Leonid Meteor Shower

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Leonid Meteor Shower

***** Location: Worldwide
***** Season: Winter, November
***** Category: Heavens

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Explanation

Leonid Meteor Shower
The Leonids, which recur each November, had a spectacular run between 1999 and 2002. The meteor showers of those years approached the intensity of "meteor storms," a threshold generally marked when viewers can see a thousand meteors an hour.
This week marks the return of the Leonid meteor shower. The heavenly show is expected to peak on Friday, November 19, at 1:40 a.m. ET for sky-watchers in North America. The spectacle looks to be the second-to-last chance to see the shower in this century.
Read more here in the National Geographic
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/11/1112_041112_leonid_meteor_shower.html






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There are superb pictures of the Leonid storm on the link below.
Observed from Big Bay, Illinois, 2:30am - 4:30am CST November 18, 2001 and
Ayers Rock, Australia November 19-20, 2001



http://www.icstars.com/HTML/Leonids2001/orionbolide.html
http://www.icstars.com/HTML/Leonids2001/


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German Link about the Leonids
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leoniden


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Worldwide use

Japan

. nagareboshi 流れ星 ryuusei 流星 shooting star .
meteor in various seasons

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USA
the meteor showers visible in north america are as follows:

*quadrantids jan 4 40 per hour 2 days
*lyrids apr 21 15 per hour 4 days
*eta aquarids may 4 20 per hour 6 days
*delta aquarids july 28 20 per hour 14days
*perseids aug 12 50 per hour 4 days
*orionids oct 21 25 per hour 4 days
*s. taurids nov 3 15 per hour
*leonids nov 16 15 per hour
*geminids dec 13 50 per hour 5 days
*ursids dec 22 15 per hour 4 days

the meteors appear to originate in the constellations that give the meteor showers their names.

the duration 'centers' on the peak date shown. thus, you will see some showers in the days before and after the peak date. theoretically, the peak date will have the peak number of meteors.

the source of the above is 'the golden skyguide, a field guide for amateur astronomers'.
i also have 'the peterson field guide to the stars and planets' and the collins gem guide 'the night sky'. each has its own value. the night sky would fit in the pocket of anyone it is about 3" x 4.5". Suited to take on a walk.

Susan Delaney

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i will be looking up, watching for the meteors.
a funny story:

it was 5.30 a.m. and comet Hale-Bopp was high and bright in the eastern sky.

i was walking in my neighborhood. a man, already dressed for business, came out to get his paper just as i approached his sidewalk.

'have you seen the comet?', i asked.

'no, but i was in a chat room with Bopp last night, etc, etc.'

'have you seen the comet?', i asked again.

'no, but blah, blah, blah, about the science of it.'

'have you seen the comet?', i asked again.
he was beginning to get that i was trying to tell him something.
he paused and stopped his 'head talk'.

i pointed to the comet.
he looked up, mouth agape.

i walked away silently, leaving him to commune with the comet.

susan delphine delaney md
plano texas


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Things found on the way

Radio Meteor Observatory's On Line
http://radio.data.free.fr/main.php3

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HAIKU

Leonidenstrom -
in der Nachbarwohnung
ein lauter Streit

。。。。。Leonid Storm -
。。。。。in the neighbour’s flat
。。。。。noisy quarreling

Andrea D`Alessandro

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part of a kasen dated this autumn 2004:

Novembermond
gespiegelt im Weiher
wie ein Diamant
(Laura D`Alessandro, daughter of Andrea)

**Teleskopblick
**zum Leonidenstrom
(Andrea D`Alessandro)

Moon of November,
mirrored in the pond
like a diamond
(Laura D`Alessandro)

** Telescope-view
** to the Leonids.
(Andrea D`Alessandro)


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leonids--
the sparkle
in her laugh

Deborah Kolodji
Published : tinywords in 2007/11/19


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ryusei no tsukai-kire-zaru sora no take

Shugyo Takaha (1930-)

a shooting star...
unable to use up the length of
the vast sky

(Tr. Susumu Takiguchi)
Daily Yomiuri, September 2005
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/language/20050906TDY19002.htm


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Leonid Meteor shower
brings us
the thousands of blisses .

- Shared by Chappy Fukuda -
Haiku Culture Magazine, 2013



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***** Geminid Meteor Shower
kigo for winter (December)

The Geminid meteor shower is ongoing through December 19th. Peak activity occurs during the 13th and 14th. The meteors are composed of debris from asteroid 3200 Phaethon. The Geminids have increased in intensity since first seen in 1862.
This information is from accuweather.com




the Geminid meteor shower:
scratches in the night blanket
day light peeks through

Fred Masarani
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cherrypoetryclub/message/20989



The Geminids peaked last night about midnight, USA EST. My sons saw two bolides (fireballs or bright long trailed meteors). I counted four meteors, total, but only was able to see one bolide.

shooting stars:
Daruma recites sutra
after surta!

Chibi
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Darumasan-Japan/message/625


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***** Perseid Meteor Showers: August 12,
Kigo for Early Autumn

The Game of Lugh.
This is an old Celtic name for the Perseids, the most familiar of all meteor showers, that take place at around this time of year. Associated with the Swift-Tuttle Comet, the Perseids have been well documented since at least 830 CE and take their name from the constellation Perseus where shooting stars appear. We can well imagine ancient Celts looking upon these wonders and associating them with other phenomena of the season between the equinox and solstice, including the heat of the last ofthe Dog Days. They attributed the celestial display of Perseid lights to games being played by Lugh, 'the shining one'.

References:

NASA site featuring information on the Perseids:
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/22jul_perseids2005.htm

Wilson's Almanac
http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/aug1.html

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Haiku

12 August is a promising night for shooting stars -- so, I ventured out to the hotel terrace in the dark of midnight in the German forest area of the Eiffel. A breathtaking sky -- in Brussels, one forgets how many stars there are... And, within five minutes, three shooting stars!

midnight sky
star upon star upon star
one falling... two... three...

