formed today's Hawaiian Islands.
http://www.hawaiivolcanohelicoptertour.com/Madame-Pele.html
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this lady
that dances with fire
my muse
a goddess of the night
singing the blues
Shanna Moore, 2006
火と踊る 夜の女神や 哀愁歌
hito odoru yoru no megami ya aishuu-ka
(Tr. Nakamura Sakuo)
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. Volcano and Volcanic Ash (kazan, kazanbai)
***** Fog, Mist, Haze and more
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Vog (Volcanic Smog)
***** Location: Big Island, Hawaii
***** Season: Non-seasonal Topic
***** Category: Earth / Heaven
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Explanation
I live in Hawaii and we realy have no seasons; i cannot write about fog and have another kigo?????
but then again we have no fog, we have * vog * which is adding volcanoe emissions to it... now it has earth, fetch , from the oceanwind, and fire.
the only season we have here is coffee season.. coffee flower season is spring and coffee cherry season is winter... even school gets out early for coffee picking time... there are three rounds of coffee and then the first rain the coffee blooms..
could then first rain be a kigo.. and now with the vog the coffee pickingtime varies and gos on until school is out
Shanna Moore
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Only in Hawaii can you experience vog. Vog is an atmospheric effect caused by emissions of the Kilauea volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii.
When sulfur dioxide gas is released, it reacts chemically with sunlight, oxygen, dust particles, and water in the air to form a mixture of sulfate aerosols, sulfuric acid and other oxidized sulfur species.
Together, this gas and aerosol mixture produces a hazy atmospheric condition known as volcanic smog or vog.
While for most residents, vog is merely an inconvenience, it can affect people with chronic diseases such as emphysema and asthma, although everyone reacts differently. Potential visitors to the Big Island who suffer from these problems should consult with their doctors before their visit.
http://gohawaii.about.com/cs/weather/a/hawaii_weather_2.htm
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VOG, some links
http://vognet.hpa.edu/
Madame Pele is the Hawaiian Volcano and Fire Goddess
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Worldwide use
India
. smog, black smog - kaala dhua or dhua .
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Things found on the way
Sakuo Nakamura answering to Shanna:
I suppose that Hawaii is nice place without snow, and a paradise, it is spring through all the year.
There is no change of season. Then there is no kigo.
What is a kigo? I think it is time passing by , from present to future. That means life is losing the balance, moving on toward death. So a kigo attracts people’s mind and the a poem will be born.
In Hawaii, there is no season, there is time changing, there is no kigo, there is no poem???
I don’t think so. In Hawaii, does time stop? Does the vog stay at the same place all day long ?
No, the vog always flows from place to place, from time to time.
Time is moving on in Hawaii the same as all over the world.
So people’s mind is moving always, creating poems.
vog from last night
can’t be found
only summer clouds
夜のガス 見えずに夏の 雲ばかり
yoru no gasu miezu ni natsu no kumo bakari
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HAIKU
vog is like a haiku made up from air sunshine volcanoe and sea salt... it makes the coffee bloom longer and bigger it nourishes growing things like the volcanic soil ..
vog disapears
with the tradewinds
another shore
Shanna Moore
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madam pele...
her second hand smoke
creates an atmoshere
Shanna Moore, April 2006
madam pele...
second hand smoke
creates vog
Shanna Moore
ペレ母さん 煙草の息が 煙害に
Pele kaasan tabako no iki ga engai ni
(Tr. Nakamura Sakuo)
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Related words
***** Madame Pele
Non-seasonal Topic for Haiku
The Halemaumau Crater of the Kilauea Volcano is the present home of Madame Pele. Madame Pele is the Hawaiian volcano and fire goddess. Whether or not you see hot fiery explosions and liquidity molten lava on your Hawaii volcano helicopter tour is strictly up to the temperament of Madame Pele.
The story of Madame Pele goes back to centuries-old chants and oral traditions of the Hawaiian people, describing the volcanic explosions and the lava of flows that formed today's Hawaiian Islands.
http://www.hawaiivolcanohelicoptertour.com/Madame-Pele.html
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this lady
that dances with fire
my muse
a goddess of the night
singing the blues
Shanna Moore, 2006
火と踊る 夜の女神や 哀愁歌
hito odoru yoru no megami ya aishuu-ka
(Tr. Nakamura Sakuo)
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. Volcano and Volcanic Ash (kazan, kazanbai)
***** Fog, Mist, Haze and more
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10/02/2006
Valentine's Day
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Valentine's Day
***** Location: Worldwide
***** Season: Spring, Dry Season in Tropics
***** Category: Observance
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Explanation
The History of Saint Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day started in the time of the Roman Empire. In ancient Rome, February 14th was a holiday to honor Juno. Juno was the Queen of the Roman Gods and Goddesses. The Romans also knew her as the Goddess of women and marriage. The following day, February 15th, began the Feast of Lupercalia.
The lives of young boys and girls were strictly separate. However, one of the customs of the young people was name drawing. On the eve of the festival of Lupercalia the names of Roman girls were written on slips of paper and placed into jars. Each young man would draw a girl's name from the jar and would then be partners for the duration of the festival with the girl whom he chose. Sometimes the pairing of the children lasted an entire year, and often, they would fall in love and would later marry.
Under the rule of Emperor Claudius II Rome was involved in many bloody and unpopular campaigns. Claudius the Cruel was having a difficult time getting soldiers to join his military leagues. He believed that the reason was that roman men did not want to leave their loves or families. As a result, Claudius cancelled all marriages and engagements in Rome. The good Saint Valentine was a priest at Rome in the days of Claudius II. He and Saint Marius aided the Christian martyrs and secretly married couples, and for this kind deed Saint Valentine was apprehended and dragged before the Prefect of Rome, who condemned him to be beaten to death with clubs and to have his head cut off.
He suffered martyrdom on the 14th day of February, about the year 270. At that time it was the custom in Rome, a very ancient custom, indeed, to celebrate in the month of February the Lupercalia, feasts in honor of a heathen god. On these occasions, amidst a variety of pagan ceremonies, the names of young women were placed in a box, from which they were drawn by the men as chance directed.
The pastors of the early Christian Church in Rome endeavored to do away with the pagan element in these feasts by substituting the names of saints for those of maidens. And as the Lupercalia began about the middle of February, the pastors appear to have chosen Saint Valentine's Day for the celebration of this new feast. So it seems that the custom of young men choosing maidens for valentines, or saints as patrons for the coming year, arose in this way.
http://www.pictureframes.co.uk/pages/saint_valentine.htm
http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintv06.htm
More about St. Valentine
http://www.lonekeep.com/lki_home/Valentine.htm
St. Valentine's Day in English Literature
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15254a.htm
Motives connected with St. Valentine
http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintv06.htm
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Worldwide use
England
Hundreds of years ago in England, many children dressed up as adults on Valentine's Day. They went singing from home to home. One verse they sang was:
Good morning to you, valentine;
Curl your locks as I do mine---
Two before and three behind.
Good morning to you, valentine.
In Wales wooden love spoons were carved and given as gifts on February 14th. Hearts, keys and keyholes were favorite decorations on the spoons. The decoration meant, "You unlock my heart!"
