Harvest Moon, North America

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Harvest Moon

***** Location: North America
***** Season: Mid-Autumn
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Explanation

Full Harvest Moon - September
This is the full Moon that occurs closest to the autumn equinox. In two years out of three, the Harvest Moon comes in September, but in some years it occurs in October. At the peak of harvest, farmers can work late into the night by the light of this Moon.
http://www.farmersalmanac.com/astronomy/fullmoonnames.html

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The Harvest Moon
occurs for about a week during the month of September at a time when farmers are busy gathering their crops for the upcoming winter. "Harvest Moon" is the name given to the full moon occurring nearest the autumnal equinox (around September 23rd) and it marks the first day of fall. Many years ago before the invention of electricity or farm equipment with lights, the stronger light of the harvest moon made it possible for the farmers to extend their work day well into the evening.

This phenomenon is caused when the full moon of mid September rises to the same level on the east horizon as the position of the sun as it's setting on the west horizon. The display produces an attractive moonrise and sunrise together at about the same time each evening for several evenings in a row.
http://hometown.aol.com/panda34911/KidsParties/HolidayFunPg11DFallA.html

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Shine On Harvest Moon
Words & Music by Jack Norworth & Nora Bayes-Norworth, 1908

Shine on, shine on harvest moon
Up in the sky
I ain't had no lovin' since January, February,
June, or July
Snow time ain't no time to sit
Outdoors and spoon
Shine on, shine on harvest moon
For me and my gal
http://hometown.aol.com/panda34911/KidsParties/HolidayFunPg11DFallA.html

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HAIKU

loved ones return home
harvest moon rises
over the bridge

DeVar Dahl -Canada-
http://www.ecf.or.jp/shiki/1999/result.html

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Harvest moon
shared with a stranger
bus window

Kiyoshi Fukuzawa (Tokyo)

There are a lot more haiku about the MOON on this Link.
http://www.asahi.com/english/haiku/041101.html

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still pond
she walks ankle-deep
in the harvest moon

Dustin Neal , October 2006
Editor of Clouds Peak
http://du5tin.net/haiku

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watching
young clouds polish
the harvest moon

Paul Hunter, October 2006

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oh, mister harvest moon !
you are racing so-o-o fast
through the rain clouds

Gabi Greve, 2006. Look at it HERE !


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Related words

The Japanese Meigetsu 名月 is sometimes translated as "Harvest Moon".

See the MOON entry for more information !



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Hunter's Moon

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Hunter’s Moon

***** Location: England, USA
***** Season: Autumn, October
***** Category: Humanity

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Explanation

The full moon of October is called the Hunter’s Moon in England because it coincides with the start of the official legal hunting season which begins 12 October, “The Glorious 12th”. The moon at this time is close to the earth at this latitude; thus very large and reflecting a lot of light for night hunting.

It is a widespread countryside practice in England to hunt all kinds of wild creatures on foot or on horseback, often with a pack of dogs kept specifically for the purpose. Foxes are popular as prey as they are viewed as vermin by many farmers. Also, grouse, quail, partridge, pheasant, duck, and other game birds (wild or raised for the shoot). Game birds are protected by law until 12 October, so “The Glorious 12th” is the start of the shooting season; as well as other hunting activities.
When the very large and bright October moon coincides with clear skies it is called a “Hunter’s Moon”, allowing the hunt to continue on well past the early dusk or begin well before the late dawn.

Hunting (shoot) is another kigo for autumn in England.

It is likely that hunting with dogs will slowly die out as an acceptable hunting method; following recent legislation to end it as a rural sport. This will of course cause some interim conflict - but the likelihood is that those images of "the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable" in the John Peel tradition of horns blowing to call packs of dogs to marauding slaughter of wild foxes, hares and deer will go the way of bear-baiting and cock fighting. "Ahhh," some say, "sic transit gloria mundi".

It does, as a sideline which no-one seems to have picked up on yet, protect badger setts from "lamping". the practice of going out with a lamp and terrier to flush out badgers and kill them. This based on a completely unproven idea that badgers are responsible for the transmission of bovine TB. The recent legislation has no effect on the shooting season though, so the mass slaughter for sport of tame game-birds bred for the purpose, although much reduced from the excesses of the Edwardian era, will still be a feature of the October landscape for a long time to come.

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USA
ForeWord Magazine, a major independent publishing trade journal, has awarded Stoeger Publishing’s book, Mr. Whitetail’s Trailing the Hunter’s Moon with a Gold Book of the Year Award. Established in 1998, ForeWord’s Book of the Year Awards program has become one of the most prestigious honors for independent presses and their authors.

Weishuhn’s book takes readers along on his journeys in search of trophy big game animals in regions as diverse as the windswept prairies of Saskatchewan, the arid hill country of northern Mexico and the woodlands and gravel hills of his native Texas. Throughout the 160-pages of this adventure book, Weishuhn recounts tales of the hunt and lessons learned through his extensive hunting career.
http://www.stoegerpublishing.com/articles/detail.tpl?CAT=2&ID=17


Tonight’s full moon is traditionally known as the “Hunter’s Moon.” The Harvest Moon fell in September this year. November will bring the Beaver Moon (sometimes called the Frost Moon), and the Yule or Long Nights moon falls in December.

。。。Now and then
。。。The clouds give us a rest　－
。。。Moon watching.

Basho
http://paperfrog.com/blog/archives/000385.html

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Dear Hunting Season in Michigan

Bow Season (Archery Deer Seasons) starts October 1st and Rifle/Gun Season (Firearm Deer Season) runs November 15-30th with Rifle Season as the most popular. Typically a male 'sport' the men folk will leave for the weekend or even a week to hunt with their buddies, leaving behind their wives who dub themselves 'Deer Hunting Widows'.

700,000 hunters receive hunting licences and bag around 500,000 deer. In Michigan the deer Population is estimated to be 1.75 million. Deer hunting isn't just considered a sport here, it is also necessary to restrain deer population. Each year there are tens of thousands of white-tailed deer/car collisions in Michigan plus hundreds of thousands of deer starve durring our snowy Winters.

Deer Season
a pick-up truck parked
on the edge of the wood

Michael Baribeau

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Deer season is certainly a strong kigo in the South in the US. In Arkansas we also have a bow season beginning in October, and a gun season November through part of December (I think). It's mostly a guy thing here as well, though a few women do occasionally go hunting with their mates.
Hunter's moon is a Native American name, occurring in October and November, when the moon can be seen more clearly because the leaves have fallen from the trees.

