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Quince (boke, karin)
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Quince (boke - mokkoo, mokkou)
***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Various, see below
***** Category: Plant
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Explanation
kigo for late spring
boke no hana 木瓜の花 (ぼけのはな) quince blossoms
..... hanaboke 花木瓜（はなぼけ）
hiboke 緋木瓜（ひぼけ）
shiroboke 白木瓜（しろぼけ）
sasaraboke 更紗木瓜（さらさぼけ）
shokuboke 蜀木瓜（しょくぼけ）
Kanton boke 広東木瓜（カントンぼけ）quince from Kanton
kootenboke 後天木瓜（こうてんぼけ）
karaboke 唐木瓜（からぼけ）"quince from Tang China"
shidomi no hana 樝子の花 (しどみのはな)
kusaboke 草木瓜（くさぼけ）
Chaenomeles japonica. Japanese quince
japanische Quitte, Scheinquitte
karin no hana 榠樝の花 かりんのはな Japanese quince blossoms
karaboke no hana からぼけの花（からぼけのはな）
seiyoo karin 西洋榠樝（せいようかりん）、medoraa メドラー
Pseudocydonia sinensis. chinesische Quitte
for various types of quince fruit kigo, see below
The flower of the quince comes out before the leaves appear, covering the branches with thick red (hiboke ヒボケ緋木瓜）, white (shiroboke シロボケ白木瓜） or a mix of white and red (sarasaboke サラサボケ、更紗木瓜） flowers.
Some flowers bloom long in spring, others in winter:
kanboke 寒木瓜 かんぼけ) quince in the cold fuyuboke, fuyu boke 冬木瓜（ふゆぼけ）quince in winter
kigo for late winter
In my garden, they flower during snowy periods of early sping too.
The plant came to Japan during the Heian period. The fruit smelles nice and was use to perfume a room in autumn and winter.
The flower is enjoyed as a symbol of enduring hardships in life and coping with difficult circumstances.
Gabi Greve
Japanese Quince in Snow
http://www.kconline.com/tg/uraniwa/Chaenomeles.html
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Japanese Links with nice pictures.
Winter Quince
http://www.hana300.com/aaooboke001.html
Red Quince in Spring
http://www.hana300.com/aaooboke00.html
http://www.hana300.com/boke001.html
http://www.hana300.com/boke00.html
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The Flowering Quince (Chaenomeles)
is a quite a spectacular plant in any form - and when used as bonsai material, is even more spectacular. In late winter, when most deciduous plants are still bare and lifeless, Quince are valued for their display of red, pink or white flowers on a tangle of bare branches.
Originating in China, Japan and Korea, they are fully frost hardy and adapt to a wide range of garden conditions. The tough, springy branches are often thorny on vigorous shoots; the leaves are simple and finely toothed. The flowers appear in stalkless clusters on the previous year's wood, followed in summer usually by yellow-green fruits with waxy, strongly perfumed skins - although this does depend on species.
http://www.bonsaisite.com/quince.html
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In cultivation for over 4000 years, this tree has an interesting history. It apparently was native to Turkey and northern Persia - modern day Iran. This was especially popular in Greece and Italy. It became naturalized in the Mediterranean region.
Revered by the ancients, this was reportedly the golden apple that Paris bestowed upon Aphrodite. This was known to the Greeks as Cydonian apples, named after a city in Crete. Under the Romans, the fruits were introduced throughout the empire. This was one of Charlemagne's favorite plants, and he recommended that others grow it. The Normans introduced quince to the British Isles.
Among the earliest tree fruits to be planted in the New World, it was common in backyard orchards during the Colonial era. Thomas Jefferson grew them at Monticello.
Here's a poem by Li Ch'ing Chao, a Chinese poet from the 11th century:
Last night in the light rain as rough winds blew,
My drunken sleep left me no merrier.
I question one that raised the curtain, who
Replies: 'The wild quince trees - are as they were.
But no, but no!
Their rose is waning and their green leaves grow.
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/fruit_garden/110055
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Worldwide use
North America
Quince, shrub or small tree of the Asian genera Chaenomeles and Cydonia of the family Rosaceae (rose family).
The common quince (Cydonia oblonga) is a spineless tree with edible fruits cultivated from ancient times in Asia and in the Mediterranean area, where it was early naturalized. Its pome fruit is similar to that of the related apple and pear but is very astringent, and hence it is used chiefly cooked in preserves; marmalade is said to have first been made from quince. As a commercial fruit tree, the quince is cultivated more widely in the temperate zone of Europe than in the United States, where it is grown chiefly in California and New York.
It is often used as a rootstock for dwarf fruit trees, especially the pear. The flowering quinces (genus Chaenomeles) are cultivated as ornamental shrubs for their profuse, usually thorny branches and attractive scarlet, pink, or white flowers. The fruit is too small and hard to be of commercial value but is sometimes used locally. Best known of this genus is C. lagenaria, the Japanese quince, or japonica. Some other Asian shrubs (e.g., a camellia) are also called japonica. Quince is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Rosales, family Rosaceae.
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0840821.html
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Yemen
quince flower (blossom)
kigo for spring
after the "little wet season"
through the window
a lizard flees,
chased by quince blossoms
the wind
has knocked down a lot -
shards and quince flowers
Der Wind
hat mir viel umgestoßen -
Scherben und Quitteblüten
. . . . .
quince fruit
kigo for summer
drizzle
on rocky plains -
quince apples
moonlit quince
grandma turns
ninety
Heike Gewi, Yemen
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Holy Quran, Ahadith and Islamic literature
Holy Quran, Ahadith and Islamic literature. The plant species are:
Citrullus lanatus, Cucumis sativus.,
Cydonia oblonga
Ficus carica, Olea europea, Phoenix
dactylifera, Punica granatum, Salvadora persica,
Vitis vinifera and Zizyphus mauritiana
Cydonia oblonga Mill.
English Name: Quince
Local Name: Bahi
Arabic Name: Safarjal
Family: Rosaceae
Habit & Habitat: Small tree (shrub) found in dry rocky places, foothills and cultivated on the plains.
Medicinal uses: Heart diseases, diarrhea, said, endocarditis, pericarditis, dysentery
References from Ahadith (the sayings)
- Hazrat Talha bin Ubaid Ullah (R.A) narrated that Rasullullah (Sallallaho Alayhi Wasallam) said:
This Olea europea L. (Quince) makes the heart strengthen, makes the breath pleasant and relieves (removes) the burden of the chest [8].
- Hazrat Jabir bin Abdullah (R.A) narrated that Rasullullah (Sallallaho Alayhi Wasallam) said, “Eat the Quince (Safarjal) because it cures the heart attack and relieves(removes) the burden of the chest” [8].
- Hazrat Anus bin Malik (R.A) narrated that Rasullullah (Sallallaho Alayhi Wasallam) said: the
burden of the heart is removed by eating of the Quince [8].
- The Holy Prophet (Sallallaho Alayhi Wasallam) said,
"Eat quince, for it sweetens the heart. For Allah has sent no prophet as His messenger without feeding him on the quince of Paradise [8].
- Rasullullah (Sallallaho Alayhi Wasallam) said, “Feed your pregnant women on quince, for it cures the diseases of the heart and makes the babies handsome."[8].
source : idosi.org
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mokkoogata, mokko no katachi 木瓜形 mokko-shaped, four heart-shaped lobes (pottery, Tsuba . . .)
mokko mon 木瓜紋 Mokko crest
CLICK for more photos !
- quote -
mokkou 木瓜 -
Also mokkougata 木瓜形, mokkoo kamon か文.
A decorative pattern shaped like a flower with an oval center and four petals.
It originated in Tang dynasty as a motif on courtiers' clothes and was very popular in the Heian period in Japan for decorating clothing, furniture, and household utensils.
A simplified mokkou pattern is used on carved ballustrades *mokkougata ranma 木瓜形欄間.
mokkoubishi 木瓜菱 mokkou diamonds
A design pattern of interlocking diamond shapes incorporating the indented oval motif known as mokkou 木瓜.
mokkou nijuubishi 木瓜二重菱 mokkou double diamonds
(mokko nijubishi)
mokkouuzu 木瓜渦 mokko uzu - swirling mokko
A decorative pattern incorporating a swirling indented oval mokkou 木瓜
- source : JAANUS -
mokkoo mado 木瓜窓 Mokko-shaped window
"quince window"
- - - - - - - - - -
mokko pattern
mokkoo tsuba 木瓜鍔 Mokko sword guard
. TSUBA, the sword guard - Introduction .
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Things found on the way
Quince Jelly Pages
http://cres.anu.edu.au/~mccomas/quince.html
More recipies for Autumn
http://www.foodlovers.co.nz/features/quince.php
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HAIKU
abandoned web
captures one more-
flowering quince
Kate Steere
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
quince in full bloom -
I just love the smell
of that Siamese tomcat
木瓜満開..シャム君の匂い..タマラネエ
boke mankai
Shamu-kun no nioi
tamaraneeee
O-Tsu musing about her lover boy ...
Gabi Greve
Cats in Paradise
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
a quince blossom
on the inside of the roof
open your window
Geert Verbeke, the Haiku Gallery
http://home.alc.co.jp/db/owa/PH_detail?photo_sn_in=1416
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Haiku abou the Quince in the Shiki Archives
http://haiku.cc.ehime-u.ac.jp/~shiki/shiki.archive/html/9801/0483.html
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Related words
***** kigo for late autumn
Quince Fruit 木瓜の実 (ぼけのみ) boke no mi
shidomi no mi 摣子の実 (しどみのみ)
kusaboke no mi 草木瓜の実（くさぼけのみ）
jinashi 地梨（じなし）、noboke のぼけ
. . . . . and
marumero 榲桲 (まるめろ) Marumero quince
marumeia まるめいら、onime おにめ、kooen 香円（こうえん）
Cydonia oblonga
. . . . . and
karin no mi 榠樝の実 (かりんのみ) fruit of Chinese quince
Chaenomeles sinensis Koehne. Pseudocydonia sinensis
..... karin no mi 花梨の実（かりんのみ）
karanashi 唐梨（からなし）(lit. Chinese nashi)
kiboke きぼけ、kaidoo boke 海棠木瓜（かいどうぼけ）
anranju あんらん樹（あんらんじゅ）
Chinesische Quitte
smell of autumn -
last night my mother brought
some quince
Alex Serban, Romania
.................................................................................
