Butterfly (choochoo)

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Butterfly (choochoo 蝶々) Chocho

***** Location: Japan, Worldwide
***** Season: Spring and others, see below
***** Category: Animal

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Explanation

For the Japanese haijin, the butterfly it is not just an ubiquious animal in springtime, but relates to a much deeper layer of Taoist philosophy about the essence of being. I am sure most of you know the famous parable by the Chinese sage Chunag-Tsu (Chunag Tzu).

Here is a quote from a HP by Richard Zipoli:

Chuang Tzu was a Taoist sage during the fourth and third centuries B.C. The book of prose attributed to him is known for its playful expression of freedom and spontaneity. Chuang Tzu’s butterfly dream is among the most famous passages in Chinese literature. Li Po was a poet who lived in eighth-century China, during the Tang dynasty, which is sometimes considered the “Golden Age of Zen”. He is generally regarded as one of China’s most influential poets. Matsuo Basho, who lived in 17th-century Japan, is considered by many to be Japan's greatest haiku poet. From “The Chuang Tzu”, Chapter 2:

Chuang Tzu dreamed that he was a butterfly.
All day long, he floated on the breeze
Without a thought of who he was or where he was going.

When he awoke, Chuang Tzu became confused.

"Am I a Man”, he thought,
"who dreamed that I was a butterfly?
Or am I butterfly, dreaming that I am a man?
Perhaps my whole waking life is
but a moment in a butterfly's dream!.
This is a story of transformation"

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“Ancient Song”, by Li Po
(from The Selected Poems of Li Po, by David Hinton):


Chuang-tzu dreams he's a butterfly,
and a butterfly becomes Chuang-tzu.

All of transformation this one body,
boundless occurrence goes on and on:

it’s no surprise Eastern seas become
western streams shallow and clear,

or the melon-grower at Ch'ing Gate
once reigned as Duke of Tung-ling.

Are hopes and dreams any different?
We bustle around, looking for what?

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“Dreams”
by Basho (from A Zen Wave, by Robert Aitken):

You are the butterfly
And I the dreaming heart
Of Chuang-tzu

君や蝶我や荘子が夢心
kimi ya cho ware ya Sooji ga yumegokoro
http://www.haianpagoda.org/Andrew/newsletter/Chuang.htm


Written on the 10th day of the fourth lunar month in 1690
元禄3年4月10日 in a letter to 怒誰.

Takahashi Dosui 高橋怒誰
(? - 1743)
Takahashi Kihei 高橋喜兵衛
A leading figure of the Basho disciples in Omi ( Oomi Shoomon 近江蕉門).
The younger brother of Suganuma Kyokusui 菅沼曲水, who had offered the 幻住庵 Genjuan to Basho. When Kyokusui was out of town on business, Dosui took good care of Master Basho.

In a letter to Dosui in the same year, Basho also mentioned the following hokku

雁聞きに京の秋に赴かん
. kari kiki ni miyako no aki ni omomukan .
I will come to Kyoto . . .


MORE about the heart, soul, mind by
. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .


. Suganuma Kyokusui 菅沼曲水 .


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起きよ起きよ我が友にせん寝る胡蝶
okiyo okiyo waga tomo ni sen neru kochoo ( oki yo)

get up! get up!
and become my friend
you sleeping butterfly


Wake up, wake up, and be my comrade, sleeping butterfly

Wake up wake up my friend be sleeping butterfly

I will make thee my comrade, thou sleeping butterfly

Acorda, acorda! Vem ser minha amiga , Borboleta que dorme!


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Wake, butterfly -
It's late, we've miles
To go together.
source : thegreenleaf.co.uk


- reference - more translations

Written around 天和元年, Basho age 38 or later

Basho is pleading with the butterfly:
"If you are really the the Butterfly from Chuang Tsu, coming from China, then please come here and tell me all about the poetry of China!"


MORE about the butterfly by
. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .


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Just one word, one animal, but so much depth implied in simply mentioning the name in an Asian context. The word BUTTERFLY has different meanings in different cultures. Let us look at some more of them.


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butterfly in spring, haru no choo 春の蝶（はるのちょう）

Special names of butterflies
all are kigo for SPRING


swallowtail, agehachoo, 鳳蝶（あげはちょう）

butterfly, choochoo 蝶々（ちょうちょ）, soochoo双蝶（そうちょう）

shirochoo 粉蝶（しろちょう）fam. Pierinae

yellow butterfly, kichoo 黄蝶（きちょう）
Eurema hecabe、
cabbage butterfly, monshirochoo 紋白蝶（もんしろちょう）
Pieris rapae
... monkichoo 紋黄蝶（もんきちょう）Colias erate

yamajoroo 山上﨟（やまじょろう）
dandanchoo だんだら蝶（だんだらちょう）

Gifu Butterfly, gifuchoo 岐阜蝶（ぎふちょう）
Luehdorfia japonica

shijimichoo 小灰蝶（しじみちょう）fam. Lycaenidae
seserichoo 挵蝶（せせりちょう）fam. Hesperiidae

tatehachoo 蛺蝶（たてはちょう）fam. Nymphalidae
akatatechoo 赤蛺蝶（あかたては）Vanessa indica
ruritatechoo 瑠璃蛺蝶（るりたては）Kaniska canace

sakahachoo 逆八蝶（さかはちちょう）Araschnia burejana

ishigakechoo 、石崖蝶（いしがけちょう）
Cyrestis thyodamas
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ichimonjichoo 一文字蝶（いちもんじちょう）Ladoga camilla

"big violett, oomurasaki 大紫（おおむらさき）
Sasakia charonda
"little violett", komurasaki 小紫（こむらさき）
Apatura metis



madarachoo 斑蝶（まだらちょう）fam. Danaidae
asagimadara 浅黄斑蝶（あさぎまだら）Parantica sita

. asagi あさぎ - 浅黄 - 浅葱 hues of light yellow, green and blue .


Peacock butterfly, kujakuchoo 孔雀蝶（くじゃくちょう）Inachus io

hiodoshichoo 緋縅蝶（ひおどしちょう）
Nymphalis xanthomelas
hyoomonchoo 豹紋蝶（ひょうもんちょう）Brenthis daphne

"goblin butterfly", tenguchoo 天狗蝶（てんぐちょう）
nout butterfly European beak nettle-tree butterfly
Libythea celtis


"serpent's eye butterfly" janomechoo 蛇目蝶（じゃのめちょう )Minois dryas
higasachoo 日陰蝶（ひかげちょう）Lethe sicelis




"lake butterfly", kochoo 胡蝶（こちょう）


"tree leaf butterfly" konohachoo 木葉蝶（このはちょう）
Kallima inachus . orange oakleaf



"sleeping butterfly", nemuru choo 眠る蝶（ねむるちょう）
"butterfly going crazy", kuruu choo 狂う蝶（くるうちょう）
butterfly dancing, mau choo舞う蝶（まうちょう）


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winter butterfly, winter's butterfly,
fuyu no choo　冬の蝶
..... fuyuchoo 冬蝶

kigo for winter

Details are HERE
freezing butterfly, frozen butterfly, itechoo 凍蝶

summer butterfly, natsu no choo 夏の蝶

autumn butterfly, aki no choo 秋の蝶


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Worldwide use

Australia

Blue Triangle butterfly, bluebottle (Graphium sarpedon choredon) Australia

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Sufi Mythology

The life cycle of the butterfly presents a perfect analogy for immortality:
a). The crawling caterpillar signifies the ordinary life of mortals, preoccupied with fulfilling our trivial needs.
b). The next stage, the dark chrysalis (cocoon), represents death.
c). The butterfly symbolizes rebirth and a new beginning in life, with the soul fluttering free of material concerns and restrictions.



