September (kugatsu)

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September (kugatsu 九月)

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

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Explanation

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

. . Names of Japanese months and their meanings . .

leaf month, hazuki 葉月 (はづき)
kigo for mid-autumn

other names for this month (the 8th month in the Asian lunar calendar, now September)

related kigo to this month

month for moon viewing, tsukimi zuki 月見月（つきみづき)
month with autumn wind, akikaze zuki 秋風月（あきかぜづき）
kusatsu zuki 草津月（くさつづき）
"trees start to color" kosome zuki 木染月（こそめづき）
nozome zuki 濃染月（こぞめづき）
red colored month, benizome zuki 紅染月（べにぞめづき）

month with bushclover, hagizuki 萩月（はぎづき)
month when swallows leave, tsubame sari zuki
燕去月（つばめさりづき）、

month when geese come, kari kuzuki 雁来月（かりくづき)

soogetsu 荘月（そうげつ）, keigetsu桂月（けいげつ）
chuuritsu 中律（ちゅうりつ）, nangetsu 難月（なんげつ）
chuushoo 中商（ちゅうしょう）


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September---
All Things in Universe Becomes Clear in Autumn
Inahata Teiko

When September comes, the air becomes clearer and a sense of crisp autumn becomes deeper. When we think of a representative seasonal word of this time, there is nothing beyond tsuki (the moon). As shown by the phrase, setsu-getu-ka (the snow, the moon, the flower), the moon, which symbolizes the beauty of nature of this season, has appeared in a lot of poems and literary works from the old times.

According to this tradition, tsuki (the moon) in haiku stands for the moon in autumn, and a number of the excellent haiku poems have been composed on the subject of the moon. Because the moon is the brightest in the year as the air of this season becomes the clearest.

Autumn is the season in which we are lost in deep thought, as shown by a seasonal word, shushi (the deep grief of autumn). The moon has been the best subject in which we convey our feelings or deep emotions. Even after the space satellite Apollo reached the moon and sent the picture of the surface of the moon to the earth, the above-mentioned perception doesn't change, does it?

There are many seasonal words related to the moon in the glossary of seasonal terms for haiku composers; hatsuzuki（the new moon）, futsukazuki (the second day-moon), mikazuki (the third-day moon), yuzukiyo (the moonlit evening ), tsuki (the moon), matsuyoi (the waiting evening), meigetsu (the harvest moon), tsukimi (the moon-viewing), ryoya (the clear full moon), mugetsu (no moon), ugetsu (the moon in the rain), izayoi (the 16th day-moon), tachimachizuki (the 17th day- moon), imachizuki (the 18th day-moon), fushimachizuki (the 19th day-moon), fukemachizuki (the 20th day-moon), nijusanya (the 23rd day-moon), yoiyami (dark at night).

If we add the subtitles to each word related to the moon, the seasonal words would swell in number. And these seasonal words are included in September. For example, yoiyami means to be darkness at night about 20th day on the lunar calendar, as the moon doesn't rise till ten o'clock.

I hope you to study the correct meaning of each seasonal word and how to use it appropriately by consulting a saijiki.

©　Inahata Teiko, NATURE AND OUR LIFE

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

Calendar reference kigo


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HAIKU

葉月潮 伊雑の宮を さしてゆく
hazukijio Izoo no miya o sashite yuku

The tides of August
coming on a pilgrimage
to the Izoo Shrine.

. Yamaguchi Seishi 山口誓子 .
Composed 1976.
In August the great tides of the Pacific Ocean roll into Matoya Bay and, after passing through a narrow strait, enter the Izoo Lagoon. A god is enshrined at the Izoo Shrine there, and the great tides come all that way to worship the god.
Tr. Kodaira & Marks

There is now a beautiful red bridge over Matoya Bay 的矢湾大橋 and a memorial stone with this haiku by Seishi.
source :　www.kanko-shima.com

hazuki, literally "leaf month,"
was the name of the eighth month on the lunar calendar, which in an average year would begin in mid-September on the Julian calendar. Seishi's note seems to indicate, however, that he is in fact speaking of the eighth month on the Julian calendar, August. Even so, the season remains autumn because the seasons in haiku are based on the old lunar calendar, and they begin and end about six and a half weeks earlier, on average, than those by the Julian calendar.
Thus, autumn runs from about August 8 to November 6.

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September morn...
a hen's endearments
for its brood

September morn...
a white butterfly brightens
the silent garden

September morn...
the rigid pen tames
sleeping puppies

September morn...
sweet potato sprouts crowd
the mossy catwalk

September morn...
a lone street sweeper pauses
for a breather

w.r. bongcaron, Philippines, September 2008"


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. . . . AUTUMN
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. WKD : September - KIGO CALENDAR .

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Typhoon, Hurricane

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Typhoon, Hurricane, Cyclone

***** Location: Japan, North America, Tropics
***** Season: Mid-Autumn in Japan,
.....................late tropical rainy season
***** Category: Heaven

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Explanation



"Women Running in a Storm", Isoda Koryūsai (1735–1790)

taifuu　台風　typhoon, Taifun
In Japan, typhoon is a kigo for mid-autumn, mostly September when most of them hit the islands.
In America, these strong winds are called hurricane.

