Peony (botan) - Clematis

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Peony (botan)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Early Summer and others
***** Category: Plant

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Explanation

peony, tree peony, botan, bootan
ぼうたん、ぼたん、 牡丹)
Paeonia suffruticosa, Pfingstrose

bootamu ぼうたむ is not used nowadays.
botamu, ぼたむ
It is an old spelling, found by Buson.

shakuyaku 芍薬 (しゃくやく) Shakuyaku peony
"lit. "like a medicine spoon"
Paeonia lactiflora



© PHOTO :　Gabi Greve, June 2010


white peony, hakubotan 白牡丹
red peony, hi-botan (hibotan) 緋牡丹
peony park, botan-en 　牡丹園

Peonies have large, gorgeous flowers, but they last only very short. In haiku, they carry the feeling of permanence and transition, often used as substitute for a beautiful lady.

Their area of origin is North-West China, but they have long been known in Japan. They are also a frequent pattern in Chinese and Japanese art. They were the national flower of T'ang China.

Gabi Greve


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Famous Peony Parks in Japan are at the temple Hasedera (close to Nara) and the Taimadera.
Hasedera 長谷寺



『立てば芍薬、座れば牡丹、歩く姿は百合の花』
Tateba Shakuyaku
Suwareba Botan Aruku
Sugata wa Yuri no Hana (Otome)

This describes a beautiful woman:

when standing, she is like a a herbaceous peony
(shakuyaku)
when seated, she is like a peony (botan)
when walking, she is like a lily

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Temple Taimadera 当麻寺




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Pfingstrose

Noteworthy Characteristics:
The tree peony species is a deciduous, woody shrub that typically grows 3-5' tall with a 4' spread. The true species features large flowers (6-8" across) with pink to white petals, each petal having a purple basal patch. Many cultivars of this species have been developed, with a wide range of petal colors including red, pink, purple, white and yellow. Cultivar flower forms range from single to semi-double to double. Blooms in early spring (May in the St. Louis area). Medium green foliage is deeply divided into oval to lance-shaped leaflets and remains attractive throughout the growing season.
http://www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder/Plant.asp?code=F110


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"The Peony Show"
Katsushika Hokusai, about 1799



source : ja.ukiyo-e.org/image
Women Admiring Peonies under a Wisteria Trellis
Hosoda (Chôbunsai) Eishi 細田栄之 (1756-1829)


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Famous Chinese Opera
"The Peony Pavillion" Botan Tei . . . 牡丹亭

This has been revived in 2008 in a co-performance with Kabuki actor Bando Tamasaburo.
WKD : The Peony Pavillion


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- - - - - Kobayashi Issa - - - - -

putting up
with my tumble-down house
...peony-


掃人の尻で散たる牡丹かな
haku hito no shiri de chiritaru botan kana

petals scattered
by the sweeper's butt...
peony
Tr. David Lanoue

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おのづから頭の下たるぼたん哉
onozukara zu no sagaritaru botan kana

I find myself
bowing to a naturally
bowing peony
Tr. Chris Drake

This apparently gratitude-filled hokku is from the 5th month (June) of 1818, soon after the birth of Issa's daughter Sato, whose death is evoked the next year in Year of My Life. The hokku can be read in two different ways, a complexity that Issa seems to have deliberately put into the hokku in order to suggest that the difference between observer and observed is temporarily displaced if you read the hokku in both ways at (about) the same time. Read literally, the verb sagaritaru, '[head] has dropped down; bowing' in the second line modifies the peony in the last line, creating an image of a peony that faces downward in such a natural way it seems to be respectfully bowing its head in awe or admiration of its surroundings, including people who come near it. As opposed to deliberately bowing or lowering your head, the intransitive verb refers to spontaneous or passively experienced action: you are overwhelmed by respect or admiration and naturally bow your head before you know it in response to this deep feeling.

Onozukara, 'spontaneously, naturally,' intensifies this quality of the verb and is often used together with the verb to describe oneself or others unconsciously and sincerely bowing before Amida or another Buddha. The downward-tilting peony has grown naturally into a very long bow without even knowing it, and in response to this totally sincere and total bowing Issa seems to have discovered himself bowing, too, as if the peony has awakened a very natural part of his mind. Since Japanese often omits explicit subjects of verbs, it's possible to read an implicit subject, such as I, being placed before the beginning of the hokku. In this case, the modifying relationship of the verb to the peony in the last line means something like "the peony which impressed and moved me and unintentionally caused me to find myself unconsciously already bowing to it."

It seems possible that Issa regards this relationship of sudden mutual recognition between different forms of being as a version of "other power" or spontaneous and sincere trust in and reliance on Amida Buddha in all aspects of life that is taught by True Pure Land Buddhism, but there is nothing explicitly about this belief in the hokku.

Chris Drake

. Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 Issa in Edo .


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. YOSA BUSON 与謝蕪村 (1716 - 1783) .


方八里雨雲よせぬ牡丹かな
ho hachiri amagumo yosenu botan kana

on all sides,
the peony wards off
rain clouds
Tr. Kimiyo Tanaka - shiki




地車のとどろとひびく牡丹かな
jiguruma no todoro to hibiku botan kana

the noisy rumbeling
of festival floats . . .
these peonies

. Jiguruma - festival floats .



the laden wagon runs
bumbling and creaking
down the road
three peonies tremble
source : Peter Beilenson 1955

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牡丹散て打かさなりぬ二三片
botan chirite uchikasanarinu nisanpen

peonies scatter . . .
two or three petals fall
on top of each other
Tr. Gabi Greve


Peony petals fell
Piling one upon another
In twos and threes.
Tr. ?

Peony having scattered
two or three petals lie
on one another.
Tr. ?




source :　www.rakanneko.jp/buson074

虹を吐て　ひらかんとする　牡丹かな
niji o haite hirakan to suru botan kana

this peony
exhailing a rainbow
while opening up . . .

The cut marker KANA is at the end of line 3.

. Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 in Edo .