These three stages also serve as a microcosm for the biography of Jesus Christ - life, death and resurrection.

Read more about jewelery and ancient symbols
© Nitin Kumar, Exotic India
http://www.exoticindia.com/article/symbolicjewelry/2/

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. tsurushibina, tsurushi bina つるし雛 / 吊るし雛 hanging hina dolls .

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Things found on the way


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HAIKU

doing the dishes -
outside
two tender butterflies

Gabi Greve, June 2008
My Simple Life



a love letter
folded in two wings
of a butterfly



Gabi Greve, September 2009



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それぞれや蝶も白組黄色組
sore-zore ya cho mo shiro-gumi kiiro-gumi

segregation
among butterflies too...
white gang, yellow gang

Issa
(Tr. David Lanoue)



Look at the picture and comments of Sakuo here:
http://sakuo3903.blogspot.com/

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Two Haiga by Narayanan Raghunathan

a butterfly spirals
in floral cosmoses ~
scent of nectar
http://www.wonderhaikuworlds.com/viewdetail-haiga.php?post=61




... ... ...

twilight gloom
a solitary butterfly
a dog's howl ~

balloon stall ~
a child and mother pose ~
a butterfly joins ~

Read more of Narayanan Raghunathan's Butterfly Haiku here:
India Saijiki


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parsimonious butterflies
in a ferocious windy tangle
clasping benign sepals

Bamdev Sharma, Nepal

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Mourning cloak, Nymphalis antiopa

in the graveyard
a mourning cloak flutters
over the incense ashes

- Shared by Alan Pizarrelli -
Joys of Japan, 2012


Mourning cloaks
gold leafing
our stump

- Shared by Alexis Rotella -
Joys of Japan, 2012


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Related words


***** First Butterfly, hatsu choo　初蝶
Expresses the joy of seeing it for the first time in spring, thus knowing the long winter is over.


Haiku Collection: First Butterfly

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Chunag-Tsu (Chunag Tzu, Zhuangzi)
. Sooshi 荘子 Soshi and Japanese Kigo .

. chocho 蝶々と伝説 butterfly legends .

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Buckwheat (soba)

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Buckwheat plant and food (soba)

***** Location: Japan, other regions
***** Season: Various, see below
***** Category: Plant

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Explanation

Buckwheat refers to a variety of plants in the dicot family Polygonaceae: the Eurasian genus Fagopyrum, the North American genus Eriogonum, and the Northern Hemisphere genus Fallopia.
Either of the latter two may be referred to as "wild buckwheat".


©　More in the WIKIPEDIA !


pink and red buckwheat, aka-soba 赤蕎麦

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plant kigo for early autumn

soba no hana 蕎麦の花 (そばのはな)
buckwheat flowers

There are white and pink varieties.
Some villages plant the pink ones to have a pretty view for visitors.

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mizosoba 溝蕎麦 (みぞそば)
Polygonum thunbergii


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plant kigo for late autumn

shin soba 新蕎麦 (しんそば) new buckwheat
akisoba, aki soba 秋蕎麦（あきそば）autumn buckwheat

hatsu soba 初蕎麦（はつそば）first buckwheat of the season
..... arsoba 新蕎麦（あらそば）

hashirisoba 走り蕎麦（はしりそば）
buckwheat harvested early in autumn

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humanity kigo for early winter

soba kari 蕎麦刈 (そばかり) cutting buckwheat
harvesting buckwheat
soba hosu 蕎麦干す（そばほす）drying buckwheat plants


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humanity kigo for all autumn

sobatoro, soba toro 蕎麦とろ（そばとろ）
buckwheat noodles with grated yam

Japanese Autumn Food using Buckwheat



humanity food kigo for all winter

sobagaki 蕎麦掻 (そばがき) buckwheat dumplings

Yotakasoba 夜鷹蕎麦 (よたかそば)
Buckwheat noodles for the late night hawkers
. . . . . yonaki soba 夜泣蕎麦（よなきそば）


sobayu 蕎麦湯 (そばゆ) hot buckwheat water


. Japanese Winter Food using Buckwheat 　


Toshikoshi Soba ... 年越しそば
Buckwheat noodles on the last day of the year




In Japan, buckwheat is grown in the mounainous areas where no other food plants are growing any more, and made to noodles or dumplings. Many areas are famous for this delicious food.


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Read more about buckwheat here:
Polygonum fagopyrum

BUCKWHEAT soba そば　蕎麦　


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Worldwide use

Buchweizen, Buchweizennudeln


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Things found on the way

wankosoba わんこそば (わんこ蕎麦 / （椀こそば) Morioka, buckwheat noodles
Small servings of soba, served "all you can eat" and as fast as you can eat. How many can you gulp down in xx minutes?
These noodles are also served in Hanamaki town 花巻市 and competitions are held there.

. Food from Iwate .


and
Soba furumai そば振る舞い to give soba as s present in Edo

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Soba 蕎麦　そば　＜＞ Daruma Eating Buckwheat Noodles


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HAIKU

Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉



蕎麦はまだ花でもてなす山路かな
soba wa mada hana de motenasu yamaji kana

buckwheat flowers
still entertain us
along the mountain path
Tr. Gabi Greve


Visited by Tojuu of Ise at my mountain hermitage

buckwheat
still served with flowers
on a mountain road
Tr. Reichhold


I was visited by Tojuu of Ise at my mountain hermitage

I'll serve buckwheat
while they're blossoming:
mountain path
Tr. Barnhill


Reichhold's comment:
"Tojuu of Ise, a disciple of Shikoo, visited Basho on September 3rd [1694].
Buckwheat noodles were one of Basho's favorite foods."

Barnhill's comment:
"1694 (3rd of Ninth Month; October 21). It is still too early to serve buckwheat noodles as food, so viewing their blossoms will have too."

Basho Haiku about Food


三日月に地はおぼろ也蕎麦の花
mikazuki ni ji ha oboro ya soba no hana

a crescent moon
lights the misty ground-
buckwheat flowers



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山畠やそばの白さもぞっとする
yamahata ya soba no shirosa mo zotto suru

mountain field--
the buckwheat's whiteness
makes me shiver


そばの花咲くや仏と二人前
soba no hana saku ya hotoke to futarimae

buckwheat blossoms
enough for the Buddha
and me


国がらや田にも咲するそばの花
kunigara ya ta ni mo saki suru soba no hana

such is my homeland!
blooming in fields
buckwheat

Kobayashi Issa

More tr. by David Lanoue


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he sings upstream
buckwheat blossoms
and summer rain

.. .. .. on his screen
.. .. .. a mail about buckwheat
.. .. .. outside a sparrow

gazing wistfully
buckwheat blossoms
in the mist

.. .. .. reading Shiki
.. .. .. the scent of buckwheat
.. .. .. around her

GEERT VERBEKE
My website: http://users.skynet.be/geert.verbeke.bowls


Read more of Geert's haiku about the buckwheat here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/happyhaiku/message/963


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buckwheat flowers -
a yellow butterfly
chooses pink

Gabi Greve



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***** Buckwheat Honey
nonseasonal topic

Buckwheat is perhaps the darkest and strongest flavored honeys. It contains a lot of minerals and has a strong taste. Sometimes used in porters and stouts. You can also poor it over hot cake and pancakes for a healthy treat.