"violent storm, hurricane," from Gk. typhon "whirlwind,"
personified as a giant, father of the winds, perhaps from typhein "to smoke." Or borrowed from Chinese (Cantonese) tai fung "a great wind," from tu "big" + feng "wind;" name given to violent cyclonic storms in the China seas. A third possibility is tufan, a word in Arabic, Persian and Hindi meaning "big cyclonic storm," which may be from the Gk., or from Ar. tafa "to turn round."
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The Greek word (tuphon) meaning whirlwind, and the Arabic word (tufan) meaning deluge, or (tafa) meaning overflow or walkabout seem to be the origin of typhoon, which the Chinese seem to have adopted and created a new word big wind, or ta feng. In the face of the forces of nature manifesting themselves in typhoons and earthquakes, you may understand the 'modesty' and 'humility' of the Japanese people (of the past) towards the almighty nature.
Susumu Takiguchi



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"parting the fields" nowaki 野分, のわき
"field-dividing" wind, "field-divider"
kigo for mid-autumn
Usually between the day 210 and 220 after the beginning of spring (risshun). Typhoon, autumn gale or strong windstorm at this time. It stressed the WIND aspect of a typhoon, not the rain.

strong windstorm, autumn storm, nowake 野わけ（のわけ）
.... nowakidatsu 野分だつ（のわきだつ）, 野分き立つ

clouds of a windstorm, nowakigumo 野分雲（のわきぐも）
aftermath of a windstorm, nowaki ato 野分跡（のわきあと）
fine weather after a windstorm, nowaki bare 野分晴（のわきばれ）


Living in the rice fields of Western Japan, I have come to see this "parting of the fields" quite often after our autumn typhoons. It hurts to see the ripe ears of rice hang down on the ground to the right and left of a swath of flattened stems.






Nowaki (野分 Nowaki)
is a short Japanese novel by Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916). Written in 1907, the novel was published in the magazine Hototogisu in January. The year 1907 was a turning point in the author’s life when he left his Tokyo University teaching position to write full-time for the daily Asahi Shimbun.
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Genji Monogatari : Chapter 28
Nowaki 野分 Typhoon
第二十八帖 野分




. Genji Monogatari 源氏物語 The Tale of Genji .

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kigo for mid-summer

mizu mimai 水見舞 (みずみまい)
visiting after a water damage
lit. "water visit"

After a typhoon has brought damage in the form of flooding and landslides, it was customary to visit relatives and friends and support them with money and other help.


. SAIJIKI ... HUMANITY - Kigo for Summer 　

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Hiroshige

歌川広重 -「六十余州名所図会 美作 山伏谷」

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Trinidad and Tobago

During the late RAINY SEASON/WET SEASON storm watch, and storm or hurricane warnings are as natural as sunrise and sunset. Such public notices are authorised and issues from the National Agency responsible for Disaster preparedness and management; NEMA

storm watch
in the uncanny calmness
a hazy sunset

hurricane warning
the stray cats
have gone away

the storm having passed on
sunny day
the call of a kis-ka-dee
Gillena 2004


Hurricane relief, storm relief
kigo for the Late wet season

scorching hot day
water tops
the hurricane relief list

Gillena Cox


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North America

During the six-month hurricane season that runs from June 1 through Nov. 30, the center is responsible for alerting people to storms in a vast expanse of two oceans, the Atlantic and eastern Pacific.

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. Typhoon legends - taifū 台風 伝説 Taifun Legenden .

. The Wind God, Fuujin 風神 Fujin、Fuu-ten 風天 .


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HAIKU

September 2005

i gratefully write that my area was not directly affected by hurricane rita.

however, we were close enough to experience the tips of the spiral nebula that was the storm.

all thru the afternoon before landfall and all the next two days, we at the fringes of the 170 mile wide storm were amazed at the spectacle of watching the arms of the storm spiral overhead. sweeping arms of cloud, hazy sunshine, cloud, sunshine .... repeated every hour. ten minutes of sun for every hour of cloud.

the hurricane's approach
spiral fingers
of pink clouds

we just got high winds and nary a drop of rain.

hurricane threat past
rehanging the windchimes

gratefully,

susan delphine delaney MD

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waiting for
mighty strong number fourteen -
katrina on my mind

Then it comes to hit Japan:

Typhoon Nabi 14 September 2005 　台風14号

fallen leaves
fallen fruit and
fallen hopes

............................... Green Apples fallen by typhoon 14　

............................... Humans Powerless Katrina 2005

Gabi Greve

Our Typhoon Season in Japan, 2007


From 2004

typhoon -
in the folds of my robe
a bee hiding

cleaning the street
with a broom like old Jittoku -
typhoon destruction

some forgotten clouds
hooked to the mountains -
typhoon is over

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in the moonlit night
children swirl on a cold verandah --
China typhoon


yamame winslause, Kenya
August 2009


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©　Haiga by Sakuo Nakamura

芦の穂の波に屯ス野分哉
ashi no ho no nami ni tamuro su nowaki kana

this typhoon
is hanging out making waves
in the ears of the reeds . . .

Kobayashi Issa
Tr. Gabi Greve

. . READ : Discussion of the translation.



狂乱の野分ありたき我思ひ
kyooran no nowaki aritaki waga omoi

Ah, that my thoughts
Might have the frenzy
Of this "field-dividing" wind!

Masaoka Shiki
Tr. Blyth


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***** WIND in various kigo

***** Wind Chimes (fuurin, Japan)


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Tibet

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TIBET

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Tibet is a plateau region in Central Asia and the home to the indigenous Tibetan people. With an average elevation of 4,900 metres (16,000 ft), it is the highest region on Earth and is commonly referred to as the "Roof of the World." Geographically, UNESCO and Encyclopædia Britannica consider Tibet to be part of Central Asia, while several academic organizations controversially consider it part of South Asia.