In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who their valentines would be. They would wear these names on their sleeves for one week. To wear your heart on your sleeve now means that it is easy for other people to know how you are feeling.
Some people used to believe that if a woman saw a robin flying overhead on Valentine's Day, it meant she would marry a sailor. If she saw a sparrow, she would marry a poor man and be very happy. If she saw a goldfinch, she would marry a millionaire.
Think of five or six names of boys or girls you might marry, As you twist the stem of an apple, recite the names until the stem comes off. You will marry the person whose name you were saying when the stem fell off.
Pick a dandelion that has gone to seed. Take a deep breath and blow the seeds into the wind. Count the seeds that remain on the stem. That is the number of children you will have.
http://www.pictureframes.co.uk/pages/saint_valentine.htm
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France (or rather Japan :o)
The Mona Lisa
A copy of a painting - The Mona Lisa (77cm x 53cm) displayed at a counter of Japan's Mary Chocolate in a department store in Tokyo, 14 February 2003. The Japanese chocolate shop displays its version of the world famous Mona Lisa painting, made from 20 kilograms of chocolate at a department store in Tokyo. Women give chocolates to their boyfriends, husbands and male colleagues on Valentine's Day in Japan.
The fan in her hand shows the kanji for "Matsuri" Festival, and she wears a Japanese Happi Coat for Festivals.
http://www.tokyotimes.org/archives/2004/01/a_sugary_smile_1.html
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Japan
Barentain Dii バレンタインデー Valentine Day
.... barentain no hi バレンタインの日 (ばれんたいんのひ)
You know that Japanese St.Valentin's Day is very different from the original one now.
Because ofthe efforts and advertising tactics of the chocolate companies, the custom of St. Valentine's Day was accepted widely in Japan, and having passed though the Japanese groupism, it transformed strangely. Nowadays in many offices, every woman employee cooperates in paying money and the representative buys chocolates and puts them on the desks of each man employee on the morning of St.Valentine's Day.
Women in the office feel that the man who doesn't get a chocolate is pitiful. On the other hand, if they gave chocolate to a few men whom they liked, the jealousy and bad feeling of the others would be troublesome for them. So they selected the safest and useless way as an obligation. In Japanese groupism, sameness is important. At first, a chocolate had a meaning of love or goodwill to the man or the boy. And then, the meaning of friendship or play was added and recently even the meaning of duty (giri-choko) was added.
Miserable metamorphosis !
http://www.linkclub.or.jp/~kosa/rie/small/barentain.html
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_8-2-2004_pg9_2
February 2005
A Volkswagen car covered with white chocolate of strawberry flavor, using 150 liters of chocolate. Children put on more candies and cookies.
Here is a picture from the Volkswagen in 2004:
Japanese patissiers decorate a chocolate covered Volkswagen’s New Beetle vehicle with colourful chocolate, cookies and bread at a shopping mall in Tokyo, one week before St Valentine’s Day. —AFP
Chocolate-Coated Volkswagen Displayed For Valentine's Day In Tokyo
. Christian Celebrations in Japanese Kigo
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Kenya
Despite the little knowledge about its origin, the majority of Kenyans, especially the urban folks, believe Valentine is the celebration of love. The colour red is the predominant mark for this day, and it is exhibited in flowers and clothes.
In Nairobi, St. Valentine's Day is highly commercialised. Flower, clothes, shoe and
other accessory vendors and supermarkets, as well as hawkers, capitalise on this occasion and stock red coloured Valentine's items at strategic points to attract customer attention. Since red roses are expensive and in short supply, traders substitute them with plastic ones. Husbands and wives buy each other gifts and flowers and they dress in red; so do lovers. Couples go out to exclusive joints to
spent a romantic moment together. Restaurants, hotels, pubs and resorts are decorated in red and special entertainments and menus are prepared to match their clients' needs.
The best climax about St Valentine's Day however is the renewal of love vows and re-affirming love and faithfulness to each other in our relationships.
~ Patrick Wafula
. St Valentine's Day
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Things found on the way
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HAIKU
saint Valentine'd day
the Saturday morning sun
warms my face
2004
near Valentine's day
a crimson petunia
opens
2003
Saint Valentine's Day--
more broken hearts than roses
if the war
2003
appears at the Anti-War Haiku Wall
http://www.tempslibres.org/awhw/haiga/hgacdr.html
http://www.tempslibres.org/awhw/home.html
red
catches the eye
St Valentine's day
2001
also appearing at PatchWork Haiku Page
http://mongst.8k.com/custom2.html
by gillena cox
http://www.worldhaikureview.org/ecards/makecard.php?card=2171
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Another way to celebrate Valentine
sipping champagne
enjoying the tiny sounds
of living alone
susan delphine delaney plano, texas
appeared in bottlerockets and, later, the red moon anthology
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Valentine's Day —
The couple counseling
postponed again.
Asahi Haikuist Network, February 20, 2009
An Sankt Valentin
der Paarbeartungstermin
nochmals verschoben
Beate Conrad
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Global Haiku Tradition Kukai 2 (February 14, 2001)
Millikin University, Spring 2001
Grade school Valentine--
Should I give him
Garfield or Scooby Doo
Amanda Young
Many more are here
http://www.millikin.edu/haiku/courses/globalspring2001/valentinesdaykukai.html
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Valentine's Day Contemporary Haiku
valentine's day
in the vase
a dead rose
bridgetjanejones
And many more are here
http://www.forums.fantasticpoems.com/t4127.html
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Some fun poems about relationships on a Valentine competition.
Take some small issues,
bake for two months at high heat.
Relationship’s done!
-- Daniel Westreich
http://www.breakupgirl.net/special/vday/haiku.html
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Valentine's Day 2010 ... Love Day
co-incided with the beginning of the Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year...
the growl of the Tiger
on Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day
in the flower market...
bundles of roses
Chinese New Year...
a lady in red awaits
her blind date
New Year's Day...
a toddler takes a step
after a fumble
Year of the Tiger...
if only I could wear
a red terno
Love Day...
red shirt for New Year
and for my date too
Cupid's way...
I mark with rose petals
where my heart resides
Heart Day...
the sun casts intensely
on faceless partners
Willie Bongcaron, Manila 2010
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Valentine 2010 in Kenya
Valentine--
a little girl undusts her
fallen flowers
valentine--
red decorations on the pears
vendors wheelbarrow
valentine--
a hawker sells plastic roses
at the local market
valentine morning--
youthles church for the
morning service
red dressed--
she slips over a rotten mango
at the market
hussein haji
Kenya Saijiki Forum
. valetine day 2010
from the Peacocks in Kenya
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mid-february
the only rain here
is love
kenneth daniels (Guyana)
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. . . . . The Year 2001
Valentine's Day
she finds out where he hid
Playboys
Valentine's Day
bamboo shoots emerge
from the ground
Valentine's Night
he curls up
in bed
Valentine’s night
eating chocolate hearts
from my e-lover
Chen-ou Liu
Canada
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break up
at Valentine's Day -
headless gummi bears
Heike Gewi
Yemen
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Valentine's Day
a dozen red roses spells:
"I love you"
Valentine's Day
missing the tender kiss
when I wake up
Valentine's Day
roses and kisses and hugs...
and endearments
Willie Bongcaron
Philippines
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Valentine's day-
he sends her sms
of love
Sunil Uniyal, India
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Valentine's Day
we fall in love again
over B&W movies
Valentine’s Day
my wife reads up
on Henry VIII
Alan Summers
England
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Soweto market--
new red stalls mushroom
the roadsides
MORE Valentine Haiku from Kenya by
. Patrick Wafula
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SPECIAL
. Valentine's Day - 2012 .