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牡丹百二百三百門一つ
botan hyaku nihyaku sambyaku mon hitotsu


one hundred peonies
two hundred, three hundred ...
and only one gate


Awano Seiho 阿波野青畝 (1899-1992)

Maybe he is visiting one of the famous peony temples of Japan.


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楊貴妃の寝起顔なる牡丹哉
Yooki-Hi no neoki-gao naru botan kana

like the face of Yang Guifei
when she awakens -
this peony

Masaoka Shiki 正岡子規
Tr. Gabi Greve

source : 俳句例句データベース（季語 )

Yang Guifei (Yang Kuifei, Yang Kuei-Fei, Yang Kwei Fei) (719-756) Yookihi
Famous Beauty of Ancient China
Her Lover, Emperor Gensoo, called her face "so beautiful even if she has not slept enough"
寝起きの楊貴妃を「寝たらず」と言った.


Discussion of this Haiku / Translating Haiku Forum

. Princess Yokihi 楊貴妃 .

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sono kuraki yo o shizuka naru botan kana
Kyorai

English is here : Translating Haiku Forum


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near my birthday
the deep magenta
of mother's peonies

Dietmar Tauchner
(GINYU, No.19, July 2003)

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Pfingstrosen am Weg –
auf rotem Teppich
zum Geliebten

peonies on the wayside -
on a red carpet
to my lover
(Tr. Gabi Greve)

Roswitha Erler
http://kulturserver-nds.de/home/haiku-dhg/Archiv/Buchbesprechungen/vjs_buch66.html


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In German, the Peonies are called Pfingstrosen, Pfingsten is the name of Pentecost. The following haiku is a play of words in German.

Ach, am Gartenzaun
verblühen die Pfingstrosen
Tage vor dem Fest.

Oh, near the garden fence
the peonies are blooming their last -
days before pentecost
(Tr. Gabi Greve)

Adelheid Treffer
http://www.haiku-heute.de/Galerie/Adelheid_Treffer/body_adelheid_treffer.html


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peonies
in the lattice window
a blaze of colours

Geert Verbeke
http://happyhaiku.blogspot.com/2004/01/friends-geert-verbeke.html


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***** Peony in the Cold (kan botan (寒牡丹)
fuyu botan 冬牡丹 (ふゆぼたん) winter peony
kigo for winter

Curtesy to the Japan Times
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fe20050120li.htm


冬牡丹千鳥よ雪のほととぎす
fuyu botan chidori yo yuki no hototogisu

. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .


. botan kuyoo 牡丹供養（ぼたんくよう) memorial service for peonies


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......... Winter Peony

By LINDA INOKI
(C) All rights reserved

In the stillness,
Between the arrival of guests,
The peonies.

By Buson (1715-83), quoted in "Haiku" by R.H. Blyth (Hokuseido Press)

At this time of year, you wouldn't expect to see peonies in leaf, let alone in bloom. However, the Japanese so loved this plant that they developed the unusual, winter-flowering kanbotan, which literally means "cold peony." Cultivated peonies were introduced to Japan from China in the Nara Period (710-784). The roots provided a valuable herbal medicine for the relief of fever, pain and bleeding. But people also prized the plant for its exquisite blooms, and during the Genroku Era (1688-1703) there was even a "peony boom": One gardening manual listed nearly 500 types of tree peonies.

Peony fanciers competed, trying to grow the most sensational flowers, and townspeople enjoyed gorgeous displays of red, pink, white and yellow blooms in late spring. When someone discovered a remontant, or twice-flowering peony, people could also admire the "king of flowers" in the auspicious New Year season, too. The sight of a peony braving the cold still inspires admiration, and, in Tokyo, the winter peonies at Hamarikyu Garden near Shiodome in Minato Ward are a sight to behold, followed by another fine display there in April and May.

The Japan Times: Jan. 20, 2005
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fe20050120li.htm

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The famous Winter Peony Park in Kamakura, Hachiman-Gu
鎌倉の八幡宮、寒牡丹


source : isaonaka2.web.infoseek.co.jp



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***** Peony Snow, botan-yuki
(botanyuki 牡丹雪)
kigo for winter

Snow falling in huge soft flakes like Peony petals.

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***** "Pine-needle Peony", Matsuba Botan
(松葉牡丹), （ポーチュラカ）
kigo for late summer


Rose Moss, Portulaca grandiflora. They flower for a long time and are loved as garden flowers from late summer to autumn.


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***** Peony buds, botan no me 牡丹の芽
kigo for early spring
Paeonia suffruticosa


***** botan no newake 牡丹の根分 (ぼたんのねわけ) dividing the roots of peonies
kigo for mid-autumn


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***** "Peony Stew", wild boar stew,
botan nabe 牡丹鍋
kigo for winter



Peony here is used for the meat of the wild boar, arranged in a way it looks like the red and white petals of a peony. This is a dish we can enjoy only in the winter season. It warms body and soul and is very popular in the mountainous areas on a cold evening.


botan nabe - yutaka na mori no megumi kana
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botan nabe - hatake arashi no batsu no kana
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wild boar stew -
the fertile woods bestowing
delicious benefits
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wild boar stew -
devastating the fields
you end up here!