Johnye Strickland

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HAIKU

Hunter’s moon ~
swimming in milk
a cat flea

Eryu
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Hunter’s moon,
A stick match lights up
A hound’s eye.

Andrea Zipper
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/haiku/03/0310.html

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a hunter's moon
the o's of howling dogs
ring in the mists

Jane Reichhold
http://www.ahapoetry.com/aadoh/autcel.htm

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***** Fox, game birds of any kind . Kigo for Autumn in England.

See the MOON entry for more MOON links.
http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/2006/01/moon-and-his-links.html

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Holly hiiragi

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Holly Tree (Ilex family)

***** Location: USA, other countries
***** Season: All Winter (late autumn in Japan)
***** Category: Flower

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Explanation

Ilex opaca : American Holly
Ilex aquifolium : English holly
Ilex cornuta : Chinese holly
Ilex crenata : Japanese holly
Ilex paraguariensis : Yerba mate
(from whose leaves mate tea is made)




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hiiragi no hana 柊の花 (ひいらぎのはな) flower of the holly
Osmanthus heterophyllus

hiiragi sasu 柊挿す (ひいらぎさす) piercing with a holly
and some setsubun riutals, February 3.



. hiiragi ochiba 柊落葉（ひいらぎおちば）
fallen leaves of the holly .
..... mochi ochiba 冬青落葉（もちおちば）
Ilex pedunculosa
kigo for early summer


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A green prickly tree with berries that become red late autumn/fall/early winter. Most associated with Christmas in English-speaking countries, but known in many others.
Kate Steere.

Leaf: Alternate, simple, and persistant, thickened and leathery, eliptical in shape, 2 to 4 inches long, dark green and shiny above, pale green below with entire or spiney-toothed margins.

Flower: Dioecious, dull green-white, male flowers on 3 to 7 flowered cymes, female flowers are solitary with a pleasant odor. Flowers apparent April to June.

Fruit: A berrylike drupe, red, rarely yellow when ripe, 1/4 inch in diameter, containing ribbed nutlets. Maturing September to October, persisting on tree into winter.

Twig: Slender with rust-colored pubescence.

Bark: Light gray, with prominent warts.

Form: A small tree, with a thick crown and pyramidal form, usually with branches to the ground.
http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/iopaca.htm

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One of the most famous English-speaking Christmas hymns :
"The Holly and the Ivy"
This is one of a series of medieval English carols on the subject of the rivalry between the holly and ivy vying for mastery in the forest. These two plants came to be associated with the sexes, holly being masculine and ivy feminine. In this carol, the holly is used to represent various aspects of Christ's life and the ivy is not discussed at all.

1. The holly and the ivy,
When they are both full grown,
Of all the trees that are in the wood,
The holly bears the crown.

Read it all here:
http://ingeb.org/spiritua/theholly.html (including Japanese translation!).

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Mythology and Folklore of the Holly

For most of us the sight of holly leaves and berries is inextricably linked with Christmas, whether we celebrate this as a secular or a religious festivity. Christmas brings with it many traditions and it is probably the one time when many of us still practice at least a few old folklore customs today. Indeed in some parts of Britain holly was formerly referred to merely as Christmas, and in pre-Victorian times 'Christmas trees' meant holly bushes.

Holly was also brought into the house variously to protect the home from malevolent faeries or to allow faeries to shelter in the home without friction between them and the human occupants. Whichever of prickly-leaved or smooth-leaved holly was brought into the house first dictated whether the husband or wife respectively were to rule the household for the coming year.

In Celtic mythology the Holly King was said to rule over the half of the year from the summer to the winter solstice, at which time the Oak King defeated the Holly King to rule for the time until the summer solstice again. These two aspects of the Nature god were later incorporated into Mummers' plays traditionally performed around Yuletide. The Holly King was depicted as a powerful giant of a man covered in holly leaves and branches, and wielding a holly bush as a club. He may well have been the same archetype on which the Green Knight of Arthurian legend was based, and to whose challenge Gawain rose during the Round Table's Christmas celebrations.

Read a lot more interesting facts here:
http://www.treesforlife.org.uk/tfl.mythholly.html


About the celtic origins of the Holly
In addition to being associated with the Sun God (Saturn) in ancient Rome, holly was important in Pagan/Druidic religion and customs. Under many Pagan religions, it was customary to place holly leaves and branches around their dwellings during winter. This was intended as a kindly and hospitable gesture; they believed that the tiny fairies which inhabited the forests could come into their homes and use the holly as shelter against the cold. This may actually have had some basis in fact, as holly growing in the wild is often used as shelter by small animals, primarily insects.

Read more here:
http://www.tartans.com/articles/holly.html

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The American Holly


Native Americans used wood from the American holly for many uses and the berries were used for bartering and decorating. The American holly was also a favorite of George Washington's and he planted many throughout his properties. Wood from American holly trees is still used today in woodworking projects, most often for decorative inlays in cabinetry.

The American holly is an pyramid-shaped evergreen that can grow to be 40-50 feet in height but often the trees are pruned to serve as attractive hedges. These slow-growing trees develop small white flowers in late spring and bear bright-red berries in fall that last throughout the winter. However, the berries only grow on female American holly trees and the male trees must be nearby to pollinate the female's flowers and ensure fruiting.

Read more here:
http://www.chesapeakebay.net/



Ilex vomitoria,
commonly known as Yaupon or Yaupon Holly, is a species of holly that is native to southeastern North America. The word yaupon was derived from its Catawban name, yopún, which is a diminutive form of the word yop, meaning "tree". Another common name, Cassina, was borrowed from the Timucua language (despite this, it usually refers to Ilex cassine).
The fruit are an important food for many birds ...



Native Americans used the leaves and stems to brew a tea, commonly thought to be called asi or black drink for male-only purification and unity rituals. The ceremony included vomiting, and Europeans incorrectly believed that it was Ilex vomitoria that caused it (hence the Latin name). The active ingredients are actually caffeine and theobromine, and the vomiting was either learned or as a result of the great quantities in which they drank the beverage coupled with fasting.
Others believe the Europeans improperly assumed the black drink to be the tea made from Ilex vomitoria when it was likely an entirely different drink made from various roots and herbs and did have emetic properties.
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Yaupons thick with red,
Bright sun shining on their fruit,
Mockingbirds on guard...