Isabelle Prondzynski


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a perseid night -
from the flames
the fire spirit

- Shared by Shawn Lee Whitney -
Joys of Japan, 2012


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meteor shower
how many dreams
to fulfill

- Shared by Angelo Ancheta -
Joys of Japan, August16, 2012



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On Saturday at dusk, after the fire tragedy that also destroyed a transformer and left a section of Soweto in darkness for three days, while we stood by watching the Kenya Power and Lighting Company staff fixing the trasformer:


shooting star--
we mistake its bright streak
for power return

Patrick Wafula
Kenya, August 2012



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Related words

Morning star (myoojoo), evening star, venus Japan, worldwide

Star (hoshi), shooting star (流星 nagareboshi), Big Dipper
Japan. Many related KIGO !

Star Festival (Tanabata, Japan) Milky Way (ama no gawa)


. Astronomical Saijiki .
by Shawn Lee Whitney, USA



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Last Day of the Year (oomisoka)

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Last Day of the Year (oomisoka)

***** Location: Japan, worldwide
***** Season: Mid-Winter
***** Category: Season

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Explanation

Misoka 晦日　is the name for any last day of a month, so the oomisoka, the great last day of the last month, 大晦日.
Also called "Great Year" ootoshi 大年.

The season shortly before the change of the year is called "the year coming to an end" toshi no kure　年の暮れ、saimatsu 歳末、toshi no se 年の瀬、saiban　歳晩。
The "Year is leaving" yukutoshi 行く年,
"to send the year off " toshi okuru　年送る、
"to think fondly of the past year" toshi oshimu　年惜しむ

. Seasons ending .


Google December 31, 2011


One of the chores for the end of the year is cleaning the home from top to bottom and then back again, so that no speck of the dust of the passing year is left in the new one：
great cleaning, oosooji
kure no oosooji 暮れの大掃除


To clean off the soot, suszuharai　煤払い
is another cleaning activity going on in temples and shrines. Large poles of bamboo are used to wipe away spider nets and other dirt. On the picture you can see the monks cleaning the head of a Buddha statue at the Temple Manpuku-ji.

http://www.heiankyo.co.jp/topics/cho/image/200012-7.jpgIn the Edo period, it was the custom to pay all your amounting bills until the last day of the year, so you could see the money collectors walking around too. Now, the run to the bank is some kind of equivalent.

On the last evening, later in the night, many temples and shrines are prepared for the first visitors of the New Year and sound the bell 108 times, to wipe away the disturbing thoughts of the old and let in a refreshed mind：

striking the bell, joya no kane 除夜の鐘
on December 31

Look at this bell
http://www.zen-shop.net/Joya-no-kane.html

Here is another one

http://www.ajinomoto.com/traditions/winter_06.html


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observance kigo for mid-winter

roojitsu 臘日 (ろうじつ) last day of the year
..... roosai 臘祭（ろうさい） festival on the last day of the year

The word ROO means つなぎあわせる "to hold together"
It implies reverence to the ancestors and all deities of Japan. It was also a banquet to pray for good harvest in the next year.

It also holds together the last month of the old and the first month of the new year.
The 12th month is sometimes called 臘月 Roogetsu.


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observance kigo for mid-winter

There are quite a few rituals performed on the last day of the year.
Here are some of them.


toshi tori 年取 (としとり)
getting one year older
..... toshi toru 年取る（としとる）

On the last day of the year, people eat a proper meal with a whole fish (with head and tail fin).
Everyone would be one year older on the next day. Individual birthdays were not celebrated in the Edo period.


. Matsuo Basho at Suma no Ura - toshi tori


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toshi mamoru 年守る (としまもる)
to watch over (the passing year)
toshi moru 年守る（としもる)
shusai 守歳（しゅさい）
toshi okuru 年送る（としおくる）

People stay awake on the last night. Some visit a shrine or temple, others go to the seaside, others stay at home and watch television. A Year-End party at home is not so common in Japan.


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toshi no hi 年の火 (としのひ) "fire of the year

In many areas on the last day of the year old sacred straw ropes (shimenawa) are burned outside in the garden, if people forgot to bring them back to the local shrine.
This fire would also purify the whole house and could be used to cook the last meal of the old year.
toshikoshi tondo 年越とんど　bonfire to pass into the new year

. Shimenawa 注連縄 a sacred rope



. yotsugi hota 世継榾 (よつぎほた) "successor firewood"



. toshi no yu 年の湯 としのゆ last bath of the year


. misoka soba 晦日蕎麦 (みそかそば)
buckwheat noodles on the last day of the year


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toshi no yado 年の宿 (としのやど)
lodgings for passing into the New Year
..... toshiyado 年宿（としやど）
toshi no ie 年の家（としのいえ） home for passing into the New Year

Either one's own home or the home of the parents, or whilst travelling.


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The last evening of the year is called
New Year's Eve.

Germany
This last evening is called Silvester. We have a big party to lead us into the new year. At the change of the clock at midnight, people start a firework in the garden and some towns officially.
Gabi Greve

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Guyana

House cleaning and painting are some of the most conspicuous events at Christmas time each year. It is a tradition.

final touches
the house painting
at year end

Kenneth Daniels, Guyana, December 2009

. SOUTH AMERICAN SAIJIKI 　


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Things found on the way

List of Events in Tamba (Japan), a local saijiki
http://www.city.sasayama.hyogo.jp/event/ev.html
Features a Market for the Last Day
http://www.city.sasayama.hyogo.jp/ev981231.html


Other traditional events and customs, all of which are kigo, mostly for the New Year.