Gabi Greve, 2004
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杉山の墨絵ぼかしに牡丹鍋
sugiyama no sumi-e bokashi ni botan nabe

the ink painting
of a cedar forest in all gradations -
wild boar stew

Kiuchi Shooshi 木内彰志 Kiuchi Shoshi
(1935 - 2006）


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***** nobotan 野牡丹 (のぼたん) "wild peony"
hime nobotan 姫野牡丹（ひめのぼたん）
kusa nobotan 草野牡丹（くさのぼたん）
ノボタン - Melastoma candidum

kigo for late summer


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***** kusa botan 草牡丹 (くさぼたん) Clematis stans

kigo for ealry autumn


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Clematis クレマチス (kuremachisu)
is a genus of about 300 species within the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. Their garden hybrids have been popular among gardeners, beginning with Clematis jackmanii, a garden standby since 1862; more hybrid cultivars are being produced constantly.
They are mainly of Chinese and Japanese origin.
Most species are known as clematis in English, while some are also known as traveller's joy, a name invented for the sole British native, C. vitalba, by the herbalist John Gerard; virgin's bower for C. viticella; old man's beard, applied to several with prominent seedheads; and leather flower or vase vine for the North American Clematis viorna.
The genus name is from Ancient Greek clématis, a climbing plant, most probably a periwinkle. There are approximately over two hundred and fifty species and cultivars, often named for their originators or particular characteristics.
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your picture -
the heady fragrance
of clematis

- Shared by Rosie Mann -
Joys of Japan, 2012


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. kani botan, kani-botan 蟹牡丹 crab and peony
- kamon 家紋 crest patterns .

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Pemmican

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Pemmican (Pastramă, Romania)

***** Location: Romania
***** Season: Autumn
***** Category: Humanity

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Thicker than the American version and inextricably associated (by cityfolk) with sweet wine, it is eaten in the same locales and atmosphere as described above. Shepherds and peasants eat it all the time during autumn anyway.

Cristian Mocanu
Romanian Saijiki

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the misanthropist—
sweet wine, pemmican lure him
to a side table

challenging new tunes
sweet wine gives strength and glamour
to merry songs of old

munching pemmican
and lost in contemplation—
the two old shepherds

Cristian Mocanu

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Parang

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Parang Serenaders

***** Location: Trinidad and Tobago
***** Season: Tropical rainy season
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House to house serenade telling stories about the birth of Christ, sung in a Spanish dialect; using such instruments as:, box bass, shac shacs, guitars quatros and mandolins. Both the music and the songs form the Parang. The singers are called Paranderos (men and women). Traditionally Parang is presented in Three forms: The AGUINALDO which tells the Navitity story, The GUARAPO which cover a wide rang of more secular issues and the DESPENDIDA which is a parting song as the paranderos leave the house. Homes welcomed the paranderos with rum and Christmas delicacies. In olden days it was common for a wife, not to see their husbands for days on end, if he was a parandero.

A newer version now appears, alongside the traditional parang: Soca Parang; sung in the English dialect, and influenced by the calypso rhythm; moving outside of the birth of Christ to inform on happenings, traditions, and life style within the Christmas Season in Trinidad and TobagoToday Parang is sung also in many Competitons at Parang Competition sites.

The "Parang Season" is at its height by November but as early as the last week in September Parang songs are aired on the radio. The late Daisy Voisin, a doyenne of the Parang, always sang holding a bunch of flowers in her hands.

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Parang as a word is an interpretation of the word "Parranda" - this means basically "the action of merry-making, group of serenaders". In Spanish this word is used in the form "andar de parranda" or "parrandear" (used in Venezuela), meaning basically "to go Paranging". Originally the "Paranderos" - as the singers and players of instruments are called - went carol singing and playing from house to house in the neighbourhood, serenading family and friends spontaneously. These would in return often serve some food and refreshments such as pastels or other snacks and ponche-a-creme to the merrymakers, and the resulting atmosphere would be that of happy togetherness and the joy of a good Christmas lime that could continue to early hours of the morning.

The usual instruments that were (and are still) used in Parang were mainly string-instruments, such as the Guitar, the Cuatro (a four-stringed small Guitar), the Violin, the Mandolin and the Bandolin, accompanied by some light rhythm-instruments such as the Chac-chac (or Maracas) and possibly some other light rattlers to keep the beat. The rhythm is what can be loosely described as Hispanic or Latin-based, though it is distictively different from other well-known Latin rhythms such as Montuno, Son, Cumbia or Merengue.

HISTORY OF PARANG
There are a few theories about how Parang music came to be in Trinidad. One is that it all started during the Spanish rule (from 1498 to 1797) and the Spanish and French creoles kept the music alive after the British took over. Another commonly supported view states that Parang came to be in Trinidad from Spain but via Venezuela. Without a doubt, interactions with the people of Venezuela (where Parang music is also played) have helped to keep the tradition alive throughout the years.
After Trinidad's independence in 1962, a gradual revival of Parang music (as well as many other local arts) began to take place. Competitions on a national scale started and the National Parang Association was formed in 1971. Parang music also has had it's stars, most notably Daisy Voisin. Though she sadly passed away in 1991, she is still referred to as the queen of Parang by many fans.
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Shores/9089/

Another Link:
http://www.trinicenter.com/historicalviews/parang.htm

Songs about Christmas and Parang
to listen to online

http://www.ecaroh.com/christmas/

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enjoying parang ~
hankering for cooler nights
October musings
2004

rainy night --
parang songs on the radio
late October
2003

parang ... parang parang
on the radio ...Christmas time is here
2002

Gillena Cox
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Daisy Voisin, Christmas, Paranderos, Auinaldo, Guarapo, Despendida, Rum.

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Weasel (itachi) Japan
Ambedkar Jayanti, Memorial Day India
Tukaram Celebrations India
Dragon, a non-seasonal topic of Eastern Art
Eagle(washi) Japan
..... including other birds of winter, fuyu no toriWater birds (mizudori　水鳥) ; Hawk (taka　鷹), Winter wild goose (fuyu no kari　冬の雁) , Winter skylark (fuyu hibari　冬雲雀), Midwinter sparrow (kan suzume　寒雀) , Midwinter crow (kan garasu　寒烏) Owl (fukuroo　梟) , Duck (kamo　鴨), Plover (Chidori　千鳥) , Hooded gull (miyakodori, yurikamome　ユリカモメ), Winter gull (fuyu kamome　冬鴎), Wren (misosazai　ミソサザイ), Crane (tsuru　鶴)Swan (hakuchou　白鳥) , Grebe (Kaitsuburi　カイツブリ)

Butterbur sprouts (fuki no too) and butterbur (fuki) (Japan)
Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara), Europa Butterbur Dandelion, fuki tanpopo (Japan)