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to Basho
Issa and Shiki . . .
valentines
Elaine Andre, 2013
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Related words
***** Bonifacio Day Philippines
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Valentine's Day
***** Location: Worldwide
***** Season: Spring, Dry Season in Tropics
***** Category: Observance
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Explanation
The History of Saint Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day started in the time of the Roman Empire. In ancient Rome, February 14th was a holiday to honor Juno. Juno was the Queen of the Roman Gods and Goddesses. The Romans also knew her as the Goddess of women and marriage. The following day, February 15th, began the Feast of Lupercalia.
The lives of young boys and girls were strictly separate. However, one of the customs of the young people was name drawing. On the eve of the festival of Lupercalia the names of Roman girls were written on slips of paper and placed into jars. Each young man would draw a girl's name from the jar and would then be partners for the duration of the festival with the girl whom he chose. Sometimes the pairing of the children lasted an entire year, and often, they would fall in love and would later marry.
Under the rule of Emperor Claudius II Rome was involved in many bloody and unpopular campaigns. Claudius the Cruel was having a difficult time getting soldiers to join his military leagues. He believed that the reason was that roman men did not want to leave their loves or families. As a result, Claudius cancelled all marriages and engagements in Rome. The good Saint Valentine was a priest at Rome in the days of Claudius II. He and Saint Marius aided the Christian martyrs and secretly married couples, and for this kind deed Saint Valentine was apprehended and dragged before the Prefect of Rome, who condemned him to be beaten to death with clubs and to have his head cut off.He suffered martyrdom on the 14th day of February, about the year 270. At that time it was the custom in Rome, a very ancient custom, indeed, to celebrate in the month of February the Lupercalia, feasts in honor of a heathen god. On these occasions, amidst a variety of pagan ceremonies, the names of young women were placed in a box, from which they were drawn by the men as chance directed.
The pastors of the early Christian Church in Rome endeavored to do away with the pagan element in these feasts by substituting the names of saints for those of maidens. And as the Lupercalia began about the middle of February, the pastors appear to have chosen Saint Valentine's Day for the celebration of this new feast. So it seems that the custom of young men choosing maidens for valentines, or saints as patrons for the coming year, arose in this way.
http://www.pictureframes.co.uk/pages/saint_valentine.htm
http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintv06.htm
More about St. Valentine
http://www.lonekeep.com/lki_home/Valentine.htm
St. Valentine's Day in English Literature
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15254a.htm
Motives connected with St. Valentine
http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintv06.htm
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Worldwide use
England
Hundreds of years ago in England, many children dressed up as adults on Valentine's Day. They went singing from home to home. One verse they sang was:
Good morning to you, valentine;
Curl your locks as I do mine---
Two before and three behind.
Good morning to you, valentine.
In Wales wooden love spoons were carved and given as gifts on February 14th. Hearts, keys and keyholes were favorite decorations on the spoons. The decoration meant, "You unlock my heart!"
In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who their valentines would be. They would wear these names on their sleeves for one week. To wear your heart on your sleeve now means that it is easy for other people to know how you are feeling.
Some people used to believe that if a woman saw a robin flying overhead on Valentine's Day, it meant she would marry a sailor. If she saw a sparrow, she would marry a poor man and be very happy. If she saw a goldfinch, she would marry a millionaire.
Think of five or six names of boys or girls you might marry, As you twist the stem of an apple, recite the names until the stem comes off. You will marry the person whose name you were saying when the stem fell off.
Pick a dandelion that has gone to seed. Take a deep breath and blow the seeds into the wind. Count the seeds that remain on the stem. That is the number of children you will have.
http://www.pictureframes.co.uk/pages/saint_valentine.htm
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
France (or rather Japan :o)
The Mona Lisa
A copy of a painting - The Mona Lisa (77cm x 53cm) displayed at a counter of Japan's Mary Chocolate in a department store in Tokyo, 14 February 2003. The Japanese chocolate shop displays its version of the world famous Mona Lisa painting, made from 20 kilograms of chocolate at a department store in Tokyo. Women give chocolates to their boyfriends, husbands and male colleagues on Valentine's Day in Japan.
The fan in her hand shows the kanji for "Matsuri" Festival, and she wears a Japanese Happi Coat for Festivals.
http://www.tokyotimes.org/archives/2004/01/a_sugary_smile_1.html
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Japan
Barentain Dii バレンタインデー Valentine Day
.... barentain no hi バレンタインの日 (ばれんたいんのひ)
You know that Japanese St.Valentin's Day is very different from the original one now.
Because ofthe efforts and advertising tactics of the chocolate companies, the custom of St. Valentine's Day was accepted widely in Japan, and having passed though the Japanese groupism, it transformed strangely. Nowadays in many offices, every woman employee cooperates in paying money and the representative buys chocolates and puts them on the desks of each man employee on the morning of St.Valentine's Day.
Women in the office feel that the man who doesn't get a chocolate is pitiful. On the other hand, if they gave chocolate to a few men whom they liked, the jealousy and bad feeling of the others would be troublesome for them. So they selected the safest and useless way as an obligation. In Japanese groupism, sameness is important. At first, a chocolate had a meaning of love or goodwill to the man or the boy. And then, the meaning of friendship or play was added and recently even the meaning of duty (giri-choko) was added.
Miserable metamorphosis !
http://www.linkclub.or.jp/~kosa/rie/small/barentain.html
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_8-2-2004_pg9_2
February 2005
A Volkswagen car covered with white chocolate of strawberry flavor, using 150 liters of chocolate. Children put on more candies and cookies.
Here is a picture from the Volkswagen in 2004:
Japanese patissiers decorate a chocolate covered Volkswagen’s New Beetle vehicle with colourful chocolate, cookies and bread at a shopping mall in Tokyo, one week before St Valentine’s Day. —AFP
Chocolate-Coated Volkswagen Displayed For Valentine's Day In Tokyo
. Christian Celebrations in Japanese Kigo
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Kenya
Despite the little knowledge about its origin, the majority of Kenyans, especially the urban folks, believe Valentine is the celebration of love. The colour red is the predominant mark for this day, and it is exhibited in flowers and clothes.
In Nairobi, St. Valentine's Day is highly commercialised. Flower, clothes, shoe and
other accessory vendors and supermarkets, as well as hawkers, capitalise on this occasion and stock red coloured Valentine's items at strategic points to attract customer attention. Since red roses are expensive and in short supply, traders substitute them with plastic ones. Husbands and wives buy each other gifts and flowers and they dress in red; so do lovers. Couples go out to exclusive joints to
spent a romantic moment together. Restaurants, hotels, pubs and resorts are decorated in red and special entertainments and menus are prepared to match their clients' needs.
The best climax about St Valentine's Day however is the renewal of love vows and re-affirming love and faithfulness to each other in our relationships.