Quince Jelly
Gutui in Romania. Quittengelee
sun’s ambassadors
for cold days yet to come
the yellow quinces
nostalgic pastime:
learning to make quince pell-mell
under Grannie’s eyes
watched by the quince
in the window, while trying
to write a haibun
Cristian Mocanu
Read the full explanation here:
Romanian Saijiki
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Quince (boke - mokkoo, mokkou)
***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Various, see below
***** Category: Plant
*****************************
Explanation
kigo for late spring
boke no hana 木瓜の花 (ぼけのはな) quince blossoms
..... hanaboke 花木瓜（はなぼけ）
hiboke 緋木瓜（ひぼけ）
shiroboke 白木瓜（しろぼけ）
sasaraboke 更紗木瓜（さらさぼけ）
shokuboke 蜀木瓜（しょくぼけ）
Kanton boke 広東木瓜（カントンぼけ）quince from Kanton
kootenboke 後天木瓜（こうてんぼけ）
karaboke 唐木瓜（からぼけ）"quince from Tang China"
shidomi no hana 樝子の花 (しどみのはな)
kusaboke 草木瓜（くさぼけ）
Chaenomeles japonica. Japanese quince
japanische Quitte, Scheinquitte
karin no hana 榠樝の花 かりんのはな Japanese quince blossoms
karaboke no hana からぼけの花（からぼけのはな）
seiyoo karin 西洋榠樝（せいようかりん）、medoraa メドラー
Pseudocydonia sinensis. chinesische Quitte
for various types of quince fruit kigo, see below
The flower of the quince comes out before the leaves appear, covering the branches with thick red (hiboke ヒボケ緋木瓜）, white (shiroboke シロボケ白木瓜） or a mix of white and red (sarasaboke サラサボケ、更紗木瓜） flowers.
Some flowers bloom long in spring, others in winter:
kanboke 寒木瓜 かんぼけ) quince in the cold fuyuboke, fuyu boke 冬木瓜（ふゆぼけ）quince in winter
kigo for late winter
In my garden, they flower during snowy periods of early sping too.
The plant came to Japan during the Heian period. The fruit smelles nice and was use to perfume a room in autumn and winter.
The flower is enjoyed as a symbol of enduring hardships in life and coping with difficult circumstances.
Gabi Greve
Japanese Quince in Snow
http://www.kconline.com/tg/uraniwa/Chaenomeles.html
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Japanese Links with nice pictures.
Winter Quince
http://www.hana300.com/aaooboke001.html
Red Quince in Spring
http://www.hana300.com/aaooboke00.html
http://www.hana300.com/boke001.html
http://www.hana300.com/boke00.html
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The Flowering Quince (Chaenomeles)
is a quite a spectacular plant in any form - and when used as bonsai material, is even more spectacular. In late winter, when most deciduous plants are still bare and lifeless, Quince are valued for their display of red, pink or white flowers on a tangle of bare branches.
Originating in China, Japan and Korea, they are fully frost hardy and adapt to a wide range of garden conditions. The tough, springy branches are often thorny on vigorous shoots; the leaves are simple and finely toothed. The flowers appear in stalkless clusters on the previous year's wood, followed in summer usually by yellow-green fruits with waxy, strongly perfumed skins - although this does depend on species.
http://www.bonsaisite.com/quince.html
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In cultivation for over 4000 years, this tree has an interesting history. It apparently was native to Turkey and northern Persia - modern day Iran. This was especially popular in Greece and Italy. It became naturalized in the Mediterranean region.
Revered by the ancients, this was reportedly the golden apple that Paris bestowed upon Aphrodite. This was known to the Greeks as Cydonian apples, named after a city in Crete. Under the Romans, the fruits were introduced throughout the empire. This was one of Charlemagne's favorite plants, and he recommended that others grow it. The Normans introduced quince to the British Isles.
Among the earliest tree fruits to be planted in the New World, it was common in backyard orchards during the Colonial era. Thomas Jefferson grew them at Monticello.
Here's a poem by Li Ch'ing Chao, a Chinese poet from the 11th century:
Last night in the light rain as rough winds blew,
My drunken sleep left me no merrier.
I question one that raised the curtain, who
Replies: 'The wild quince trees - are as they were.
But no, but no!
Their rose is waning and their green leaves grow.
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/fruit_garden/110055
*****************************
Worldwide use
North America
Quince, shrub or small tree of the Asian genera Chaenomeles and Cydonia of the family Rosaceae (rose family).
The common quince (Cydonia oblonga) is a spineless tree with edible fruits cultivated from ancient times in Asia and in the Mediterranean area, where it was early naturalized. Its pome fruit is similar to that of the related apple and pear but is very astringent, and hence it is used chiefly cooked in preserves; marmalade is said to have first been made from quince. As a commercial fruit tree, the quince is cultivated more widely in the temperate zone of Europe than in the United States, where it is grown chiefly in California and New York.
It is often used as a rootstock for dwarf fruit trees, especially the pear. The flowering quinces (genus Chaenomeles) are cultivated as ornamental shrubs for their profuse, usually thorny branches and attractive scarlet, pink, or white flowers. The fruit is too small and hard to be of commercial value but is sometimes used locally. Best known of this genus is C. lagenaria, the Japanese quince, or japonica. Some other Asian shrubs (e.g., a camellia) are also called japonica. Quince is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Rosales, family Rosaceae.
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0840821.html
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Yemen
quince flower (blossom)
kigo for spring
after the "little wet season"
through the window
a lizard flees,
chased by quince blossoms
the wind
has knocked down a lot -
shards and quince flowers
Der Wind
hat mir viel umgestoßen -
Scherben und Quitteblüten
. . . . .
quince fruit
kigo for summer
drizzle
on rocky plains -
quince apples
moonlit quince
grandma turns
ninety
Heike Gewi, Yemen
.................................................................................
Holy Quran, Ahadith and Islamic literature
Holy Quran, Ahadith and Islamic literature. The plant species are:
Citrullus lanatus, Cucumis sativus.,
Cydonia oblonga
Ficus carica, Olea europea, Phoenix
dactylifera, Punica granatum, Salvadora persica,
Vitis vinifera and Zizyphus mauritiana
Cydonia oblonga Mill.
English Name: Quince
Local Name: Bahi
Arabic Name: Safarjal
Family: Rosaceae
Habit & Habitat: Small tree (shrub) found in dry rocky places, foothills and cultivated on the plains.
Medicinal uses: Heart diseases, diarrhea, said, endocarditis, pericarditis, dysentery
References from Ahadith (the sayings)
- Hazrat Talha bin Ubaid Ullah (R.A) narrated that Rasullullah (Sallallaho Alayhi Wasallam) said:
This Olea europea L. (Quince) makes the heart strengthen, makes the breath pleasant and relieves (removes) the burden of the chest [8].
- Hazrat Jabir bin Abdullah (R.A) narrated that Rasullullah (Sallallaho Alayhi Wasallam) said, “Eat the Quince (Safarjal) because it cures the heart attack and relieves(removes) the burden of the chest” [8].
- Hazrat Anus bin Malik (R.A) narrated that Rasullullah (Sallallaho Alayhi Wasallam) said: the
burden of the heart is removed by eating of the Quince [8].
- The Holy Prophet (Sallallaho Alayhi Wasallam) said,
"Eat quince, for it sweetens the heart. For Allah has sent no prophet as His messenger without feeding him on the quince of Paradise [8].
- Rasullullah (Sallallaho Alayhi Wasallam) said, “Feed your pregnant women on quince, for it cures the diseases of the heart and makes the babies handsome."[8].
source : idosi.org
.......................................................................
mokkoogata, mokko no katachi 木瓜形 mokko-shaped, four heart-shaped lobes (pottery, Tsuba . . .)
mokko mon 木瓜紋 Mokko crest
CLICK for more photos !
- quote -
mokkou 木瓜 -
Also mokkougata 木瓜形, mokkoo kamon か文.
A decorative pattern shaped like a flower with an oval center and four petals.
It originated in Tang dynasty as a motif on courtiers' clothes and was very popular in the Heian period in Japan for decorating clothing, furniture, and household utensils.
A simplified mokkou pattern is used on carved ballustrades *mokkougata ranma 木瓜形欄間.
mokkoubishi 木瓜菱 mokkou diamonds
A design pattern of interlocking diamond shapes incorporating the indented oval motif known as mokkou 木瓜.
mokkou nijuubishi 木瓜二重菱 mokkou double diamonds
(mokko nijubishi)
mokkouuzu 木瓜渦 mokko uzu - swirling mokko
A decorative pattern incorporating a swirling indented oval mokkou 木瓜
- source : JAANUS -
mokkoo mado 木瓜窓 Mokko-shaped window
"quince window"
- - - - - - - - - -
mokko pattern
mokkoo tsuba 木瓜鍔 Mokko sword guard
. TSUBA, the sword guard - Introduction .
*****************************
Things found on the way
Quince Jelly Pages
http://cres.anu.edu.au/~mccomas/quince.html
More recipies for Autumn
http://www.foodlovers.co.nz/features/quince.php
*****************************
HAIKU
abandoned web
captures one more-
flowering quince
Kate Steere
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
quince in full bloom -
I just love the smell
of that Siamese tomcat
木瓜満開..シャム君の匂い..タマラネエ
boke mankai
Shamu-kun no nioi
tamaraneeee
O-Tsu musing about her lover boy ...