Grape Hyacinth, Europa muscari, Lampenputzer
Gutsy Radish (dokonjoo daikon) Japan

Kite flying, India and Pakistan
Haiku in Bhutan INDIA SAIJIKI
Daffodil, Narcissus and Jonquils Europa

Spring light, spring shining (shunkoo) Japan
..... wind shining (kaze hikaru) JapanVeronica, field speedwell, Europa inufuguri (Japan)
Girl Scout Cookies USA

Bahati Haiku Club Meeting, March 2006 Kenya
Bahati Haiku Club Records since January 2006 Kenya

Jizobon, Jizoo Bon 地蔵盆
..... including Coming of Age and Fire Rituals, Sagichoo 左義長

O-Mizutori, Omizutori Ceremony, お水取り） Shuni-E Ceremony 修二会 Nara, Japan
..... Including "Sending off Water from Wakasa" Wakasa no O-Mizu Okuri.Hawaiian Spirit
Vailankanni (Velankanni), Festival in Chennai, India
Doll Festival (hina matsuri) Japan Peach Festival, Girl's Festival
Surfer, Surfing, Surf Hawaii, worldwide

Homeland, Hometown (furusato) Japan Heimat, Fatherland, Motherland

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Oktoberfest

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Oktoberfest (Octoberfest)

***** Location: Germany
***** Season: Autumn
***** Category: Observance

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The Oktoberfest in Munich, which usually starts in the middle of September (that is a good reason to call it OCTOBER fest) and runs only until the 3rd of October, is celebrated in many German communities all over the world where people love beer, saussages and companionship.

Next to the Christmas tree, the Oktoberfest is the most popular custom that Germany has ever exported. From Saturday thousands of thirsty tourists will flock to Munich for the world's biggest Oktoberfest.



The Munich Oktoberfest is the largest German Volksfest, or festival. It all began with the marriage celebration of the Bavarian crown prince Ludwig (later to become King Ludwig I.) to Princess Therese from the German kingdom of Saxony-Hildburghausen on Oct. 12, 1810.

Over the years, the beer fest has spread to many parts of the world. But not all are as old and traditional as the Munich festival. However, they have similarities: All serve lots of beer and authentic Bavarian meals to traditional Bavarian music played by local or some times exported German brass bands.

Read a lot more here
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,1329027,00.html

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The Oktoberfest 2004 has ended!
On the Germans national holiday, October 3rd, the 171st Oktoberfest has ended. In spite of the bad weather, 5.9 Million people visited the worlds biggest fair this year and drank approximately 5.5 million liters of beer. On the 17th of September 2005 the 172nd Oktoberfest will open its gates.


Look at some great highlights from 2004.
http://www.oktoberfest.de/en/10/

Check it out here:
http://www.oktoberfest.de/en/index.php

And another German link
http://www.muenchen.de/Tourismus/Oktoberfest/89552/

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"Oktoberfest is a three-week festival held each year in Munich, Bavaria, Germany during late September and early October. It is one of the most famous events in the city and the world's largest fair, with some six million people attending
every year."

Many breweries in the USA make special beer at that time of the year and call it Oktoberfest. It is a tradition started by German immigrants many years ago.

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Fall is the season of Oktoberfests... folk festivals with live music, Bavarian treats, folk dancing, arts and crafts shows, ethnic food chalets, and of course a beer garden (Biergarten).
The background of Oktoberfest! is:
http://www.globalgourmet.com/food/egg/egg1097/oktoberfest.html

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Oktoberfest
a sampling of beer from
many kegs

Carol Raisfeld

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Oktoberfest unumgaenglich
von ottonormalverbraucher

De Musi spuid auf
Des Festbier fliesst in Stroemen
Bsuffa gema hoam

http://www.dulzinea.de/forum/haikus/e12782-gedicht.html

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Oktoberfest -
a drunken driver
sleeps in the car

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Kodak Moments of Oktoberfest:

two Chinese dressed
in Lederhosen and Dirndls
Munich's blue sky

Italians sing
Bavarian drinking songs
a German girl's smile

Oktoberfest
a sea of human heads
inside the beer tent

House of Horrors
hand in hand an old couple
giggling

slanted sunlight
in my gingerbread heart
her bite mark

a roller coaster
against the sunset sky
Sayonara

Chen-ou Liu
Canada, 2006







The 2012/179th Oktoberfest,
the biggest folk /beer festival in the world, came to end yesterday.
“Oktoberfest party goers glugged 6.9 million litres of beer.”

a line of waitresses
dancing on the table
smell of the Oktoberfest

Chen-ou Liu
Canada, 2012


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Related words

***** Harvest Thanksgiving (Christian communities)
Harvest Festival, Erntedankfest


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October (juugatsu)

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October (juugatsu　十月)

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

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Explanation



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

. . Names of Japanese months and their meanings . .

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. . . . AUTUMN
the complete SAIJIKI


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


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


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October----The Changing Season
Inahata Teiko

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

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

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

©　Inahata Teiko : NATURE AND OUR LIFE

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Southern Hemisphere, Tropics ...

Adjustments for each region must be made.


Germany

Oktober, Goldener Oktober


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HAIKU

October night
dead leaves rush towards me

©　Martin Gottlieb Cohen, tinywords 2007


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October night
not a leaf flapping
not a sound

October night
flying ants join me
for dinner

October night
the eerie feeling
of aloneness

October night
a napping cat curled
at the doorstep

October night
a cup of hot chocolate
stirs my reverie

Willie Bongcaron, Philippines
October 2009


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October in the desert of Yemen

around the campfire
never felt so content ..
shooting stars

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

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

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


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together ...
listening to
the wolves howl
ii)


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

...

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


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

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

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

Heike Gewi, Yemen
Ocotber 2009

YEMEN SAIJIKI


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*****　Calendar reference kigo


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. . . . AUTUMN
the complete SAIJIKI


. WKD : October - KIGO CALENDAR .