Gabi Greve


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Brigid's Day (Ireland)

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St. Bridgid's Day (Ireland)

***** Location: Ireland
***** Season: Early Spring
***** Category: Observance

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Explanation

1 February is the Feast of St Brigid, which is also (in Ireland) the first day of spring.

St Brigid is one of the three patron saints of Ireland, together with St Patrick and St Columcille (also known as St Columba). She is much revered, and there are many stories about her. She was a strong and determined woman at a time when Ireland was just becoming Christian.
She became the Abbott of a mixed (male / female) monastery, and was made a bishop (see below).

She is not to be confused with St Birgitta of Sweden.

Isabelle Prondzynski

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St Brigid’s Day
Scots Gaelic Là Fhèill Brìghde,
Irish Lá Fhéile Bríde
the feast day of the goddess Brigid
Imbolc (also Imbolg)
©　More in the WIKIPEDIA !


St. Brigid (or Bridget, Brighid, Bridgid or Bríd)
holds a special place for the Irish people. St. Brigid's Day is on February 1st. It is very significant in Dundalk, Co. Louth.
It is said that St. Brigid was born just outside Dundalk, in a place called Faughart.
http://www.iol.ie/~marist/halo/halobridgid.htm

There are a number of traditions associated with St. Brigid.
http://www.iol.ie/~marist/halo/halobridgid/bridgidtrads.html


The St. Brigids Cross
The most characteristic and most widespread Irish custom connected with St. Brigid's Eve was the making of the "cros Bríde"or "Bogha Bríde" (St. Brigid's Cross) to invoke protection. The most usual type was very simple in design but of course these were variations - one of these in fact, was adopted as its symbol by Radio Telefís Eireann, the Irish broadcasting service.
The making of the crosses was attended with some ceremony.

http://www.iol.ie/~marist/halo/halobridgid/images/usual.jpg

In the southern half of the country the cross was sprinkled with holy waters, hung up above or close to the entrance door with an appropriate prayer but in the northern of the country the ritual was much more elaborate, especially in Sligo, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon, most parts of Ulster and also in the Dundalk area of Co. Louth: One of the family, a girl, representing the Saint leaves the house and when outside knocks three times to gain admittance. She carries rushes in her hands. Each time on knocking she says:

"Teighidh sibh ar bhus nglúna, déaraidh sibh umhlaíocht, agus ligigidh Bríd Bheannachtach isteach".
(Which means "Go down on your knees, do homage and let Blessed Brigid enter the house").

When this has been said for the third time, those inside respond " O tar isteach, tá céad fáilte romhat". (O, Come in, you are a hundred times welcome).

Then she enters and places the rushes on the table. The supper has already been laid out on the table and the following grace is recited by the father and mother:"Beannaigh sinn, a Dhia, beannaigh ár mbiadh agus ár ndeach, is tú a cheannaigh sinn go daor, soar sinn ar gach olc!"(Bless us, O God, bless our food and our drink; it is Thou who has redeemed us at great price, deliver us form all evil!).When the supper was eaten the parents recite a long thanksgiving prayer.

In explanation of why the crosses were made and put up tradition without hesitation answers 'protection'. Protection against fire, storm and lightening is the most usual reason given but also illness and disease.

Look at more cross types here:
http://www.iol.ie/~marist/halo/halobridgid/bridgiddecor.html


The Candlelight Procession
On the eve of St. Brigid's Day, there is a candlelight procession from Faughart graveyard, the location of St. Brigid's Well, past St. Brigid's Shrine up to Kilcurry Church, approximately 3 miles away. Then prayers are said, including the Rosary.

St. Brigid's Well

The graveyard in Faughart, just outside Dundalk, Co. Louth,is the location of an old well, normally associated with St. Brigid. It is said that the water in the Well rises on her feast day, February 1st. The graveyard is actually at one of the highest points in the area, and therefore so too is the Well. This makes the myth all the more interesting, as a well normally has located at a low point, landwise to get water.

The Brídeóg
In many places of Ireland one of the main features of St. Brigid's Eve was that groups of people went from house to house carrying a symbol of the saint. They were welcomed always by the householders since they announced that they were bringing St. Brigid's blessing to the household. Sometimes they carried numerous Brigid's crosses and they gave one to the head of each house, however usually it was accepted that the girl who carried the symbol was the most beautiful and modest of them all.

In many cases of Co. Louth and Co. Armagh, there were traditions associated with "Brigid's Shield" (Sciath Bhrighid) and Brigid's Crown (Coróin Bhrigid) where the most beautiful girl of a particular area wearing a crown of rushes, a shield on her left arm and a cross in her right hand, was escorted by a group of young girls from house to house on Brigid's Eve - or Brigid's Morning, and that special prayers and ceremonies were observed!

St. Brigid's Ribbon
There was also customs associated with 'ribín Bríghid' (St. Brigid's ribbon) whereby a silk ribbon was placed on the windowsill during the night in honour of the Saint. The general belief was that the Saint going about the country on the Eve of her feast, would touch the ribín and endow it with healing powers. Some believed that the healing powers only improved with age and that its healing power was greatest after it had been kept for seven years. As well as relieving illness, it could cure barrenness, help women in childbirth and ward off evil influences.

There is also a tradition, which believes that hoarfrost, gathered from the grass on the morning of St. Brigid's day, is an infallible cure for headache. Many people also brought water from a well dedicated to the Saint and sprinkled it on the house and its occupants, farm builders, livestock and fields, invoking the blessing of the Saint.
http://www.iol.ie/~marist/halo/halobridgid/bridgidtrads.html


The Folklore around St. Brigid
http://www.iol.ie/~marist/halo/halobridgid/bridgidfolk.html

One Possibility.....
Brigid's story begins in 453 AD. She was born the illegitimate daughter of Brocessa, a slave girl, and Dubthach, a pagan chieftan of Faughart, which is situated just 2 miles from Dundalk. Both Brigid and her mother were banished from Faughart after she was born, but she returned as a young woman to be reclaimed by her father as was customary in those times, but Brigid was never accepted by her stepmother who tried to sell her to the King of Leinster.

The King of Leinster, himself a Christian, persuaded her father to grant her freedom, which he did and on gaining her freedom Brigid went in search of her mother Brocessa. On finding her ill, Brigid insisted on taking over her mother's role as a slave of the household. Her master, a druid, was amazed at this and granted her mother her freedom, so Brigid, having arranged to have her mother looked after, returned to Faughart.

Brigid was extremely beautiful and had many suitors, among them a poet whose rank in Celtic Ireland was next to roytalty. Her father, who was arranging the marriage, would not listen to Brigid's protests, so she prayed that God would take away her beauty and tradition relates that Brigid's skin was destroyed by a horrible disease. Legend has it that she cast her eye and fired it against a stone, which left an imprint.
It is also said that her long hours kneeling in prayer left the marks of her knees in the rock.

The custom of making St. Brigid's crosses may have been a christianised version of a celtic ceremony connected with food production at the beginning of Spring. The crosses were usually made from straw and rushes, although reeds and wood were occasionally used. When Irish people converted to Christianity they sometimes brought ancient traditions with them. Myths surrounding St. Brigid's life have similarities to those of Brigid, the celtic godess of fertility.


Another Possibility....
The main significance of the feast of Saint Brigid's on February 1st would seem to be that it was a christianisation of one of the focal points of the agricultural year in Ireland, the starting point of preparations for the spring sowing. A relaxation of the rigours of winter weather was expected at this time, for, according to tradition, the saint had promised.