Gabi Greve
Cats in Paradise
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
a quince blossom
on the inside of the roof
open your window
Geert Verbeke, the Haiku Gallery
http://home.alc.co.jp/db/owa/PH_detail?photo_sn_in=1416
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Haiku abou the Quince in the Shiki Archives
http://haiku.cc.ehime-u.ac.jp/~shiki/shiki.archive/html/9801/0483.html
*****************************
Related words
***** kigo for late autumn
Quince Fruit 木瓜の実 (ぼけのみ) boke no mi
shidomi no mi 摣子の実 (しどみのみ)
kusaboke no mi 草木瓜の実（くさぼけのみ）
jinashi 地梨（じなし）、noboke のぼけ
. . . . . and
marumero 榲桲 (まるめろ) Marumero quince
marumeia まるめいら、onime おにめ、kooen 香円（こうえん）
Cydonia oblonga
. . . . . and
karin no mi 榠樝の実 (かりんのみ) fruit of Chinese quince
Chaenomeles sinensis Koehne. Pseudocydonia sinensis
..... karin no mi 花梨の実（かりんのみ）
karanashi 唐梨（からなし）(lit. Chinese nashi)
kiboke きぼけ、kaidoo boke 海棠木瓜（かいどうぼけ）
anranju あんらん樹（あんらんじゅ）
Chinesische Quitte
smell of autumn -
last night my mother brought
some quince
Alex Serban, Romania
.................................................................................
Quince Jelly
Gutui in Romania. Quittengelee
sun’s ambassadors
for cold days yet to come
the yellow quinces
nostalgic pastime:
learning to make quince pell-mell
under Grannie’s eyes
watched by the quince
in the window, while trying
to write a haibun
Cristian Mocanu
Read the full explanation here:
Romanian Saijiki
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
[ . BACK to DARUMA MUSEUM TOP . ]
[ . BACK to WORLDKIGO . TOP . ]
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5/01/2006
Additions for April 2006
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Water Strider, water boatman, water spider, water horse (amenbo 水馬) Japan
..... also whirligig beetles, mizusumashi 水澄Grave (haka) Japan
Cloud (kumo) Japan
LIST of Non-seasonal Haiku Topics
Target (mato) Japan. Bull's Eye..... Including Bow, Arrow, Archery...... First Arrow, First Archery Competition. Archery on horseback (yabusame).
Earth Day Worldwide
Peacock, Kujaku and Haiku Japan
..... Including Marigold (kujakusoo), fruit flies (kujakubae) and the peacock butterfly (kujakuchoo)
Pheasant (kiji) Japan
Chesapeake Bay, USA
Fortune cookies; "Haikookies", O-Mikuji
God of the Rice Paddies (ta no kami) Japan
Mourning Kenya, worldwide
Patrick Wafula, Kenya
LORNA Haiku Club, Kenya
OAKS Haiku Club, Kenya
PEACOCK Haiku Club, Kenya
SPIDER Haiku Club, Kenya
Long Rains (Kenya)
Lent (Europe)
Mothering Sunday, Laetare (Europe)
... ... SPICES from India
Sesame (til, tila, gingili) India goma, goma no hana (Japan)
Light Charcoal Cherry Blossoms, Usuzumizakura 薄墨桜 Japan
Hail (hyoo) Japan , also arare, snow pellets
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Water Strider, water boatman, water spider, water horse (amenbo 水馬) Japan
..... also whirligig beetles, mizusumashi 水澄Grave (haka) Japan
Cloud (kumo) Japan
LIST of Non-seasonal Haiku Topics
Target (mato) Japan. Bull's Eye..... Including Bow, Arrow, Archery...... First Arrow, First Archery Competition. Archery on horseback (yabusame).
Earth Day Worldwide
Peacock, Kujaku and Haiku Japan
..... Including Marigold (kujakusoo), fruit flies (kujakubae) and the peacock butterfly (kujakuchoo)
Pheasant (kiji) Japan
Chesapeake Bay, USA
Fortune cookies; "Haikookies", O-Mikuji
God of the Rice Paddies (ta no kami) Japan
Mourning Kenya, worldwide
Patrick Wafula, Kenya
LORNA Haiku Club, Kenya
OAKS Haiku Club, Kenya
PEACOCK Haiku Club, Kenya
SPIDER Haiku Club, Kenya
Long Rains (Kenya)
Lent (Europe)
Mothering Sunday, Laetare (Europe)
... ... SPICES from India
Sesame (til, tila, gingili) India goma, goma no hana (Japan)
Light Charcoal Cherry Blossoms, Usuzumizakura 薄墨桜 Japan
Hail (hyoo) Japan , also arare, snow pellets
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4/28/2006
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4/16/2006
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Poacher's Moon, Poachers Moon
***** Location: England
***** Season: Autumn
***** Category: Humanity
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The full moon of November is called the Poacher’s Moon in England because it follows on after the great hunting season in October. The full moon extending into the quiet hours, especially when it coincides with clear skies, affords the poacher ideal conditions to mop up the luckless survivors for the winter game pot.
A poacher is someone who hunts game illegally, usually on other people’s private land. It is a long held tradition of the countryside in England, where poor peasants and agricultural workers supplemented their meat supplies at the expense of their rich neighbours. So this kigo has the flavour of something illicit but, from the poacher’s point of view, not immoral, more a necessary means of survival and provision for family in an unequal and inequitable society.
A larder full of free meet to last the cold winter would often make the difference between starvation and survival for many families. There is an element of class conflict in this and also of good-natured competition in outwitting the gamekeeper. From the Landowner’s point of view it would usually be about law/power enforcement and control of verminous theft. Foxes and poachers are mutual metaphors. Whilst there is some admiration for the wilyness of the fox, Landowners often go to great lengths to protect their exclusive access to the wild game on their property. Whilst ‘poaching’ happens all year around, the ‘Poacher’s moon’ is a specifically autumn/November kigo.
Eryu
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the Gamekeeper’s fire
feathers the cold larder floor
with Poacher’s moonlight
Eryu
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Poacher's Moon, Poachers Moon
***** Location: England
***** Season: Autumn
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Explanation
The full moon of November is called the Poacher’s Moon in England because it follows on after the great hunting season in October. The full moon extending into the quiet hours, especially when it coincides with clear skies, affords the poacher ideal conditions to mop up the luckless survivors for the winter game pot.
A poacher is someone who hunts game illegally, usually on other people’s private land. It is a long held tradition of the countryside in England, where poor peasants and agricultural workers supplemented their meat supplies at the expense of their rich neighbours. So this kigo has the flavour of something illicit but, from the poacher’s point of view, not immoral, more a necessary means of survival and provision for family in an unequal and inequitable society.
A larder full of free meet to last the cold winter would often make the difference between starvation and survival for many families. There is an element of class conflict in this and also of good-natured competition in outwitting the gamekeeper. From the Landowner’s point of view it would usually be about law/power enforcement and control of verminous theft. Foxes and poachers are mutual metaphors. Whilst there is some admiration for the wilyness of the fox, Landowners often go to great lengths to protect their exclusive access to the wild game on their property. Whilst ‘poaching’ happens all year around, the ‘Poacher’s moon’ is a specifically autumn/November kigo.
Eryu
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the Gamekeeper’s fire
feathers the cold larder floor
with Poacher’s moonlight
Eryu
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Pounding rice (mochi tsuki) and rabbit hare
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Pounding rice (mochi tsuki, mochitsuki)
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pounding rice, mochi tsuki (mochitsuki) 餅つき
song for pounding rice, mochi tsuki uta 餅つき歌
having your rice pounded for a fee, chin mochi 賃餅
spreading the pounded rice, noshi mochi 熨斗餅
cutting the spread rice in squares, mochi kiru 餅切る
straw mat to lay the ready dumplings on,
mochi mushiro 餅筵
Pounding rice for small rice dumplings (sometimes translated as "cakes", but they are not sweet at all) is a ubiquious sight all over Japan during the few days before the New Year. It used to be done in a wooden or stone basin with a large wooden mallet, but nowadays many families use an electric appliance, although complaining that the taste is just not the same. The rice dumplings are put in the special soup on the first of January (zooni, see below) and the round rice dumplings are seasonal offerings for the Gods (kagami mochi, see below).
Pounding rice and preparing soup or dumplings and cakes is quite fun and the big local event at our grammar school is a get-together of the whole mountain village community.
People in Edo who could not pound their own mochi used professionals to make
hikizuri mochi 引き摺り餅 with common tools and rice provisions.
source : edococo.exblog.jp
. Doing Business in Edo - 江戸の商売 .
The round mochi were the fore-runners of the money gifts, o-toshidama
. o toshidama お年玉 New Year Treasures.
More kigo are given below.
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Mochi is finely ground cooked rice pressed into shapes. This creates soft, chewy shapes which can be used in sweet and savory foods. If kept, they form hard blocks, which can be stored until they are needed. Mochi is also combined with roasted soy bean flour (kinako) or sweet bean paste (anko) to make traditional Japanese sweets.
Traditionally, making mochi is a group activity. Village people sat together, hand-pounding the rice with a wooden mallet (kine). According to Shinto tradition, each grain of rice represents a human soul, so the process was reflective and self-purifying for the whole community.
In the West, when we look at the moon, we see a man on it. The Chinese see a rabbit, pounding magical herbs to make the elixir of eternal life. The Japanese, with their love of obscure wordplays, envision the same rabbit pounding rice to make mochi. The name of the full moon is “mochizuki”, while “mochitsuki” means “making mochi”.
The rice dumplings are extremely sticky and difficult to swallow, and many people choke to death on them every year. The New Year is a particularly dangerous season, because many people eat o-zooni, a traditional soup containing mochi, which is served on New Year’s Day. Newscasts feature an annual “death toll” of all the old or drunk people who bit off more mochi than they could chew. In one case, a 70-year-old man was saved from a glutinous death by his resourceful daughter, who used a vacuum cleaner to remove the hazardous blob he was choking on.
http://ballz.ababa.net/uninvited/mochi.htm
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The Hare (Rabbit) in the Moon
The Universe and Human Life
By Daisaku Ikeda
In recent years, ever since man began launching satellites into space, his ideas about the universe have been undergoing a profound though little noticed change.
The science of astronomy has existed since ancient times, yet when we as children in Japan looked at the full moon, we invariably saw in it the image of a rabbit pounding glutinous rice to make rice cakes because that was what the adults had told us existed in the moon. The adults, we learned later, had told us a lie. But even the adults, when they looked at the full moon, particularly in the Autumn, probably had thoughts almost as stereotyped as ours, thoughts like those expressed as early as the Heian period by the ninth century poet. Oe no Chisato in his famous verse on the full moon:
When I gaze at the moon
All things seem sad
Though I know the Autumn
Comes not to me alone.