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February 2006

ARCHIVES

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Haiku Situation in Nepal

Tiruppavai of Andal Tamizhnadu, Tamil Nadu, India

Shiva Ratri Night, Festival India, Nepal, Hindu Communities

Goa Carnival India

Shivaji's forts India

Panchatantra, a Fable India

Nehru, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s Memorial Day, Children's Day India

Maasai Cattle (Masai Cattle) Kenya, Nairobi

Summer in India Kigo Collection

Yoga India

Chittorgarh Fort (Rajasthan) India

Pansy, Pansies Europe, sanshoku sumire (Japan)

Haiku from Bulgaria Collection of the Europa Saijiki
Haiku from Hungary Collection of the Europa Saijiki

Alberta Family Day, Canada

Crocus (Europe, worldwide)

Power Stone, Strenght Stone (chikara ishi, Japan) weight lifting competition

Poetry and Literature of Kenya

Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Writer, Kenya

Caterpillar, Hairy Caterpillar of Kenya

Festivals of India They are all kigo.

Ganesh Chaturthi Festival India

Tiger Dance (Huli Vesha, Puli Vesha) India
.... Including TIGER, the animal as non-seasonal topic.

Serpent Festival (Nag Panchami) India

Snake, serpent, viper, cobra (hebi, mamushi, habu) Japan

Wintersweet (roobai) Japan

..... Bahati Haiku Poetry Club, Second Meeting Kenya


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November (juuichigatsu)

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November (juuichigatsu)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Early Winter
***** Category: Season

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Explanation


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

. . Names of Japanese months and their meanings . .

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kannazuki 神無月 (かんなづき) "Gods are absent"
(now November)

The tenth lunar month (now November), after the harvest when the Japanese gods had done their duty, they left their local shrines for a bit of a vacation. They would all go for an audience and to celebrate at the great shrine of Izumo, so the rest of Japan was "without gods".
. Gods are absent (kami no rusu) .


kigo for mid-winter

chuutoo 仲冬 (ちゅうとう) middle of winter
..... fuyu monaka 仲冬 冬最中（ふゆもなか）
..... fuyu nakaba 冬半ば（ふゆなかば）

another name for November.
In reality, the middle of winter is now from end of december to mid-January, but customarily these kigo are pointing to November.


The name of the eleventh month according to the Asian lunar calendar:
(now also used for November in haiku)

"frost month", shimotsuki 霜月 (しもつき)
"frost coming down month", shimo furi zuki 霜降月（しもふりづき）
"waiting for snow month", yuki machi zuki 雪待月（ゆきまちづき）
"looking at snow month" yukimi zuki 雪見月（ゆきみづき

"month with Kagura Dance performances", kagura zuki 神楽月（かぐらづき）
"Gods coming back" month, shinki zuki 神帰月（しんきづき）
(they have been away in October to visit the shrine in Izumo, see LINK below.)

"month with a day of the mouse" ne no tsuki 子の月（ねのつき）
(meaning the month with the winter solstice)

. December, juunigatsu .



. . . . WINTER - the complete SAIJIKI



11.Shimotsuki - Frost Month
7 Dec – 4 Jan
The archaic name for November.
. Names of months and lunar seasons .


. Shimotsuki Matsuri　霜月祭り Shimotsuki Festivals .


Shinran ki 親鸞忌 （しんらんき）
Memorial Day for Saint Shinran
and seven days of memorial services for him

. o shimotsuki お霜月（おしもつき）"honorable frost month" .


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Inahata Teiko

November――Feeling of Drizzling

Winter comes after the day of ritto which falls on about November the 8th (the first day of winter in the traditional calendar). This time of the year, which is called early winter, is a good season, because the winter air braces our mind and body and we have Indian summer days during these days. While we still enjoy the feeling of autumn, the nature surely begins to change to winter. There is a clear, quiet and lonely atmosphere in the air of the mountains, rivers, trees and plants, and the sounds of rain and wind. We feel the more when we have the first frost or the first of drizzling rain of winter season.

In the meantime, when red and yellow leaves begin to fall, falling leaves are constantly scattered on the ground and still more a withering blast begins to blow, people become busy preparing for the arrival of real winter. The characters of this season are shown in the seasonal words such as daikon arau (wash the radishes), daikon hosu (dry the radishes under the Sun), kiriboshi (dried strips of the radishes) and takuan tsuku (pickle the radishes). People have lived with poetic feelings in their lives. Furthermore such seasonal words as kitamado fusagu (close the north windows), mebari (tape the windows), kazayoke (guard the house from the wind), fuyugamae (getting ready for coldness) describe the lives in winter.

But we believe that among those seasonal words, shigure (a drizzling shower in early winter) is the most typical seasonal word, which exactly depict the sceneries and atmosphere in early winter. In October in the lunar calendar it often rains on and off, and therefore it is called the month of drizzling rain. Shigure, raining on and off, has been composed in a delicate way in poems from the time of Waka of Shinkokin as a symbol of changeable things, the transience of human life.

This sense of transience, the original idea of shigure , has been inherited to haikai. But in haikai , "the Danrin school (a school of haikai which became popular in the latter half of the 17th century. It opposed the traditional haikai of the Teitoku school and composed haiku with innovative and novel interests and wrote comical idea in light and easy spoken language) made intentionally fun the original purpose and ended in comicality. However, it can be said that their innovative composition was still placed under the restriction of tradition in spite of their attempt.

In the book of "Sarumino" written by Basho, shigure came to be freely composed in haiku apart from the restriction of original meaning of the season. In the book of "Sarumino" there are thirteen poems of haiku composed with a theme of sigure.

When in 1936, Takahama Toshio (the son of Kyoshi) began to read "Sarumino" in turn with Nara Shikaro, Awano Seiho and others, Takahama Kyoshi encouraged them by sending a telegram, which reads:

"Begin with thirteen poems of haiku with a subject of sigure". Maybe he meant that they should study the seasonal word, shigure which was composed freely in "Sarumino" apart from original intention of waka poems.