~ Patrick Wafula
. St Valentine's Day
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Things found on the way
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HAIKU
saint Valentine'd day
the Saturday morning sun
warms my face
2004
near Valentine's day
a crimson petunia
opens
2003
Saint Valentine's Day--
more broken hearts than roses
if the war
2003
appears at the Anti-War Haiku Wall
http://www.tempslibres.org/awhw/haiga/hgacdr.html
http://www.tempslibres.org/awhw/home.html
red
catches the eye
St Valentine's day
2001
also appearing at PatchWork Haiku Page
http://mongst.8k.com/custom2.html
by gillena cox
http://www.worldhaikureview.org/ecards/makecard.php?card=2171
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Another way to celebrate Valentine
sipping champagne
enjoying the tiny sounds
of living alone
susan delphine delaney plano, texas
appeared in bottlerockets and, later, the red moon anthology
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Valentine's Day —
The couple counseling
postponed again.
Asahi Haikuist Network, February 20, 2009
An Sankt Valentin
der Paarbeartungstermin
nochmals verschoben
Beate Conrad
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Global Haiku Tradition Kukai 2 (February 14, 2001)
Millikin University, Spring 2001
Grade school Valentine--
Should I give him
Garfield or Scooby Doo
Amanda Young
Many more are here
http://www.millikin.edu/haiku/courses/globalspring2001/valentinesdaykukai.html
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Valentine's Day Contemporary Haiku
valentine's day
in the vase
a dead rose
bridgetjanejones
And many more are here
http://www.forums.fantasticpoems.com/t4127.html
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Some fun poems about relationships on a Valentine competition.
Take some small issues,
bake for two months at high heat.
Relationship’s done!
-- Daniel Westreich
http://www.breakupgirl.net/special/vday/haiku.html
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Valentine's Day 2010 ... Love Day
co-incided with the beginning of the Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year...
the growl of the Tiger
on Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day
in the flower market...
bundles of roses
Chinese New Year...
a lady in red awaits
her blind date
New Year's Day...
a toddler takes a step
after a fumble
Year of the Tiger...
if only I could wear
a red terno
Love Day...
red shirt for New Year
and for my date too
Cupid's way...
I mark with rose petals
where my heart resides
Heart Day...
the sun casts intensely
on faceless partners
Willie Bongcaron, Manila 2010
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Valentine 2010 in Kenya
Valentine--
a little girl undusts her
fallen flowers
valentine--
red decorations on the pears
vendors wheelbarrow
valentine--
a hawker sells plastic roses
at the local market
valentine morning--
youthles church for the
morning service
red dressed--
she slips over a rotten mango
at the market
hussein haji
Kenya Saijiki Forum
. valetine day 2010
from the Peacocks in Kenya
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mid-february
the only rain here
is love
kenneth daniels (Guyana)
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. . . . . The Year 2001
Valentine's Day
she finds out where he hid
Playboys
Valentine's Day
bamboo shoots emerge
from the ground
Valentine's Night
he curls up
in bed
Valentine’s night
eating chocolate hearts
from my e-lover
Chen-ou Liu
Canada
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break up
at Valentine's Day -
headless gummi bears
Heike Gewi
Yemen
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Valentine's Day
a dozen red roses spells:
"I love you"
Valentine's Day
missing the tender kiss
when I wake up
Valentine's Day
roses and kisses and hugs...
and endearments
Willie Bongcaron
Philippines
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Valentine's day-
he sends her sms
of love
Sunil Uniyal, India
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Valentine's Day
we fall in love again
over B&W movies
Valentine’s Day
my wife reads up
on Henry VIII
Alan Summers
England
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Soweto market--
new red stalls mushroom
the roadsides
MORE Valentine Haiku from Kenya by
. Patrick Wafula
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SPECIAL
. Valentine's Day - 2012 .
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to Basho
Issa and Shiki . . .
valentines
Elaine Andre, 2013
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Related words
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10/01/2006
September 2006
Latest Additions to the
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. World Kigo Database
… Please sign our GUESTBOOK …
Please add your haiku as a comment to the various BLOG entries
or e-mail them to me.
You do not have to be a member of any haiku club to submit your haiku.
This Database wants to serve ALL HAIJIN WORLDWIDE.
Keywords, non-seasonal haiku topics, all year topics, all season topics,
no season muki 無期 ...
..................................................................... September 2006
..... Zinnia (hyakunichisoo) Japan
..... World Days and Weeks a growing collection
.. .. World Deaf Day, World Mother-in-Law's Day and many more
..... Harvest and its various kigo
Sage, Salbei, Salvia splendens et al. (sarubeea, seeji) Japan
Weeds (zassoo) worldwide !
Wild Chrysanthemum (nogiku) Japan
Zinnia (hyakunichisoo) Japan
Toad Lily (hototogisu) Japan
Peace (Swahili : Amani) Kenya
Begonia (shuukaidoo, shukaido) Japan
Candle (roosoku) Japan. With a discussion about translating Japanese haiku.
Heart Pond (kokoro no ike) Japan
Maize : Green Maize, Corn on the Cob Kenya
Rain Gutters Cleaning North America
Ladakh : Haiku and Kigo
Kamehameha Day Hawaii
Hula Dance and the Goddess Laka Hawaii
Long day, short day, long night, short night Japan. nagaki hi, tanjitsu, nagaki yo, mijika yo
Pipal tree (Ficus religiosa) India Peepul or Bo tree
..... figs (ichijiku) Japan
Oranges, mandarin oranges, tangerines Kenya. mikan (Japan)
Santoka and Sake Haiku
Matsuyama and Masaoka Shiki
Introducing Japanese Haiku Poets
Winter drizzle, sleet (shigure) Japan. With many more related kigo.
World Peace Day International Day of Peace. Ahimsa. India, worldwide
World Music Day India, worldwide
Teacher's Day, Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan Memorial Day India
Summer Purification Ceremony (nagoshi, natsu no harae) Japan
..... including many related Japanese kigo
Coolness (suzushi) Japan. cool breeze (ryoofuu) and more about the Tea Ceremony
..... including "coolness in autumn"
Bukusu Culture, Babukusu People Kenya
Mud (Swahili : matope) Kenya
..... including: Brickmaking, Dry mud, Bukusu Initiation (Circumcision) in Kenya
..... Spring Mud, haru no doro, shundei in Japan
Figs (Ficus carica) Turkey. Ichijiku, toogaki, hororoishi in Japan.
Ramadan, Berat Kandil (Leylatul Berat, Laylatul Barat) Turkey
Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday, Gandhi Jayanthi Day India
Bird Haze in Spring (torigumori) Japan. Also "flower haze", cherry blossom haze (hanagumori) and "herring haze" (nishingumori).
..... Birds and Clouds .. kumo ni tori .. 雲に鳥
Voices of Animals From Russia
Spring Equinox, vernal equinox (haru higan) Japan
..................................................................... August 2006
Holy Innocents Celebration Christian Catholic Communities
Deer (shika) Japan
Tagore Memorial Day Rabindranath Tagore, India, August 17
Senior Citizen's Day. Respect for the Aged Day (keiroo no hi) Japan
..... Including: Old people, elders, elderly and so on as haiku topics.