SAPPORO SNOW FESTIVAL
HATSUHINODE First Sun <> New Year Kigo > First Sun, First Sunrise (hatsuhi, hatsuhi no de, Japan)
OSECHI RYORI (JAPAN) New Years Food <> New Year Kigo > New Year Part 2
HATSUMOUDE Fists visit to the temple <> New Year Kigo

KAGAMIMOCHI Offerings of Rice Cakes <> New Year Kigo

Here are more links to see these rice offerings
http://www.fushimi-net.co.jp/shopping/shop1-4.html
http://www.fushimi-net.co.jp/shopping/shop1-3.html

TAKOAGE Flying the New Year Kite <> New Year Kigo
JOYA NO KANE The Temple Bell on the last/first night > see above
TOSHIKOSHI SOBA Eating buckwheat noodles on the last evening
YUKIDARUMA Making a snowman > Snowman (yuki Daruma) Japan (yuki-botoke)
KAKIZOME First calligraphy
http://www.ajinomoto.com/traditions/winter_06.html


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Chikago

In Chicago, although the practice is illigal, some people celebratethe new year by shooting firearms into the sky.

new year's eve--
the revelers' gunshots close
a violent year

Ed Schwellenbach
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cherrypoetryclub/message/21203


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joya no kane



"Gong on New Year´s Eve"
Onda Akio (b.1924) 恩田秋夫


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HAIKU

shame, shame!
on the month's last day
a meadow butterfly

.はづかしや三十日が来ても草のてふ
hazukashi ya misoka ga kite mo kusa no choo

by Issa, 1810

Or: "meadow butterflies."
Shinji Ogawa explains that Issa's phrase, "month's last day" (misoka), alludes to bills that need to be paid. He paraphrases the haiku: "Shame, shame! on the month's last day I cannot pay my debt." In Issa's days, most people bought things on credit and paid up at the end of the month or, in some cases, end of the year. Issa replaces the phrase, "I cannot pay my debt" with "a meadow butterfly," which suggests, in Shinji's view, that he is "as penniless as a meadow butterfly."
All this is implied by Issa's Japanese, not stated--making the task of translation especially difficult.
I might make the comparison explicit, as Shinji suggests: shame, shame! on the month's last day I'm as penniless as a meadow butterfly ...but this makes for a less effective haiku, making explicit a thing that Issa leaves to the reader's imagination.



bamboo thicket--
on the year's last day, too
evening rain

Issa, 1805
Tr. David Lanoue

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大晦日卵の殻をつぶし捨つ
oomisoka tamago-no kara-o tsubushi sutsu

New Year's Eve
crushing up an eggshell
i throw it away

Dhugal J. Lindsay
http://www.cyberoz.net/city/dhugal/dhughaiku.html

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New Year's Eve-
sleepy eyes
close before midnight

Kate Steere

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just the two of us
in the year’s final moments …
and Jupiter

Christopher Herold Woodside, CA, USA
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/haiku/03/selection2002.html

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cleaning, susuharai:

awaiting the new year -
cleaning my house
for the Gods of Good Luck
(Tr. aided by Ed Schwellenbach)

Etsuko Yanagibori

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end of the year -
piles of haiku pages
gathering dust

awaiting midnight -
a ripple of temple bells
bless the New Year

Joachim Seckel, WHCworkshop

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***** New Year (shin nen　新年)


. NEW YEAR
SAIJIKI and KIYOSE

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Additions November 2005

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WHC World Kigo Database <>
Newsletter November 2005

Dear Friends of World Kigo,

November has gone and we enjoyed some fine autumn days.
As for our kigo, the SILENCE has been received quite enthusiastically, we even could start a SILENCE and HAIGA gallery!
The FISH KIGO AQUARIUM is also beginning to take shape, thanks to many contributions.
The INDIA SAIJIKI is well on its way too, so there is plenty to check out this time.


http://worldkigo2005.blogspot.com/2006/12/latest-additions.html

Please share this information with your other Haiku Friends.
Feel free to add your information and haiku as comments to the BLOG.

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Smelt, Osmerus mordax Fish in America, kyuuri uo (Japan)Music: Shruthi in IndiaFrost in India, a season of its ownWinter in IndiaFish from Russia Snapper in Australia Angelus Prayer (Catholic Communities)

..... FISH as a kigo Including amongst many morewhitebait / icefish, shirauo 白魚young sweetfish, trout, junge Forelle, waka-ayu 若鮎red sea bream, sakuradai 桜鯛blossom cuttlefish, hana-ika 花烏賊herring, Hering, nishin 鰊Bonito, katsuo 鰹cherry salmon, yamame 山女trout, sweetfish, ayu 鮎 Forelleflying fish, tobi-uo 飛魚 Fliegende Fischegoldfish, kingyo 金魚salmon, sake, shake 鮭 Lachsgoby, haze 鯊 はぜreddened carp, momijibuna 紅葉鮒whale, kujira　鯨tuna, maguro 鮪Owl (fukuroo) (05) mimizuku. Snowy Owl (Japan)Henna (mehandi) India. mehendi, (mehndi) HeenaTrekking , Trek (India, worldwide)

SilenceSilence (maun) (India) . Shizukesa, Japan. Quietude, Stillness...... Silence by Narayanan..... Silence and Stones..... Continue to ... Silence and Haiga Rollerskates (India, worldwide) RollerbladesRamadan ends (Idd ul Fitr) (Kenya)Moon, waxing (moondraam pirai) India

Mushrooms (kinoko, Japan ki no ko, take: including pine mushroom, matsutake; hackberry mushrooms, enokidake; chestnut mushroom, kuridake; pasania mushroom, shiitake; meadow mushrooms, champignons, shimeji; rice with fresh mushrooms, kinoko meshi, takenoko meshi; looking for mushrooms in the forest, mushroom hunting, kinokogari; mountain with mushrooms, takeyama; first mushroom, hatsu-take hatsutake.

Anklets (payal) IndiaTansen The Musician, IndiaSari Dress for Ladies, IndiaHaiku from the Philippines including Roh Mih

Greetings from Japan
Gabi Greve


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Korean Haiku

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Introducing Haiku from Korea

Some traditional "Japanese" things were originally Korean. Haiku are a simplified version of Korean sijo.