How is shigure composed in haiku in modern times?

©　Inahata Teiko, Nature and our Life

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HAIKU

November seven -
the haiku winter
starts today

Gabi Greve

The day of RITTO 立冬, when the Winter Starts, according to the Asian Lunar Calendar.

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on the mirror --
the last mosquito this
November morning

Isabelle Prondzynski, 2007


November wind --
a sparrow rides on
a swaying branch

November is a lovely warm month in Kenya, the month when the short rains peter out, and the sunshine coaxes the young plants up and into strong growth. Not yet hot (that is January), but the most ideal warmth, and an atmosphere full of hope. The jacarandas and many of the other beautiful trees are in flower, and the wind is mostly gentle, with the odd gust now and again.

Read more

Isabelle Prondzynski, Kenya 2007

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White-gold winking through
Black wiry branches half nude:
November streetlights.

Michael Collings, 2007

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November Day

little puffy clouds
float like tropical fish
in clear blue waters

quickly changing to
baby dragons chasing
buzzards on the prowl

butterfly hovers
over flowerless branches
dreaming of summer

blowing leaves entice
playful puppies to give chase
across the yard

winter waits anon
while autumn paints the landscape
in shades of amber

Ruth Nott, USA, November 2007


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first of November
freshly painted tombstones
where candles flicker

first of November
the sun shines mightily
on silent tombs

first of November
the grief of a widow
stored in her kerchief

first of November
tomb of the undertaker
sits at a corner

first of November
a stray black cat crosses
the beggar's path

first of November
the long and scorching trek
to the unmarked graves

November scene
piles of trash at the graveyard's
silent domain

November dusk
the city dresses up
for Christmas

November breeze
early birds buy knick-knacks
for giveaway

November night
the bright sparkles on lanterns
elicit some "ooohhhhs!"

Willie Bongcaron
Philippines, November 2009
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November moon
a smile on my face
as I drive home

Ella Wagemakers
Kigo Hotline, November 2009


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***** 　All Saints’ Day

***** All Souls' Day


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New Year (shin-nen)

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New Year (shin-nen, shinnen)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: a Haiku season of its own
***** Category: Season

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Explanation

The New Year is the day that marks the beginning of a new calendar year, and is the day on which the year count of the specific calendar used is incremented. The Roman new year is on March 1. In many cultures, the event is celebrated in some manner.

The New Year of the Gregorian calendar, today in worldwide use, falls on 1 January, continuing the practice of the Roman calendar. There are numerous calendars that remain in regional use that calculate the New Year individually.

With the expansion of Western culture to the rest of the world during the twentieth century, the 1 January date became global, even in countries with their own New Year celebrations on other days (e.g., China and India).
©　More in the WIKIPEDIA !



Outside of Japan,
the NEW YEAR is not a season in itself and usually placed in the same season as January.


. JANUARY
kigo for late winter in the Northern Hemisphere
kigo for summer in the Southern Hemisphere


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Please read more in Part one with the basic information here:
NEW YEAR ... introduction




New Year, shinnen shin nen 新年

あけましておめでとうございます！
Akemashite O-medetoo gozaimasu!

The greeting when seeing a person for the first time in the New Year.
AKE ... what does it mean? The "opening" of the New Year?
No, it olden times it meant to open the small bag with the toshidama お年玉which the Deity of the New Year (Toshitokujin 歳徳神) has brought. It contained grains of rice (tama 稔玉 treasures) to multiply in the coming year and bring a good harvest.


Synonyms with "FIRST SPRING" (hatsu haru　初春)

SAIJIKI - THE NEW YEAR


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First　view of Mt. Fuji,初富士 lit. First Fuji

First sky, hatsuzora 初空

Lion dance, shishimai 獅子舞. Kagura, 神楽

Rice cakes for the New Year (kagami mochi)

New Year Arrow (hamaya) Japan


Sacred rope, shimenawa　注連縄
shimekazari 注連飾、kadokazari 門飾、wakazari　輪飾 (round rope)

Read more about these beautiful decorations here.
In many shrines, they are renewed for then New Year
to last until the next.
Introducing Shimenawa, Gabi Greve


Pines at the gate, kadomatsu 門松


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First Religious Ceremonies of the Year in Japan

First temple visit, first shrine visit, hatsu-moode 初詣で

hatsu-moode yama no kami ni wa dare mo kon

Fiste Shrine visit -
to our Mountain God
nobody comes

Gabi Greve 2004 : Hatsu Mode



shizukesa ya mori no naka no hatsu-moode

so quiet !
walking in the forest for the
first Shrine visit

Gabi Greve 2005

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First sparrow, hatsu-suzume 初雀　はつすずめ


Fern, shida 歯朶　Fern and the Seven Herbs of Spring


Pheasant's Eye (fukujusoo 福寿草)


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fukuwara ふくわら【福藁】"auspicious straw"
New straw that is placed at the entrance and in the garden of a mansion. It serves to purify the place for the coming year and is a gesture of respect for the visitors on the New Year.


福わらや十ばかりなる供奴
fukuwara ya juu bakari naru tomo yakko

straw for the new year -
about ten fellows working
in the garden

Kobayashi Issa
Tr. Gabi Greve



福わらや塵さへ今朝のうつくしき
fukuwara ya gomi sae kesa no utsukushiki

new auspicious straw -
this morning even the dirt
looks beautiful

Chiyo 千代
Chiyo-Ni (Chiyoni), Kaga no Chiyo jo (1703-1775)


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Fasting day, sixteenth day, sainichi 斎日,さいにち
yabuiri, yabu iri, yabu-iri 薮入 servant's holiday in Edo


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"Little New Year", Ko Shoogatsu, koshogatsu 小正月
January 15



. . . THE NEW YEAR
kigo for humanity 　
a long KIGO LIST



A few more kigo are listed below.



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Outside of Japan,
the NEW YEAR is not a season in itself and usually placed in the same season as January.