- Shared by Steve Weiss -
Haiku Culture Magazine, 2013


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Japan

"mock-plum", finetooth holly, winterberry, ume modoki 梅擬, 梅嫌, 落霜紅
Ilex serrata and similar species
tsuru-ume-modoki 蔓梅擬 bittersweet. Celastrus orbiculatus
..... tsurumodoki, tsuru modoki つるもどき bittersweet

kigo for late autumn.


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Japanese Winterberry 黐の木（もちのき）科
Dedicated to those born on November 1. Also a Symbol of Wisdom.


http://www.hana300.com/umemod.html


hiiragi no hana 柊の花 (ひいらぎのはな) flower of the holly
Osmanthus heterophyllus
kigo for early winter


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"Heigh ho! sing heigh ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly."
from 'As You Like It' by William Shakespeare
http://www.treesforlife.org.uk/tfl.mythholly.html

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HAIKU

a rustle
in the holly-
two squirrels

Kate Steere

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***** Dog Winterberry (inu umemodoki 犬梅モドキ）
Ilex serrata form. argutidens


http://www.hana300.com/inuume.html

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hiiragi no hana 柊の花 (ひいらぎのはな) flower of the holly
Osmanthus heterophyllus


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Holocaust Day

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Holocaust Day, Auschwitz Day, Dachau Day

***** Location: Germany, worldwide
***** Season: Late Winter, January 27
***** Category: Observance

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Explanation

The German poet Angelika Wienert used for the first time the kigo "Holocaust Day" .

Both of us have posted our haiku to Asahi and David McMurray published them at Febuary 9th 2004.

The people in Germany (and in other European countries) think at the “Holocaust Day” of the liberation of Auschwitz and the Shoa and all victims of the National Socialism.

Gerd Boerner

I invite those of us for whom the phrase Holocaust Day is not yet set in stone to consider using the Hebrew name, Yom HaShoah ("Day of Desolation"), as an alternate, if not more correct, appropriate, phrase. (A holocaust = a burnt offering as a sacrificial ritual.)

Gary

This is a controversial kigo. Dachau Day, Auschwitz Day also come up, especially in 2005, 60 years later.

Here are some links for discussion.

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Curtesy to Reuters
World Remembers Holocaust at Snow-Swept Auschwitz
January 2005
By Sabina Zawadzki and Wojciech Zurawski

OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) -
Dusted by falling snow and surrounded by barbed wire, world leaders mourned the victims of the Holocaust on Thursday, the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the biggest Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Vowing that the World War II atrocity must never be forgotten, the leaders and survivors lit candles in the ruins of the camp, which claimed a fifth of the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust.

"I was here naked as a young girl. I was 16. I am Israeli, I have a country, I have a flag. I have a president," Merka Shevach, who had not been scheduled to speak, told the ceremony.
Up to 1.5 million people died in the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau, set up by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland as its most efficient killing machine in the "Final Solution," the genocide of European Jews.



Auschwitz was liberated on Jan. 27, 1945, by the advancing Soviet army whose stunned soldiers released 7,000 emaciated prisoners left behind as the Germans withdrew.

"The snow was falling like today, we were dressed in stripes and some of us had bare feet," Polish survivor Kazimierz Orlowski, 84, said.
In the commemoration ceremonies, candles burned along the snow-covered tracks used during the war to take Jews and others in cattle trains to the camp.

A whistle, the sound of a stopping train and a door being flung open were played in Birkenau, the camp's main extermination center, to symbolize the arrival of the victims.
Most were gassed to death on arrival. Those selected for slave labor were stripped and shaved, an identity number tattooed on their arms.

As darkness approached and snow kept falling, world leaders, survivors and European royalty lit candles at a monument to the victims. Symbolic flames burned in the background.
Huge searchlights lit up the gray sky behind the monument. Some of the 5,000 participants lit candles of remembrance. Continued ...

© Reuters 2005. All Rights Reserved.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7457394&src=rss/worldNews

Photo above
Candles placed at the Gleis 17 (platform 17)
holocaust memorial at a former cargo railway station in Berlin-Grunewald on January 27, 2005. From October 1941 to February 1945, more than 50,000 Berlin Jews were loaded into trains on Gleis 17 and transported to the Nazi concentration camps, such as Auschwitz.
Photo by Michael Dalder/Reuters

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Why have a National Holocaust day?
By Rabbi Dr Jonathan Sacks / BBC News January 25, 2000

The proposal for a National Holocaust Day has met with mixed reactions. It should not have done. It is a brave idea that has been misunderstood.
The Holocaust was a defining event in history. There were other chapters of Jewish tragedy. Nor have Jews been the only victims of hate.
There have been, before and since, other attempted genocides. Over the last hundred years, human blood has been shed on a horrendous scale.
Read on:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/618352.stm

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Europe marks Holocaust Day
January 27, 2001 CNN News OSWIECIM, Poland
Survivors of Auschwitz have gone on a poignant march past the gas chambers which claimed their fellow prisoners as Europe marked Holocaust memorial day.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/01/27/poland.holocaust/


Holocaust Day (27.Januar)

In many European countries (Britain, Israel, Sweden, Germany) and the
United States the 27th January is the anniversary of the liberation of
Auschwitz. but also a Remembrance Day, the peoples (of the world),
/not the jewish people GB/), present and future, would express their
opposition to anti-semitism, racism and other forms of discrimination,
and their support for those subjected to them.
BBC News UK
'Holocaust Day' to remember victims
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/225280.stm.



National Day to Combat Antisemitism (27. Januar)

The Israeli Government has designated January 27th as a "National Day to
Combat Antisemitism". This day coincides with the annual European
commemoration of the Holocaust and the date Auschwitz was liberated.
On January 27th many activities will take place in the Israeli
educational system, the Israel Defense Force, Youth Movements and at Yad
Vashem. The Knesset will hold a special session with the participation
of the Prime Minister and Minister Natan Sharansky who initiated "The
National Day to Combat Antisemitism" and said: "Antisemitism threatens
the Jewish people, the very existence of the State of Israel, and in
fact the entire world and we must fight it".
http://www.jafi.org.il/press/2004/jan/jan23.htm

More Links about the Holocaust
maintained by Al Filreis
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/holhome.html