Buddha's Birthday, Flower Festival, Flower Hall (kanbutsu-e, shuuni-e, hahamatsuri, hana midoo Japan
Soap bubbles (shabondama) Japan
Honey Spas, Apple Spas, Linen Spas Russia . Honey Saviour.
Cemetery Sunday Ireland (Roman Catholic parishes)
Wasabi, Japanese horseradish Japan
Monkey, Hanuman India. saru (Japan)
Peace and War (heiwa to sensoo) Worldwide
..................................................................... July 2006
Grave marker (sotoba) Japan
Voice of an Animal (xx no koe) Japan. Various examples and translation possibilities.
Freezing, frozen (itsuru, kooru) Japan. Iced, under ice and more
Avocado pear (Kikuyu : Mûkorobîa) Kenya
"Kigo" and "haiku" as Haiku Topics Japan
..... Child, Children (kodomo) Read Haiku about Children and from Chilren. A new Forum of the World Kigo Database!
"Goats and Goat Meat Kenya
Green Caterpillar "green insect" (aomushi, namushi) Japan Kenya
Maize (toomorokoshi, tookibi), Corn (koon), Millet (kibi) Japan Kenya
Wading Pool, Spray Park Canada
First Kick-Ball Game (kemari hajime) Japan
Morning-Glory (asagao) Japan ..... Bindweed (hirugao). Evening Face (yorugao)
Buddha, Shakyamuni, Shaka India, Japan
TempleIndia
Temple, Buddhist Temple(tera) Japan
Shrine, Shinto Shrine (jinja) Japan
Bell, Temple Bell (kane, tsurigane, waniguchi, dootaku) Japan
..... Bell, Temple Bell in India
Withering Wind, Cold Gale (kogarashi) Japan
Grackle Bird (Quiscalus mexicanus) Oklahoma, USA Great-tailed grackle, boat-tail grackle
Wimbledon Tennis Tournament ... collecting
..................................................................... June 2006
Fly-swatter (haetataki) Japan
Cool dry season Kenya, tropical areas
Desires, worldly desires, illusions, delusions (bonno) Japan
Wisteria Cutting Ceremony (Fuji Kiri Eshiki)Japan Yamanashi Prefecture
Dew, Dewdrop (tsuyu, ro) Japan Worldwide
Mortality (shi ni yuku) Japan Worldwide
Soccer, Football. Europe
..... Including other Winter Sport Kigo, such as Rugby, American Football, Bob Sley, Skiing, Skating, Ice Hockey
Loincloth (fundoshi) Japan
Coins, Money (zeni) Japan Worldwide
Seaweed (kaisoo) Japan
..... including laver (nori), kelp (wakame), duckweed (mo) and agar agar (tengusa)
Summer sash (natsu obi, natsuobi) Japan
Dead body, deceased person (hotoke) Japan
Butterfly in Winter(fuyu no choo) Japan
..... frozen/freezing butterfly (itechoo)
Pigeon, pidgeon, dove (hato) Japan dove whistling (hatobue)
Mountain, peak, hill (yama, gake, oka) Japan
Sunset (yuuhi) Japan
Sound of Water (mizu no oto) Japan Translation problems and more
Oysters (kaki) Japan
..... Including Pearls (shinju) and mother-of-pearl
Sponge gourd, loofah, luffa (hechima, ito-uri) Japan
..... Including the Memorial day for Masaoka Shiki, Hechima-Ki
Stepping on a Christian image (fumi-e, ebumi) Japan
Ginkoo in Kayole, Nairobi (Kenya)
Horse (uma) Japan
..... Including various kigo such as plough horse, foal,cooling horses, fatten a horse, horse market, autumn colt, autumn pony, horses standing in the cold.
Gentle breeze, soft breeze (Linde Lüfte) Germany
..................................................................... May 2006
Sliding paper doors (fusuma), Japan
Secret Buddha Statues (hibutsu) Japan. Including showing them (kaichoo), substitute statues (maedachi, kakebotoke)
Papad Bread (papadam, poppadom, papadum, and appalam). India
Rain on Cherry Blossoms (hana no ame) Japan
Hungry Ghosts (gaki) Japan Buddhist Communities
..... Dance, a haiku topic Japan
Dance in India
The color GREEN in Haiku (midori, ao) Japan
The color GREY (GRAY)in Haiku (hyaku nezumi, hai iro) Japan
The color WHITE in Haiku (shiroi, haku) Japan
..... ..... World Kigo Database : Canada Saijiki
World Youth Day (Weltjugendtag)Italy, Germany, worldwide
Sand (suna)Japan, Worldwide. On the Beach, in the Desert ... Yellow Sand (koosa)
Berlin Wall (Berliner Mauer)Germany. Including the Iron Curtain, Eiserner Vorhang.
Elephant (zoo)Africa, India, in the Zoo
Rainbow (niji)Japan
River (kawa) Japan
Bridge (hashi) Japan
Embankment, dike (dote) Japan, worldwide
Mu, Shunyata : void, nothingness Japan
Mother (o-fukuro) Japan
New Year's Tea, Good Luck Tea, lucky tea (fukucha) Japan
Hat, Straw hat, hood ...(kasa, zukin, booshi) Japan
Hyacinth (Hyacinthus orientalis) Europe, Japan, other areas
Crab (kani) Japan. Chesapeake Bay.
..... Including King Crab (tarabagani), Queen Crab (zuwaigani), swamp crab (zawagani) and many more.
Window (mado) Japan
Stone Lantern (ishidooroo) Japan
Chesapeake Saijiki - SPRING USA
..................................................................... April 2006
Water Strider, water boatman, water spider, water horse (amenbo 水馬) Japan
..... also whirligig beetles, mizusumashi 水澄
Grave (haka) Japan
Cloud (kumo) Japan
LIST of Non-seasonal Haiku Topics
Target (mato) Japan. Bull's Eye
..... Including Bow, Arrow, Archery.
..... First Arrow, First Archery Competition. Archery on horseback (yabusame).