"Gach ré lá go maith
ó'm lá - sa arnach
agus leath mo lae féinigh."

Every second day fine
From my day onward
And half of my own day

St. Brigid was one of the great trio of saints - along with Patrick and Columba - who laid the foundations of the Celtic Church. She was born about 453 near Umeras, in Co. Kildare and died about 523. Her father was a pagan prince named Dubthach and her mother was Brocerna, a Christian slave in his household.

The cult of St. Brigid is still vigorous in Ireland. She is known as the patron of farmers, of artists and of students. On the eve of her feast day, February 1st crosses made of rushes woven together are placed in Irish homes, blessed and hung up in cow-sheds or byres to invoke her protection for the following year.

For those who lived near the sea the spring tide nearest to her festival was known as "Rabhastha na féile bride" and was believed to be the greatest spring tide of the year, and the people were quick to take the opportunity of cutting and gathering seaweed to fertilize the crops and collecting shellfish and other shore produce.

Read the rest of her story here:
http://www.iol.ie/~marist/halo/halobridgid/bridgidfolk.html


Other extensive Links about her
St. Brigid of Ireland
(Incorrectly known as BRIDGET)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02784b.htm

http://www.aoh.com/history/archive/stbrigid.htm

http://kildare.ie/touristguide/towns/kildare/index.asp


ST. BRIGID'S CLOAK.

The King of Leinster at that time was not particularly generous, and St. Brigid found it not easy to make him contribute in a respectable fashion to her many charities. One day when he proved more than usually niggardly, she at last said, as it were in jest: "Well, at least grant me as much land as I can cover with my cloak;" and to get rid of her importunity he consented.

They were at the time standing on the highest point of ground of the Curragh, and she directed four of her sisters to spread out the cloak preparatory to her taking possession. They accordingly took up the garment, but instead of laying it flat on the turf, each virgin, with face turned to a different point of the compass, began to run swiftly, the cloth expanding at their wish in all directions. Other pious ladies, as the border enlarged, seized portions of it to preserve something of a circular shape, and the elastic extension continued till the breadth was a mile at least.

"Oh, St. Brigid!" said the frighted king, "what are you about?" "I am, or rather my cloak is about covering your whole province to punish you for your stinginess to the poor." "Oh, come, come, this won't do. Call your maidens back. I will give you a decent plot of ground, and be more
liberal for the future." The saint was easily persuaded. She obtained some acres, and if the king held his purse-strings tight on any future occasion she had only to allude to her cloak's India-rubber qualities to bring him to reason.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/lfic/lfic102.htm

The ancient and beautiful Cathedral in Kildare town is dedicated to St Brigid.
http://kildare.ie/Heritage/History/religious/churches/kildare-cathedral.htm


Very important to many women in the Christian Church is the story of her abbotship of a double monastery and her consecration as a bishop :
http://www.brighidsfire.com/well/well5.html
http://www.kensmen.com/catholic/customstimeafterepiphany2a.html

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st brigid's day
two butterflies set to fly
on my baggage

Isabelle Prondzynski

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this bitter bitter night -
a wild wind warps
St. Brigid's bells

Larry Kimmel
http://larrykimmel.tripod.com/newfly.htm

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A Hokku on St Brigid's day

St Brigid's day, 1st February, is widely understood hereabouts as the first day of spring. The day has special significance in Ireland where there are thousands of holy wells (or springs), many of which are dedicated to Brigid - nominally the early Christian saint, but in fact the Gaelic goddess of fertility and poetry.
Although superficially christianised, many of the practices associated with the pagan goddess continue, including the collection of water from Brigid's wells on her sacred day, which is then cast onto cattle and fields in the hope of increased fertility.

St Brigid's Day --
the clank of buckets
at the holy well

Norman Darlington
Saint Brigid's Day (Darlington, Prime, Carley),
the first Triparshva to appear in English, was published in 2005 in Kokako, a New Zealand haikai zine.

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Adapted from a message of W.J. Higginson to the forum "Haiku Talk 2":
Saint Brigid's Day

It's a bit like Eostre being "converted" to Easter, and English being the (nearly?) lone holdout against the tendency on the Continent to name the Christian holiday after the Jewish Passover.

I'm glad to see that 1 February (St. Brigid's Day) is seen as the beginning of spring, as this practically coincides with the view of the old Sino-Japanese calendar that governs the haiku seasons. In the case of Eire, I'm sure it has to do with the mild climate created by the Gulf Stream, more than astronomical features--e.g., the beginning of traditional "haiku spring" is the midpoint between the winter solstice and the vernal equinox, speaking from a northern-hemisphere perspective. But however it happens, it goes to point up how arbitrary any delineation of the seasons is, and how we need to be somewhat flexible in our approach to them.
(quoted with the author's permission)

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Bonifacio Day

***** Location: Philippines
***** Season: Winter
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Bonifacio Day, November 30.
The birthday of Andres Bonifacio (b.1896), who led the 1896 revolt against the Spanish.

Bonifacio Monument by Guillermo Tolentino
1933 cast in bronze, Kalookan City
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/Cynthia/festivals/bonifacio_day.htm

In August of 1896, at Pugadlawin, Kalookan, Bonifacio gathered his men and fearlessly urged them to tear up their cedulas as a symbilic gesture of their defiance of Spanish rule. Thus began, the Philippine Revolution against Spain.

A difficult childhood gave Andres the strenght to face all odds with great courage and determination. He was the eldest of six children of Catalina de Castro and Santiago Bonifacio.
At the age of fourteen, Andres was orphaned and had to taken on the task of caring for his younger brothers and sisters. To do this, he had to quit school and look for ways of supporting his family.

Together, they made rattan canes and colorful fans from Japanese paper. Even if he stopped going to school, Bonifacio continued reading the novels of Rizal and Dumas; he also read about international law and French Revolution. In later years, he too began to write about what the Filipino should know to appreciate the desire and the need to be free.
During his late teens, Andres was able to work as a clerk, then as a sales agent. later on, he became a warehouseman in Tondo.

Bonifacio and Jose Rizal were both members of La Liga Filipina, a movement working peacfully for reforms in the Philippines. However, the two national heroes never knew each other personally. When Rizal was arrested in 1892, Bonifacio realized that Spain would never grant the requested reforms. So, on the night of July 7, 1892, Bonifacio, Valentine Diaz, Deodato Arellano (brother in-law of Marcelo H. del Pilar), Teodoro Plata (Andres' brother in-law), Ladislao Diwa, and a few others secretly met in a house along Azcarraga Street (now Claro M. Recto Street) near Candelaria Street (now Elcano Street). On that night, the Katipunan was formed. The members formalized their membership by signing the pact with their own blood. In 1895, Bonifacio became the Supremo, or leader.

In the same year the Katipunan was founded, Bonifacio married Gregoria de Jesus, who chose Lakambini or muse as her codename in the Katipunan. She took charge of the confidential files, revolvers, seals, and other materials of the society.
On August 23, 1896, the katipuneros gathered secretly at the farm of Juan A. Ramos, son of Mechora Aquino, at Pugadlawin in Kalookan. The Spaniards had gotten wind of the Katipunan and deciphered its secret codes. The katipuneros are now fugitives and in great danger. Together, the katipuneros agreed to fight to the death for their cause.

"Bring out your cedulas and tear them to pieces to symbolize our determination to take up arms," Bonifacio challenged his members. The katipuneros tore up their cedulas and shouted, "Long live the Philippines." The cry at Pugadlawin signaled the start of the Philippine Revolution.
The inital plan to attack Manila did not push through due to lack of arms. Instead Bonifacio, Emilio Jacinto, and some others attacked the Spanish arsenal at San Juan del Monte. Bonifacio failed to anticipate the possible arrival of the Spanish reinforcement troops, who caused the Filipino's defeat.
Bonifacio and his men retreated with heavy casualties.