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青黴やアウシュビッツに万の靴
aokabi ya aushubittsu ni man no kutsu

green mold -
tens of thousands of shoes
at Auschwitz

Iwai Kumie 岩井久美恵
Tr. Fay Aoyagi

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HAIKU

Holocaust Day
sound of swing music
forbidden then

Angelika Wienert


Holocaust Day
two silent minutes
downtown

Gerd Boerner

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Anti-War Haiku Wall

Mauthausen lager - do not forget anymore

lager stones
for each one a name -
bodies in the wind

Moussia - Roma
http://www.tempslibres.org/awhw/themes/holo01.html

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Shoah by Gerd Boerner 2003

Die bleichen Kinder
küssen die Erde - nun
vor den Öfen

Before the ovens
they kneel and kiss the ground –
those pallid children.

http://www.tempslibres.org/awhw/themes/holo02.html

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Auschwitz --
globok sneg ne more
pobeliti grozot

Auschwitz --
deep snow cannot whiten
the atrocities

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komemoracija
na ledenih krizih
niti ene ptice

commemoration
on the icy crosses
not a single bird

Alenka Zorman, Slovenia 2005


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Garry Eaton about
Bergen Belsen
source : Shiki Kukai September 2010


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***** Day of Desolation .. Yom haShoah

There is a cycle "Mauthausen" in German related to this topic:

Themen-Zyklus von Gerd Börner, Dietmar Tauchner und Angelika Wienert
2004
http://www.haiku-heute.de/Tafel/Tafel-004/tafel-004.html



. Hiroshima Memorial Day (Hiroshima-ki)
Nagasaki Memorial Day　(Nagasaki-ki)
Japan



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Horse Chestnut

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Horse Chestnut (tochi 栃)

***** Location: Japan, Europe, others
***** Season: Spring and Autumn
***** Category: Plant

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Explanation

Aesculus hippocastanum, Aeculus turbinata

kigo for early summer

flower of the horse chestnut, tochi no hana
栃の花/ 橡の花（とちのはな）


The tree grows in the mountains and also in gardens and as a roadside tree. It grows to more than 30 meters in hight. Around May, the flowers like beautiful candles in white and pink begin to show.

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kigo for late autumn


fruit of the horse chestnus,
tochi no mi 橡の実/ 栃の実（とちのみ）

spinning tops with chestnuts,
ko no mi koma 木の実駒 late autumn

The fruit is almost round and falls down in late autumn.

Sometimes the fruit is used to prepare a kind of flower, making bisquits and other food. To prepare the bitter fruit for human consumption, the poor mountain dwellers used a process that took quite some time to get the bitterness out of the fruit.

Children use these fruits to make small toys, animals and so on.
. . . CLICK here for Photos : chestnut toys !

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The Horse Chestnut, Aesculus hippocastanum,
which has also been known as Hippocastanum vulgare (Gaertn.), is an entirely different tree from the Sweet Chestnut, to which it is not even distantly related, and is of much more recent importation to English soil. It is a native of northern and central parts of Asia, from which it was introduced into England about the middle of the sixteenth century.

The name Aesculus (from esca, food) was applied originally to a species of oak, which according to Pliny, was highly prized for its acorns, but how it came to be transferred to the Horse Chestnut is very uncertain; perhaps, as Loudon suggests, it was given ironically, because its nuts bear a great resemblance, externally, to those of the Sweet Chestnut, but are unfit for food. Hippocastanum (the specific name of the common sort) is a translation of the common name, which was given - Evelyn tells us - 'from its curing horses brokenwinded and other cattle of coughs.' Some writers think that the prefix 'horse' is a corruption of the Welsh gwres, meaning hot, fierce, or pungent, e.g. 'Horse-chestnut' = the bitter chestnut, in opposition to the mild, sweet one.



---Part Used Medicinally---
The bark and the fruit, from both of which a fluid extract is made. The bark is stripped in the spring and dried in the sun, or by slight artificial heat, and when dry, occurs in commerce in flattened pieces, 4 to 5 inches long and about 1 to 1 1/2 inch broad-about 1 to 1 1/4 inch thick, greyish-brown externally, showing corky elongated warts, and on the inner surface pinkish-brown, finely striated longitudinally. The bark is odourless, but has a bitter astringent taste.

---Medicinal Action and Uses---
The bark has tonic, narcotic and febrifuge properties and is used in intermittent fevers, given in an infusion of 1 OZ. to the pint, in tablespoonful doses, three or four times daily. As an external application to ulcers, this infusion has also been used with success.

The fruits have been employed in the treatment of rheumatism and neuralgia, and also in rectal complaints and for haemorrhoids.
source : www.botanical.com


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Germany

der Kastanienbaum, die Kasatanie

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Horse chestnuts (at least in Northern Europe)
seem to provide kigo in both spring and autumn.

In the spring time, the horse chestnuts' leaves are among the first to unfurl and grow green. They are followed by the beautiful flowers, perhaps the closest a flowering tree in Europe gets to the glory of the Kenyan / tropical trees.

And in the autumn, there are the chestnuts themselves, growing on the trees, falling off, becoming playthings for the children -- and seeds for those who want to grow an easy and beautiful tree.
Isabelle Prondzynski

summer evening
sleeping through rain at night -
first chestnuts falling

Isabelle 2004


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List of trees and haiku to go

source : 木に関する俳句

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tochimochi　栃餅　mochi rice cakes



木曽のとち浮世の人の土産かな
Kiso no tochi ukiyo no hito no miyage kana

chestnuts from Kiso
as souvenirs for those
of the floating world . . .

The chestnuts of Kiso were famous. The poor farmers used to prepare the horse chestnuts in a way to make mochi ricecakes out of them to have some food in the winter months. This was also a souvenir at the time of Basho.

. Matsuo Basho Travelling .

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grassy meadow -
a child gathers
one sweet chestnut

Issa
Tr. Gabi Greve

Issa might be talking about the sweet chestnut, see below.

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橡の実や幾日ころげて麓まで

horse chestnut--
how many days till you roll
down the mountain?
(Tr. David Lanoue)

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仰ぎ見る樹齢いくばくぞ栃の花
aogimiru jurei ikubaku zo tochi no hana

looking up
at how many years of life -
chestnut flowers

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雨よりもさみしきさまに橡散れり
ame yori mo samishiki sama ni tochi chireri

more lonely
than the rain they fall -
chestnut blossoms

Uemura Sengyo 上村占魚（1920-1996）


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Hot Whiskey (Whisky)
Toddy

***** Location: Ireland, Scotland
***** Season: All Winter
***** Category: Humanity

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Explanation

Please note the spelling -- Irish Whiskey has an "e" where Scotch Whisky does not have one.
In Ireland, it is said to keep colds away...
Isabelle Prondzynski

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Recipe for one Drink of Irish Hot Whiskey

1 measure of Irish Whiskey
2 teaspoons of white or brown sugar
2 slices of freshly cut lemon
6 cloves
8 ounces (or less) of boiling water

Pour whiskey and sugar into a strong heatproof glass. Embed 3 cloves into each lemon slice and place in glass.Add the boiling water and stir until the sugar has dissolved.
Serve immediately.
http://www.ireland-information.com/irishrecipes/hotwhiskey.htm

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Recipe for Scottish Hot Whisky

50 ml (2 floz) Scotch Whisky
Hot Water
1 tbsp Lemon Juice
3-4 Sugar Cubes

Half fill a tumbler with hot (not boiling) water. Allow the glass to warm before emptying it. Place sugar cubes in the tumbler, add a small wine glass of hot water
and dissolve the sugar. Add a small wine glass of whisky and the lemon juice, stir.