Korean poetry can be traced at least as far back as King Yuri's Song of Yellow Birds (17BC), but its roots are in still earlier Chinese quatrains.
Sijo, Korea's favorite poetic genre, is often traced to Confucian monks of the eleventh century, but its roots, too, are in those earlier forms. Its greatest flowering occurred in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Sijo is, first and foremost, a song. This lyric pattern gained popularity in royal courts as a vehicle for religious or philosophic expression, but a parallel tradition arose among the 'common' folk.

Sijo were sung or chanted with musical accompaniment, and still are. In fact, the word originally referred only to the music, but it has come to be identified with the lyric as well.
http://members.tripod.com/~theWORDshop/Sijo/sijo-index.htm

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Korean Haiku by Alice S. Astle

Published In Periodical: Exponent II 7.4 (Summer): 17

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Rainy construction site -
The mist on Geumjong Mountain
doesn't mind the noise.

Korean Haiku by Dan Bosworth

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Haiku Expeditions in Korea

Haiku Expeditions Com


Some Haiku from the trip in 2002


seoul lights
reflect bright
on the han


city madness
escaping it all
pukansan quietness


Read more and look at the marvellous photos !

© Sanjay Rajan 2002-2006

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Tortoise with fish painting (19th century)
COURTESY OF JAPAN FOLK CRAFTS MUSEUM



we wish you
a happy birthday
with a turtle and carp !

They are symbols for a long life!

Read more about Korean Folk Art

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Korean Haiku
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lost in reverie
thinking of blazing sunsets
and freezing mountains
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government issue
all that is necessary
shall be provided
.
but for my own sake
I requisition the sky
to fill my vision
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I capture the cold
but hold it away from me
at a safe distance
.
I climb the mountain
my feet compressing the snow
into hard pathways.
.
frozen immobile
I see sunlight glittering
on yesterday's slope
.
maybe tomorrow
will bring a clearer meaning
of today's events
.
end

anonymous, 2004

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From English Teachers in Korea

5.
Chan-Won cannot read.
Chang-Hee doesn’t know numbers.
New advanced class enrollees.

11.
Moo-Say was lied to.
His senior borrowed money.
Ain’t Confucianism grand?

Ya-ta Boy

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(Random Korean haiku)

Two drunk guys fighting
About who can drive the car
And not kill someone.

gypsyfish

Korea Haiku Forum, read them all !

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Koreaforum, by Gabi Greve


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***** Korean Ambassadors to Japan in the Edo Period


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Kenya / List of Seasonal Words

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.................... List of Seasonal Words
from Kenya and other tropical areas


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In Kenya, we have the following haiku seasons:

.. .. .. hot dry season
.. .. .. long rains
.. .. .. cool dry season
.. .. .. short rains

Some of the rainy season kigo appear twice in the course of the year.

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hot and dry season
(roughly November to March, with January being the hottest month)

-- Buying textbooks
-- Buying school uniforms
-- Cassia blossom
-- Caterpillar, Hairy Caterpillar
-- Census
-- Christmas worldwide
-- Dust
-- Exam resultsKCPE and KCSE Exam Registration and Results
-- Form One entrants and monolisation
-- Frangipani, Plumeria
-- Goat Meat, also Goats in general
ice cream
-- Jamhuri Day (12 December)
-- January
-- Maasai Cattle (Masai Cattle)
-- Mabati shimmering roofs
-- Maize, Green Maize (for corn/maize see below)
-- Mango (ripe fruit)
-- New Year worldwide
open shoes
-- Papyrus and other grasses couch grass, napier grass, African star grass
-- Paying school fees
-- peaches, ripe peaches
-- Plums, ripe plums, plum fruit
-- Start of new school year Kenya
... ... see also Start of Schoolyear, worldwide
-- sweating
vest
-- Water shortage , drought
-- Weeds
-- World AIDS Day

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long rains (roughly March to May)

-- Bombax blossom
-- First rainfall, imminent rain
-- bullfrogs Frog (kawazu, kaeru) worldwide
-- Easter
-- flooding
-- flying termites kumbi kumbi
-- Grass, fresh grass, green grass, young grass
-- Guava fruit
-- Gumboots, gum boots
-- heavy raindrops
-- Ibis (Hadada)
-- Labour Day
-- Long Rains Haiku by Bahati Club
-- Long Rains
-- Mabati roofs rusting and harvesting rainwater
-- Mosquitoes in Kenya

-- Mud (Swahili : matope)
including: Brickmaking, Dry mud, Bukusu Initiation (Circumcision) 　
-- Mudslide, landslide

-- Palm Sunday
-- Pneumonia
-- Power failure, blackout 　　　　
-- Puddle, puddles
-- Rhinoceros beetle , a scarab beetle
-- Shoe wiper
-- Stepping stones, step-stone bridge 　
-- Umbrella

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cool and dry season
(roughly from June to September, with July being the coldest month)

-- August moon
-- Avocado pear (Kikuyu : Mûkorobîa)
-- Beanie cap Kenya
-- Bukusu Initiation / Circumcision
-- Cold Dew (kanro) worldwide
-- Cold dry season, cool dry season 　　

Datura suaveolens, Moonflower, Angel's Trumpet, trumpet plant
-- Day of the African Child (16 June)　　
-- Dust
-- Glove, gloves
-- Frangipani, Plumeria 　　　　　　
-- freezing
-- Hawkers for warm things glove, hot coffee, uji maize porridge, scarf, sweater ...
Irish potatoes (viazi)
-- Jiko (brazier)
-- July
-- Maasai Cattle (Masai Cattle)
-- Mabati roors collect dew
-- Madaraka Day (1 June)
-- Maize, Green Maize
-- Martyrs’ Day Uganda

-- Nairobi Bomb Day (7 August)
-- Nairobi International Trade Fair (end of September)
-- no meetings (August)
-- Oranges (Swahili : Mchungwa)
Referendum August 2010
-- Sunflower
-- Sesbania Tree (Sesbania sesban (L.) Merr.)
-- Shivering, to shiver
-- start of university year
-- Weeds