Many parts of the region were united in the seventh century by King Songtsän Gampo. Power eventually shifted to the Dalai Lama, a position that combined spiritual and political power. Between the 17th century and 1951, the Dalai Lama and his regents were the predominant political power administering religious and administrative authority over large parts of Tibet from the traditional capital Lhasa.

Tibet proclaimed its independence from China in 1911, right before the fall of the Qing government. However, "at no time did any western power come out in favor of its independence or grant it diplomatic recognition.”
The People's Republic of China (PRC), citing historical records and the Seventeen Point Agreement signed by the Tibetan government in 1951, claims Tibet as a part of China (with a small part, depending on definitions, controlled by India). Currently every country in the world recognizes China's sovereignty over Tibet. Dalai Lama, the head of the Tibetan government in exile, does not reject China’s sovereignty over Tibet:
“Tibet Wants Autonomy, Not Independence.”
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Demonstration for a Free Tibet

Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York City, March 22, 2008

The day started out with a temperature of about 32 degrees farenheit, colder than usual for this time of year. When I went into the Japan Society building around 11 a.m., the New York Police Department (NYPD) was setting up barricades across the street in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza.

When I came back outside at around 1 p.m., there were, I would estimate, between 200 to 300 demonstrators, mostly Tibetan, holding Tibetan flags and chanting slogans, with the UN building looming up behind them a few blocks away. These flags weren't the little hand-held ones on small wooden sticks that are waved at sporting events. These were full-sized flags on poles that require both hands to hold uprignt.

There were New York City police present, both Patrol Officers and Community Affairs Officers, as well as four Mounted Patrol Officers on their well-groomed horses.

Most of the chants were derogatory toward China. One of the NYPD officers I saw looked to be ethnic Chinese. If I had been more courageous, I would have asked him how he felt hearing these anti-Chinese slogans being chanted.

I spent some time watching some of the children there with their parents among the demonstrators. The children chanted the slogans too, but seemed more pre-occupied playing with the protest signs they were carrying than putting all their attention and energy into chanting as their parents were doing. I was handed a couple of printed flyers detailing the situation in Tibet, and what people could do to help, and then with a backward glance at the Tibetan flags fluttering and flapping in the gusty wind, I went on my way.


a cold wind blowing
as if from far-off mountains:
Tibetan flags fly!

Larry Bole, March 2008


Tibet Info Net

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Lhabab Düchen
is one of the four Buddhist festivals commemorating four events in the life of the Buddha, according to Tibetan traditions. Lhabab Düchen occurs on the 22nd day of the ninth month on a Tibetan calendar.

This is a Buddhist festival celebrated to observe the descent of Buddha from heaven back to earth. Buddha had left for heaven at the age of 41, having ascended to The Heaven of Thirty-Three (Trayastrimsa) in order to give teachings to benefit the gods in the desire realms and to repay the kindness of his mother by liberating her from Samsara. He was exhorted by his follower and representative Maudgalyayana to return, and after a long debate managed to return. This is considered to be one of the eight great deeds of the Buddha. He returned to earth by a special triple ladder prepared by Viswakarma, the god of machines.

On Lhabab Duchen, the effects of positive or negative actions are multiplied ten million times. It is part of Tibetan Buddhist tradition to engage in virtuous activities and prayer on this day.In 2013 Lhabab Duchen starts on Full Moon November 17 and ends November 24.
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The Stupa of the Descent from Tushita Heaven (Wyl. lha bab mchod rten)
The Buddha's mother, Mayadevi, was reborn in a celestial realm called the Tushita Heaven. To repay her kindness, the Buddha spent three months there and taught her the path to enlightenment.
This stupa represents the Buddha’s return from the celestial realms in order to continue teaching the people of northern India. Each side of the stupa has a stairway in the centre of the four steps.
source :　www.rigpawiki.org/index

full moon-
on the stupa of descent
our prayers multiply

Angelee Deodhar
India 2013

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Communist Empire
stubbing the free Tibetans;
same face of the man.

(c) Aju Mukhopadhyay, 2008

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Winter in Tibet

a day in winter
high up on the white mountain –
never-ending tale

©　Fluerau Petre, 2006


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flamme olympique...
à peine visible
derrière la police

Serge Tomé

Tibet and the Olympics in China, 2008


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Tibetan Daruma



© ARTISTS WITHOUT BORDERS / ARTISTS OF THE WORLD.


wonderous world -
Tibetan Eyes for my
Daruma san

Gabi Greve, 2007


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Thanksgiving USA

***** Location: USA
***** Season: Early Winter
***** Category: Observance

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Thanksgiving, a holiday we celebrate in the US by eating way too much and watching American Football--Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday in November. It has been celebrated on this day since 1941 on the fourth Thursday of November.
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The Pilgrims' 1621 Thanksgiving

The tradition of the Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving is steeped in myth and legend. Few people realize that the Pilgrims did not celebrate Thanksgiving the next year, or any year thereafter, though some of their descendants later made a "Forefather's Day" that usually occurred on December 21 or 22. Several Presidents, including George Washington, made one-time Thanksgiving holidays. In 1827, Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale began lobbying several Presidents for the instatement of Thanksgiving as a national holiday, but her lobbying was unsuccessful until 1863 when Abraham Lincoln finally made it a national holiday with his 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation.

Today, our Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday of November. This was set by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 (approved by Congress in 1941), who changed it from Abraham Lincoln's designation as the last Thursday in November (which could occasionally end up being the fifth Thursday and hence too close to Christmas for businesses). But the Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving began at some unknown date between September 21 and November 9, most likely in very early October. The date of Thanksgiving was probably set by Lincoln to somewhat correlate with the anchoring of the Mayflower at Cape Cod, which occurred on November 21, 1620 (by our modern Gregorian calendar--it was November 11 to the Pilgrims who used the Julian calendar).