Earth Day Worldwide
Peacock, Kujaku and Haiku Japan
..... Including Marigold (kujakusoo), fruit flies (kujakubae) and the peacock butterfly (kujakuchoo)
Pheasant (kiji) Japan
..... ..... Chesapeake Bay Saijiki, USA
Fortune cookies; "Haikookies", O-Mikuji
God of the Rice Paddies (ta no kami) Japan
Mourning Kenya, worldwide
Patrick Wafula, Kenya
LORNA Haiku Club, Kenya
OAKS Haiku Club, Kenya
PEACOCK Haiku Club, Kenya
SPIDER Haiku Club, Kenya
Long Rains (Kenya)
Lent (Europe)
Mothering Sunday, Laetare (Europe)
... ... SPICES from India
Sesame (til, tila, gingili) India goma, goma no hana (Japan)
Light Charcoal Cherry Blossoms, Usuzumizakura 薄墨桜 Japan
Hail (hyoo) Japan , also arare, snow pellets
..................................................................... March 2006
Weasel (itachi) Japan
Ambedkar Jayanti, Memorial Day India
Tukaram Celebrations India
Dragon, a non-seasonal topic of Eastern Art
Eagle(washi) Japan
..... including other birds of winter, fuyu no tori
Water birds (mizudori 水鳥) ; Hawk (taka 鷹), Winter wild goose (fuyu no kari 冬の雁) , Winter skylark (fuyu hibari 冬雲雀), Midwinter sparrow (kan suzume 寒雀) , Midwinter crow (kan garasu 寒烏) Owl (fukuroo 梟) , Duck (kamo 鴨), Plover (Chidori 千鳥) , Hooded gull (miyakodori, yurikamome ユリカモメ), Winter gull (fuyu kamome 冬鴎), Wren (misosazai ミソサザイ), Crane (tsuru 鶴)
Swan (hakuchou 白鳥) , Grebe (Kaitsuburi カイツブリ)
Butterbur sprouts (fuki no too) and butterbur (fuki) (Japan)
Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara), Europa Butterbur Dandelion, fuki tanpopo (Japan)
Grape Hyacinth, Europa muscari, Lampenputzer
Gutsy Radish (dokonjoo daikon) Japan
Kite flying, India and Pakistan
Haiku in Bhutan INDIA SAIJIKI
Daffodil, Narcissus and Jonquils Europa
Spring light, spring shining (shunkoo) Japan
..... wind shining (kaze hikaru) Japan
Veronica, field speedwell, Europa inufuguri (Japan)
Girl Scout Cookies USA
Bahati Haiku Club Meeting, March 2006 Kenya
Bahati Haiku Club Records since January 2006 Kenya
Jizobon, Jizoo Bon 地蔵盆
Jizobon, Jizoo Bon 地蔵盆
..... including Coming of Age and Fire Rituals, Sagichoo 左義長
O-Mizutori, Omizutori Ceremony, お水取り） Shuni-E Ceremony 修二会 Nara, Japan
..... Including "Sending off Water from Wakasa" Wakasa no O-Mizu Okuri.
Hawaiian Spirit
Vailankanni (Velankanni), Festival in Chennai, India
Doll Festival (hina matsuri) Japan Peach Festival, Girl's Festival
Surfer, Surfing, Surf Hawaii, worldwide
Homeland, Hometown (furusato) Japan Heimat, Fatherland, Motherland
..................................................................... February 2006
Doll Festival (hina matsuri) Japan. Peach Festival, Girl's Festival.
Haiku Situation in Nepal
Tiruppavai of Andal Tamizhnadu, Tamil Nadu, India
Shiva Ratri Night, Festival India, Nepal, Hindu Communities
Goa Carnival India
Shivaji's forts India
Panchatantra, a Fable India
Nehru, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s Memorial Day, Children's Day India
Maasai Cattle (Masai Cattle) Kenya, Nairobi
Summer in India Kigo Collection
Yoga India
Chittorgarh Fort (Rajasthan) India
Pansy, Pansies Europe, sanshoku sumire (Japan)
Haiku from Bulgaria Collection of the Europa Saijiki
Haiku from Hungary Collection of the Europa Saijiki
Alberta Family Day, Canada
Crocus (Europe, worldwide)
Power Stone, Strenght Stone (chikara ishi, Japan) weight lifting competition
Poetry and Literature of Kenya
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Writer, Kenya
Caterpillar, Hairy Caterpillar of Kenya
Festivals of India They are all kigo.
Ganesh Chaturthi Festival India
Tiger Dance (Huli Vesha, Puli Vesha) India
.... Including TIGER, the animal as non-seasonal topic.
Serpent Festival (Nag Panchami) India
Snake, serpent, viper, cobra (hebi, mamushi, habu) Japan
Wintersweet (roobai) Japan
..... Bahati Haiku Poetry Club, Second Meeting Kenya
..................................................................... January 2006
Caterpillars worldwide
..... Including
hairy caterpillar, woolybear, kemushi
looper, inchworm, shakutori
Ice, Icicle (koori, tsurara) (Japan)
..... Kaniparambil Ramesh Poet from India
Start of School Year, School Year starts(Kenya)
..... Including
form one (form 1), new term, new textbooks, school fees, new uniform
..... Bahati Haiku Poetry Club, Kenya
..... Hawaii Saijiki
..... EUROPA Saijiki
Buddha's Seat (hotoke no za)(Japan) 05.
.................... Two flowers with the same name !
Seven Herbs of Spring (haru no nanakusa) (Japan) 05
..... Including Seri (Japanese parsley or dropwort), Nazuna (shepherd's purse), Gogyou (cottonweed), Hakobera (chickweed), Hotoke-no-za (Japanese nipplewort), Suzuna (Japanese turnip), Suzushiro (Japanese radish)
Fern (shida)(Japan) 05
Pheasant's Eye (fukujusoo) (Japan) 05
Vog (Volcanic Smog) (Hawaii, Big Island)
New Year's Day (ganjitsu)Japan, Worldwide. First day of the Year, January 1.
..... Korean Haiku
..... African Haiku
Kagura Dance (Japan)
Graduation Ceremony, Kenya
Last Fudo Ceremony of a year(osame-Fudo) (Japan)
Last Daishi Ceremony of a year (osame no Daishi) (Japan)
Whales, kujira (Japan)
Cow (Pashu, Gai) The Holy Cow of India
Bhagavad Gita (India)
Number of Entries December 2005 : 328
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World Kigo Database <> Archives
Use the search function provided at these archives to look for a kigo or synonym of it. These archives contain all kigo collected so far in the various saijiki of the World Kigo Database.
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The Discussion Group for the World Kigo Database started on May 19, 2004.
The BLOG Database started after the first 50 kigo had been collected, about October 2004.
A summary of our activities so far was posted in the WHR.
http://www.worldhaikureview.org/4-1/whcjapan-p2.htm
Thank you for visiting the World Kigo Database !
And come back soon !
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… Please sign our GUESTBOOK …
Please add your haiku as a comment to the various BLOG entries
or e-mail them to me.
You do not have to be a member of any haiku club to submit your haiku.
This Database wants to serve ALL HAIJIN WORLDWIDE.
Keywords, non-seasonal haiku topics, all year topics, all season topics,
no season muki 無期 ...
..................................................................... September 2006
..... Zinnia (hyakunichisoo) Japan
..... World Days and Weeks a growing collection
.. .. World Deaf Day, World Mother-in-Law's Day and many more
..... Harvest and its various kigo
Sage, Salbei, Salvia splendens et al. (sarubeea, seeji) Japan
Weeds (zassoo) worldwide !
Wild Chrysanthemum (nogiku) Japan
Zinnia (hyakunichisoo) Japan
Toad Lily (hototogisu) Japan
Peace (Swahili : Amani) Kenya
Begonia (shuukaidoo, shukaido) Japan
Candle (roosoku) Japan. With a discussion about translating Japanese haiku.
Heart Pond (kokoro no ike) Japan
Maize : Green Maize, Corn on the Cob Kenya
Rain Gutters Cleaning North America
Ladakh : Haiku and Kigo
Kamehameha Day Hawaii
Hula Dance and the Goddess Laka Hawaii
Long day, short day, long night, short night Japan. nagaki hi, tanjitsu, nagaki yo, mijika yo
Pipal tree (Ficus religiosa) India Peepul or Bo tree
..... figs (ichijiku) Japan
Oranges, mandarin oranges, tangerines Kenya. mikan (Japan)
Santoka and Sake Haiku
Matsuyama and Masaoka Shiki
Introducing Japanese Haiku Poets
Winter drizzle, sleet (shigure) Japan. With many more related kigo.