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short rains (roughly October and November)

-- Aramanthus, vegetable
-- bullfrogs > Frog (kawazu, kaeru) worldwide
-- First rainfall, imminent rain
-- Ocotber rain
-- Flamboyant Tree (Swahili : Mjohoro)
-- Flooding in 2006
-- flying termites kumbi kumbi
-- Graduation Ceremony in Kenya
... ... see also Graduation (sotsugyoo) worldwide
-- Gumboots, gum boots
-- Jacaranda blossom
-- heavy raindrops
-- Kenyatta Day
-- Messiah for the Hospice
-- Moi Day (10 October) renamed : Mashujaa Day since 2010
-- Mosquitoes in Kenya
-- Mud (Swahili : matope)
-- Mudslide, landslide

-- Nairobi Marathon
-- Power failure, blackout
-- Puddle, puddles
-- Shoe wiper

-- School exams KCSE / KCPE
------ Short Rains and more kigo about this season
-- Stepping stones, step-stone bridge
-- Tipu tree (Tipuana tipu)
-- Umbrella


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............. Topics for which the season changes

-- Diwali (Devali, Divali)
-- Ramadan in Kenya
-- Ramadan ends (Idd ul Fitr)

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............. Non-seasonal Topics

Ageing ... Getting old in Kenya. Grandfather, Grandmother
Akala ... Sandals
Arusha Tanzania
. . . Namanga-Arusha Highway Road

Banana
Bat, bats . . . and the Mukuyu tree
Beggar
Bisquits and cookies
Boma Homesteads
Buibui, to cover the head and face of a Muslim woman face veil
Bukusu Culture, Babukusu People

Cabbage
Calabash, calabashes, gourd
Camel, Dromedary, Kamel, Dromedar
Casuarina Tree
Chameleon
Chokoraa, chokora - "street boy" or "parking boy"
Crickets, cricket

Demolitions in Patanisho, Nairobi

Eucalyptus tree Fam. Myrtaceae

Fences and hedges
Flame tree (Erythrina fam.)
Flies, Fly, Housefly, Fruitfly
Fountain (in a park)

Githeri
Grevillea tree
Guitar

Hell's Gate National Park
Hornbill


Irio (mûkimû)


Jeevanjee Gardens and Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee
Jua kali artisans

Kajiado wilderness
Kale, kales, a cabbage (sukumawiki)
Kamba People A funeral in Ukambani
Kanga, kangas, wrapping cloth
Kenya Railway Museum Kukai August 2010
Kenyatta National Hospital,Nairobi
Khamsin wind Egypt, North Africa
Kibera Slums
Kitale Town in Western Kenya

Longido Hills

Magadi, Lake Magadi in the Rift Valley
Maize (Swahili : Mahindi, American : Corn, South African : Mealies)
Masai, Maasai, Massai ... indigenous African ethnic group of semi-nomadic people located in Kenya
Mandazi, a kind of doughnuts
Marabou Stork, Leptoptilos crumeniferus
Marikiti Farmers' Market Nairobi
Matatu minibus
Mkokoteni - hand cart, pushcart pl. mikokoteni
Mount Kenya and Kilimanjaro
Mourning
Mzungu ... person of European descent

Nairobi City
Haile Selassie Avenue, Soweto Market, Wakulima Market, Thika road, Tom Mboya street, Marikiti market


Ngaramtoni at the flank of Mount Meru
Newspaper vendor, newspaper boy
Night life
Njiiru Plains


Passion fruit, Passiflora edulis
Pawpaw tree(Asimina) paw paw, paw-paw, papaw
Peace (Swahili : Amani)
Pelican
Pig, pigs
Pineapple, Ananas comosus
Pokot people West Pokot and Baringo Districts of Kenya
Pomelo (Citrus maxima or Citrus grandis) Chinese grapefruit
Posho mill, poshomill -- to grind wheat, maize and other grains

Rift Valley
Royal Palm Tree Roystonea regia


Scorpion
Sisal (Agave sisalana)
Slasher to cut grass
Sorghum (mtama) and milled porridge (uji)
Sowbug, a brown snail
Sufuria .. cooking pot or saucepan


Tea (Swahili : chai)
Tilapia fish
Toilet, outhouse
Tomato, tomatoes


Ugali and Uji, maize porridge
Umbrella tree / Acacia tortilis


Warthog
Weaver birds (Ploceidae family)
Webuye Town
Wildebeest
migration
Wimbi, bulo ... Millet
Wood, firewood


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.. .. .. .. .. National Holidays in Kenya

l Jan -- New Year's Day -- International New Year's Day Holiday
> -- WKD ... : New Year (shin-nen)

Varies -- Good Friday -- Christian holiday commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ
> -- WKD ... : Easter

Varies -- Easter Monday -- Christian holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ
> -- WKD ... : Easter

1 May -- Labour Day -- International Day of the Worker
> -- see also : Labour Day, USA

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Mashujaa Day

10 Oct -- Moi Day -- Established on the 10th day of the 10th month 10 years after the inauguration of President Daniel arap Moi as the second President of Kenya.
October 2010:
The new constitution scrapped Moi Day and replaced Kenyatta day with Hero's (Mashujaa) Day in efforts to celebrate the men and women who fought for Kenya's freedom .

20 Oct -- Kenyatta Day -- This is to commemorate the arrest of Jomo Kenyatta and the declaration of the State of Emergency on 20 October 1952.
October 2010:
The new constitution scrapped Moi Day and replaced Kenyatta day with Hero's (Mashujaa) Day in efforts to celebrate the men and women who fought for Kenya's freedom .