Bonifacio's life as a militant katipunero ended on Mount Hulog, a mountain in Maragondon, Cavite. Bonifacio and his younger brother Procopio were accused by the Spaniards of rebellion and were sentenced to die. On May 10, 1897, Mariano Noriel handed a sealed envelope to Lazaro Makapagal and instructed him to take the two Bonifacio brothers to Mount Taal. Once there Bonifacio requested Makapagal to open the envelope. In it was the order to execute both brothers. Makapagal had no recouse but to follow the command, lest he be punished severely. In doing so, he executed the Filipino who sprearheaded the Philippine Revolution against Spain.

Source: Filway's Philippine Almanac Centennial Edition
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/Cynthia/festivals/bonifacio_day.htm

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ANDRES BONIFACIO



Founder of The Katipunan, was born to Santiago Bonifacio and Catalina de Castro, a Spanish mestiza, in Tondo, Manila on November 30, 1863 and died on May 10, 1897 at the age of 33.
To remember Andres Bonifacio on his 140th birth anniversary is to rekindle in us his ideals - Liberty, Equality, and the Brotherhood of Men - a man of action, a great organizer, an indefatigable worker, and selfless Filipino who sacrificed his life to see his beloved Motherland freed from foreign domination.
http://www.ladylaila.net/blog/archives/000029.html

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Find the Philippines in this world map!!

And more links about the Philippines.
http://www.filipino.com/

List of other holidays in the Philippines.
http://www.shagtown.com/days/philippines.html

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Haibun by Robert Wilson

even the fish
are repelled by its stench---
the pasig river

On November 30th, Filipinos will celebrate the life of AndresBonifacio, the man who led the revolution that overthrew their country'scruel, dark hearted Spanish captors. Unfortunately, the victory was shortlived.

Today, the greatest source of income for the Republic of the Philippines is money sent home by relatives working in other countries. The majority of people holding jobs in the Philippines are grossly underpaid, oftentimes receiving less than $98 per month, which is not enough to feed, house, and clothe a family. Medical insurance is out of their reach. Poverty is rampant. Preventable diseases and death, all too common. As it was before Filipinos rose up against their Spanish captors, the people are once again the captives of greed,subjugated and ruled by a privileged few who control 90% of the wealth. And thanks to graft and political corruption, their rule shows no sign of ebbing. Interestingly enough, most of the privileged are light skinned people who prefer to speak English instead of Pilippino.

They drive expensive cars, live in american style luxury homes,and celebrate American holidays. All the while, the majority ofFilipinos live below the poverty level, a poverty level poor Americanswould rise up and revolt against. Small wonder Filipinos covet foreign jobs,legal and illegal, leaving the country as fast as they can.

rise up
from the grave, bonifacio...
summer is near

robert wilson
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WHCworldkigo/message/791


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dewdrops
on sampaguita blossoms...
the day Rizal died

wakasa ni namida dokuritu bannzai

tears for his youth
Long Live Independence!

Jose Rizal is the national hero of the Philippines, who died by execution on December 30, 1896.
Renga by Juanito and Sakuo
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WHCworldkigo/message/2238

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***** Sampaguita
This is the national flower of the Philippines and belongs to the jasmine family. It
grows as a woody vine or shrub with small, white star-shaped blossoms that open at night and wilt in less than a day. Its flowers have a distinct sweet fragrance. It is believed to have been imported in the 17th century from Himalayan areas.

Read more about this flower here:
http://home.arcor.de/be/bethge/sampaguitaenglisch.htm

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Blowfish (fugu)

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fugu 河豚 / 鰒 / 鯸 / 魨 blowfish, puffer fish

***** Location: Japan
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河豚、the pig of the sea, as the kanji may be interpreted.
kigo for all winter

Fugu, Spheroides and Tetraodontiformes family. puffer fish Kugelfisch

The fish is about 30 cm long, the mouth quite small and the belly can be blown up in case of need, to make the animal look much bigger. The poison in his liver is deadly, otherwise it is a delicacy. The ovaraies (fugu no ko) are especially valued. Dried and blown up, he makes a lovely (?) souvenir of Western Japan and Kyushu, where he is most delicate.

Gabi Greve





buying a stamp -
even at the post office
I meet my fugu

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many kigo with the blowfish

fugu choochin 河豚提燈（ふぐちょうちん）fugu as a lampion decoration
see photo below

fugu 河豚 (ふぐ) / 鰒（ふぐ）
blowfish, pufferfish, puffer, globefish, swellfish

mafugu 真河豚（まふぐ）Takifugu porphyreus
namerafugu 滑河豚（なめらふぐ）fam. Tetraodontidae
torafugu 虎河豚（とらふぐ）"tiger fugu", Takifugu rubripes

akame fugu 赤目河豚（あかめふぐ）"fugu with read eyes"
Takifugu chrysops

komon fugu 小紋河豚（こもんふぐ）"fugu with small patterns"
Takifugu poecilonotus

goma fugu 胡麻河豚（ごまふぐ）"fugu with sesame seed pattern"
Takifugu stictonotus


kita makura, kitamakura 北枕（きたまくら） "pillow in the north"
Canthigaster rivulata
(kitamakura is used as a pillow facing north, only for placing a dead body.)
Pillow (makura) and haiku



harisenbon, hari senbon 針千本（はりせんぼん）
"one thousand needles". Balloon porcupinefish
Diodon holocanthus


sabafugu, saba fugu 鯖河豚（さばふぐ）"mackerel fugu"
Lagocephalus wheeleri

ginga fugu 銀河河豚（ぎんがふぐ）"galaxy fugu"

kusa fugu, kusafugu 草河豚（くさふぐ）"plant fugu"
Takifugu niphobles

ginfugu 金河豚（きんふぐ）"golden fugu"
Auriglobus modestus

hakofugu, hako fugu 箱河豚（はこふぐ）
Ostracion immaculatus

oman fugu 巾著河豚（おまんふぐ）Kinchaku fugu

umi suzume 海雀（うみすずめ）"sparrow of the sea"
Lactoria diaphana

itomaki fugu 糸巻河豚（いとまきふぐ）"reel fugu"
Kentrocapros aculeatus


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humanity kigo for all winter

fugunabe, fugu nabe blowfish stew 河豚鍋（ふぐなべ）

fugujiru, fugu jiru 河豚汁 (ふぐじる) blowfish soup
fugutojiru ふぐと汁（ふぐとじる）、fugutoojiru ふぐとう汁（ふぐとうじる）
..... fuku ふく, fukuto ふくと, fukube ふくべ
fukujiru 河豚汁


other famous fugu dishes as kigo

fuguchiri 河豚ちり（ふぐちり）
tetchiri てっちり
fugu meat in boiling water
. . . CLICK here for Photos !

hirezake 鰭酒（ひれざけ）
ricewine with soaked blowfish fins




teppoonabe 鉄砲鍋（てっぽうなべ）"gun hodgepodge"
Some kind of russian roulette when eating this poisonous fish together with a friend.



fugu no yado 河豚の宿（ふぐのやど）
restaurant that serves fugunabe
fugu no tomo 河豚の友（ふぐのとも）
friend to eat blowfish with

fugu no doku 河豚の毒（ふぐのどく）blowfish poison

fugu atari 河豚中り（ふぐあたり）blowfish poison poisoning
It was quite deadly in the Edo period.

fugu tsuri 河豚釣（ふぐつり）fishing for fugu
fugu ami 河豚網（ふぐあみ） net for fishing fugu


observance kigo for mid-spring

. Fugu Kuyoo 河豚供養 Memorial Service for Pufferfish .
At the end of the Fugu season
April 29. Especially in Shimonoseki at Haedodomari 南風泊
Small torafugu baby tiger pufferfish are let to swim in the sea.