World Peace Day International Day of Peace. Ahimsa. India, worldwide
World Music Day India, worldwide
Teacher's Day, Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan Memorial Day India
Summer Purification Ceremony (nagoshi, natsu no harae) Japan
..... including many related Japanese kigo
Coolness (suzushi) Japan. cool breeze (ryoofuu) and more about the Tea Ceremony
..... including "coolness in autumn"
Bukusu Culture, Babukusu People Kenya
Mud (Swahili : matope) Kenya
..... including: Brickmaking, Dry mud, Bukusu Initiation (Circumcision) in Kenya
..... Spring Mud, haru no doro, shundei in Japan
Figs (Ficus carica) Turkey. Ichijiku, toogaki, hororoishi in Japan.
Ramadan, Berat Kandil (Leylatul Berat, Laylatul Barat) Turkey
Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday, Gandhi Jayanthi Day India
Bird Haze in Spring (torigumori) Japan. Also "flower haze", cherry blossom haze (hanagumori) and "herring haze" (nishingumori).
..... Birds and Clouds .. kumo ni tori .. 雲に鳥
Voices of Animals From Russia
Spring Equinox, vernal equinox (haru higan) Japan
..................................................................... August 2006
Holy Innocents Celebration Christian Catholic Communities
Deer (shika) Japan
Tagore Memorial Day Rabindranath Tagore, India, August 17
Senior Citizen's Day. Respect for the Aged Day (keiroo no hi) Japan
..... Including: Old people, elders, elderly and so on as haiku topics.
Buddha's Birthday, Flower Festival, Flower Hall (kanbutsu-e, shuuni-e, hahamatsuri, hana midoo Japan
Soap bubbles (shabondama) Japan
Honey Spas, Apple Spas, Linen Spas Russia . Honey Saviour.
Cemetery Sunday Ireland (Roman Catholic parishes)
Wasabi, Japanese horseradish Japan
Monkey, Hanuman India. saru (Japan)
Peace and War (heiwa to sensoo) Worldwide
..................................................................... July 2006
Grave marker (sotoba) Japan
Voice of an Animal (xx no koe) Japan. Various examples and translation possibilities.
Freezing, frozen (itsuru, kooru) Japan. Iced, under ice and more
Avocado pear (Kikuyu : Mûkorobîa) Kenya
"Kigo" and "haiku" as Haiku Topics Japan
..... Child, Children (kodomo) Read Haiku about Children and from Chilren. A new Forum of the World Kigo Database!
"Goats and Goat Meat Kenya
Green Caterpillar "green insect" (aomushi, namushi) Japan Kenya
Maize (toomorokoshi, tookibi), Corn (koon), Millet (kibi) Japan Kenya
Wading Pool, Spray Park Canada
First Kick-Ball Game (kemari hajime) Japan
Morning-Glory (asagao) Japan ..... Bindweed (hirugao). Evening Face (yorugao)
Buddha, Shakyamuni, Shaka India, Japan
TempleIndia
Temple, Buddhist Temple(tera) Japan
Shrine, Shinto Shrine (jinja) Japan
Bell, Temple Bell (kane, tsurigane, waniguchi, dootaku) Japan
..... Bell, Temple Bell in India
Withering Wind, Cold Gale (kogarashi) Japan
Grackle Bird (Quiscalus mexicanus) Oklahoma, USA Great-tailed grackle, boat-tail grackle
Wimbledon Tennis Tournament ... collecting
..................................................................... June 2006
Fly-swatter (haetataki) Japan
Cool dry season Kenya, tropical areas
Desires, worldly desires, illusions, delusions (bonno) Japan
Wisteria Cutting Ceremony (Fuji Kiri Eshiki)Japan Yamanashi Prefecture
Dew, Dewdrop (tsuyu, ro) Japan Worldwide
Mortality (shi ni yuku) Japan Worldwide
Soccer, Football. Europe
..... Including other Winter Sport Kigo, such as Rugby, American Football, Bob Sley, Skiing, Skating, Ice Hockey
Loincloth (fundoshi) Japan
Coins, Money (zeni) Japan Worldwide
Seaweed (kaisoo) Japan
..... including laver (nori), kelp (wakame), duckweed (mo) and agar agar (tengusa)
Summer sash (natsu obi, natsuobi) Japan
Dead body, deceased person (hotoke) Japan
Butterfly in Winter(fuyu no choo) Japan
..... frozen/freezing butterfly (itechoo)
Pigeon, pidgeon, dove (hato) Japan dove whistling (hatobue)
Mountain, peak, hill (yama, gake, oka) Japan
Sunset (yuuhi) Japan
Sound of Water (mizu no oto) Japan Translation problems and more
Oysters (kaki) Japan
..... Including Pearls (shinju) and mother-of-pearl
Sponge gourd, loofah, luffa (hechima, ito-uri) Japan
..... Including the Memorial day for Masaoka Shiki, Hechima-Ki
Stepping on a Christian image (fumi-e, ebumi) Japan
Ginkoo in Kayole, Nairobi (Kenya)
Horse (uma) Japan
..... Including various kigo such as plough horse, foal,cooling horses, fatten a horse, horse market, autumn colt, autumn pony, horses standing in the cold.
Gentle breeze, soft breeze (Linde Lüfte) Germany
..................................................................... May 2006
Sliding paper doors (fusuma), Japan
Secret Buddha Statues (hibutsu) Japan. Including showing them (kaichoo), substitute statues (maedachi, kakebotoke)
Papad Bread (papadam, poppadom, papadum, and appalam). India
Rain on Cherry Blossoms (hana no ame) Japan
Hungry Ghosts (gaki) Japan Buddhist Communities
..... Dance, a haiku topic Japan
Dance in India
The color GREEN in Haiku (midori, ao) Japan
The color GREY (GRAY)in Haiku (hyaku nezumi, hai iro) Japan
The color WHITE in Haiku (shiroi, haku) Japan
..... ..... World Kigo Database : Canada Saijiki
World Youth Day (Weltjugendtag)Italy, Germany, worldwide
Sand (suna)Japan, Worldwide. On the Beach, in the Desert ... Yellow Sand (koosa)
Berlin Wall (Berliner Mauer)Germany. Including the Iron Curtain, Eiserner Vorhang.
Elephant (zoo)Africa, India, in the Zoo
Rainbow (niji)Japan
River (kawa) Japan
Bridge (hashi) Japan
Embankment, dike (dote) Japan, worldwide
Mu, Shunyata : void, nothingness Japan
Mother (o-fukuro) Japan
New Year's Tea, Good Luck Tea, lucky tea (fukucha) Japan
Hat, Straw hat, hood ...(kasa, zukin, booshi) Japan
Hyacinth (Hyacinthus orientalis) Europe, Japan, other areas
Crab (kani) Japan. Chesapeake Bay.
..... Including King Crab (tarabagani), Queen Crab (zuwaigani), swamp crab (zawagani) and many more.