Note: This is really good for colds and flu, it might not be a cure, but it certainly helps. And if the first one doesn't the next one might.
http://thefoody.com/drinks/toddy.html

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Scottish Hot Whisky Punch

1 Bottle Whisky
450g (1lb) Sugar Cubes
1.1lt (2 pints) Tea
1 Lemon

Slice the lemon thinly. Make the tea, but do not add and milk. Pour the hot tea over the sugar and lemon and stir. Gently heat the whisky, do NOT allow to boil.
Add the warmed whisky. Flame and serve.
http://thefoody.com/drinks/hotwhisky.html

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hot whiskey
too cold and too ill
to write haiku

creamy kiss
a wild rover no more
irish coffee

Isabelle 2004.

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oaky notes
the taste of her kisses
flavour of whisky

GEERT VERBEKE

Read more of this sequence of 'BALVENIE' haiku (senryu)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/happyhaiku/message/965


he shovels snow
in his tappit-hen
a hot whisky

warm-blooded
by her pretty legs
and a hot whisky

GEERT VERBEKE

Read more of Geert's Haiku here
http://happyhaiku.blogspot.com/2004/01/friends-geert-verbeke.html


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enjoying hot whiskey -
the old fisherman's fingers
tremble

hot whiskey -
thick smoke floates
through the pub

a broken vase
with dry flowers -
smell of hot whiskey

Gabi Greve

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ballast..
calming the waters
on Irish coffee

- Shared by John Byrne -
Haiku Culture Magazine, 2013


Reference : flyingboatmuseum.com/irishcoffee.html


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***** Irish Coffee : winter and St. Patrick's Day (March 17)
Irish Coffee is a winter kigo, and also definitely a kigo for St Patrick's Day (17 March), when Irish and would-be Irish all over the world celebrate together. One of the favourite drinks for such occasions is Irish Coffee, and one of the favourite songs is about The Wild Rover (a song which itself has whiskey as one of its main subjects!

I've been a wild rover for many's the year
I've spent all me money on whiskey and beer
But now I'm returning with gold in great store
And I never will play the wild rover no more
http://celtic-lyrics.com/lyrics/126

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The Irish Pubs in San Francisco have claimed that it was they that invented Irish Coffee. After much research their claim has been refuted. Verification of the facts was contributed by none other than Michael Collins, the 28 year veteran bar tender at Shannon Airport.

From 1939 to 1945 air travel from America was by flying boats that landed at Foynes, Co. Limerick after a long 18 hour flight. The passengers, chilled by the boat trip from the seaplane to the terminal, sometimes in cold, damp weather conditions, appreciated a hot cup of coffee or tea on arrival at the terminal. Brendan O'Regan,
then the youthful manager of the Foynes catering service believed that passengers would welcome something stronger. Mr. Joseph Sheridan, the head Chef at Foynes, rose to the occasion, developing after some research what is now known as Irish Coffee.

A plaque marking the achievement has been erected at Shannon Airport and Irish Coffee is increasingly enjoyed throughout the world.

Original Shannon Recipe

Heat a stemmed whiskey goblet.
Pour in one shot of Irish whiskey.
Add three sugar cubes.
Fill with strong black coffee to within one inch of top. Stir gently.
Top off to the brim with heavy cream slightly aerated.

Important: Do not stir after adding cream, as the true flavor is obtained by drinking the coffee and whiskey through the cream.

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Rita Taketsuru and Whisky in Hokkaido

25-year-old Masataka Taketsuru.
The Hiroshima native had recently been sent to Scotland by the managers of the drinks company for which he worked. Many decades earlier, Japanese manufacturers had cracked the secrets of European beer and brandy, but one skill still eluded them — the art of making whisky. They'd tried to emulate its taste with spices, herbs and honey, but all to no avail.

Masataka's company, Dai Nihon Kaju (later shortened to "Nikka").




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Foreigner to be NHK morning drama series heroine

NHK will for the first time feature a non-Japanese heroine in its popular morning serial dramas.
The TV dramas are a national institution. Each series usually contains 150 episodes, with one 15-minute episode being broadcast every morning for 6 days a week over a 6-month period.

NHK announced on Monday that its 91st drama series, to be aired from late September next year, will be based on the true story of a Scottish woman named Rita and her Japanese husband, Masataka Taketsuru.

Taketsuru dedicated his life to the production of whisky, setting up his own distilling company in the northern prefecture of Hokkaido in the 1930s.
source :　NHK world news

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Hot Drinks - SAIJIKI

***** Location: Worldwide
***** Season: All Winter
***** Category: Humanity

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Hot drinks are extremely popular during the wintertime, when the warmth of the concoction and the warmth caused by alcohol are both welcome guests.
Hot alcoholic drinks are prepared in heat resistant glasses, and the alcohol must only be heated, but never allowed to boil or else the alcohol will dissipate.
For a more quickly prepared hot drink, alcohol can be combined with hot coffee, tea, hot water, hot wine, hot milk, or hot cream - but even in these concoctions, the liquor should be heated first if time permits.
Find a long list here:
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Some hot coffee drinks

Belgian Coffee
Café Amaretto
Café French
Café Brulot
Café Caribbean
Café Royal
Coffee Bustamante
Cafe Muerte
Hot Irish Nut
Hot Brandy Toddy
Irish Coffee
Jamaican Coffee
Mexican Coffee
Russian Coffee
Spanish Super-charged Coffee

Almond Hot Chocolate
Hot Buttered Rum
Hot Chocolate Almond

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Chocolate Drinks

champurrado; also chocolate atole (Mexico and Mexican neighborhoods in large cities)
Traditional Mexican hot chocolate (from the Aztecs) flavored with cinnamon and thickened with corn meal; served in winter especially during posadas, a nine-day celebration of Mary and Joseph’s travel to Bethlehem, from December 16 through December 25. Atole is cornmeal mush or thin gruel that is flavored to make a Mexican drink.

hot chocolate also hot cocoa (worldwide)

Ovaltine (Switzerland, USA, and elsewhere) Ovomaltine is a Swiss milk product with chocolate and malt extracts by Wander AG, a subsidiary of Novartis Consumer Goods. It is known as Ovaltine in the USA and various parts of the world.