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Blowfish as a lamp, with a thousand needles
(hari senbon はりせんぼん)
http://www.geocities.co.jp/HeartLand-Himawari/5315/fugu.htm


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Fugu Sashimi, a delicacy
http://www.rakuten.co.jp/uokatsu/590013/#569379


Is the evil blowfish - also known as puffer, globefish, or swellfish - in danger of extinction?
In Japan, eating the honorable fugu (blowfish) is the ideal of gourmet dining-and the
cooking version of Russian roulette. According to Japan Economic newswire, a Japanese wholesaler exported the first 90 kg of vacuum-packed fugu to Hong Kong in October 1995. Hong Kong is the second market to import fugu from Japan. New York, which started importing the fish in 1989, currently sells about 1 tons of fugu every year, according to the wholesaler. Fugu's trade volume is rising because of people's curiosity in eating such fish.

In Japan, eating fugu has been the gastronomic version of Russian roulette for centuries. "His chopsticks roll to the table from nerveless fingers; he pales; his breathing labors." Dining on fugu
is often the subject of traditional senryuverse.

Last night he and I ate fugu;
Today I help carry his coffin.

"It's a terrible death," a Japanese cook said. "Although you can think clearly, you cannot speak or move and soon cannot breathe."

Why the Japanese should make a ritual eating deadly poisonous fish is difficult for foreigners to comprehend. For many the elegant, death-defying event is a status symbol, and disciples say that consumption of the meat produces a pleasant, warm tingling.
Nonetheless, fugu ovaries, intestines and livers can be so deadly that if even touch of them is left in the fish, the diner dies, sometimes in minutes.

In the medieval era, the Tokugawa shogunate regime strictly banned blowfish consumption. But it became popular again around the end of the regime in the mid-19th century as the government lost control over the people. Kiichi Kitahara, the owner of Blowfish museum in Osaka, noted as follows: "Human beings are funny. They want to eat what is forbidden. The history of blowfish is the history of prohibition by authorities. If blowfish weren't poisonous, they might not be so popular."

Read a lot more interesting information about the fugu.
http://www.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/blowfish.htm


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Japanese Link about the Fugu


. トラフグ Torafugu, the Tiger Blowfish
http://homepage3.nifty.com/shokubun/fugu1.html



Onsen Torafugu 温泉トラフグ　grown in a hot spring
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In Tochigi, the mountain community Nakagawa Machi 那珂川町 is growing torafugu in the salty water of a local onsen, in large basins at an abandoned school. Before preparing them as food, they are put in a special container with high salt percentage, to make them swim faster and later taste better when eaten, (ajiage　味上げ）.
They also prepare Onsen Torafuju Manju rice cakes with the imprint of a fugu and fugu goods are sold in the village.


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dried blowfish, hoshi fugu 干河豚 (ほしふぐ)
kigo for all summer
..... hoshifugu 乾河豚（ほしふぐ）
"salted blowfish", shio fugu塩河豚（しおふぐ）
sarashiboshi さくら干し（さくらぼし）
noshifuguのし河豚（のしふぐ）


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In the Kansai region the slang word teppō, teppoo, (鉄砲) meaning rifle or gun, is used for the fish. This is a play of words on the verb ataru (当たる), which can mean either to be poisoned or to be shot. In Yamaguchi Prefecture, the pronunciation fuku is common instead of fugu. The former means good fortune whereas the latter is a homonym for disabled. The Tsukiji fish market fugu association holds a service each year at the height of the fugu season, releasing hundreds of caught fugu into the Sumida River. A similar ceremony is also held at another large market in Shimonoseki.

A rakugo, or humorous short story, tells of three men that prepared a fugu stew but were unsure as to whether it was safe to eat. To test the stew, they gave some to a beggar. When it did not seem to do him any harm they ate the stew. Later, they met the beggar again and were delighted to see that he was still in good health. After that encounter, the beggar, who had in fact not eaten the stew but hidden it, knew that it was safe and he could eat it. The three men had been fooled by the wise beggar.
©　More in the WIKIPEDIA !

Since there was no help against the poison, the fish was also

species of Takifugu, Lagocephalus, or Sphoeroides) or porcupinefish of the genus Diodon.

2 Familien. Fam. Tetraodontidae und Fam Balistoidei .

fugu, akamefugu, mafugu, sangatufugu (Takifugu pardalis)
Wird bis zu 14 Zentimeter lang.
http://www.pref.iwate.jp/~hp5507/h19osakanazukan/page126.htm

shirosabafugu (Lagocephalus wheeleri Abe, Tabeta and Kitahama)
http://www.fishing-forum.org/blog/arara/cat35/cat28/

shoosaifugu (Takifugu snyderi)
http://www.fishing-forum.org/blog/arara/cat35/cat28/

torafugu „Tiger-Kugelfisch“ (Fugu rubripes, tiger blowfish)
Die Eierstöcke können bis zu einem Kilogramm wiegen.

Die Leber und Eierstöcke enthalten das Giftテトロドトキシン tetrodotoxin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugu



In Osaka, there is a special station lunchbox with fugu.
２００７年３月１９日に "大阪特選ふぐづくし"



In Osaka, Kishiwada, there is a fugu museum. fugu no kan フグの館
Osaka Fugu Hakubutsukan ふぐ博物館
大阪府岸和田市北町１０番２号
since Showa 39.
See Comment Below.


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The fugu is very popular in Shimonoseki, Japan. An fast train is named after it, the Fugu Express. It looks like a Fugu lampion (fugu choochin 河豚提灯) like in the top picture.

http://nnrf63.hp.infoseek.co.jp/topix20.html


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fugu whistle from Shimonoseki 下関のふぐ笛

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fugu clay bell フグ土鈴 from Enoshima / Kanagawa

. Kanagawa Folk Art - 神奈川県 .

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fugu hime daruma 河豚姫だるま Princess Daruma with Fugu design

Look at more local dolls from Mojigaseki gallery in Fukuoka :
source : mojigaseki gallery


. Fukuoka Folk Art - 福岡県 - Daruma Muesum .


fugu soup -
I find some Daruma
while I slurp

Gabi Greve


fugu daruma　河豚だるま blowfish Daruma
a pun with FUKU



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MORE
. Folk Toys from Yamaguchi / Shimonoseki .


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source : wakizaka san

あら何ともなや昨日は過ぎて河豚汁
ara nani tomo ya kinoo wa sugite fukutojiru

1677
. Matsuo Basho - Archives of the WKD .


well, nothing happened -
even though yesterday I ate
fugu soup
Tr. Addiss


oh, nothing's happened to me!
yesterday has passed--
fugu soup
Tr. Ueda


well--nothing's happened
and yesterday's come and gone!
blowfish soup
Tr. Barnhill


well nothing happened
yesterday has passed away
with globefish soup
Tr. Reichhold


well, nothing happened -
and yesterday's come and gone!
blowfish soup
fugu soup
Tr. Gabor Terebess



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Oh, without any incident
yesterday has passed--
a globefish soup party

Of course, safely cooking globefish needs a professional technique even in our days, because otherwise the diner risks illness and even death. Basho’s haiku informs us that people of his day could take pleasure in gastronomic delights such as globefish, at the risk of their life. It speaks of peaceful urban life which allowed the temptation for danger, such was the degree of security of the time.
source : Ban’ya Natsuishi


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親分と家向あふて鰒と汁
oyabun to ie muki-oute fukuto-jiru

across the street
a godfather's house --
blowfish chowder
Tr. Chris Drake

Read more about the Oyabun/Kobun group relations and
. Kobayashi Issa and the Fugu Soup .


