October (juugatsu)

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October (juugatsu　十月)

***** Location: Japan. worldwide
***** Season: Late Autumn
***** Category: Season

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Explanation



Haiku juugatsu in the Edo period relates to the climate of present-day November,
but some festivals are dated in our present-day October.

. . Names of Japanese months and their meanings . .

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. . . . AUTUMN
the complete SAIJIKI


nagatsuki,nagazuki 長月 (ながつき) "long month"
ninth lunar month, now 8 Oct – 6 Nov


Kannazuki - 　Month without Gods
tenth lunar month, now 7 Nov – 6 Dec


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October----The Changing Season
Inahata Teiko

October is the late autumn on the calendar. The sky is endlessly blue, hills and fields are covered with red and yellow leaves, plants bear fruit, and the air becomes clearer and colder. This month most distinctly shows the characteristics of autumn in the four seasons. Don’t you think so?

　October is the beautiful and comfortable season, which is blessed with opulent products. However, at the same time, there shows a sign of the degeneration of the creatures, which steals up from behind. Light and shadow contend in power each other. In the meantime, after passing a short period when all the mountains, rivers, trees and plants are filled with deep tranquility, shadow becomes predominant. The temperature goes down, born fruits fall down, red leaves turn to the withered color, and at last the leaves begin to fall gradually.
In a word, October is the changing season.

　Considering what sort of things nature has brought to the human beings through the above changes, we thank for the fact that we are given a lot of gifts.

©　Inahata Teiko : NATURE AND OUR LIFE

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Worldwide use

Southern Hemisphere, Tropics ...

Adjustments for each region must be made.


Germany

Oktober, Goldener Oktober


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Things found on the way


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HAIKU

October night
dead leaves rush towards me

©　Martin Gottlieb Cohen, tinywords 2007


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October night
not a leaf flapping
not a sound

October night
flying ants join me
for dinner

October night
the eerie feeling
of aloneness

October night
a napping cat curled
at the doorstep

October night
a cup of hot chocolate
stirs my reverie

Willie Bongcaron, Philippines
October 2009


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October in the desert of Yemen

around the campfire
never felt so content ..
shooting stars

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a few stray camels
the only sign of life –
Milky way

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shortened day at a grave:
the dog kept guarding
his mistress' new tent

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the desert wolf digs
a deep burrow –
sand dunes transform
i)


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together ...
listening to
the wolves howl
ii)


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following the crack
in a mud wall ...
Pegasus' square
iii)

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i) meaning: daytime, to protect himself from the sun/heat gain


ii) meaning: wolves howl > Arabian or desert wolf is usually alone (due to the fact that food or prey is rare), but not in mating time [mating season from October to December]. They congregate together, than they start to howl.

Arabian wolves do not live in large packs; packs only during mating season, just mating packs.

iii) The autumn sky is dominated by the Great Square of Pegasus, four stars that form a huge square in the sky, which you can see if you look almost straight up.

Heike Gewi, Yemen
Ocotber 2009

YEMEN SAIJIKI


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Related words

*****　Calendar reference kigo


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. . . . AUTUMN
the complete SAIJIKI


. WKD : October - KIGO CALENDAR .

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