Coffee and Tea

chai (India and becoming worldwide)
Hot spiced tea blended with milk.

hot tea (worldwide) hot black tea, hot green tea

Irish coffee (Ireland, USA, and elsewhere)
Hot sweet rich coffee and Irish whiskey with cream floating on top.

milk tea (Mongolia)
Traditional drink of tea made with milk, not water. People usually put a little salt into the tea when they drink it. Sometimes, butter or stir-fried millet is added.

mulled tea; also spiced tea (widespread)
Hot tea made with sugar and spices.


Miscellaneous

anijsmelk (Netherlands)
This is hot aniseed milk. With the Dutch, it is as popular as hot chocolate.


hot milk (worldwide)
Milk which is simply heated; especially good with Christmas cookies.
Perhaps not a kigo for winter since it is used year round to promote sleep.

mulled cider; also hot spiced cider (USA and probably elsewhere)
Non-alcoholic cider heated with sugar and spices.

Mulled Wine
Wine heated with sugar, herbs, spices, and/or fruit. It is often fortified with other alcohol.

bisschopswijn; also bishop's wine (Netherlands)
Traditional beverage for Dutch Sinterklaas Eve--December 6.


gloeg (Norway



glögg (Sweden)
Traditionally served during six-week Advent season. The very best glögg is fortified with aquavit. All countries' gloggs go very well with gingerbread and gingersnaps.

gløgg (Denmark)
Traditionally served on Christmas day with apple dumplings that are topped with powdered sugar and strawberry marmalade.

glogg (USA spelling)
It is common to drink "glogg" in the USA; not everyone calls it mulled wine.

glögi (Finland)
Traditionally served during six-week Advent season

glühwein (Germany)
Generally lighter (alcohol and spiciness) than glogg.


vin chaud (France, Swiss Alps)
More like glühwein in flavor, but more frequently fortified with brandy that its German counterpart.

zbiten; also spelled "sbiten" (Russia)
An old Russian beverage made from of red sweet wine, honey, spices, and tea made of spearmint, melissa, and/or St John‘s wort. It is said to give great health, especially strength for men and beauty for women.

Posset (England)
Sweet spiced hot milk curdled with ale or beer. Is the forerunner of eggnog. Today, these are mainly historical drinks. In the past, they were often drunk for heath. Some were given to children to make them sleep.

Toddies
Drinks made of liquor and water with sugar, spices and often, citrus juice.

grog, grogg (England, Germany, Australia, USA, and possibly elsewhere)
Today grog is made of rum, sugar, spices, limejuice, and hot water. Originally, it was just watered down rum. In some places, the names grog and toddy are used interchangeably.

hot buttered rum (USA)
This drink is grog with a pat of butter melting on top

hot toddy (England, Germany, Australia, USA, and possibly elsewhere)
A hot drink (as above with any citrus juice) made with any alcoholic liquor except rum. Again, the names grog and toddy are used interchangeably in some places.

hot whiskey (Ireland)
Also called "hot Irish" and if you are in an Irish pub, just ask for "punch." Like other drinks in this category except made with Irish whiskey.

yuwari 湯割り (Japan)
Alcoholic drinks diluted simply with hot water

hot umeshu (Japan)
plum wine diluted with hot water

Wassail
Punch made of sweetened ale or wine heated with spices and roasted apples
wassail (England and elsewhere)
See above description. The word "wassail" is also a verb that means to celebrate noisily or to whoop it up.

lamb's wool (England)
Hot flavored ale (wassail) with a good amount of roasted apple pulp (lamb's wool) floating on top; served with Twelfth Day Cake on the feast of the Epiphany.

Ed Schwellenbacher, 2005


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CIDER

hot cider; also hot apple cider (USA and probably elsewhere)
non-alcoholic cider which is simply heated, winter kigo

cold cider サイダー saidaa
kigo for all summer in Japan

fresh cider, frischer Apfelmost
kigo for autumn in Europe/Australia


Cider Daruma Label, a good luck drink ダルマサイダー


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hotto dorinku ホットドリンクス hot drink
hotto uisukii ホットウィスキー hot whiskey
hotto wain ホットワイン hot wine (grape wine)
hotto remon ホットレモン hot lemon


mugiyu 蕎麦湯 (そばゆ) hot buckwheat water
shoogayu 生姜湯 (しょうがゆ) hot ginger water


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kuzuyu 葛湯 (くずゆ) hot arrowroot water

うすめても花の匂の葛湯かな
usumete mo hana no nioi no kuzuyu kana

even if diluted
it still smells of the flowers -
hot arrowroot drink

Watanabe Suiha 渡辺水巴


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Egg Nog
A punch made of sweetened and lightly spiced milk or cream mixed with eggs and usually alcoholic liquor.
Eggnog, also called "auld man's milk" in Scotland (worldwide)
See description above. Eggnog is usually served cold in the USA.
Tom and Jerry (USA)
This drink is a special eggnog that uses a batter of eggs, sugar, and spices wherein the eggs are separated, beaten, and then folded together with sugar and spices. Rum, brandy, and boiling water or milk are added to complete the drink. This drink is usually thicker than regular eggnog.