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逢（あは）ぬ恋おもひ切ル夜やふくと汁
awanu koi omoikiruyo ya fukutojiru

Unrequited love
He has decided to give up
On that night - fugu soup!
Tr. Shoji Kumano


I cannot see her tonight.
I have to give her up
So I will eat fugu.
Tr. in wikipedia


fugujiru no ware ikite iru nezame kana

Fugu soup;
I awoke
And found myself alive!
Tr. Shoji Kumano


fugujiru no teishu to miete jooza kana

At a fugu soup table
He must be the host,
Sitting at the head.
- Tr. Shoji Kumano


. Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 in Edo .


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fugu soup;
even my chopsticks
hesitate

source : Don Baird - Buson Study Group


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chrysanthemum:
the last-ing taste of
blowfish flesh

Chibi

Look at the dish here:
http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/2005/03/chrysanthemum-kiku.html

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河豚喰えば佛も我もなかりけり
fugu kueba hotoke mo ware mo nakarikeri

eating blowfish
being a Buddha, being myself
who cares ?

(Free translation by Gabi Greve.
Hotoke can mean a Buddha and is also used for the corpse of a dead person.)
http://www.shiomura.com/shiori.html




http://plaza.harmonix.ne.jp/~mitsue-o/html/k-what.htm


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キタマクラばかり釣り上げ波止残暑
kitamakura bakari tsuriage hato zansho

all I fish out
is deadly blowfish -
remaining heat on the pier

Hashimoto Mariko 橋本まり子
. susami town haiku, 2004


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***** WINTER FOOD with Blowfish


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WASHOKU ... Japanese Food SAIJIKI


. ANIMALS in all SEASONS
SAIJIKI

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Bee (mitsubachi)

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Bee (mitsubachi, hachi )

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Various, see below
***** Category: Animal

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Explanation

The honey bee (mitsubachi ミツバチ、蜜蜂） is man’s oldest friend on earth, probably.

Although we see them throughout the year till late autumn, and they are most active in summer with all blossoms out, as a KIGO, they come in the SPRING season, when we see the first ones again. They express the joy of the life circle starting anew.



From a page about Plum Blossoms with awsome pictures.
Thank you, Wada san.
http://wadaphoto.jp/japan/baigou2.htm

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Bees and related insects
kigo for all spring

mitsubachi 蜜蜂（みつばち) honey bee
kobanabachi 小花蜂（こばなばち) "bee on small blossoms)
kumabachi 熊蜂（くまばち）carpenter bee
ashinagabachi 足長蜂（あしながばち）"bee with long legs" (a kind of wasp, Fam. Polystes)

himebachi 姫蜂（ひめばち）"princess bee", ichneumon
. . . CLICK here for Photos !

kibachi 黄蜂（きばち）"yellow bee"

suzumebachi 雀蜂（すずめばち）hornet, Fam. Vespidae
kurosuzumebach 黒雀蜂（くろすずめばち）black hornet
yamabachi 山蜂（やまばち）"mountain bee", kind of hornet

jigabachi 似我蜂（じがばち）digger wasp
jibachi 地蜂（じばち）wasp, earth wasp, Vespula flaviceps
tsuchibachi 土蜂（つちばち）, anabachi 穴蜂（あなばち）
tokuribachi 徳利蜂（とくりばち）"wasp like a tokkuri sake flask",

jooobachi 女王蜂（じょおうばち）queen bee
obachi 雄蜂（おばち）drone, male bee
hatarakibachi 働蜂（はたらきばち）worker bee

hachi kau 蜂飼う（はちかう）keeping bees, beekeeping

hachi no ken 蜂の剣（はちのけん）stinger of the bee
hachi no hari 蜂の針（はちのはり）needle of the bee

hachi no ko 蜂の子（はちのこ）、
蜂の王（はちのおう） larva of the bee

hachi no su 蜂の巣 (はちのす) bee hive
... hachi no su 蜂の窩（はちのす）
hachi no hako 蜂の箱（はちのはこ) box to keep bees, Bienenkorb
subachi 巣蜂（すばち） bee in a hive


swarming
Swarming is the natural means of reproduction of honey bee colonies. A new honey bee colony is formed when the queen bee leaves the colony with a large group of worker bees, a process called swarming. In the prime swarm, about 60% of the worker bees leave the original hive location with the old queen. This swarm can contain thousands to tens of thousands of bees. Swarming is mainly a spring phenomenon, usually within a two- or three-week period depending on the locale, but occasional swarms can happen throughout the producing season.
. More in the WIKIPEDIA !

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kigo for all autumn

aki no hachi 秋の蜂 (あきのはち) bee in autumn


kigo for late autumn

hachi no ko 蜂の仔 (はちのこ) bee and wasp larvae
jibachi yaki 地蜂焼（じばちやき）roasted bee larvae
hachi no ko meshi 蜂の子飯（はちのこめし） rice with bee larvae

. WASHOKU
Autumn food 　


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kigo for all winter

fuyu no hachi 冬の蜂 (ふゆのはち) bee in winter
... fuyubachi 冬蜂（ふゆばち）"winter bee"
itebachi 凍蜂（いてばち）bee in the cold, freezing bee



冬蜂の死にどころなく歩きけり
fuyubachi no shinidokoro naku arukikeri

a winter bee
with no place to die
keeps walking

. Murakami Kijoo 村上鬼城 Murakami Kijo .


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sweat bee, kenaga chibi kohanabachi
コハナバチの一種ケナガチビコハナバチ
Lasioglossum villosulum trichopse

sweat bee --
a sheen of sap shines
on the tree leaf

"chibi" (pen-name for Dennis M. Holmes) 　 　　　

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'Meat bee' would probably be an early autumn kigo.

"When weather gets colder (Sept-October), food resources get scarce; this is when yellowjackets would come to your picnic, trying to take a sip from your coke, or a bite from your burger meat (honey bees never show these behaviors). Some people call them "meat bees" even though they are not bees. Stinging incidents are highest during this time of the year. They are often seen eating fallen apples and other
fruits."
And they can sting multiple times without dying from doing it.
http://www.cyberbee.net/column/stinging/yellowjackets.shtml

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Some Animal Facts
Honey bees are in the class Insecta. There are approximately 20,000 species of bees within the order Hymenoptera, of which only seven species are recognized as honey bees. Honey bees and belong in the family Apidae.

Originally found only in Europe, honey bees are now naturalized worldwide. They were domesticated over 200 years ago in the United States for honey production and pollination.
Habitat
In the wild, honey bees nest in tree hollows or other cavities. They are commercially bred worldwide for pollination of flowering plants and for honey production.