. JANUARY
kigo for late winter in the Northern Hemisphere
kigo for summer in the Southern Hemisphere


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California

For New Year's here in Southern California, we have the
Rose Parade in Pasadena.

Deborah P Kolodji


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CHINESE NEW YEAR
Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the new year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. The 15th day of the new year is called the Lantern Festival, which is celebrated at night with lantern displays and children carrying lanterns in a parade.

The Chinese calendar is based on a combination of lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days. In order to "catch up" with the solar calendar the Chinese insert an extra month once every few years (seven years out of a 19-yearcycle). This is the same as adding an extra day on leap year. This is why, according to the solar calendar, the Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year.

New Year's Eve and New Year's Day are celebrated as a family affair, a time of reunion and thanksgiving. The celebration was traditionally highlighted with a religious ceremony given in honor of Heaven and Earth, the gods of the household and the family ancestors.

The sacrifice to the ancestors, the most vital of all the rituals, united the living members with those who had passed away. Departed relatives are remembered with great respect because they were responsible for laying the foundations for the fortune and glory of the family.
http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/CHINA/chinese_new_year.html


Chinese New Year's Eve ...
staring at the mirror
long before

tenth New Year
Chinese fried dough
... and black coffee


Note:
A traditional Chinese breakfast menu consists of the following two sets:

1 Mantou (Chinese steamed bun/bread) and Dou Jiang (sweet/salty soybean milk)
or
2 You Tiao (fried dough), Shaobing (baked, layered flatbread), and Dou Jiang (sweet/salty soybean milk)

Chen-ou Liu
Year of the Snake, 2013


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Hawaii

In Hawaii we celebrate New Years with a feast and lots of music...with many firecrackers to chase away all the bad spirits at midnight.. It is a wonder to see in the morning all the red paper from the fire works... is like snow... we never get snow so anything that resembles it we pounce on it.......

the dragon roars
at midnight for...
mornings blanket of red

children play in
scatterings
of firecracker paper

shanna

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India


. Marathi New Year's Day
Ugadi, Yudadi, Gudi Padva 　


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Ireland

Christ Church Cathedral saved by bell
Joe Humphreys

Christ Church is the traditional venue for Dubliners to mark the coming of the New Year and a large crowd is expected there tonight.
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But the campanologists feared the annual event would be spoiled after the 2.25 tonne tenor bell broke during practice a fortnight ago.
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A piece of the bell's tongue, or clapper, fell off, leaving Christ Church with the prospect of ringing in its first new year for decades without the sound of the "Great Tenor". Disappointment was averted however, thanks to the generosity of nearby St Patrick's Cathedral, which has given Christ Church a spare five-foot clapper for the occasion.
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Mr Lesley Taylor, ringing master at Christ Church, said: "We always like to ring the Great Tenor bell, and there was a prospect of us not being able to do so. That would, of course, have meant we couldn't have done the full 19 either.
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"We're very grateful to our friends at St Patrick's. They had a clapper of similar weight and size, and thankfully it works."
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Mr Tony Reale, a civil engineer and one of Christ Church's 28 campanologists, has been given the honour of ringing the "Great Tenor" tonight after helping to install the new tongue.
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Christ Church increased the number of bells in its tower from 12 to a world record 19 as part of its Millennium celebrations five years ago. Since then, however, the tenor bell has gone through three tongues - each of which has failed.
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Mr Taylor said all three tongues had been made of spheroidal graphite, a modern substitute for wrought-iron. As a result, the bell-ringers were now seeking to design a clapper in wrought-iron, which "gives a better sound too".
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However, Mr Taylor said: "as far as we can see there is a dearth of workers in wrought-iron. If there are any manufacturers in Ireland, we would like to hear from them." The tenor will swing into action shortly before midnight tonight with 12 strokes to mark the passing of 2004.
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There will be 10 minutes' silence before midnight when another 12 strokes will ring out, followed by a cascade of all 19 bells - due to last about 20 minutes.
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"Ringing large number of bells like that is prone to disaster," said Mr Taylor. "If one person messes up their timing it can produce chaos. "We are always striving for perfection," he added with a note of confidence. "All our ringers are very well trained."
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http://www.Ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2004/1231/3087096539HM3BELLS.html
Isabelle Prondzynski

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New Year in Kenya 2010


New Year 2012

men secure
spaces on top of the bus -
new year rush

Mango Junior


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Russia
In Russia, families also get together in parents' home usually, to celebrate New Year. And a buckwheat porridge which I like very much, is a very common meal (now, it's usually a side-dish, or a stuffing).

new-year's goose
with a buckwheat porridge --
grandma smiling

Origa
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cherrypoetryclub/message/21228

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Russian New Year
by Zhanna P. Rader

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Things found on the way

JANUARY FIRST NEW YEAR'S DAY HISTORY
http://wilstar.com/holidays/newyear.htm


SAMVAT or HINDU NEW YEAR
http://www.hindunewyear.com/hindu/abouthindunewyear/index.html
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=58858

Awaiting welcome
midst the same old worries
the new samvat

R.K.SINGH, India



AULD LANG SYNE

is a traditional song to say good -bye to the old and usher in the new year. Traditions of the season include the making of New Year's resolutions.The tradition of using a baby to signify the new year was begun in Greece around 600 BC.
Many people believe that one could be affected in luck by what theyate on the first day of the year. Here in Trinidad and Tobago; black-eyed pease and rice is a traditionally good luck menu for ending the old year and starting the new.

Other words that can be kigo in Trinidad and Tobago:
Black-eyed peas, Tournament of Roses, Whistles, Party hats, Auldlang syne, New Calander, Champagne, Kisses, Hugs, Fire works.

Gillena Cox
http://www.wilstar.com/xmas/auldlangsyne.htm

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HAIKU




春立つとわらはも知るや飾り繩
haru tatsu to warawa mo shiru ya kazari nawa

spring has finally come
even the children will understand this -
ritual rope decorations
Tr. Gabi Greve

Written in 寛文11年, Basho age 28, while he lived in Iga Ueno.

. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .

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a new year---
the old dog
runs out of tricks

andrew riutta 12.30.04
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cherrypoetryclub/message/21214

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new year
old load still
in the washing machine

Ella Wagenmakers, WHCworkshop

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ring out the old
embrace your near and dear ones
ring in the new

Isabelle Prondzynski, Ireland

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new year born
fire-works all over
I sit alone ~

new year midnight ~
through wild fireworks
troubled bird songs ~

new year dawn
the sun blooms again
in cool breeze ~

Narayanan Raghunathan, 2004

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蓬莱や只三文の御代の松
hoorai ya tada sammon no miyo no matsu

my eternal youth ornament --
just three cents
of emporer's pine

Kobayashi Issa
Hoorai is a mythical island of eternal youth. On New Year's Day offerings are set on a special table in its honor. Literally, miyo no matsu signifies "reign's pine." Issa is referring to a rather cheap pine decoration on the table in honor of the new imperial year.
Tr. David Lanoue

hoorai kazari 蓬莱飾 hoorai decoration
. . . CLICK here for Photos !


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. New Year 2010
Akita International Haiku Network
Hidenori Hiruta 蛭田秀法


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Related words


***** Little New Year .. ko shoogatsu (January 15) Japan.
Women's New Year (onna shoogatsu, me shoogatsu)



***** Ancestors New Year (Hotoke Shoogatsu) Japan


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***** New Year's Food, o-setchi ryoori おせち料理
CLICK here for the New Year Food SAIJIKI!


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***** First Calligraphy, kakizome 書初め、Japan

taking the brush
365 days
first calligraphy

Gabi Greve
Read about Zen Master TANCHU TERAYAMA and Zen Calligraphy: Hitsuzendo
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Darumasan-Japan/message/662

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***** New Year's Concert Vienna Austria

One of my favorite events to celebrate a worldwide New Year is the life concert, which starts around seven thirty on Japanese TV. This year, January 2005, the famous Radetzki March was not played with respect to the events in the Indian Ocean.

The New Year's Concert (in German Das Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker) of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is a concert which takes place each year on January 1 in Vienna, Austria. It is broadcast around the world to an estimated audience of one billion in forty-four countries.

The music is mostly that of the Strauss family (Johann Strauss I, Johann Strauss II, Josef Strauss and Eduard Strauss). The flowers that decorate the Wiener Musikverein concert hall are a gift each year from the city of San Remo, Liguria, Italy.
The concert always ends with several encores after the main programme. The musicians then collectively wish the audience a happy new year, and close with Johann Strauss II's Blue Danube Waltz followed by the Radetzky-March. During this last piece, the audience claps along in time and the conductor turns to conduct them instead of the orchestra.

The concert was first performed in 1939 (paradoxically on December 31st of this year) conducted by Clemens Krauss.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_New_Year's_Concert

Neujahrskonzert -
mit geschlossenen Augen
bin ich dabei

New Year's Concert -
with closed eyes
I am right there

Gabi Greve, Japan

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***** January First, Neujahrstag , ganjitsu 元日
New Year's Day

Globally January first (Jan. 1st.) is celebrated as the start of the new calendar year; New Year's Day ; with pomp and festivity. The pomp and festivity associated with this observance is both
secular and religious. But this date is not the only observance of New Years Day.

In adition to this global New Year's Day there are other New Year's Day observances of other global sub cultures. For Example there is Samvat; April 9th of the Hindu New Year, there is the Chinese New Year Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the new year; The Chinese calendar is based on a combination of lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days and ends on the full moon 15 days later, there is First Sunday of Advent the beginning of the church's new year of the Catholic Faith.

The Babylonian New Year began with the first New Moon (actually the first visible cresent)
after the Vernal Equinox (first day of spring).
The Romans continued to observe the new year in late March (Ides of March), but their calendar was continually tampered with by various emperors so that the calendar soon became out of synchronization with the sun. In order to set the calendar right, the Roman senate,
in 153 BC, declared January 1 to be the beginning of the new year.

Gillena Cox

January first
the bride and groom exit
into a new life
2004 Gillena Cox

a drizzle~
backdrops the birds twitter
January first
2005 Gillena Cox

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The Actor Ichikawa Danjūrō VII Preparing New Year's Gifts
Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (1786-1865)

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Digest January 2006

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..................................................................... January 2006

Caterpillars worldwide
..... Including
hairy caterpillar, woolybear, kemushi　
looper, inchworm, shakutori

Ice, Icicle (koori, tsurara) (Japan)

..... Kaniparambil Ramesh Poet from India

Start of School Year, School Year starts(Kenya)
..... Including
form one (form 1), new term, new textbooks, school fees, new uniform

..... Bahati Haiku Poetry Club, Kenya

..... Hawaii Saijiki

..... EUROPA Saijiki

Buddha's Seat (hotoke no za)(Japan) 05.
.................... Two flowers with the same name !

Seven Herbs of Spring (haru no nanakusa) (Japan) 05
..... Including Seri (Japanese parsley or dropwort), Nazuna (shepherd's purse), Gogyou (cottonweed), Hakobera (chickweed), Hotoke-no-za (Japanese nipplewort), Suzuna (Japanese turnip), Suzushiro (Japanese radish)

Fern (shida)(Japan) 05

Pheasant's Eye (fukujusoo) (Japan) 05

Vog (Volcanic Smog) (Hawaii, Big Island)

New Year's Day (ganjitsu)Japan, Worldwide. First day of the Year, January 1.

..... Korean Haiku

..... African Haiku

Kagura Dance (Japan)

Graduation Ceremony, Kenya

Last Fudo Ceremony of a year(osame-Fudo) (Japan)
Last Daishi Ceremony of a year (osame no Daishi) (Japan)

Whales, kujira (Japan)

Cow (Pashu, Gai) The Holy Cow of India

Bhagavad Gita (India)

Number of Entries December 2005 : 328

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