INDEX B

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Backup ... of Data and Haiku

Badger, racoon dog, palm civet (tanuki, mujina, anaguma ... ) Japan
Bagworm (minomushi - "straw raincoat bug") Japan. Case moth, basketworm

..... Bahati Haiku Poetry Club, Kenya

Balcony, veranda, terrace (rodai) Japan
Bali IslandIndonesia. Nyepi
Ball, Balls, decorative hand balls (temari) Japan. Ball catching song, ball bouncing song (temari uta)
Ballet (baree) Japan
　Balloon, toy balloon, baloon, Luftballon (fuusen, kamifuusen) Japan
baloon flower, balloon flower, Chinese bellflower (kikyoo) Japan. Platycodon grandiflorus

BAMBOO .. An Asian Plant
..... "Bamboo Wife" (chiku fujin) Asia. Bamboo sleeping companion.

Bagavad, Bhagavad Gita (India)
Banana tree (bashoo) Japan. Musa paradisiaca
..... Banana fruit (banana) Japan. Kenya.


..... Bangladesh Haiku from Bangladesh

Banyan Tree (India)
Banzai ... ten thousand years ! Japan

Baobab tree, Adansonia digitata India
Barbeque Europe
Barefoot (hadashi, suashi) Japan
Bargain Sales, sales (uridashi) Japan, Worldwide
Barley (mugi) and related kigo Japan
Barrel organ Romania

Baseball Playoff USA, also:
Opening Day, Jackie Robinson Day, Baseball Winter Meetings, USA

Basil, sweet basil, holy basil, tulsi Serbia, India. (Ocimum spp.) 　

- Basho Memorial Day (Bashoo-Ki) Japan. - Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 -

Bat (koomori, kawahori) Japan
Bath (furo, sentoo) Japan. Taking a bath in various seasons. Hamam, Turkish Bath
Battledore (hagoita) Japan

BeachWorldwide. Surfing.
Beach Pea (hama-endoo, Japan)
Beans and Peas (mame) Soybeans, Adzuki beans, broad beans (daizu, azuki, edamame, soramame). Many human activities involved in growing the beans.
Beans in autumn kigo ... the plants

Bear (kuma)Japan. Bear hunters (matagi), Iomante Festival and many more
Beard (hige) Japan

Beaver (Castor canadensis) Canada
Bee (mitsubachi)
Beech tree / Fagus sylvatica Ireland, Europe
Beer (biiru) Japan. Bier
Beetle, beetles in all seasons (xyz-mushi) Japan. Käfer
Beggar, begging (kojiki), homeless, poor people (binboonin) Japan. Kanya
Begonia (shuukaidoo, shukaido) Japan

Belgian National Day (Fête nationale de la Belgique)
..... Ghent Festivities, Ghent Festival, Gentse Feesten

Bell, Temple Bell (kane, tsurigane, waniguchi, dootaku) Japan
..... Bell, Temple Bell in India

Bellows Festival (fuigo matsuri) Japan
Belt, sash (obi) Japan
Benten, Benzaiten and the lottery at Minoo Japan. Deity of Fine Arts, Music and Water

Beriberi disease (kakke) Japan
Berlin Wall (Berliner Mauer) Cold War (Kalter Krieg), Iron Curtain (eiserner Vorhang). Germany
Berry, berries (berii, kajitsu) and related KIGO. Beeren. Brambles
Between the Years (zwischen den Jahren, Germany)
Bhagavad Gita (India)

........ BHUTAN SAIJIKI .. Haiku in Bhutan

Bible (baiburu)
Bilberries, cowberries (kokemomo), Preiselbeere Japan
Bindweed (Convolvus arvensis) Chesapeake Region, USA
Binzuru, Ceremony for the Arhat Binzuru (Binzuru mawashi) Japan
Birch tree (shirakaba) Japan. Birke

BIRD SAIJIKI ..... Birds of all seasons
Look here for a Bird Name not listed in this ABC index.

Bird Haze in Spring (torigumori), "birds and wind", torikaze Japan.
..... Including "tori ni kumo" birds and clouds. flower haze, hanagumori. herring haze, nishingumori.
..... Small birds (kotori)
Bird droppings Worldwide
Birthday (tanjoobi, tanjitsu) Japan
Bishamonten, Tamonten (Vaishravana) Japan. Bishamonten Festival, Messenger of Bishamonten
Bison, American Bison

Black (kuro, koku) the color Japan

Blackthorn (Europa)
Blanket (moofu) Japan. Quilt and other warm things.
Blazing sky (enten), scorching heat Japan.