Read the rest here:
http://www.buddhistinformation.com/universe_and_human_life.htm
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Tomita Keisen (1879-1936)
The poem on the hangning scroll reads:
Clearly I can see -
The sacred rabbit
is pounding tea leaves.
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Japanese Link with detailed story about the Chinese and Japanese version of the Hare in the Moon.
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A local wooden toy from Kanazawa 金沢 餅つき兎
CLICK for more photos !
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~QB1T-FJT/mochiu.html
. Ishikawa Folk Art - 石川県 .
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The Real Rabbit in the Moon
"The bunny's two ears point up from New Zealand but point down when seen from England, so many northern people do not recognise our familiar moon rabbit.
However, Maya Indians are supposed to have recognised the moon rabbit.
The Rabbit is made of black moon lava."
© Photo by by John Wattie, NZ
More of his photos are on this LINK
http://nzphoto.tripod.com/astro/#rabbit
There is another moon photo about this on a Japanese page, where you can see the rabbit pounding rice:
http://www2j.biglobe.ne.jp/~hoshino/tsuki%20to%20usagi.htm
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heaven kigo for all autumn
gyokuto 玉兎（ぎょくと）
"treasure hare", treasure rabbit
tsuki no usagi 月の兎（つきのうさぎ）
hare in the moon, rabbit in the moon
. Tamausagi - The Treasure Hare from Gassan, Yamagata
. Lady Chang-O, The Moon Lady .
Jooga 嫦娥 Joga, Chang'e // Kooga 姮娥 Koga, Heng'e
She has the 玉兔 tama usagi pound medicine for her in the moon.
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Mani Moon Hand, gessei manishu
月精摩尼手 (げっせいまにしゅ）
Gakko Bosatsu 月光菩薩 (Moonlight Bosatsu)
Gachirin (moon disc) with a rabbit pounding mochi (glutinous rice) drawn inside. In Japan, Gakkō is also associated with a hare. People suffering high temperatures or fevers can purchase such talismans or icons (called Gessei manishu 月精摩尼手), which are said to reduce fever and cool the body.
Nikko (Sunlight Bosatsu) & Gakko (Moonlight Bosatsu)
Mark Schumacher
In India's ancient language Sanskrit,
one of the names for the moon is 'sashi', and rabbit is also called as 'sashi' in Sanskrit.
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pounding rice cakes---
a lull between
typhoons
robert wilson (Philippines)
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pounding rice cakes -
midnight temple bells,
New Year guests
Joachim
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WHCworldkigo/message/991
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cha no mochi
green rice cakes:
family chants to the beats
of a mallet
Chibi Dennis Holmes
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pounding mochi
for cakes
instead of wine
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Issa and Pounding Rice
From a discussion in Translating Haiku Forum, August 2006
犬の餅烏が餅もつかれけり
inu no mochi karasu ga mochi mo tsukare keri
one for the dog
one for the crow...
rice cakes
Tr. Lanoue
by Issa, 1819
From my experience in rural Japan, where the pounding of rice is made outside in the farm yard, I can imagine more than one dog and one crow waiting for the cakes to be ready ...
> > > > pounding rice ...
> > > > rice dumplings for the dogs
> > > > rice dumplings for the crows
Tr. Gabi Greve
Sakuo was wondering if the poor farmers of the Edo period really had enough to pound rice and give some leftovers to the dogs and birds. Farmers mostly ate buckwheat and such grains.
To this worry, Larry Bole had the following answer
I think Issa's emotions in writing this haiku are amusement and empathy. I think he has a humorous appreciation of the expertise in thievery displayed by these opportunistic scavengers. We know in advance that at least a couple of the rice cakes we are laboriously making are going to end up with the dog and crow, but even knowing that, we aren't going to begrudge them their share.
And I think there is an underlying empathy in that, by stealing rice cakes, the dog and crow are celebrating the New Year along with us in their own way.
There is another rice cake haiku by Issa which R. H. Blyth interprets in much the same vein:
mochitsuki ga tonari e kita to iu ko nari
"The rice-cake makers
Have come next door,"
Says the child.
Blyth says about this haiku:
"'Mochi' is made from a special kind of rice, boiled and pounded into a [glutinous] mass. Japanese people all enjoy it very much; it corresponds (in feeling, not in taste) to Christmas pudding in Europe and America. Pounding the rice is hard work and needs a very large mallet etc., and specialists, so to speak, go from house to house making it.
Some are too poor to afford it, and of such is the child who is speaking. He runs in to his mother and tells her that the men who make the mochi have come to the house next door. The mother cannot answer; there is nothing to say. They cannot afford it, and other children must have the happiness forbidden to hers. ..."
David Lanoue, on the other hand, translates it and then says:
"The rice cake man
is next door!"
the child announces.
"The reader need not see it this [Blyth's] way. The child bubbles over with excitement and anticipation--feelings that Issa and his adult readers share, as they remember their own childhoods."
Lanoue's reading is more in the spirit of another of Issa's haiku:
ako ga mochi ako ga mochi tote narabe keri
"This is sonny-boy's rice-cake,
This is sonny-boy's rice-cake too."
Piling them up.
tr. Blyth
my child's rice cakes
my child's rice cakes...
all in a row
tr. Lanoue
It's interesting to me that Blyth's interpretation comes at a time when both England and Japan were suffering post-war food shortages, whereas Lanoue's interpretation comes from someone living in a land of (relative) plenty, in one of its most plentiful times.
From reading through the 'rice cake' haiku on Lanoue's translastion site, it seems that besides the New Year, rice cakes are also associated with the Girl's Doll Festival, and with a 12th day of the ninth month celebration honoring Nichiren.
Issa also has several haiku about rice cakes being stolen by dogs in one way or another.
And what are we to make of left-over rice cakes?
There is Matsuo Basho's justly-famous haiku:
鴬や餅に糞する縁の先
uguisu ya mochi ni fun suru en no saki
uguisu ya mochi ni funsuru en no saki
Ah! the uguisu
Pooped on the rice-cakes
On the verandah.
tr. Blyth
A warbler
excreting on a rice cake
on the veranda.
Through an unconventional haikai image, the bird’s excreting, Bashô’s verse breaks drastically with the convention and discovers poetry in the natural and the low. Concerning this poem, Bashô wrote to one of his disciples, Sanpû:
“This poem shows what I have been working on lately.”
source : Basho-and-the-Dao - Peipei-Qiu
a bush warbler
dropped poop on the cookies
at the edge of the verandah
tr. Jane Reichhold
bush warbler--
a dropping on the rice cake
at the veranda's edge
tr. Ueda
Basho is quoted as saying about this haiku [in a letter to Sampu]:
"This hokku shows the kind of innovation [karumi] I am trying to achieve nowadays."
Yamamoto says:
"This hokku presents a scene of moldy rice cakes placed in the sunlight on the veranda several weeks after the New Year. Suddenly a bush warbler flew in from the garden and let a dropping fall. This is an idyllic scene filled with spring sunshine."
Would old, uneaten holiday rice cakes be put out for the birds and other animals to eat?
This hokku has the cut marker YA at the end of line 1.
All haiku about mochi by
. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .
Mochi no Hosomichi もちの細道 in Memory of Matsuo Basho
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Another Issa Haiku under discussion
草の庵年取餅を買にけり
kusa no io toshitori mochi o kai ni keri
thatched hut--
the year's last rice cakes
are bought
Translated by David Lanoue
More ISSA Haiku about Pounding Rice
The discussion started with another translation of this haiku
thatched hut--
the aged rice cake
is purchased
Translating Haiku Forum Nr. 853 / 855 / 858 / 864
In former times, it was customary in Japan to add one year to one's life on the first of January (toshitori). Individual birthdays were not celebrated.
to get older, toshi o toru 年を取る
thatched hut -
buying rice dumplings
to grow older another year
(Tr. Gabi Greve)
"yellowtail tuna to pass into the New Year" toshitori buri 年取鰤 is a speciality for New Year in Western Japan.
The use of IO, iori, 庵 the thatched hut
Translating Haiku Forum
餅搗のもちがとぶ也犬の口
mochi tsuki no mochi ga tobu nari inu no kuchi
the fresh rice cake
goes flying ...
the dog's mouth
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町並やこんな菴でも餅さはぎ
machinami ya konna io de mo mochi-sawagi
rows of houses --
this house, too, excited
making rice cakes
This hokku is from the eleventh month (December) of 1816, when Issa was away from his hometown on a year-end visit to the greater Edo area, a trip during which he stayed with various haikai poets. The image of rows of houses suggests he was in downtown Edo when he wrote this hokku. The first line also seems to indicate that he's acting just like all the city people in Edo even though he's a visitor now. Issa uses a humble word for "this house," so I take him to mean "the house were I an humbly staying like this." The excitement and energy of getting ready for the new year is intense, so presumably Issa joins in the preparations. On this day the household is making rice cakes of various sizes, including some large ones to be displayed in front of the small house altar to ancestors on New Year's Day before being eaten later. In the small urban backyard some people pound the rice into a soft glutinous mass with a large, heavy wooden mallet while others in the kitchen knead, shape, and smooth the mass into round cakes. People are in an upbeat mood, and sometimes they no doubt shout out encouragement or sing work songs, including songs that invoke the gods and mythical themes as they pound the sticky mass of mashed rice with the big mallet and shape it into cakes.
I don't have a photographic copy of Issa's diary, so I follow the text in Maruyama Kazuhiko, Issa Shichiban-nikki 2.279, which has konna in the second line instead of the donna given in Issa's Complete Works. This reading seems to make more sense, since Issa uses "this humble hut" for the house where he is staying in Edo. This term is reflexive and refers to the speaker in a humble way that is also polite to other people and houses. It is unlikely that Issa would refer to all the houses in Edo as humble huts unless he were literally referring to a very rundown part of the city. Maruyama's text also shows that Issa uses the character 菴 for 'hut,' a character that was commonly used in Issa's time. For those who know Japanese, you can see it has the grass radical at the top, suggesting a classical grass hut. Issa's Complete Works often uses characters that are common in contemporary Japanese instead. In this case, the Complete Works uses the character 庵 for hut, a character that has the house radical at the top.