There are only two contemporary accounts of the 1621 Thanksgiving: First is Edward Winslow's account, which he wrote in a letter dated December 12, 1621. The complete letter was first published in 1622, and is chapter 6 of Mourt's Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth.

Foods Available to the Pilgrims for their 1621 Thanksgiving

FISH: cod, bass, herring, shad, bluefish, and lots of eel.

SEAFOOD: clams, lobsters, mussels, and very small quantities of oysters

BIRDS: wild turkey, goose, duck, crane, swan, partridge, and other miscellaneous waterfowl; they were also known to have occasionally eaten eagles (which "tasted like mutton" according to Winslow in 1623.)

OTHER MEAT: venison (deer), possibly some salt pork or chicken.

GRAIN: wheat flour, Indian corn and corn meal; barley (mainly for beer-making).

FRUITS: raspberries, strawberries, grapes, plums, cherries, blueberries, gooseberries (these would have been dried, as none would have been in season).

VEGETABLES: small quantity of peas, squashes (including pumpkins), beans

NUTS: walnuts, chestnuts, acorns, hickory nuts, ground nuts

HERBS and SEASONINGS: onions, leeks, strawberry leaves, currants, sorrel, yarrow, carvel, brooklime, liverwort, watercress, and flax; from England they brought seeds and probably planted radishes, lettuce, carrots, onions, and cabbage. Olive oil in small quantities may have been brought over, though the Pilgrims had to sell most of their oil and butter before sailing, in order to stay on budget.

OTHER: maple syrup, honey; small quantities of butter, Holland cheese; and eggs.

Read a lot more about it here:
http://members.aol.com/calebj/thanksgiving.html


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Thanksgiving History

The Plymouth Thanksgiving Story
A very informative collection of information, including some challenging observations from a Native American viewpoint. Recommended reading!

Plymouth, Massachusetts: It's History and People

Thanksgiving Articles by Ralph F. Wilson.

The First Thanksgiving Proclamation

http://www.2020tech.com/thanks/

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More information about the Pilgrims and Thanksgiving

PILGRIMS ^ The Pilgrims were a Separatist group. They left England because King James I did not permit religious freedom. Everyone was expected to belong to the Church of England.

MAYFLOWER COMPACT ^ The Pilgrims signed an agreement for self-government.

SQUANTO ^ the colonists' Indian interpreter and friend. He had learned English from explorers. He lived at the Plymouth Colony. He taught the Pilgrims how to live in the wilderness and showed them how to plant crops. The Indians gave the Pilgrims seeds for Indian corn. Squanto died in 1622.

MASSASOIT ^ the chief of the Wampanoag Indians. A peace treaty was signed and not broken by either side.

The FIRST THANKSGIVING ^ The winter was very difficult. Half of the Pilgrims died. But the harvest in 1621 was bountiful.The Pilgrims had their first Thanksgiving feast. They had Indian corn. Four Pilgrims hunted wild turkeys. Fishermen caught cod and bass. The Pilgrims invited Massasoit, who came with 90 Indians. Indian hunters brought five deer. The feast lasted three days.

Read the full story here:
http://eleaston.com/thanks-history.html

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Guyana

kigo for the wet season

In Guyana we are getting now celebrating Thanksgiving(US holiday) every year especially in the city of Georgetown. Maybe because everyone here probably has a close relative now in USA especially in New York.

opening flowers
in the early sun
thanksgiving

tree shades
by the wayside
thanksgiving

resurrection
of the burnt out store
thanksgiving

Kenneth Daniels
(Guyana, 2009)

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Haibun

In 1620 a band of Puritan Pilgrim families sailed aboard the Mayflower from England to the New World. In that harsh New England Winter nearly half of their number perished. The following year, with the help of the Native American Indians, their homes were strong and harvest bountiful, they would survive. With this new hope no ordinary harvest feast but a festival was held. Now every year, the last Thursday of November, we celebrate with parades and football games, we gather our families together and have a Thanksgiving Day feast. We say prayers and count ourselves blessed for the roof over our heads, the pantry stocked, the table filled with food and surrounded with love.

slowly looking
around the table
Thanksgiving Day
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Thanksgiving Day parade
the New York cold
on TV

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Children's Poem for Thanksgiving
Author unknown

For all the grandmas in the world
For all the grandpas too
For Mommy and my Daddy
For happy things to do
For food to eat and friends too love
Dear God I want to say
That I am very thankful
On this Thanksgiving Day

Michael Baribeau

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HAIKU

Thanksgiving --
all my favorite colors
in the sunset

Cindy

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Thanksgiving Day-
watching football
out the window

Michael Baribeau


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***** Roasted Turkey



Roasting a bird unstuffed is faster. If you like stuffing but want to spend less time in the kitchen, bake it alongside the turkey instead of inside it.
Don't let low holiday prices seduce you into buying the biggest turkey you can find. Smaller birds thaw faster, cook faster, are more succulent, and far easier to handle. If you're eager for leftovers, buy two and roast the second while you eat your holiday meal.

More recipies are here:
http://www.outofthefryingpan.com/recipes/turkey.roasted.shtml

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All the stats you'd ever want to know on
turkeys, cranberries, sweetpotatoes, pumpkin pie, stuffing, mashed potatoes, football games, and clogged drain pipes.
Thanksgiving by the Numbers
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1123/p20s01-ussc.html
gK, November 2005


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Thanksgiving baking
The recipe book dusted
With last year's flour.