Hot Whiskey (toddy)


Mulled wine (gloegg, Gluehwein), Wassail, hot mead
honey wine, met
The word "mulled" simply means heated and spiced.


hot rice wine, atsukan　熱燗, kanzake　燗酒
see : Ricewine, rice wine (sake, saké, saki, Japan)
tamagozake 玉子酒 (たまござけ) 卵酒（たまござけ） and more
nezake 寝酒 (ねざけ) nightcup, before going to bed


Rumpot (Rumtopf) Germany (rum with fruits of the season)


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on my mind
through the birch--
a hot drink once home

beckoning to me
through frosty panes--
her face and a warm drink

prosit
Ed Schwellenbach

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hot milk
for my bad fit of coughing
mum adds a whisky

a hot toddy
with a big cognac
his poor head

drink a hot toddy
and then take to your bed
does your head spin

Geert Verbeke

Read more haiku of Geert here:
http://happyhaiku.blogspot.com/2004/01/friends-geert-verbeke.html

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***** Frozen Drinks
kigo for Summer

Here is an external LINK with Frozen Coctails :
The hot days of summer call for really cold drinks and it cannot get colder than these blended cocktails. Most of these drinks are blended with ice but some use ice cream and they often include fresh fruit.
check this .. cocktails.about.com/od/cocktailrecipes



***** Iced Tea and Coffee

***** Black Tea and Coffe from Kenya


***** Things to keep you warm in winter, a KIGO list


WASHOKU : Shiru 汁 ... Soups Suppen


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Hawaiian Spirit

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Hawaiian Spirit, Aloha Spirit

***** Location: Hawaii
***** Season: Non-seasonal Topic
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The Aloha Spirit is a well known reference to the attitude of friendly acceptance for which the Hawaiian Islands are so famous. However, it also refers to a powerful way to resolve any problem, accomplish any goal, and also to achieve any state of mind or body that you desire.

In the Hawaiian language, aloha stands for much more than hello or goodbye or love. Its deeper meaning is the joyful (oha) sharing (alo) of life energy (ha) in the present (alo).

Read more details in the Kigo Library:
The Aloha Spirit, by Serge Kahili King

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Posted: March 3, 2006 10:25 PM

Damage Hits Home For Many Residents
Jeff Booth

Over the past 48 hours, Kaaawa has seen some of the most severe weather and Friday people got a chance to get out and start assessing the damage.

Some of those living near The Crouching Lion Inn are finding that recovery could be a very long and slow going road. That's where two households are stranded. A rock and mud slide has made it impossible to leave and knocked out the power in the process.

"It sounded like thunder. It was raining light, not too hard," said resident Douglas Kekona. "I thought it was thunder until I saw the tree actually sliding down the driveway."

Kekona and his mother are in the dark, literally. They've got no electricity or utilities and they're using candles after the sun sets.

"The mud is coming loose on the other side of that and another big storm like that or even just more rain would probably set that off," Abreu said.

Read more here:
http://www.kgmb.com/kgmb/display.cfm?storyID=7389&sid=1214

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Flooding in 2004

Flood descimates building, work at University of Hawaii
By James Gonser and Dan Nakaso, The Honolulu Advertiser

HONOLULU — Heavy rain sent water as much as 8 feet deep rushing through the University of Hawaii's main research library Saturday, destroying irreplaceable documents and books, toppling doors and walls and forcing a few students to break a window to escape.

Flood water also washed through a biomedical lab, destroying at least a third of a professor's collection of flies used for genetic research.

Ten inches of rain fell in 24 hours starting Saturday morning in the Manoa Valley near Waikiki. Several cars were carried downstream when Manoa Stream overflowed its banks, and a school and church that were supposed to serve as polling places for Tuesday's election also were damaged.

Manoa residents shoveled mud and debris out of their homes Sunday, while University of Hawaii officials canceled Monday classes and estimated damage in the millions after daybreak revealed the full extent of damage caused by the Halloween Eve flood.
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/2004-11-01-hawaii-flood_x.htm

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March 2, 2006, by Shanna Moore

floods
on the islands
water seeks its own level

kids in kyaks
on their streets ...
making the most of it.

smallkids
big surfboards
one way street

. hawaiian spirit ..
two feet mud
but the house still stay

never did see
such fun
living with what you got

.................. and a little later

came up the count
four feet mud
on the kitcen floor

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Harvest Thanksgiving (Europe)

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Harvest Thanksgiving, Harvest Festival
(German : Erntedankfest)

***** Location: Worldwide (but not North America)
in Christian countries and parishes

***** Season: Mid-autumn
.............. (Kenya : late cool dry season)

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http://www.landeskirche-sachsen.de/4209.html

A festive Church Service giving thanks to God for a harvest completed. Worshippers bring gifts of crops and food, which are later distributed to the needy.

At this time of declining church attendance, this has become the most popular festival in the annual church calendar, apart from Christmas. The joy of the celebration, the bringing of gifts, the involvement of children, the tangible and even exotic nature of much farm produce, the well-known and favourite hymns, and the special sermons, often by visiting preachers, all go to make this a much-loved occasion which most families would not wish to miss. Even people who have largely lost touch with the church find much to celebrate on this day.

Isabelle Prondzynski

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Prayers for Harvest Thanksgiving
From the Church of Ireland (Anglican)

Eternal God,
you crown the year with your goodness
and give us the fruits of the earth in their season:
Grant that we may use them to your glory,
for the relief of those in need
and for our own well-being;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen

Lord of the harvest,
with joy we have offered thanksgiving
for your love in creation
and have shared in the bread and wine of the kingdom.
By your grace plant within us such reverence
for all that you give us
that will make us wise stewards of the good things we enjoy;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.

http://tinyurl.com/7uowh

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From the Anglican Church of Kenya

O Lord God our creator and keeper,
giver of sunshine and rain;
all what we are and all what we have is yours,
in gratitude we offer to you, and for your work,
the produce of our farms, businesses and employment.
Accept and bless it for the furtherance of your work here and beyond.
Multiply it to meet all our various needs.
All for the glory and honour of your holy name.
Amen.

Anglican Church of Kenya, Our Modern Services (2002)

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Golden Fields
© Photo courtesy of Ken Houston

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Every year we have a Harvest Festival in our schools and churches but do you know why?

Thanksgiving ceremonies and celebrations for a successful harvest are both worldwide and very ancient.

In England, we have given thanks for successful harvests since pagan times. We celebrate this day by singing, praying and decorating our churches with baskets of fruit and food in a festival known as 'Harvest Festival', usually during the month of September.

Harvest Festival reminds Christians of all the good things God gives them. This makes them want to share with others who are not so fortunate. In schools and in Churches, people bring food from home to a Harvest Festival Service. After the service, the food that has been put on display is usually made into parcels and given to people in need.

When is Harvest Festival?

Harvest festivals are traditionally held on or near the Sunday of the Harvest Moon. This moon is the full moon which falls in the month of September, at or around the time of the Autumnal Equinox, about Sept. 23.

History of Harvest Festival - Traditions and Customs

Harvest Festival used to be celebrated at the beginning of the Harvest season on 1 August and was called Lammas, meaning 'loaf Mass'. Farmers made loaves of bread from the new wheat crop and gave them to their local church. They were then used as the Communion bread during a special mass thanking God for the harvest. The custom ended when Henry VIII broke away from the Catholic Church, and nowadays we have harvest festivals at the end of the season.