Chris Drake
. Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 in Edo .
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to my hut too
New Year's arrives...
the zooni vendor
waga io ya ganjitsu mo kuru zooni uri
我庵や元日も来る雑煮売
by Issa, 1817
Zooni, glutinous rice cakes with vegetables, is enjoyed in the New Year's season.
This haiku has the prescript, "In Hatsuchoobori Beggar Quarter, I greet the spring."
Hattchoobori was a district of old Edo (today's Tokyo). See Maruyama Kazuhiko, Issa haiku shuu (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1990; rpt. 1993) 261, note 1394.
Shinji Ogawa offers this translation:
To my hut
even on the New Year's Day
zooni vendors come
He notes that it is a Japanese custom not to work during the first three days of the year, but in the big city of Edo, zooni vendors were busy as bees.
Tr. David Lanoue
http://cat.xula.edu/issa/
. Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 in Edo .
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(toshi no mochi 年の餅)
kigo for the New Year
"mirror rice dumplings, kagami mochi 鏡餅
..... a special offering for the gods at New Year. They get very hard, are then split with a hammer and put into soup.
"honorable mirror" rice dumplings, o-kagami 御鏡
"armor plate" rice dumplings, yoroi mochi 鎧餅
"rice sumplings for the ancestors" offered for the ancestors at home
..... gusoku mochi 具足餅
rice dumplings for the new year soup (zooni),
zooni mochi 雑煮餅
Mixed vegetable soup for the new year (zooni, a kigo for the New Year) is eaten on January first in the morning, usually after the first shrine visit and prepared with .. the first well water (wakamizu) .
In Western Japan, it is the custom to add a lot of yellowtail (buri) to the broth of vegetables.
People greet each other on the first of January: What did you eat in your zooni?
After that, no hot food was eaten until January 4, to give the housewive and the kitchen and hearth deities a short holiday.
Click HERE to look at some photos !
New Year's rice dumplings, toshi no mochi, 年の餅
..... made as a gift for neighbours and visitors (we often get our share of these hard presents)
Quote:
..... even the poor cooked pure boiled rice and pounded rice cake from pure glutinous rice for important meals. Pounded rice cakes (mochi), prepared by pounding steamed glutinous rice with a mortar and pestle, have been indispensable food items for Japanese ceremonial feasts. People thought that the essence — the sacred power of rice — was made purer by pounding, and mochi was believed to contain the "spirit of rice."
Naturally this was and is the most celebrated form of rice and therefore the most appropriate food for feasts. Thus, New Year’s day, the principal annual feast in Japan, sees mochi always consumed as a ceremonial food.
Read more:
Food of Japan, by Naomichi Ishige !!!!!
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animal kigo for all winter
usagi 兎 (うさぎ) hare, rabbit
yukiusagi, yuki usagi 雪兎 ゆきうさぎ snow hare
nousagi, no usagi 野兎（のうさぎ）hare
Echigo usagi 、越後兎（えちごうさぎ） hare from Echigo
usagigari 兎狩 (うさぎがり) rabbit-hunting
usagi ami 兎網（うさぎあみ） net for hunting rabbits
usagi wana 兎罠（うさぎわな）trap for hunting rabbits
Rabbits and hares are counted as "ichiwa 一羽, niwa 二羽", like birds with wings, when mentioned in a culinary and literary context. They are eaten by Buddhists, even if they have four legs.
Biologically, they are counted as "ippiki 一匹, nihiki 二匹" one animal, two animals.
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kigo for the New Year
Hatsu U (hatsu-u) 初卯 (はつう)
first day of the rabbit/hare
hatsu-u maitsuri 初卯祭（はつうまつり）first day of the rabbit festival
hatsu u mairi 、初卯詣（はつうまいり）visiting a shrine for the rabbit festival
In Edo to the shrine Kameido Tenmangu, in Kyoto to the shrine Iwashimizu Hachimangu, in Osaka to the shrine Sumiyosh Taisha. Also other Tenmangu-Shrines in Japan.
In the year of the rabbit, this visit was especially popular in the Edo period.
u no fuda 卯の札（うのふだ）"rabbit votive tablet" (for this day)
ni no u 二の卯（にのう）second day of the rabbit
san no u 三の卯（さんのう）third day of the rabbit
Kameido Myoogi mairi 亀戸妙義参（かめいどみょうぎまいり）
the special talisman is used as a hair decoration, at Kameido Tenmangu Shrine, Edo.
Festival at all Tenmangu shrines in memory of Sugawara Michizane, who is said to have died on the day of the rabbit, hour of the rabbit.
People buy special talismans to ward off evil for the coming year. Especially for the Emperor and his ladies in waiting, later it became a common festival for all.
. Sugawara Michizane 菅原道真
u no o-fuda 卯の神札（うのおふだ） votive tablet
uzuchi 卯槌（うづち）uzuchi talisman
It was given as a token to the Imperial palace since the Heian period.
It is made from peach wood and strings in five auspicious colors.
It wards off evil influence.
observance kigo for the New Year
uzue 卯杖 (うづえ) stick talsiman
..... u no tsue 卯の杖（うのつえ)
hatsu uzue 、hatsu uzue 初卯杖（はつうづえ）、 first uzue stick
iwai no tsue 祝の杖（いわいのつえ）auspicious uzue stick
uzue no hogai 卯杖の祝（うづえのほがい)
uzue no kotobuki 卯杖の寿（うづえのことぶき）
It was made from holly wood, peach, plum, willow and others, about 1.6 meters long.
Strings in the five auspicious colors were added.
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Pounding rice (mochi tsuki, mochitsuki)
***** Location: Japan, Philippines, other areas
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Explanation
pounding rice, mochi tsuki (mochitsuki) 餅つき
song for pounding rice, mochi tsuki uta 餅つき歌
having your rice pounded for a fee, chin mochi 賃餅
spreading the pounded rice, noshi mochi 熨斗餅
cutting the spread rice in squares, mochi kiru 餅切る
straw mat to lay the ready dumplings on,
mochi mushiro 餅筵
Pounding rice for small rice dumplings (sometimes translated as "cakes", but they are not sweet at all) is a ubiquious sight all over Japan during the few days before the New Year. It used to be done in a wooden or stone basin with a large wooden mallet, but nowadays many families use an electric appliance, although complaining that the taste is just not the same. The rice dumplings are put in the special soup on the first of January (zooni, see below) and the round rice dumplings are seasonal offerings for the Gods (kagami mochi, see below).
Pounding rice and preparing soup or dumplings and cakes is quite fun and the big local event at our grammar school is a get-together of the whole mountain village community.
People in Edo who could not pound their own mochi used professionals to make
hikizuri mochi 引き摺り餅 with common tools and rice provisions.
source : edococo.exblog.jp
. Doing Business in Edo - 江戸の商売 .
The round mochi were the fore-runners of the money gifts, o-toshidama
. o toshidama お年玉 New Year Treasures.
More kigo are given below.
Gabi Greve
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Mochi is finely ground cooked rice pressed into shapes. This creates soft, chewy shapes which can be used in sweet and savory foods. If kept, they form hard blocks, which can be stored until they are needed. Mochi is also combined with roasted soy bean flour (kinako) or sweet bean paste (anko) to make traditional Japanese sweets.
Traditionally, making mochi is a group activity. Village people sat together, hand-pounding the rice with a wooden mallet (kine). According to Shinto tradition, each grain of rice represents a human soul, so the process was reflective and self-purifying for the whole community.
In the West, when we look at the moon, we see a man on it. The Chinese see a rabbit, pounding magical herbs to make the elixir of eternal life. The Japanese, with their love of obscure wordplays, envision the same rabbit pounding rice to make mochi. The name of the full moon is “mochizuki”, while “mochitsuki” means “making mochi”.
The rice dumplings are extremely sticky and difficult to swallow, and many people choke to death on them every year. The New Year is a particularly dangerous season, because many people eat o-zooni, a traditional soup containing mochi, which is served on New Year’s Day. Newscasts feature an annual “death toll” of all the old or drunk people who bit off more mochi than they could chew. In one case, a 70-year-old man was saved from a glutinous death by his resourceful daughter, who used a vacuum cleaner to remove the hazardous blob he was choking on.
http://ballz.ababa.net/uninvited/mochi.htm
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The Hare (Rabbit) in the Moon
The Universe and Human Life
By Daisaku Ikeda
In recent years, ever since man began launching satellites into space, his ideas about the universe have been undergoing a profound though little noticed change.
The science of astronomy has existed since ancient times, yet when we as children in Japan looked at the full moon, we invariably saw in it the image of a rabbit pounding glutinous rice to make rice cakes because that was what the adults had told us existed in the moon. The adults, we learned later, had told us a lie. But even the adults, when they looked at the full moon, particularly in the Autumn, probably had thoughts almost as stereotyped as ours, thoughts like those expressed as early as the Heian period by the ninth century poet. Oe no Chisato in his famous verse on the full moon:
When I gaze at the moon
All things seem sad
Though I know the Autumn
Comes not to me alone.
Read the rest here:
http://www.buddhistinformation.com/universe_and_human_life.htm
Safety Copy is here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Haiku-Essays/message/94
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Tomita Keisen (1879-1936)
The poem on the hangning scroll reads:
Clearly I can see -
The sacred rabbit
is pounding tea leaves.
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Things found on the way
Japanese Link with detailed story about the Chinese and Japanese version of the Hare in the Moon.
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~nr8c-ab/afjptukiusagi.htm
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A local wooden toy from Kanazawa 金沢 餅つき兎
CLICK for more photos !
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~QB1T-FJT/mochiu.html
. Ishikawa Folk Art - 石川県 .
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The Real Rabbit in the Moon
"The bunny's two ears point up from New Zealand but point down when seen from England, so many northern people do not recognise our familiar moon rabbit.
However, Maya Indians are supposed to have recognised the moon rabbit.
The Rabbit is made of black moon lava."