Happy Haiku Forum, butterflypsyche


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Thanksgiving-
a presidential pardon
lets the turkey roam free

Angelee Deodhar
2013

In modern times the President of the United States, in addition to issuing a proclamation, will "pardon" a turkey, which spares the bird's life and ensures that it will spend the duration of its life roaming freely on farmland.
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turkey 七面鳥 shichimenchoo
Meleagris gallopavo

animal topic for all seasons




Smoke and fog mingle-
the wild turkeys run to me
hungry for some grain

Lisette Root
Happy Haiku Forum, January 2011


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looking past
an Angelina Jolie face --
Princess Turkey

Chen-ou Liu, Canada

Note
Princess Turkey is a delicious North American Chinese dish made up of turkey mince with mushrooms and bamboo shoots, sometimes ham included.

Kigo Hotline, January 2011


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. "mountain turkey", yama shichimenchoo
山七面鳥（やましちめんちょう） 　
another name for
wild goose, nogan 野雁（のがん）

animal kigo for late autumn


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Canadian Thanksgiving

Harvest Thanksgiving (Christian communities) Harvest Festival,


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Tamarack tree, Larch (karamatsu)

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Tamarack tree (karamatsu)

***** Location: Japan, North America, other countries
***** Season: Late Autumn
***** Category: Plant

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Explanation

Karamatsu 唐松 literally the "Pine from China"

Larix kaempferi (Lambert) Carriere
(Larix leptolepis (Sieb. et Zucc) Gordon, Pinetum)

Hackmatack
The American larch (Larix Americana), a coniferous tree with slender deciduous leaves; also, its heavy, close-grained timber. Called also tamarack.





The tamarack tree
is a member of the pine family. It usually attains a height of between 30 and 50 feet high but in favorable conditionscan reach a height of 90 feet. The slender branches droop in long sweeps or grow horizontal. Bark on the younger trees is quite smooth and on older ones rough. Its twigs are slender also with smooth bark and terra cotta to tan in color. The needles of the tamarack are pale, bright blue green, 3/4 to 1 inch long, triangular, soft, deciduous, and cluster. They turn ocher yellow in the autumn. The tree flowers in March and April. It has very small cones less than an inch long and light chestnut brown. They remain on the tree throughout the winter when the seeds are dropped.
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The tamarack tree has a strong history with Native peoples since its dried, hardened wood was ideal for making shelters, tools, and other instruments. The Cree even used the inner bark to help stop bleeding, treat hemorrhoids, earaches, inflamed eyes, jaundice, colic, and melancholy. The scene in the photograph is believed to have been an ancient resting area for hunters in the spring and summer.
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/nilhinimuk/tamarack.htm


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.. .. .. Tamarack tree spirit and energy



When you come into our energies and notice just how beautiful our energies are, you forget that your energy holds the same beauty. Your energy is just as clear, just as full of joy and quiet bliss as ours. Yours is as full of wisdom, as full of knowledge, as full of strength as ours. As you feel the sweet, quiet, happy energy that we are, you tune into an aspect of tree consciousness. You would be unable, however, to notice this, if you did not have these same essential qualities in your own energy field. There is no separation.

Thinks of this, then, when you sit in Nature. It is a reflection not only of the innocent and pure energies around you but the resonating energies of your own. We are Tamarack.
source :　people.tribe.net


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Germany

Lärche, Latin: Family of Larix.

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North America



Native Corniferes
LARCH AND TAMARACK (LARIX)

About a dozen species are members of the genus Larix, although there is a great deal of disagreement about species limits in the Old World. Three species are found in North America, the widespread Tamarack (Larix laricina) occurring throughout the northern boreal forests and the woods northern and eastern United States and Canada. The two other species have much more restricted ranges in the Pacific Northwest. The genus is also found in the northern and montane regions of Europe and Asia
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Karamatsu Shrine, Karamatsu Jinja 唐松神社



Karamatsu Shrine has one is one of the most famous shrines in Akita Prefecture and stretches back over 1000 years, the original priest of the shrine is said to be a descendant of a god. The beautiful rows of cedar trees lining the path to Karamatsu Shrine are over 300 years old and are said to have been planted by the Satake feudal clan in 1680.

In the Edo Period, Princess Hisashi of the Satake feudal clan was suffering during child birth, and is recorded that she visited Karamatsu Shrine.
“I heard that the God of Childbirth resides in Karamatsu Shrine in Senboku. I prayed for a safe childbirth and for the God to alleviate my pain,” the Princess said.
At the exact moment the servants prayed for a safe childbirth, the Princess safely delivered a baby boy.

The Satake feudal lord gave Karamatsu Shrine a wooden snake mask in gratitude for the safe delivery of the Princess’ child, and it is said that at this moment the snake whirled around – a sign that the God was pleased.
The mask is still displayed today, and has been designated as a ‘Prefectural Important Cultural Asset’.
Karamatsu Shrine is still a site of pilgrimage and people come from all over Japan to pray for a safe childbirth.