Blind Woman from Echigo (Echigo goze) Japan
Blinds, summer curtains (sudare)Japan. Inclucing bamboo blinds, seating mats (goza), rattan chairs (too isu) and a few more summer items for the home.

Blind People and Haiku
Blizzard (fubuki, fuusetsu) snowstorm Japan

Blood, Bloodtype, blood-type, blood type, blood group (ketsuekigata) Japan. Blutgruppe.
Blowfish (fugu) Japan. .. Puffer fish, Globefish, Swellfish
Blue, the color of sky and water

Bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) bird North America
Bodhidarma, Daruma san in Japan
Body Parts - ears, eyes, nose, spine . . .
Bog grasses Ireland
Boma Homesteads Kenya
Bombax (Chorisia Tree) Kenya

Bon Festival (o-bon, obon) Japan. Obon
..... Awaodori Dance Japan, Bon-Odori, Bon-Dance. Yosakoi Dance of Kochi.
..... Bon Boats for Souls (shooryoobune) Japan
..... Bon Flowers (bonbana) Japan
..... Jizobon, Jizoo Bon 地蔵盆
..... Bon Stove (bongama) Japan
..... Bon of Wind (kaze no bon) Japan

Boneset (fujibakama) Japan. Eupatorium fortunei

Bonifacio Day Philippines
Bonito (katsuo) skipjack tuna Japan.
Boomerang,bomerang, bommerang, bomring, boomereng, boomering, bumerang .. Australia
Boredom, to be bored (taikutsu) Japan. Langeweile

Botamochi Rice Cakes (Botamochi) Japan
Botamochi Ceremony (Botamochi Eshiki) and Nichiren
Bottle gourd (yuugao) Lagenaria siceraria Japan

Bow and Arrow (yumi to ya) Japan. Archery
Bowing, bow (o-jigi, ojigi) Japanese greeting etiquette
Bowls, begging bowls, singing bowls
Box, stationary box (bunko, tebunko) Japan
Boxing Day Australia, New Zealand, UK. Christmas Box.
Boxwood (tsuge) Japan
Boy's Festival (tango no sekku, kodomo no hi) Japan

Bramblilng bird (atori) Japan
Branches cut off (eda-uchi) Japan

Brazier and handwarmer (hibachi) Japan
Brazier (jiko) Kenya. makaa (charcoal)

Bread (pan) Worldwide
Breakfast (asagohan, asameshi) Japan
Breeding animals, mating animals Japan
Breast, breasts (oppai, chibusa) Japan. Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Briar Berry Briar Berries
Bride (hanayome) and wedding Japan
Bridge (hashi) Japan Worldwide
. . . Nihonbashi, Kasaibashi, Setabashi and more

Bright spring weather (uraraka) Japan. "wind shines" (kaze hikaru)

Brigid's Day (Ireland) St. Brigid

Broom tree, summer cypress (hahakigi) Japan. Kochia scoparia
Brush, pen (fude) Japan

Buckwheat (soba), Buckwheat flowers Japan

Bud of trees, treebuds (ko no me, konome) Japan

Buddha Statues and Haiku ... Daibutsu and Hotoke
Buddha, Shakyamuni, Shaka India, Japan
Buddhabird (buppoosoo) (05) Dollarbird and Eurasian Scops-Owl; Japan
Buddha's Birthday, Flower Festival, Flower Hall (kanbutsu-e, kambutsu-e, shuuni-e, hanamatsuri, hana midoo 　 Japan. sweet tea (amacha) and more
Buddha's Seat (hotoke no za)(Japan)

.. .. .. .. Buddhist Ceremonies and Events, a topical Saijiki Festivals of Japan
Buddhist deities and their kigo


Buildings tall and famous, skyscrapers
Bulbul (hiyodori) Japan
Bullfinch (uso) Japan.
Bukusu Culture, Babukusu People Kenya

..... Bulgaria Collection of the Europa Saijiki

Bull Fighting (toogyuu), bull festival (ushi matsuri) Japan. Jallikattu, India

Bunting bird (kashiradaka) Japan
Bunraku and Joruri / Japanese Puppet Theater
Burdock root　(gobo, goboo) Japan. Arctium lappa
Burma, Union of Myanmar

Bush clover (hagi) Japan
Bushfire, wildfire Australia
Business and work in all seasons
Buson Memorial Day (Buson Ki) Japan

Butterbur sprouts (fuki no too) and butterbur (fuki) Japan

Butterfly (choo)Japan. Worldwide
..... Butterfly in Winter(fuyu no choo) Japan including frozen/freezing butterfly (itechoo)

"Buy Nothing Day" Worldwide