© Photo by by John Wattie, NZ
More of his photos are on this LINK
http://nzphoto.tripod.com/astro/#rabbit
There is another moon photo about this on a Japanese page, where you can see the rabbit pounding rice:
http://www2j.biglobe.ne.jp/~hoshino/tsuki%20to%20usagi.htm
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heaven kigo for all autumn
gyokuto 玉兎（ぎょくと）
"treasure hare", treasure rabbit
tsuki no usagi 月の兎（つきのうさぎ）
hare in the moon, rabbit in the moon
. Tamausagi - The Treasure Hare from Gassan, Yamagata
. Lady Chang-O, The Moon Lady .
Jooga 嫦娥 Joga, Chang'e // Kooga 姮娥 Koga, Heng'e
She has the 玉兔 tama usagi pound medicine for her in the moon.
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Mani Moon Hand, gessei manishu
月精摩尼手 (げっせいまにしゅ）
Gakko Bosatsu 月光菩薩 (Moonlight Bosatsu)
Gachirin (moon disc) with a rabbit pounding mochi (glutinous rice) drawn inside. In Japan, Gakkō is also associated with a hare. People suffering high temperatures or fevers can purchase such talismans or icons (called Gessei manishu 月精摩尼手), which are said to reduce fever and cool the body.
Nikko (Sunlight Bosatsu) & Gakko (Moonlight Bosatsu)
Mark Schumacher
In India's ancient language Sanskrit,
one of the names for the moon is 'sashi', and rabbit is also called as 'sashi' in Sanskrit.
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Some more worldwide Rabbit Lore
WKD Library
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HAIKU
pounding rice cakes---
a lull between
typhoons
robert wilson (Philippines)
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pounding rice cakes -
midnight temple bells,
New Year guests
Joachim
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WHCworldkigo/message/991
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cha no mochi
green rice cakes:
family chants to the beats
of a mallet
Chibi Dennis Holmes
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pounding mochi
for cakes
instead of wine
shanna
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Issa and Pounding Rice
From a discussion in Translating Haiku Forum, August 2006
犬の餅烏が餅もつかれけり
inu no mochi karasu ga mochi mo tsukare keri
one for the dog
one for the crow...
rice cakes
Tr. Lanoue
by Issa, 1819
From my experience in rural Japan, where the pounding of rice is made outside in the farm yard, I can imagine more than one dog and one crow waiting for the cakes to be ready ...
> > > > pounding rice ...
> > > > rice dumplings for the dogs
> > > > rice dumplings for the crows
Tr. Gabi Greve
Sakuo was wondering if the poor farmers of the Edo period really had enough to pound rice and give some leftovers to the dogs and birds. Farmers mostly ate buckwheat and such grains.
To this worry, Larry Bole had the following answer
I think Issa's emotions in writing this haiku are amusement and empathy. I think he has a humorous appreciation of the expertise in thievery displayed by these opportunistic scavengers. We know in advance that at least a couple of the rice cakes we are laboriously making are going to end up with the dog and crow, but even knowing that, we aren't going to begrudge them their share.
And I think there is an underlying empathy in that, by stealing rice cakes, the dog and crow are celebrating the New Year along with us in their own way.
There is another rice cake haiku by Issa which R. H. Blyth interprets in much the same vein:
mochitsuki ga tonari e kita to iu ko nari
"The rice-cake makers
Have come next door,"
Says the child.
Blyth says about this haiku:
"'Mochi' is made from a special kind of rice, boiled and pounded into a [glutinous] mass. Japanese people all enjoy it very much; it corresponds (in feeling, not in taste) to Christmas pudding in Europe and America. Pounding the rice is hard work and needs a very large mallet etc., and specialists, so to speak, go from house to house making it.
Some are too poor to afford it, and of such is the child who is speaking. He runs in to his mother and tells her that the men who make the mochi have come to the house next door. The mother cannot answer; there is nothing to say. They cannot afford it, and other children must have the happiness forbidden to hers. ..."
David Lanoue, on the other hand, translates it and then says:
"The rice cake man
is next door!"
the child announces.
"The reader need not see it this [Blyth's] way. The child bubbles over with excitement and anticipation--feelings that Issa and his adult readers share, as they remember their own childhoods."
Lanoue's reading is more in the spirit of another of Issa's haiku:
ako ga mochi ako ga mochi tote narabe keri
"This is sonny-boy's rice-cake,
This is sonny-boy's rice-cake too."
Piling them up.
tr. Blyth
my child's rice cakes
my child's rice cakes...
all in a row
tr. Lanoue
It's interesting to me that Blyth's interpretation comes at a time when both England and Japan were suffering post-war food shortages, whereas Lanoue's interpretation comes from someone living in a land of (relative) plenty, in one of its most plentiful times.
From reading through the 'rice cake' haiku on Lanoue's translastion site, it seems that besides the New Year, rice cakes are also associated with the Girl's Doll Festival, and with a 12th day of the ninth month celebration honoring Nichiren.
Issa also has several haiku about rice cakes being stolen by dogs in one way or another.
And what are we to make of left-over rice cakes?
There is Matsuo Basho's justly-famous haiku:
鴬や餅に糞する縁の先
uguisu ya mochi ni fun suru en no saki
uguisu ya mochi ni funsuru en no saki
Ah! the uguisu
Pooped on the rice-cakes
On the verandah.
tr. Blyth
A warbler
excreting on a rice cake
on the veranda.
Through an unconventional haikai image, the bird’s excreting, Bashô’s verse breaks drastically with the convention and discovers poetry in the natural and the low. Concerning this poem, Bashô wrote to one of his disciples, Sanpû:
“This poem shows what I have been working on lately.”
source : Basho-and-the-Dao - Peipei-Qiu
a bush warbler
dropped poop on the cookies
at the edge of the verandah
tr. Jane Reichhold
bush warbler--
a dropping on the rice cake
at the veranda's edge
tr. Ueda
Basho is quoted as saying about this haiku [in a letter to Sampu]:
"This hokku shows the kind of innovation [karumi] I am trying to achieve nowadays."
Yamamoto says:
"This hokku presents a scene of moldy rice cakes placed in the sunlight on the veranda several weeks after the New Year. Suddenly a bush warbler flew in from the garden and let a dropping fall. This is an idyllic scene filled with spring sunshine."
Would old, uneaten holiday rice cakes be put out for the birds and other animals to eat?
This hokku has the cut marker YA at the end of line 1.
All haiku about mochi by
. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .
Mochi no Hosomichi もちの細道 in Memory of Matsuo Basho
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Another Issa Haiku under discussion
草の庵年取餅を買にけり
kusa no io toshitori mochi o kai ni keri
thatched hut--
the year's last rice cakes
are bought
Translated by David Lanoue
More ISSA Haiku about Pounding Rice
The discussion started with another translation of this haiku
thatched hut--
the aged rice cake
is purchased
Translating Haiku Forum Nr. 853 / 855 / 858 / 864
In former times, it was customary in Japan to add one year to one's life on the first of January (toshitori). Individual birthdays were not celebrated.
to get older, toshi o toru 年を取る
thatched hut -
buying rice dumplings
to grow older another year
(Tr. Gabi Greve)
"yellowtail tuna to pass into the New Year" toshitori buri 年取鰤 is a speciality for New Year in Western Japan.
The use of IO, iori, 庵 the thatched hut
Translating Haiku Forum
餅搗のもちがとぶ也犬の口
mochi tsuki no mochi ga tobu nari inu no kuchi
the fresh rice cake
goes flying ...
the dog's mouth
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町並やこんな菴でも餅さはぎ
machinami ya konna io de mo mochi-sawagi
rows of houses --
this house, too, excited
making rice cakes
This hokku is from the eleventh month (December) of 1816, when Issa was away from his hometown on a year-end visit to the greater Edo area, a trip during which he stayed with various haikai poets. The image of rows of houses suggests he was in downtown Edo when he wrote this hokku. The first line also seems to indicate that he's acting just like all the city people in Edo even though he's a visitor now. Issa uses a humble word for "this house," so I take him to mean "the house were I an humbly staying like this." The excitement and energy of getting ready for the new year is intense, so presumably Issa joins in the preparations. On this day the household is making rice cakes of various sizes, including some large ones to be displayed in front of the small house altar to ancestors on New Year's Day before being eaten later. In the small urban backyard some people pound the rice into a soft glutinous mass with a large, heavy wooden mallet while others in the kitchen knead, shape, and smooth the mass into round cakes. People are in an upbeat mood, and sometimes they no doubt shout out encouragement or sing work songs, including songs that invoke the gods and mythical themes as they pound the sticky mass of mashed rice with the big mallet and shape it into cakes.
I don't have a photographic copy of Issa's diary, so I follow the text in Maruyama Kazuhiko, Issa Shichiban-nikki 2.279, which has konna in the second line instead of the donna given in Issa's Complete Works. This reading seems to make more sense, since Issa uses "this humble hut" for the house where he is staying in Edo. This term is reflexive and refers to the speaker in a humble way that is also polite to other people and houses. It is unlikely that Issa would refer to all the houses in Edo as humble huts unless he were literally referring to a very rundown part of the city. Maruyama's text also shows that Issa uses the character 菴 for 'hut,' a character that was commonly used in Issa's time. For those who know Japanese, you can see it has the grass radical at the top, suggesting a classical grass hut. Issa's Complete Works often uses characters that are common in contemporary Japanese instead. In this case, the Complete Works uses the character 庵 for hut, a character that has the house radical at the top.
Chris Drake
. Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 in Edo .
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to my hut too
New Year's arrives...
the zooni vendor
waga io ya ganjitsu mo kuru zooni uri
我庵や元日も来る雑煮売
by Issa, 1817
Zooni, glutinous rice cakes with vegetables, is enjoyed in the New Year's season.
This haiku has the prescript, "In Hatsuchoobori Beggar Quarter, I greet the spring."
Hattchoobori was a district of old Edo (today's Tokyo). See Maruyama Kazuhiko, Issa haiku shuu (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1990; rpt. 1993) 261, note 1394.