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12 Dec -- Uhuru or Jamhuri Day -- This is to commemorate the day on which Kenya achieved its Independence, on 12 December 1963.
> -- Jamhuri Day

25 Dec -- Christmas Day -- Christian holiday celebrating the Birth of Jesus Christ.
> -- Bahati Haiku Club : Christmas
> -- WKD ... : Christmas

26 Dec -- Boxing Day -- celebrating St Stephen's Day and the second
day of the Christmas season.
> -- WKD ... St Stephen's Day


Varies -- Idd ul Fitr
The Muslim festival of Idd-ul-Fitr is also a public holiday and takes place on the sighting of the new moon at the end of Ramadhan. The exact date varies according to the position of the New Moon.

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.. .. .. .. .. .. Annual events in Kenya

Apart from big celebrations that are held on Madaraka, Kenyatta and Independence Days, Nairobi is also the venue for a number of large international and national sports matches. Nairobi further enhances its cosmopolitan image by hosting a number of annual shows and
festivals.

The Kenya Schools Music Festival is held in Nairobi in May/June and

The Agricultural Society of Kenya (A.S.K.) Show takes place at Jamhuri Park at the end of September or beginning of October. See Nairobi International Trade Fair

The long established and international Safari Rally begins and ends in Nairobi - drawing ever larger crowds.
http://www.kenyaweb.com/

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Introduction to the

Haiku Clubs of Nairobi


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More LINKs in the Kenya Saijiki

Getting to Know Kenya

Poetry and Literature of Kenya

Music of Kenya, by Douglas Paterson

Missionaries in Kenya

Wildlife in Kenya

Plants and Animals of Kenya, LIST by Allen & Nancy Chartier

Kakamega Forest Birds

Nature Kenya Organization


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..................................................................... October 2005Independence Day (India) August 15, 1947Lotus (padma)Sandalwood (chandan)RamadanTumeric (ukon) (India) Kurkuma, Curcuma, GelbwurzGanges, the Holy River (India)Sheperds Winter (Romania) Fruit Harvest (Romania) Schoolyear begins WorldwidePemmican (Romania)Migrating Birds (wataridori) (Japan) Himalaya Mountains, IndiaPlover (chidori) Japan (05)Dandelion (tanpopo) Japan (05)Incense (India) senkoo (Japan)Indian Food (India)Ganesh The Elephant-headed God, (India)Mohammed Fakhruddin , President of Haiku Society of IndiaIndian Haiku ClubPraying Mantis, Mantid (Japan) kamakiri,toorooRepublic Day January 26 (India)Banyan Tree (India)Cosmos Flowers (Japan)Goldenrod (seitaka awadachisoo) JapanMermaid Parade, N.Y., USA Halloween, Hallowe’en North AmericaNairobi International Trade Fair (Kenya)Grapes and Grape Harvest, Vendanges budoo (Japan)Grape Festival (Winzerfest, Wine Festival) Harvest Thanksgiving (Europe) Harvest Festival, Erntedankfest


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July (shichigatsu)

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July (shichigatsu)

***** Location: Japan. Worldwide
***** Season: Late Summer
***** Category: Season

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Explanation


Haiku shichigatsu in the Edo period relates to the climate of present-day August,
but some festivals are dated in our present-day July.

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July---- Standing the Hot Weather

　The rainy season being over, the real hot summer comes. July is the last part of summer on the calendar, but in fact, it is the hottest month in the year. Heated by the scorching sun and boiled by the water vapor of the air, all the things under the sun, animals and the plants, the human beings as well, must bear this hot weather breathing hard. However, the Japanese know well that this hot weather will promise the harvest in autumn, because they have lived in harmony with nature, not fighting against it.

　The people have not only put up with heat in a passive way, grasping for breath, but also they have made ways for standing it by using their brains. Their ideas could be seen in such seasonal words as nouryou (enjoying the cool of the evening), hashii (sitting on the outdoor bench for getting cool), uchimizu (sprinkling water outside the house), and furin (a wind bell).

These ideas have been developted to the culture deeply related to the spirit of the Japanese. As for food, I think that the seasonal words like hiyayakko (tofu served cold), arai (slices of raw fish washed in cold water),and mizugai (sliced seaear served in cold water) are attained to the level of art by the wisdom for living. Don't you think so?

And the Japanese feel poetical sentiment on even such a negative word, meshi-sueru (cooked rice going bad), and use it as a seasonal word.

　We feel joy and relief from yudachi (a summer afternoon shower), kaminari (thunder), niji (rainbow), shimizu (spring water), shitatari (a drop), and at the same time we recognize the beauty in the seasonal words like kumo no mine (gigantic columns of clouds), enten (heat of the sun) and have positively made a haiku on the subject of the above.

The haiku of July is characterised by many seasonal words on sickness and health, such as asemo (prickly heat), mizumushi (athlete's foot), kakke (beriberi), shokiatari (suffer from the heat), natsuyase (losing weight in summer), nebie (a cold caught in spleep), natukaze (a cold caught in summer), sekiri (dysentery), nisshabyo (sunstroke), kakuran (cholera nostras) and so on.

　Nowadays the Japanese prefer to live in the room airtight by air conditioner and have only a few chances to contact with nature, don't they? I think that we should place value on the sturdiness ,the wisdom, and the sense of beauty of the old people ,who have spent their life with nature, which have been heighten to the refined culture.

Inahata Teiko
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Southern Hemisphere, Tropics ...
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七月や白装束の登拝祭　
shichigatsu ya shiro shoosoku no tohaisai

july is here !
mountain climbing ceremony
in white robes

大類　匡光　Masateru Ohrui
俳句の試み　　


Ceremony of Climbing Mt. Nantai


WKD: Climbing Mt. Nantai Ceremony


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***** Calendar reference kigo


. . . . SUMMER
the complete SAIJIKI


. WKD : July - KIGO CALENDAR .