Fascinating Facts
Beekeeping was practiced in ancient Egypt as early as 2500 B.C.!
One pound (.45 kg) of honey equals the life work of approximately 300 bees and a flight distance of two to three times around the earth!
Honey tastes different depending on the type of flowers the bee visits!
http://www.zoo.org/educate/fact_sheets/bee/bee.htm


The treatment with bee products is called Apitherapy. I am a specialist in that field and can only recommend it to keep fit and busy like a bee.
http://www.apitherapy.org/

Other animals of the Bee family are
hornets, wasps, jellow jackets, bumble bees and so on.
They are all kigo for all spring.
Beehive and beekeeper are also kigo for this season.

Honeywine , mead, one of my favorite bee products, is a kigo for winter.
Mead is one of the oldest alcoholic beverages of humankind. It has been made in Ethiopia for many thousand years.

Gabi Greve

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Worldwide use

Australia

The Honey Bee is an introduced social insect. Worker bees visit flowers in search of pollen during the summer months, and may sting if handled or caught in clothing. They are particularly attracted to clover flowers, so it is wise to be cautious if walking through clover patches. Like wasps, Honey Bees will vigorously defend their nests.

More about Australian Bees is here:
Copyright © Australian Museum, 2003



plucked to safety
by the hand of fate . . .
drowning bee

Richard Kay, Australia



Over here we don't have winter snow and a subsequent spring thaw, we see the bees all year round, but they are prolific in summer.
They are a kigo for summer.

Richard Kay, Australia

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Manuka Honey from New Zealand is especially famous for its medical properties.


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Things found on the way



hayajimo ya kabocha no hana ni hachi nemuru

a bee asleep
in the squash blossom
early frost

This haiku was chosen for third place in spite of the fact it has three different seasonal references. Actually, this is it's true appeal insofar as being a classic transition haiku. How skillfully Joyce has taken her readers from the summer season (bee), to the autumn season (squash blossom), to the winter season (early frost). There is no self in this haiku, but the author is definately present. She takes us from the surface where the bee was, to the depth the bee sought, and yet even deeper into the seasonal change until we end up actually becoming that bee itself . . .
an'ya Haiga Online
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HAIKU

. WKD : Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 in Edo .


みつ蜂や隣に借せばあばれ蜂
mitsu-bachi ya tonari ni kaseba arare-bachi

honeybees lend
their nest to neighbors --
angry hornets 　
Tr. Chris Drake

This ironic spring hokku is from the 3rd month (April) of 1824, when Issa was in his hometown and traveling to nearby towns. In the previous hokku in Issa's diary, he writes about honeybees making a nest or hive under the eaves or roof of the gate (or possibly in the area above the front door), so I assume this hokku is also about the same gate. Japanese honeybees migrate to a new area if the nectar and pollen near their nest runs out, and the bees nesting in the gate seem to have moved on, leaving their nest behind for the neighbors to use.

Unfortunately, some hornets in the neighborhood noticed and have moved in. Japanese honeybees and hornets are natural enemies, and hornets prey on bees whenever they can. In response, Japanese honeybees have developed a system of group defense in which they swarm and kill any hornet that tries to come near a nest. Imported European honeybees have not developed this defense, and whole colonies can be quickly destroyed by Japanese hornets. Perhaps the hornets in Issa's hokku have been trying to get at the honey and pollen in the nest for some time but were only able to move into the nest after the bees migrated elsewhere.

Presumably Issa says "lend" because the bees left first and entrusted their neighbors with the nest -- though probably the bees weren't thinking of hornets. In any case, the hornets are much more aggressive than the bees, and they now threaten Issa and other humans who go through the gate or door. Issa obviously prefers the kinder, more sociable, less aggressive bees.

For the group defense against hornets developed by Japanese honeybees, see:
source : science/article/2012-03

Chris Drake

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山住や蜂にも馴て夕枕
yama-zumi ya hachi ni mo narete yuumakura

in the mountains
I get used to sleeping
with wasps
Tr. Chris Drake

Written in the 2nd month (March) of 1810, when Issa was traveling around in the area just east of Edo in what is now called Chiba Prefecture. He writes often of cherry blossoms and wild geese leaving for the north and of farmers burning old grass in spring fields. He also stayed in the mountains (either in a village in a valley or on a mountain) for a few days and needed to get used to the house he was staying in. I think the first line, "living in the mountains," probably refers both to his host, the owner, who lives in the house permanently (and who is probably one of his followers), as well as to Issa's own temporary stay.

Somewhere in the eaves of the rough house is a nest of stinging insects (hachi). In the previous hokku in his diary Issa calls them yamabachi, or Vespinae, wasps/hornets, and he seems to be talking about the same house in this hokku. Issa says "even wasps," so he's also referring to the whole experience of sleeping at night in the house.

Issa seems to imply that learning to trust the wasps not to sting him when he was going to sleep was a bit difficult. Hard-earned, difficult trust is behind a lot of Issa's writing.

Chris Drake


. WKD : Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 in Edo .

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empty teacup –
left in the garden,
hum of bees

Ryuuseki Takiguchi
floatingstone.net 2004


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Die Sonne sank schon.
Verstreut auf dem Schnee
tote Bienen.

Sun already set.
Here and there on the snow
dead bees.
(Tr. Gabi Greve)

Volker Friebel
Sa. 24.01.2004,
http://www.wolkenpfad.de/Haiku/Haiku-1/haiku-1.html

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from deep within
the peony pistils -- withdrawing
regretfully the bee

in Basho's travel diary
Skeleton in the Fields (Nozarashi kiko).
http://www.haikupoet.com/beyond_the_haiku_moment.html

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http://www.animalphotography.com/images/bumblebee.jpg

the German Shepherd—
not sure whether to chase or
flee the bumblebee

gK c 2004.05.28

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a beehive--
safe on Saint Jizo's
elbow

hachi no su ya Jizô bosatsu no on-hiji ni

Issa

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http://www3.kcn.ne.jp/~mamama/nara/floral/kikouji-temple-03.htm

move aside
horseflies and bees!
lotus are blooming

abu-bachi mo sotchi noke noke hasu no hana




http://www.linkclub.or.jp/~t_yamada/2001.html

a blooming pink--
the big bee
stings it!

nadeshiko ga ôki na hachi ni sasare keri

Issa
http://webusers.xula.edu/dlanoue/issa/


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buzzing free
through spring breeze
a humble bumblebee ~

Narayanan Raghunathan

© Photo Gabi Greve, 2006
Spring in India

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nectar
in the honeycomb
venom in sting

Vidur Jyoti, India, February 2008


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leaking hive --
honey drips onto
my dry lips

Brian Etole
Kenya, October 2010


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zzz--
a helpless bee is caught
on wet paint

Antony Mwangi
Kenya, March 2011


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rising sun -
a bee sniffling from one
sunflower to another

Sibiko Yamame
Kenya, January 2011


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hornet sting -
how slowly the poison
invades my body

Gabi Greve, October 2011


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withered garden --
never thought
i would miss the bees

shared by Alan Pizzarelli - June 2013



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***** winter bee, winter wasp : fuyu no hachi 冬の蜂　
Kigo for Winter

***** frozen bee or wasp : itebachi 凍蜂　
Kigo for Winter



***** Winter butterfly, freezing butterfly (fuyu no choo, itechoo)


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WASHOKU
Konchu Ryori, konchuu ryoori 昆虫料理 Insects as food

Hachi no ko 蜂の仔（はちのこ, 蜂の子）
bee and wasp larvae

fried bee larvae, jibachi yaki 地蜂焼（じばちやき）
rice with bee larvae, hachi no ko meshi 蜂の子飯（はちのこめし）

kigo for late autumn

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a play with words

mitsubachi no hi - day of the bee
eighth day of the third month

hachimitsu no hi - day of honey
third day of the eighth month



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