Shinji Ogawa offers this translation:
To my hut
even on the New Year's Day
zooni vendors come
He notes that it is a Japanese custom not to work during the first three days of the year, but in the big city of Edo, zooni vendors were busy as bees.
Tr. David Lanoue
http://cat.xula.edu/issa/
. Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 in Edo .
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***** New Year's Rice Dumplings
(toshi no mochi 年の餅)
kigo for the New Year
"mirror rice dumplings, kagami mochi 鏡餅
..... a special offering for the gods at New Year. They get very hard, are then split with a hammer and put into soup.
"honorable mirror" rice dumplings, o-kagami 御鏡
"armor plate" rice dumplings, yoroi mochi 鎧餅
"rice sumplings for the ancestors" offered for the ancestors at home
..... gusoku mochi 具足餅
rice dumplings for the new year soup (zooni),
zooni mochi 雑煮餅
Mixed vegetable soup for the new year (zooni, a kigo for the New Year) is eaten on January first in the morning, usually after the first shrine visit and prepared with .. the first well water (wakamizu) .
In Western Japan, it is the custom to add a lot of yellowtail (buri) to the broth of vegetables.
People greet each other on the first of January: What did you eat in your zooni?
After that, no hot food was eaten until January 4, to give the housewive and the kitchen and hearth deities a short holiday.
Click HERE to look at some photos !
New Year's rice dumplings, toshi no mochi, 年の餅
..... made as a gift for neighbours and visitors (we often get our share of these hard presents)
Quote:
..... even the poor cooked pure boiled rice and pounded rice cake from pure glutinous rice for important meals. Pounded rice cakes (mochi), prepared by pounding steamed glutinous rice with a mortar and pestle, have been indispensable food items for Japanese ceremonial feasts. People thought that the essence — the sacred power of rice — was made purer by pounding, and mochi was believed to contain the "spirit of rice."
Naturally this was and is the most celebrated form of rice and therefore the most appropriate food for feasts. Thus, New Year’s day, the principal annual feast in Japan, sees mochi always consumed as a ceremonial food.
Read more:
Food of Japan, by Naomichi Ishige !!!!!
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animal kigo for all winter
usagi 兎 (うさぎ) hare, rabbit
yukiusagi, yuki usagi 雪兎 ゆきうさぎ snow hare
nousagi, no usagi 野兎（のうさぎ）hare
Echigo usagi 、越後兎（えちごうさぎ） hare from Echigo
usagigari 兎狩 (うさぎがり) rabbit-hunting
usagi ami 兎網（うさぎあみ） net for hunting rabbits
usagi wana 兎罠（うさぎわな）trap for hunting rabbits
Rabbits and hares are counted as "ichiwa 一羽, niwa 二羽", like birds with wings, when mentioned in a culinary and literary context. They are eaten by Buddhists, even if they have four legs.
Biologically, they are counted as "ippiki 一匹, nihiki 二匹" one animal, two animals.
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kigo for the New Year
Hatsu U (hatsu-u) 初卯 (はつう)
first day of the rabbit/hare
hatsu-u maitsuri 初卯祭（はつうまつり）first day of the rabbit festival
hatsu u mairi 、初卯詣（はつうまいり）visiting a shrine for the rabbit festival
In Edo to the shrine Kameido Tenmangu, in Kyoto to the shrine Iwashimizu Hachimangu, in Osaka to the shrine Sumiyosh Taisha. Also other Tenmangu-Shrines in Japan.
In the year of the rabbit, this visit was especially popular in the Edo period.
u no fuda 卯の札（うのふだ）"rabbit votive tablet" (for this day)
ni no u 二の卯（にのう）second day of the rabbit
san no u 三の卯（さんのう）third day of the rabbit
Kameido Myoogi mairi 亀戸妙義参（かめいどみょうぎまいり）
the special talisman is used as a hair decoration, at Kameido Tenmangu Shrine, Edo.
Festival at all Tenmangu shrines in memory of Sugawara Michizane, who is said to have died on the day of the rabbit, hour of the rabbit.
People buy special talismans to ward off evil for the coming year. Especially for the Emperor and his ladies in waiting, later it became a common festival for all.
. Sugawara Michizane 菅原道真
u no o-fuda 卯の神札（うのおふだ） votive tablet
uzuchi 卯槌（うづち）uzuchi talisman
It was given as a token to the Imperial palace since the Heian period.
It is made from peach wood and strings in five auspicious colors.
It wards off evil influence.
observance kigo for the New Year
uzue 卯杖 (うづえ) stick talsiman
..... u no tsue 卯の杖（うのつえ)
hatsu uzue 、hatsu uzue 初卯杖（はつうづえ）、 first uzue stick
iwai no tsue 祝の杖（いわいのつえ）auspicious uzue stick
uzue no hogai 卯杖の祝（うづえのほがい)
uzue no kotobuki 卯杖の寿（うづえのことぶき）
It was made from holly wood, peach, plum, willow and others, about 1.6 meters long.
Strings in the five auspicious colors were added.
. . . CLICK here for UZUE Photos !
SAIJIKI – NEW YEAR OBSERVANCES
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Otherwise the hare and rabbit are not kigo.
Rabbit and hare ...
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Poinsettia and Weihnachtskaktus
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Poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima)
***** Location: USA, worldwide
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Explanation
Native to Mexico and Central America, the poinsettia, also known as the Mexican flame leaf or Christmas star (Euphorbia pulcherrima), is a plant known for its striking red displays at Christmas time.
It is often used as a floral Christmas decoration because of its festive colours.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poinsettia
Nochebuena, the Mexican name of the flower English-speakers call poinsettia, was discovered in Taxco and the valleys surrounding Cuernavaca. Known by the Aztecs in their native Nahuatl language as cuetlaxochitl, it is believed that they brought the plant from the tropical climate of Cuernavaca to their Aztec highlands for cultivation in special nurseries. Prized in the prehispanic era for the curative properties of the milk that dripped from the leaves, stems and flowers when cut, the pigment from the red leaves was also used to dye cotton fibers.
After the Conquest, the Spanish Franciscan priests posted to the Taxco area used the plants to decorate their Christian nativity scenes, creating its first link to the Christmas season. The nochebuena gained further attention when Hernando Ruiz de Alarcon, a resident of Taxco and the brother of a famous Spanish writer, Juan Ruiz de Alarcon, wrote poetically about the flower and later, when it captured the attention of the Spanish botanist Don Juan Balme.
Its greatest promoter, however, was Joel Roberto Poinsett (1770-1851), who served as the U.S. ambassador to Mexico following Mexicoｴs Independence from Spain. Although his record as an ambassador is generally agreed to be mediocre, he cherished Mexico and fell in love with the plant when he first saw it in 1823 adorning the churches of Taxco. He sent plants to decorate his mansion in Charlestonville, South Carolina, one Christmas, and upon his return home several years later he was astonished to find the entire town growing the Christmas flower, or "poinsettia".
Read a lot more interesting facts here:
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/mexfact/mexfactnochebuena.html
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
history and lore regarding the poinsettia
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/poinsettia/history.html
Legend from Mexico
http://www.christmas.com/pe/1331
Information on National Poinsettia Day
December 12 was set aside as
National Poinsettia Day.
The date marks the death of Joel Roberts Poinsett, who is credited with introducing the native Mexican plant to the United States.
http://www.ecke.com/html/h_corp/corp_pntday.html
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Worldwide use
Germany
"Christmas Star", Weihnachtsstern.
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Japan
kigo for mid-winter
poinsechia ポインセチア Poinsettia
shoojooboku, shoojoo boku 猩々木（しょうじょうぼく）"Tipster Sprite tree"
kurisumasu furawaa クリスマスフラワー "Christmas flower"
Shojo Midare 猩々乱 Noh Play
About a spirit of ancient China
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Things found on the way
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HAIKU
A Christmas tradition
For Grandma
Poinsettias
Sarah
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
poincettias
along the path
lost in the mist
Angelee Deodhar
Look at this nice haiga to go with it:
http://www.nhi.clara.net/z82.htm
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Related words
***** Christmas Cactus (Weihnachtskaktus)
(Schlumbergera bridgesii)
shakoba saboten 蝦蛄葉仙人掌 (しゃこばさぼてん)
shako saboten 蝦蛄仙人掌（しゃこさぼてん）
kurisumasu kakutasu クリスマスカクタス
Christmas Cactus is also a seasonal plant that blossoms around Christmas time. Native to Brazil, but now grown all over and sold around the Christmas season in the stores.
Sarah
While the poinsettia remains the most popular of the holiday plants, a healthy Christmas cactus in full bloom is a great gift idea for that special gardener. They are easy to care for and can be grown indoors throughout the year. The flowers range in color from yellow, salmon, pink, fuschia and white or combinations of those colors.
Other types of Holiday Cactus:
Thanksgiving cactus (Schlumbergera truncata) and the
Easter cactus (Rhipsalidopsis gaertneri).
Alone in the window
a Christmas Cactus
waits
sarah
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Russia
Schlumbergera, also called Zygocactus, also called Christmas cactus in many countries and also called "Dekabrist" (Decemrist) by Russians, because it blooms in December.
It is a house plant not native to Russia.
See this site in Russian:
http://www.soblomov.narod.ru/kaktus/Schlumbergera.html
Передача о декабристах -
вспомнила: надо полить
своего декабриста
TV story of the Decembrists -
remembering to water
my Decembrist
Now, to understand this haiku, one must know that "Decembrists" for Russians are primarily the people of the Russian failed revolt of 1825.
The Decembrist revolt or the Decembrist uprising (Russian: Восстание декабристов) was attempted in Imperial Russia by army officers who led about 3,000 Russian soldiers on December 14 (December 26 New Style), 1825. Because these events occurred in December, the rebels were called the Decembrists (Dekabristy, Russian: Декабристы). This uprising took place in the Senate Square in St. Petersburg. In 1925, to mark the centenary of the event, it
was renamed as Decembrist Square (Ploshchad' Dekabristov, Russian: Площадь Декабристов).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decembrist_Revolt
The flowers have nothing to do with the revolutionaries, of course.