Window (mado) Japan
Stone Lantern (ishidooroo) Japan
Chesapeake Saijiki - SPRING USA
..................................................................... April 2006
Water Strider, water boatman, water spider, water horse (amenbo 水馬) Japan
..... also whirligig beetles, mizusumashi 水澄
Grave (haka) Japan
Cloud (kumo) Japan
LIST of Non-seasonal Haiku Topics
Target (mato) Japan. Bull's Eye
..... Including Bow, Arrow, Archery.
..... First Arrow, First Archery Competition. Archery on horseback (yabusame).
Earth Day Worldwide
Peacock, Kujaku and Haiku Japan
..... Including Marigold (kujakusoo), fruit flies (kujakubae) and the peacock butterfly (kujakuchoo)
Pheasant (kiji) Japan
..... ..... Chesapeake Bay Saijiki, USA
Fortune cookies; "Haikookies", O-Mikuji
God of the Rice Paddies (ta no kami) Japan
Mourning Kenya, worldwide
Patrick Wafula, Kenya
LORNA Haiku Club, Kenya
OAKS Haiku Club, Kenya
PEACOCK Haiku Club, Kenya
SPIDER Haiku Club, Kenya
Long Rains (Kenya)
Lent (Europe)
Mothering Sunday, Laetare (Europe)
... ... SPICES from India
Sesame (til, tila, gingili) India goma, goma no hana (Japan)
Light Charcoal Cherry Blossoms, Usuzumizakura 薄墨桜 Japan
Hail (hyoo) Japan , also arare, snow pellets
..................................................................... March 2006
Weasel (itachi) Japan
Ambedkar Jayanti, Memorial Day India
Tukaram Celebrations India
Dragon, a non-seasonal topic of Eastern Art
Eagle(washi) Japan
..... including other birds of winter, fuyu no tori
Water birds (mizudori 水鳥) ; Hawk (taka 鷹), Winter wild goose (fuyu no kari 冬の雁) , Winter skylark (fuyu hibari 冬雲雀), Midwinter sparrow (kan suzume 寒雀) , Midwinter crow (kan garasu 寒烏) Owl (fukuroo 梟) , Duck (kamo 鴨), Plover (Chidori 千鳥) , Hooded gull (miyakodori, yurikamome ユリカモメ), Winter gull (fuyu kamome 冬鴎), Wren (misosazai ミソサザイ), Crane (tsuru 鶴)
Swan (hakuchou 白鳥) , Grebe (Kaitsuburi カイツブリ)
Butterbur sprouts (fuki no too) and butterbur (fuki) (Japan)
Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara), Europa Butterbur Dandelion, fuki tanpopo (Japan)
Grape Hyacinth, Europa muscari, Lampenputzer
Gutsy Radish (dokonjoo daikon) Japan
Kite flying, India and Pakistan
Haiku in Bhutan INDIA SAIJIKI
Daffodil, Narcissus and Jonquils Europa
Spring light, spring shining (shunkoo) Japan
..... wind shining (kaze hikaru) Japan
Veronica, field speedwell, Europa inufuguri (Japan)
Girl Scout Cookies USA
Bahati Haiku Club Meeting, March 2006 Kenya
Bahati Haiku Club Records since January 2006 Kenya
Jizobon, Jizoo Bon 地蔵盆
Jizobon, Jizoo Bon 地蔵盆
..... including Coming of Age and Fire Rituals, Sagichoo 左義長
O-Mizutori, Omizutori Ceremony, お水取り） Shuni-E Ceremony 修二会 Nara, Japan
..... Including "Sending off Water from Wakasa" Wakasa no O-Mizu Okuri.
Hawaiian Spirit
Vailankanni (Velankanni), Festival in Chennai, India
Doll Festival (hina matsuri) Japan Peach Festival, Girl's Festival
Surfer, Surfing, Surf Hawaii, worldwide
Homeland, Hometown (furusato) Japan Heimat, Fatherland, Motherland
..................................................................... February 2006
Doll Festival (hina matsuri) Japan. Peach Festival, Girl's Festival.
Haiku Situation in Nepal
Tiruppavai of Andal Tamizhnadu, Tamil Nadu, India
Shiva Ratri Night, Festival India, Nepal, Hindu Communities
Goa Carnival India
Shivaji's forts India
Panchatantra, a Fable India
Nehru, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s Memorial Day, Children's Day India
Maasai Cattle (Masai Cattle) Kenya, Nairobi
Summer in India Kigo Collection
Yoga India
Chittorgarh Fort (Rajasthan) India
Pansy, Pansies Europe, sanshoku sumire (Japan)
Haiku from Bulgaria Collection of the Europa Saijiki
Haiku from Hungary Collection of the Europa Saijiki
Alberta Family Day, Canada
Crocus (Europe, worldwide)
Power Stone, Strenght Stone (chikara ishi, Japan) weight lifting competition
Poetry and Literature of Kenya
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Writer, Kenya
Caterpillar, Hairy Caterpillar of Kenya
Festivals of India They are all kigo.
Ganesh Chaturthi Festival India
Tiger Dance (Huli Vesha, Puli Vesha) India
.... Including TIGER, the animal as non-seasonal topic.
Serpent Festival (Nag Panchami) India
Snake, serpent, viper, cobra (hebi, mamushi, habu) Japan
Wintersweet (roobai) Japan
..... Bahati Haiku Poetry Club, Second Meeting Kenya
..................................................................... January 2006
Caterpillars worldwide
..... Including
hairy caterpillar, woolybear, kemushi
looper, inchworm, shakutori
Ice, Icicle (koori, tsurara) (Japan)
..... Kaniparambil Ramesh Poet from India
Start of School Year, School Year starts(Kenya)
..... Including
form one (form 1), new term, new textbooks, school fees, new uniform
..... Bahati Haiku Poetry Club, Kenya
..... Hawaii Saijiki
..... EUROPA Saijiki
Buddha's Seat (hotoke no za)(Japan) 05.
.................... Two flowers with the same name !
Seven Herbs of Spring (haru no nanakusa) (Japan) 05
..... Including Seri (Japanese parsley or dropwort), Nazuna (shepherd's purse), Gogyou (cottonweed), Hakobera (chickweed), Hotoke-no-za (Japanese nipplewort), Suzuna (Japanese turnip), Suzushiro (Japanese radish)
Fern (shida)(Japan) 05
Pheasant's Eye (fukujusoo) (Japan) 05
Vog (Volcanic Smog) (Hawaii, Big Island)
New Year's Day (ganjitsu)Japan, Worldwide. First day of the Year, January 1.
..... Korean Haiku
..... African Haiku
Kagura Dance (Japan)
Graduation Ceremony, Kenya
Last Fudo Ceremony of a year(osame-Fudo) (Japan)
Last Daishi Ceremony of a year (osame no Daishi) (Japan)
Whales, kujira (Japan)
Cow (Pashu, Gai) The Holy Cow of India
Bhagavad Gita (India)
Number of Entries December 2005 : 328
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Use the search function provided at these archives to look for a kigo or synonym of it. These archives contain all kigo collected so far in the various saijiki of the World Kigo Database.
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The BLOG Database started after the first 50 kigo had been collected, about October 2004.
A summary of our activities so far was posted in the WHR.
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