©　www.city.daisen.akita.jp 秋田県大仙市

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Karamatsu Kannon 唐松観音
Karamatsu Temple to the Goddess of Mercy



Coming over Sasaya Pass from Sendai to Yamagata, there is a vermillion temple building clinging to a cliff on the right overlooking the Mamigasaki-gawa (Mamigasaki River).
Karamatsu Kannon is number five of the sacred Thirty-Three Mogami Kannon Pilgrim Temples. It is said to be patterned after the platform style of Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto, and to have been constructed around eleven hundred years ago.
©　murayama-r/yamagata

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Ceiling of the main hall



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soft golden tamracks
patchworked with deep green spruce trees
hillsides like old quilts

Tamaracks are the only "evergreen" that changes in autumn. Then eedles turn an old gold color, looking quite a bit like feathers. A beautiful sight among bare trees.
Bob Hunt
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/happyhaiku/

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golden afternoon --
the chickadee scatters
tamarack needles

Cindy Zackowitz

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the mutt
tamarack needles
on his tail

Geert Verbeke

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Page with Japanese Haiku about the Larch
www3.ocn.ne.jp/~shoonen/ichikawaseiji23

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唐松や　神社もあれば　観音も
karamatsu ya jinja mo areba kannon mo

tamarack trees -
there is a shrine and
a Kannon temple

Gabi Greve, October 2007

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***** Spruce tree, Fichte

Spruce (etymologically from an obsolete term for Prussia) refers to trees of the genus Picea, a genus of about 35 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the Family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal (taiga) regions of the earth.
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Two seasons could qualify as KIGO:

(1) the spring, when spruce trees have gorgeous, light green and soft growth, putting out fast-growing extensions to the previous year's branches,

(2) the winter, when so many of them serve as Christmas trees.

Spruce trees are the bread and butter of most Northern European forests -- perhaps 80 percent or more in Ireland, at least the same proportion in the Scandinavian countries, and a fair chunk of the German forests (the famous "deutsche Wald") too.

Most of the European paper industry is supplied by spruce trees too (nowadays in conjunction with recycled paper).

Isabelle Prondzynski

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logging road
the smell of cut spruce
in the air

bob



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Swing (buranko)

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Swing (buranko, Japan)

***** Location: Japan, Germany, other countries
***** Season: All Spring
***** Category: Humanity

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Explanation

Other words and Chinese characeres used are

buranko ぶらんこ, shuusen　鞦韆 秋韆、
burakoko ぶらここ、burando　ぶらんど、
yusahari　ゆさはり、hanzengi　半仙戯

The swing is of course used all year round in kindergardens and other places in and outside of Japan in our modern times.



source :　tomotubby
Korean Ladies on a Swing 金俊根「端午鞦韆」


To understand why this is a kigo for spring,
we have to go way back to ancient China. To end the hard winter times and induce the gods to grant a good harvest, the ladies of the court would sit on the swing in colorful robes and enjoy themselves in a rather sensual play. Old Chinese poets like Su Dong-po have already written about this custom. It has been introduced to the Japanese court life together with other things Chinese during olden times.
The older Japanese word "yusahari" later changed to the Portugese version of "Balanco", pronounced "buranko" by the Japanese.

There is even a haiku group which calls itself "Yusahari Kukai" in Narita, Japan.



http://japan.milan.jp/~pnypopo/


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Belgium

In Flanders: schommel, ren, juttekoko, balansiere.
Geert Verbeke

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China

A spring evening–one priceless moment.
The smell of fresh flowers and the glow of the moon.
Sweet song drifts down from the balcony–beautiful.
The garden swing hangs motionless as evening drips away.

Su Dongpo, Su Dungpo (Su Shi)
So Shoku そしょく【蘇軾】(1036 - 1101)



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Germany
Schaukel, Gartenschaukel

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Yusahari Kukai.
Founded by Mitsuhashi Takajo in Narita.
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ぶらここや花を洩れ来る笑ひ声
burakoko ya hana o morekuru waraigoe

this swing -
through the blossoms I hear
laughing voices

. Miyake Shozan 三宅嘯山 Miyake Shoozan .

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廃校のふらここに来る山の猿
haikoo no furakoko ni kuru yama no saru

a monkey from the mountain
comes to the swing
of the closed school

Obara Takuyo 小原啄葉 (Ohara Takuyo)


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ぶらんこの　足裏を天に　返すかな
buranko no ashiura ten ni kaesu kana

on the swing
the back of the feet toward the sky
like a summersault

Kaneko
http://www.mypress.jp/v2_writers/kaneko/story/?story_id=352689


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ぶらんこの鎖垂直二本づつ　　
buranko no kusari suichoku nihon zutsu

the chains of the swing
perpendicular
two at each side

Tsuya-n つーやん
http://www003.upp.so-net.ne.jp/ni-nin/lounge-08.html

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Die Schaukel
im Apfelbaum - ringsum
Fallobst.

swing
in the apple tree - all around
fallen fruit

Volker Friebel
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WHCgerman/message/814

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Schneeschmelze.
Aus dem Baumhaus
hängt eine Schaukel.

snow melting.
from the treehouse
a swing

Volker Friebel
http://www.haiku-heute.de/Archiv/Auswahl-2004-03/body_auswahl-2004-03.html

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after midnight
the crunching of chaines
a cat on the swing

on the swing
mother and daughter
in colorful robes

Geert Verbeke

Read more of Geert's haiku about the swing
http://happyhaiku.blogspot.com/2004/01/friends-geert-verbeke.html


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empty swing---
hornets cast shadows
over the playground

robert wilson


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up and down, up
and down, with the cedar swing
a little spider

上下へ杉と揺れてる小蜘蛛　かな
ue shite e sugi to yureteru ko-gumo kana
(Tr. Nakamura Sakuo)

© Debi Bender, 2000
http://www.paperlanterns.net/

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rest home yard
a garden swing
creaks

- Shared by Stella Pierides -
Joys of Japan, 2012


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train whistle!
the bare-butted boy drops
from a tire swing

- Shared by John Wisdom -
Joys of Japan, September 2012



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a little fun
before he melts away -
Daruma on a swing

Gabi Greve

. WKD : Snowman (yukidaruma　雪だるま) .


