Kingfisher (kawasemi)

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Kingfisher (kawasemi)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: All Summer
***** Category: Animal

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Explanation




kingfisher, river kingfisher, kawasemi 翡翠 (かわせみ)
common Indian kingfisher
..... kawasebi かわせび, shoobin しょうびん
"jade bird", hisui ひすい

. . . mountain kingfisher, yamasemi 山翡翠 (やませみ)
greater pied kingfisher
..... ka no ko shoobin 鹿の子翡翠（かのこしょうびん）
"mountain deity", yama kannushi 山神主（やまかんぬし）
kawanegi 川禰宜（かわねぎ）
Ceryle lugubris


. . . red kingfisher, aka shoobin 赤翡翠 (あかしょうびん)
ruddy kingfisher. Halcyon coromanda
miyama shoobin 深山翡翠（みやましょうびん）
"bird which loves water" mizukoidori 水恋鳥（みずこいどり）
"rain ritual bird", amagoi dori 雨乞鳥（あまごいどり）
"southern barbarian's bird, nanban dori 南蛮鳥（なんばんどり）
kyoororo きょうろろ


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Kingfishers
are a group of small to medium sized brightly coloured birds in the order Coraciiformes. They have a cosmopolitan distribution, with most species being found in the Old World and Australia. The group is treated either as a single family, Alcedinidae, or as a suborder Alcedines containing three families, Alcedinidae (river kingfishers), Halcyonidae (tree kingfishers), and Cerylidae (water kingfishers).


Common Kingfishers during copulation

There are roughly 90 species of kingfisher. All have large heads, long, sharp, pointed bills, short legs, and stubby tails. Most species have bright plumage with little differences between the sexes. Most species are tropical in distribution, and a slight majority are found only in forests. They consume a wide range of prey as well as fish, usually caught by swooping down from a perch.

Like other members of their order they nest in cavities, usually tunnels dug into the natural or artificial banks in the ground. A few species, principally insular forms, are threatened with extinction.
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Worldwide use


Australia

. Kookaburra (genus Dacelo) .

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Germany

Eisvogel

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Things found on the way



広重 Hiroshige 紫陽花に翡翠


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kawasemi Daruma　カワセミだるま






They are made near the Daruma tempel
Jindai-Ji 深大寺.

This is a new Daruma doll since 2012.



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HAIKU

翡翠の影こんこんと溯り
kawasemi no kage konkon to sakanobori

the shadow of a kingfisher
moves up and up
and up the river

. Kawabata Bosha .


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Blue air, green water,
Red fired earth – life flashes in
A kingfisher flight

Helen McCarthy
source : akita haiku network, 2010


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Related words

***** . WKD : Birds of Summer SAIJIKI .


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