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Juggernaut Festival (Jagannath) India

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Juggernaut Festival (Jagannath) , India

***** Location: India, Orissa State, Puri
***** Season: Monsoon
***** Category: Observance

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Explanation

Jaggan-Nathji , Trinity of
Krishna, his brother and sister



Juggernaut the dictionary tells, is "any massive inexorable force that advances crushing whatever is in the path". The word has evolved from Jagannath, the diety of the famous shrine at Puri, which the British could not pronounce correctly. The car (ratha or chariot) of Jagannath is such an enormous and unwieldy construction that it requires thousands of people to pull it in procession.

The temple of Jagannath of Puri is situated in the state of Orissa in the Eastern Coast of India. The whole of eastern coast of India was populated with natives and the wooden image of Jagannath (a form of Lord Krishna) might originally have been a tribal shrine. Most of the tribal gods and monuments are wooden sculptures. The temple of Jagannath was constructed in the 12 the century by Choda Gangaraja (1078-1150 AD) of Eastern Ganga dynasty, of Talakad and which is in present day Karnataka.

The main idols of this temple are Jagannath, his brother Balabhadra (a/ka. Balarama) and his sister Subhadra- a peculiar trinity. The festival of Ashada ShuklaDwadashi (happens to be on July 11th of 2003) is dedicated to them. A very big festival or jatra takes place and hundreds and thousands of devotees through out the country assemble to pay respects. Three thousand priests help them in conducting the various rituals. The three rathas ( temple cars) built of various trees constructed in parts from traditional tools as was done thousands of years ago. Every year new Rathas are built and after the festival they are dismembered. The parts are later used to make wooden artifacts.

There is no untouchability in the temple premises. Poorest and the downtrodden can freely worship and offer the humble fare of khichadi to Lord Jagannath in earthen pots. This is the universal offering in this temple. This free and open entry has given room to the belief that formerly Jagannath was a Buddhist shrine representing Buddha, Dharma and Sangha- The Buddhist Holy Trinity. A small casket supposed to contain asthi (ashes) of Lord Krishna is inserted in the wooden body of Jagannath every twelve years, again confirming the guess that earlier it could have been a Buddhist stupa, containing holy relics of Buddha. True to Hindu tradition of Pantheon, known to absorb all cults and practices of other faiths with variations, tenets of Buddhism might have been amalgamated along with tribal traits.
This idea must have been at the root of the
Trinity of Krishna, his brother and sister.





The Rathotsavam (or driving of chariots) of Jagannath from the temple to sea beach is a distance of two miles. It’s a mammoth affair indeed of three huge and strong rathas with sixteen, fourteen and twelve wheels made for the occasion drawn specially at this time. It must be an Herculean task!

Gandhi rightly observed that places of pilgrimage in four corners of India kept the countrymen together. These shrines common to all Hindus made them travel long distances, to interact with local people, forgetting the entire strain and travails of the entire journey. People offered heartfelt gratitude to each different deity in their own way.
http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/nindia/orissa/jaganath.htm

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The temperature in Orissa at this time of year can be more than 40 degrees centigrade. And the crowd gets really heated up with holy excitement. Some old men (babu) in white cloths walk around with a water tank on their back and pump water to spray over the heads of the crowd. Read my haiku about this scene.
This festival usually usheres in the Monsoon season, that brings the rains so necessary for the rural areas.
Gabi Greve


Here is an old picture of the Juggernaut Temple in Orissa.


http://www.wmcarey.edu/carey/portraits/

Shree Jagannatha is the "Immovable Lord of the Universe." He is a primal expansion of Lord Vishnu, second in the Vedic Trinity of Brahma (Creator) Vishnu (Sustainer) and Shiva (Transformer) and, for at least the past five thousand years, is greatly beloved throughout the Indian subcontinent. The fourth of India's four holiest temples is dedicated to Him (Jagannatha Puri). Now, thanks in part to the universal awakening of eclectic universalism in its many forms, His popularity is quickly expanding throughout the entire world.



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Read more about this famous festival here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Darumasan-Japan/message/307

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Amazing collection of old pictures from the time of the Brithsh Rajh in India and more.
http://www.wmcarey.edu/carey/portraits/portraits.htm

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In modern English and American English, the word Juggernaut has more meanings, it also appears as a figure in comic books. Many modern Haiku make use of this meaning, which does not relate directly to the kigo.

The Free Dicitionary
juggernaut - a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way
an avatar of Vishnu
a crude idol of Krishna
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Juggernaut


Spelling Center
The term juggernaut is used to describe any literal or metaphorical force regarded as unstoppable; that will crush all in its path.
http://www.spellingcenter.com/juggernaught
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Juggernaut

Juggernaut in the comics
is a ficitonal character in Marvel Comics' universe, a former supervillain of incredible power and durability.
Juggernaut is an avatar of the extra-dimensional "god" Cyttorak. His is gifted with infinite strength, stamina, and durability, and cannot be stopped by outside forces when he is in motion. Juggernaut does not need to eat, sleep, or breathe. His armor is made of a metal found only in the dimension in which Cyttorak resides, and the helmet is impenetrable to mind-influencing effects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggernaut_(comics)

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jagannaatho
yoga-nidraayaam
jagat trasati
trinaagre

Jagannatha
in yoga–nidra
the jagat throbs
on a grass tip

Jagannaatha [ Jagat + Naatha ] ~ Lord of The Universes
yoga-nidra ~ divine cosmic slumber of Vishnu, the All Pervasive Lord ~
jagat ~ all Universes containing all that is born

.. .. .. .. Narayanan


"ja" is a power root means life, giving birth etc.
Examples ~
jan'mam ~ Life
jana'nam ~ Birth
jan'ani ~ Mother , Divine Earth
jan'thu ~ Being
janaa: People

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Juggernaut Festival -
the babu sprays water
over the crowd

Gabi Greve


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crossroads
the black juggernaut
trips the guide wire

Kara
http://lookingforthesun.blogspot.com/2004/04/crossroads-black-juggernaut-trips.html



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***** Krishna Janmashtami
The birthday of Hinduism's favorite Lord Krishna

Krishna took birth at midnight on the ashtami or the 8th day of the Krishnapaksha or dark fortnight in the Hindu month of Shravan (August-September).
This auspicious day is called Janmashtami.
source :　hinduism.about.com


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January

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January

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Late Winter
***** Category: Season

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Explanation


Haiku ichigatsu in the Edo period relates to the climate of present-day February,
but some festivals are dated in our present-day January.