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Swallow (tsubame) - Lark (hibari)

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Swallow (tsubame)


***** Location: Japan, other countries
***** Season: Various, see below
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. hatsu hibari 初雲雀 first lark .
and more kigo with the LARK, skylark, hibari
Japanese skylark, fam, Alaudidae


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tsubame　ツバメ（つばめ） 燕　　swallow、martin
fam. Passeriformes


... ... ... Kigo for SPRING

barn swallow, tsubame 燕, 乙鳥, 玄鳥, 天女
..... tsubakurame つばくらめ
..... tsubakuro つばくろ / tusbakura 乙鳥（つばくら)
Hirundo rustica

swallows in flight, hi-en, hi en 飛燕

first swallow of the season, hatsu tsubame 初燕


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... ... ... Kigo for SUMMER


tsubame no su 燕の巣 (つばめのす) nest of the swallow
..... sutsubame 巣燕（すつばめ）
Schwalbennest


swallow babies, tsubame no ko 燕の子 (つばめのこ)
baby swallow, kotsubame 子燕（こつばめ）
parent swallow, oya tsubame親燕（おやつばめ）

Summer swallow, natsu tsubame 夏燕 (なつつばめ)
..... natsu no tsubame 夏の燕（なつのつばめ）

Swallow in the rain, ame tsubame 雨燕 (あまつばめ)
..... hari-o ame tsubame 針尾雨燕（はりおあまつばめ）


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... ... ... Kigo for AUTUMN

migrating swallows, ki-en, ki en 帰燕
departing swallows, inu tsubame 去ぬ燕, いぬつばめ
swallows going back to the south, tsubame kaeru 燕帰る
remaining swallows, nokoru tsubame 残る燕

swallows of autumn, autumn swallows, shuu-en, shuu en 秋燕


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... ... ... Kigo for WINTER

swallow on its way, tooshi tubame 通し燕 (とおしつばめ)
"swallow over winter" ettoo tsubame 越冬燕（えっとうつばめ）
"swallow over the new year" otsunen tsubame
越年燕（おつねんつばめ）
"swallow left behind" nokori tsubame
残り燕（のこりつばめ）


If they build a nest under the eaves of a farmhouse in the spring, the family will be blessed throughout the year (and not only with the excrements, but with good luck …)

Gabi Greve

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.. .. .. .. .. .. .. The Barn Swallow


The popular and attractive Barn Swallow, found worldwide, is the most widespread of the swallows. In the western hemisphere, it winters in South America, but migrates northward to breed over most of North America. A round trip may cover 14,000 miles. They prefer open country, and readily nest on man-made structures. They perform an important economic function as they cruise low over lawns, fields, lakes, and ponds, consuming large numbers of flies, aphids, beetles, bees, moths, mayflies, dragonflies, grasshoppers, caterpillars and other insects.

Historically, Barn Swallow populations have suffered from competition with House Sparrows. The use of pesticides and the resulting reduction of insects has also contributed to their decline. Unusually cold weather during the nesting season also reduces the availability of insects and may lead to starvation of young and adults. Fortunately, Barn Swallows readily adapt to man's artificial structures. Their populations are doing well in many regions, but in some regions declines are still occurring.

Read a lot more interesting information about this animal
http://www.wbu.com/chipperwoods/photos/barnswallow.htm

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Europead Bird's Guide about the Swallow

Swallows are the very epitome of summer.
In Britain they are distributed throughout the whole country.

In Europe swallows breed northwards as far as the Arctic Circle. During spring successive waves leapfrog northwards over each other. In fact pioneers in southern Europe will have reared first broods to the flying stage before the last migrants pass through to reach the most northerly breeding areas in early June.

Flying, the swallow is most graceful. Its effortless twisting and turning in search of food is a delight to watch. The ceaseless flight is occasionally interrupted by a brief stall to intercept an insect which has nearly — but not quite — passed. The long tail is used to good effect to accomplish the intricate manoeuvre.

The swallow's close relation, the house martin, usually feeds at a considerably greater height than the swallow, as does the swift. In fact only during cool, wet or windy conditions will all the hirundines and the swift be found feeding together low over a broad or in the lee of woodland from which insects may be blown or where food may be sheltering.
http://www.birdsofbritain.co.uk/bird-guide/swallow.htm

The swallow is a beneficial bird that is found almost worldwide. There are many varieties of swallows, and they have interesting nesting and feeding habits.
The silhouette of a swallow is unmistakeable with its sharply pointed, angled wings and forked tail. They are often seen darting swiftly across the sky, catching insects in midair. According to the book "Peterson First Guides: Birds", written by Roger Tory Peterson and published in 1986 by Houghton Mifflin Company, there are seventy-five types of swallows worldwide. Eight of the seventy-five species can be found in Canada and the United States. The same article says five additional species are considered strays.
Read more:
http://arar.essortment.com/birdsswallows_rkfy.htm

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England

Last week in the south of England, another look at the swallows in transit, the "local" swallows having already left. Swallows are definitely (for me at least) a kigo for the European spring (arrival) and the European autumn (departure).

Dewy grey morning,
swallows whirling and feeding --
-- passing in transit.

Isabelle Prondzynski
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Kenya

But of course, their disappearance from Europe brings about their re-appearance in Africa. I have seen them in the highlands of Kenya, far from Nairobi, enjoying themselves, living it up during the European winter months. My mother (in Ireland) wonders what the people must think about such birds, which turn up and make merry, then disappear for many months of the year...