Farmers celebrated the end of the harvest with a big meal called a harvest supper, eaten on Michaelmas Day. This was rather like a Christmas dinner, but as turkeys were unknown at that time, a goose stuffed with apples was eaten. Goose Fairs are still held in some English towns, but geese are no longer sold.

The tradition of celebrating Harvest Festival in churches as we know it today began in 1843, when the Reverend Robert Hawker invited parishioners to a special thanksgiving service for the harvest at his church at Morwenstow in Cornwall*. Victorian hymns such as "We plough the fields and scatter", "Come ye thankful people, come" and "All things bright and beautiful" helped popularise his idea of harvest festival and spread the annual custom of decorating churches with home-grown produce for the Harvest Festival service.
*Information taken from Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore



© Woodlands Junior School
Woodlands Junior School, Hunt Road Tonbridge Kent.TN10 4BB UK
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/Harvest.html

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Links to popular Harvest Thanksgiving hymns

We plough the fields and scatter
(Wir pflügen und wir streuen), by Matthias Claudius
http://www.cgmusic.com/cghymnal/others/w/weploughthefields.htm

Now thank we all our God
(Nun danket alle Gott), by Martin Rinkart
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/n/o/nowthank.htm

Come ye thankful people come, by Henry Alford
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/c/o/comeytpc.htm

All things bright and beautiful
http://www.oremus.org/hymnal/a/a177.html

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Australia

In the Southern Hemisphere the tradition of giving thanks for the harvest, where it survives, or in some places where it is a recovered tradition, occurs naturally in Autumn (Fall) and being commonly in the months of March or April tends often to coincide with one of the Sundays of Lent. That is a coincidence that does not fit easily with the Christian calender developed in the Northern Hemisphere.

Nevertheless I am including resources for such a celebration at this point in accordance with local tradition, for it is important that we should "always and everywhere give thanks."
http://www.beswick.info/rclresources/HThg95L3COS.htm

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Germany

Erntedankfest, Erntefest

In Germany, the harvest thanksgiving festival (Erntedankfest) is always celebrated on the first Sunday in October by Roman Catholic congregations, and on the Sunday nearest Michaelmas (29 September) by Protestant congregations.



The Services are often followed by processions bearing the Harvest Crown, and in many places, a Harvest Queen is the Guest of Honour. Village fairs may be held. The annual return of the cows from their Alpine summer pasture may also be celebrated on the same day. In wine-growing regions, Harvest Festivals have in recent years given way to vintners' festivals.

Information taken from
http://www.feiertagsseiten.de/erntedankfest/home.html

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Harvest Crown, Harvest Wreath : Erntekrone, Erntekranz


http://www.bauernverband.de/archiv_1766.html
http://www.landeskirche-sachsen.de/4209.html
http://www.lauenhagen.de/Touristik/Bilder/EFst05Gal14/EF05Pics122/ef05pics122.html

Harvest Queen : Erntekoenigin
http://erntefest-steinbeck.de/erntekoenigin.htm

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More information and further links here :
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erntedankfest

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Japan

The autumn festivals in all villages belong to this kind.
Autumn Festival (aki matsuri)



© 2001,勝浦川流域ネットワーク
http://www.soratoumi.com/river/ryuiki/syukaku.htm

At the rural schools, we celebrate the Harvest Festival, shuukakusai　収穫祭. New rice of the season is pounded for rice cakes. Self-grown vegetables make a delicious soup and many art objects made of fruit, nuts and other natural materials are on display.

Pounding rice (mochi tsuki) is itself a kigo for winter.



Official Harvest Festival, niiname no matsuri 新嘗祭
Great Harvest Ceremony, oonie matsuri 大嘗祭
Labour Thanksgiving Day 勤労感謝の日
kinroo kansha no hi, Japan, November 23

Gabi Greve

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Kenya

See Nairobi International Trade Fair , which starts each year with Harvest Thanksgiving Service in All Saints' Cathedral Nairobi.

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Jews celebrate Sukkot (Festival of Booths)
at the same time of year and for the same reason.

Four days after Yom Kippur, Jews world-wide celebrate the holiday of Sukkot. The holiday is celebrated from the 15th of Tishri through the 21st or 22nd of Tishri, depending if you live in Israel or in the Diaspora. Sukkot usually falls out in late September or early October.

After the harvest from your threshing floor and your vineyards, you shall celebrate the Feast of Booths for seven days. (Deuteronomy 16:13)

Historically, Sukkot commemorates the wanderings of the Israelites, which began with the exodus from Egypt (Passover) and continues with the giving of the Torah at Sinai (Shavuot) and ends with the wandering in the desert for the full 40 years as punishment for the sin of the golden calf.

To celebrate their hard work, the farmers and their families would go to the temple in Jerusalem to offer thanks. They built sukkot, or booths, to remember how the children of Israel built booths in the desert. The pilgrims lived in them for seven days while they, and the families they brought to Jerusalem, celebrated.

In modern times, the custom of building sukkot was reestablished in the early 1900s. Since then, Jews everywhere celebrate the seven or eight days of Sukkot, (depending where you live) including Shemini Atzeret and Simhat Torah from the Diaspora and from Israel.

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http://www.everythingjewish.com/Sukkot/Sukkot_origins.htm

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Hindu faithful, particularly in Tamil Nadu, celebrate Pongal, another week-long harvest festival.

http://www.bawarchi.com/festivals/pongal.html

http://members.tripod.com/~jap5/hindufestivals/pongal.html

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HAIKU

In the Nairobi slum where I have been working, the week after Harvest Thanksgiving Sunday is that one of the year when the nursery school meal goes beyond the plain and cheap, as the harvest gifts brought to the church are distributed. What delight they bring to the children!

fruit for lunch today --
harvest thanksgiving
yesterday

Isabelle Prondzynski

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the harvest season -
the family dressed for sunday
smiles for the photo

Robert Leechford
http://home.alc.co.jp/db/owa/PH_detail?photo_sn_in=38

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featherless bird (tofu turky)
harvest from the garden
alas no drummsticks

Shanna Moore

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Related words

***** Thanksgiving (U.S.A.)

***** Grape Festival (Winzerfest, Wine Festival) (Europe)

***** Nairobi International Trade Fair (Kenya)


. Harvest and related kigo


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