. . Names of Japanese months and their meanings . .


the first lunar month is

. Mutsuki 睦月 (むつき) - Sociable Month 　


shoogatsu,　正月 the New Year
January 1 till 15, the first half of the first lunar month
. New Year ... a Haiku season of its own


. The First Lunar Month　一月 ichigatsu - 睦月 mutsuki - in Edo .


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Facing to the Coldest Season ... January
ichigatsu 一月

January is the first month of a year. The meaning of the word, "the first" gives us a new and strong impression. Accordingly, the arrival of a new year makes us feel ourselves refreshed. And also we are conscious that all the things surrounding us come to be fresh. If you refer to the "Saijiki", you will find many seasonal words about the New Year listed in the book, and you can easily understand what I have said in the above phrases.

It is supposed that perhaps the Japanese people have respected all the creations as to be pure and to be revived in the New Year, and have made up their mind to start their own new life with a new resolution. Through pious praying, they strongly hope to be happy and to lead a full life in the new year by clearing up the past which they could not be satisfied with. For this reason we pay special attention to some words by putting suffix of hajime, hatsu or zome, which mean first, on the head or the end of the words of daily work or life, such as Shigotohajime(first working), Kuwahajime(first farming), Ryohajime(first fishing), Nuihajime(first sewing), Urihajime(first selling). We put hatsu onto the words of nature, such as Hatsuhi(first Sun), Hatsuzora(first sky), Hatsuhikari(first light of the Sun) so as to express our respect to Nature of the New Year.

January is also the extremely cold season in a year. Shoukan(less cold) fall on the 15th day after Touji(winter solstice). It is on about January the 6th. Kan(cold season) continues from Shoukan to the day before of Risshun(the first day of spring). So we refer to the period of these 30 days as Kan-no-uchi(midwinter) from Kan-no-iri(beginning of midwinter) to Kan-ake(the end of cold season). Daikan(great cold) is on the 15th day, around January 20th after Shoukan. It is by far the coldest through the year. It is wrong to refer to these 15 days between Shoukan and Daikan as Shoukan. Either Shoukan or Daikan shows only one day of the twenty four designated seasonal days, so now let's learn correctly how to use each word.

The seasonal words of January are almost connected with Kan-no-uchi except those of the New Year. So we feel severe coldness from the seasonal words even if they sound enjoyable and lovely, such as Kazahana(snow flakes), Yukibare(clear sky between snowfall), Kangetsu (cold moon), Fuyusoubi(winter rose), Kanbeni(rouge of winter). And also we feel the coldness from the clear sound of seasonal words such as sayuru(make clear) and iteru(freeze), which beautifully and accurately express its feeling even if they are apart from their original meanings.
Inahata Teiko
http://www.kyoshi.or.jp/12month/12month-1.htm

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Japan in January

Great link with many customs and events
http://www.bookmice.net/darkchilde/japan/jjan.html

Japanese Festivals
January .. .. February .. .. March .. .. April .. .. May .. .. June .. .. July .. .. August .. .. September .. .. October .. .. November .. .. December
http://www.bookmice.net/darkchilde/japan/jfestival.html

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Australia
kigo for summer

Southern Hemisphere, Tropics ...
Adjustments for each region must be made.

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Poems, Quotes, Folklore Sayings, Links, References, Lore Ideas, Garden Chores

January is here, with eyes that keenly glow,

A frost-mailed warrior

striding a shadowy steed of snow.

Edgar Fawcett

Compiled by Michael P. Garofalo
http://www.egreenway.com/months/monjan.htm

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HAIKU

The cut in this haiku gives it the space to create a great image. When it was first published in 1969, many traditional haiku poets rejected it because of this cut in the middle of line two.
Maybe he was too early for his time. Now this haiku is well accepted.

It seems Ryuuta was talking about a small brook behind his estate.


一月の川 一月の谷の中
ichigatsu no kawa
ichigatsu no tani no naka


river in January
in the middle of a valley in January

Iida Ryuta (Ryûta) 飯田龍太
Tr. Gabi Greve


Il n'y a qu'un fleuve
Au milieu de la vallée...
Premier mois de l'année.

　©　tr. Laurent Mabesoone


январская
река по январской
долине

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January first -
the children teased by
sparse snowflakes

Carole MacRury, WHCworkshop

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Here in texas, we get snow rarely and little. it makes it all the more remarkable.

january snowstorm
snow epaulettes
on the stone eagle

january morning
lawn chairs crosshatched
with snow

january sunrise
a loaf of snow
on the strawberry jar

january sunrise
turning thin fog
golden

susan delphine delaney

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January noon
muezzin's call to prayer
rises and floats

That was in the city centre today -- a most beautiful call, which seemed to evaporate into the noontime heat and spread all over the city.
Isabelle Prondzynski (Nairobi, Kenya)

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Haiku for January
by Victor P. Gendrano
http://www.geocities.com/vgendrano/janhaiku.html

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Haiku from January 2003
by Gary Warner
http://www.haikuworld.org/gary/jan2003.gar.html

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Aozora haiku publication : January 2003
Editor : Jasminka Nadaskic Diordievic, and submissions (s)
http://www.tempslibres.org/aozora/en/hpub/pub0301.html


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A Japanese Garden of Verse

january snow
memories of years gone by
rain and warm winds blow

Lotus
http://www.webcom.com/~erique/haiku/haiku199.html

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a rose is
a rose is a rose -
January rose

Gabi Greve, January 2006

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Related words


***** January in Kenya

***** New Year
a Haiku season in itself


. WKD : January - KIGO CALENDAR .

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