Schwalbe, in Kenya
baust du kein Nest, tanzt du nur --
was meint man von dir?

Swallow, in Kenya,
you build no nest, only dance --
then, you fly away...

Isabelle Prondzynski
Autumn 2004

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Oscar Wilde's lovely story "The Happy Prince"
One of the two principal characters of the story is the little swallow, late for its return to Egypt for the winter. It takes only about 20 minutes to read.
Highly recommended by Isabelle Prondzynski!
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/902

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Swallows and their Problems with the Human
FLYING IN THE FACE OF HYPOCRISY
Educative Article by C.W. NICOL, 2005
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Willow and Swallow pattern in Chinese Art

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In Chinese art it is customary to show birds in the environment in which they belong: a particular bird is invariably drawn with a particular flower or tree...
Thus the combination in a landscape of the swallows that feed over streams and ponds and the willows that grow along their margins would be natural.

Every Chinese family welcomes the swallow, since it is thought to be very lucky to have a pair of these birds build a nest near a house. The swallows are usually shown in pairs, for according to the Chinese that is the "nature" of the bird.

"Two flying swallows" is a phrase symbolic of a happily married couple, and swallows have come to be emblematic of marital constancy and good luck. A good omen, the swallow appears in some of the earliest myths and legends as a symbol of fertility. It is also associated with marriage and birth rites, the longevity cult, and appears in the Chinese materia medica.

The willow is one of the most popular trees in China and is seen everywhere, clustered about houses in towns and villages or along the banks of streams and ponds. Valued for its usefulness as well as its attractiveness, the willow typifies pliancy and softness. It has special meanings for the Chinese in connection with feminine traits and attributes : a slender waist is "willowy"; arched eyebrows are "like a willow leaf."

The association of swallow and willow is a traditional one among the Chinese and has particular significance for them. A favorite subject in art and poetry, the combination of swallows and willows signifies spring. The double motif also implies the change of seasons from spring to summer, and thus alludes to the passage of time in human affairs. Together, the graceful flight of the swallow and the delicate sweep of willow branches suggest beauty and elegance. Another meaning attributed to this combination is companionship.
The swallow is gregarious and friendly, and the willow growing in the courtyard of the house seems like a close companion.
Also, in the earliest Chinese literature the swallow is used with meanings of ease and comfort; the willow with restful, tranquil feelings, shade, and an invitation to rest.'
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. Kamitsubame, kami tsubame 紙つばめ paper lark .
amulet at temple Jako-In at Inuyama 寂光院 犬山

. Amulets and Talismans from Japan .　



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naku hibari 啼く雲雀 the voice of the skylark
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© Photo by Gabi Greve, In my Home in Japan

yuu-tsubame ware ni wa asu no ate wa naki

evening swallows--
no hope for tomorrow
for me

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baby swallows in the nest--
eyes glued
on the evening sky



. WKD : Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 in Edo .

Three more haiku about the swallow by Issa
http://haikuguy.com/issa/advancedsearch.html

© Haiga by Nakamura Sakuo
http://blog.livedoor.jp/sakuo3903/


Another haiku by Issa

いつの間に乙鳥は皆巣立けり
itsu no ma ni tsubakura wa mina su-dachi keri

when did they go?
all the swallows' nests
empty


乙鳥の泥口ぬぐふぼたん哉
tsubakura no doro-guchi nuguu botan kana

the swallow wipes
his muddy mouth...
on the peony
Tr. David Lanoue



乙鳥（つばくら）や人の物いふ上になく
tsubakura ya hito no mono iuu ue ni naku


乙鳥（つばくら）tsubakura, in the dictionary is also read itchoo いっ‐ちょう, otchoo おっ‐ちょう.

tsubame can be written with four different Chinese characters :
燕, 乙鳥, 玄鳥, 天女

They all can give a haiku a slightly different meaning.

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swallow in flight
swooping to take the fly
ripple on the pond

Degasian
http://haiku.cc.ehime-u.ac.jp/~shiki/shiki.archive/html/9908/0610.html

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© By Origa, Olga Hooper

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hatsu-tsubame ... ... 初燕
yane no kazari ni ... ... 屋根の飾りに
nari ni keri ... ... なりにけり

first swallows -
my roof turned canvas
for modern art

Read the full story with photos by Gabi Greve here
My First Swallow !

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> > a straight hit
> > on a bald head -
> > swallow in passing


© Haiga by Nakamura Sakuo

ein Volltreffer
auf die Glatze -
Schwalbe im Durchflug

© Haiku by Gabi Greve


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Surfing, Surfer

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Surfing, Surfer

***** Location: Hawaii
***** Season: Winter
***** Category: Humanity

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Explanation

Surfing in Hawaii, there is not much to explain.



Surfing Hawaii: Your Guide to the Surf!

Surf Guide Hawaii is your online source for hawaiian surf break information and knowledge, created by locals. Hawaiian waves and information for beginners and experts alike!
http://www.surfguidehawaii.com/

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Things found on the way


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HAIKU

on the mountain..
old surfer
with pockets full of sand

Shanna Moore

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Read about a Haiku Competition on Surfing Haiku:
All you had to do is write a Haiku poem about surfing.

The winning Haiku was written by a ten year old girl whose brother is a mad keen Taj Burrow fan. He convinced the whole family to enter and his little sister won the prize.

This is Eliza Shaw's winning haiku

feeling the deepness
of the wave you are riding
the spray in your eyes
http://www.abc.net.au/perth/stories/s1553220.htm

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***** World Kigo Database: Hawaii

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