Zhanna P. Rader
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her tear waters
the christmas cactus* --
husband's memory
*(orchid cactus)
"chibi" (pen-name for Dennis M. Holmes)
December 2008
Northern Hemisphere kigo for winter
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Poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima)
***** Location: USA, worldwide
***** Season: All Winter
***** Category: Plant
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Explanation
Native to Mexico and Central America, the poinsettia, also known as the Mexican flame leaf or Christmas star (Euphorbia pulcherrima), is a plant known for its striking red displays at Christmas time.
It is often used as a floral Christmas decoration because of its festive colours.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poinsettia
Nochebuena, the Mexican name of the flower English-speakers call poinsettia, was discovered in Taxco and the valleys surrounding Cuernavaca. Known by the Aztecs in their native Nahuatl language as cuetlaxochitl, it is believed that they brought the plant from the tropical climate of Cuernavaca to their Aztec highlands for cultivation in special nurseries. Prized in the prehispanic era for the curative properties of the milk that dripped from the leaves, stems and flowers when cut, the pigment from the red leaves was also used to dye cotton fibers.
After the Conquest, the Spanish Franciscan priests posted to the Taxco area used the plants to decorate their Christian nativity scenes, creating its first link to the Christmas season. The nochebuena gained further attention when Hernando Ruiz de Alarcon, a resident of Taxco and the brother of a famous Spanish writer, Juan Ruiz de Alarcon, wrote poetically about the flower and later, when it captured the attention of the Spanish botanist Don Juan Balme.
Its greatest promoter, however, was Joel Roberto Poinsett (1770-1851), who served as the U.S. ambassador to Mexico following Mexicoｴs Independence from Spain. Although his record as an ambassador is generally agreed to be mediocre, he cherished Mexico and fell in love with the plant when he first saw it in 1823 adorning the churches of Taxco. He sent plants to decorate his mansion in Charlestonville, South Carolina, one Christmas, and upon his return home several years later he was astonished to find the entire town growing the Christmas flower, or "poinsettia".
Read a lot more interesting facts here:
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/mexfact/mexfactnochebuena.html
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
history and lore regarding the poinsettia
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/poinsettia/history.html
Legend from Mexico
http://www.christmas.com/pe/1331
Information on National Poinsettia Day
December 12 was set aside as
National Poinsettia Day.
The date marks the death of Joel Roberts Poinsett, who is credited with introducing the native Mexican plant to the United States.
http://www.ecke.com/html/h_corp/corp_pntday.html
*****************************
Worldwide use
Germany
"Christmas Star", Weihnachtsstern.
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Japan
kigo for mid-winter
poinsechia ポインセチア Poinsettia
shoojooboku, shoojoo boku 猩々木（しょうじょうぼく）"Tipster Sprite tree"
kurisumasu furawaa クリスマスフラワー "Christmas flower"
Shojo Midare 猩々乱 Noh Play
About a spirit of ancient China
*****************************
Things found on the way
*****************************
HAIKU
A Christmas tradition
For Grandma
Poinsettias
Sarah
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
poincettias
along the path
lost in the mist
Angelee Deodhar
Look at this nice haiga to go with it:
http://www.nhi.clara.net/z82.htm
**********************************
Related words
***** Christmas Cactus (Weihnachtskaktus)
(Schlumbergera bridgesii)
shakoba saboten 蝦蛄葉仙人掌 (しゃこばさぼてん)
shako saboten 蝦蛄仙人掌（しゃこさぼてん）
kurisumasu kakutasu クリスマスカクタス
Christmas Cactus is also a seasonal plant that blossoms around Christmas time. Native to Brazil, but now grown all over and sold around the Christmas season in the stores.
Sarah
While the poinsettia remains the most popular of the holiday plants, a healthy Christmas cactus in full bloom is a great gift idea for that special gardener. They are easy to care for and can be grown indoors throughout the year. The flowers range in color from yellow, salmon, pink, fuschia and white or combinations of those colors.
Other types of Holiday Cactus:
Thanksgiving cactus (Schlumbergera truncata) and the
Easter cactus (Rhipsalidopsis gaertneri).
Alone in the window
a Christmas Cactus
waits
sarah
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Russia
Schlumbergera, also called Zygocactus, also called Christmas cactus in many countries and also called "Dekabrist" (Decemrist) by Russians, because it blooms in December.
It is a house plant not native to Russia.
See this site in Russian:
http://www.soblomov.narod.ru/kaktus/Schlumbergera.html
Передача о декабристах -
вспомнила: надо полить
своего декабриста
TV story of the Decembrists -
remembering to water
my Decembrist
Now, to understand this haiku, one must know that "Decembrists" for Russians are primarily the people of the Russian failed revolt of 1825.
The Decembrist revolt or the Decembrist uprising (Russian: Восстание декабристов) was attempted in Imperial Russia by army officers who led about 3,000 Russian soldiers on December 14 (December 26 New Style), 1825. Because these events occurred in December, the rebels were called the Decembrists (Dekabristy, Russian: Декабристы). This uprising took place in the Senate Square in St. Petersburg. In 1925, to mark the centenary of the event, it
was renamed as Decembrist Square (Ploshchad' Dekabristov, Russian: Площадь Декабристов).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decembrist_Revolt
The flowers have nothing to do with the revolutionaries, of course.
Zhanna P. Rader
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her tear waters
the christmas cactus* --
husband's memory
*(orchid cactus)
"chibi" (pen-name for Dennis M. Holmes)
December 2008
Northern Hemisphere kigo for winter
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Pottery (yakimono)
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. yakimono 焼物 Pottery - Introduction .
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Pottery (yakimono 焼物)
***** Location: Japan, worldwide
***** Season: Non-Seasonal Topic
***** Category: Humanity
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Explanation
Everyone uses pottery in the daily life. Pots, Plates, Figurines, Decoration pieces ... and much more.
Let us try and find some haiku with relation to these items.
Check my Haiku and Pottery pages before you carry on.
Gabi Greve
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Bankoyaki 萬古焼 だるま Banko Pottery
- source : banko.or.jp -
- quote -
Banko Pottery Center
Yokkaichi's famed Banko ware pottery
Banko Ware, a pottery art form with hundreds of years of history behind it, thriving in the port town of Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture.
Banko ware was first created by Nunami Rozan a wealthy merchant who lived in the mid 18th Century. Like many wealthy people of the time, he developed a deep interest in the traditional Way of Tea. Rozan also dabbled in pottery, and the dark colored items he made for his own enjoyment soon caught the eye of other exponents of the Tea Ceremony, and so Banko ware was born. Rozan’s work was stamped with the words bakofueki, or “constant eternity”, in the hopes the pieces would be used and enjoyed well after his death. Interestingly enough, despite the popularity of Banko ware, it wasn’t until well after his death that the art form was revived and reached greater heights These days Banko ware teapots, tea cups, small sake ochoko cups and serving bottles, vases, plates and ornamental ware are in great demand from those with an eye for pottery, made all the rarer as there are just 22 government recognized Banko Master Craftsmen amongst the 1,300 potters working to preserve their art.
Banko ware implements have long been favored among Tea Ceremony practitioners for their refined simplicity and because the oil from people's hands and tannin from the tea leaves gives Banko ware a beautiful sheen the more it is used. For that reason, specialists caution against scrubbing or washing with detergent.
Another reason is due to its light weight. The body, spout, handle and lid are made as finely as possible, by means of thinly rolled clay being stretched over a wooden mold of several interlocking yet easily removable pieces. This unique process in Japanese pottery was developed during a resurgence in Banko ware popularity in the late Edo Period.
The characteristic dark, rusty color of Banko Ware is due to both the specially prepared iron-rich red clay and yellow clay blend, and due to the firing process. Low oxygen levels and incomplete combustion makes the kiln more akin an oven. The end result is color variation according to the kiln temperatures and amount of oxygen. Decorations are simple, and done while the clay is still wet. Often seen patterns include a pine bark like effect, a stamped floral effect and light carvings. Most are fired as is, but some pieces are partially glazed for a different feel and look.
These pieces and the different styles employed can all be seen at the Banko Pottery Center in Yokkaichi, which exhibits and sells quality Banko ware as a representative craft of Mie Prefecture. There is a small studio on the first floor of the center offering fascinating one-day Banko art classes. Reservations are required in advance.
To further your knowledge and appreciation, the Yokaichi City Commerce and Industry Division run “Banko Ware Factory Tour” is also recommended, taking in 13 factories and kilns where visitors can also try their hand at pottery making and painting at certain studios.
Every May, the Banko Pottery Center draws thousands to the two day Yokkaichi Pottery Fair, famous for it’s wide array of traditional and original Japanese pottery. It’s a great opportunity to meet the craftsmen, see the various styles available and get a bargain at the same time.
- source : japantravel.com/mie/banko-pottery-center -
Banko-yaki vs Tokoname-yaki
Banko-yaki, visit to Yokkaichi
- source : japaneseteasommelier -
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The Nun Rengetsu (Rengetsuni 蓮月尼) scraffitoed her poetry onto her pottery. She didn't have a studio, wheel or kiln. She hand built her ware and fired in other potter's kilns.
You can see some of her work here:
Rengetsu and her Pottery
Lee Love
Potter Lee in Mashiko
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Fuji-san's pure white snow
melted in my hand
Hagi sake cup!
Robert Yellin
eYAKIMONO Homepage
Japanese Pottery Information Center, Robert Yellin
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source : facebook
- quote
Kintsugi (金継ぎ) (Japanese: golden joinery) or
Kintsukuroi (金繕い) (Japanese: golden repair)
is the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with lacquer resin dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum a method similar to the maki-e technique. As a philosophy it speaks to breakage and repair becoming part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.
© More in the WIKIPEDIA !
. yakitsugiya, yakitsugi-ya 焼継屋 repairing broken pottery .
In Edo and even now.
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Tea Ceramics from Richard Milgrim (Kyoto)
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Worldwide use
Philippines
a new friend...
from earthen jars
the scent of basi
"Basi" is wine made from sugarcane. The photo of the jars where they are stored in.
-- roh mih
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Things found on the way
Daruma san and Japanese Pottery
Articles by Gabi Greve
. Yakimono 焼物 Daruma in and on pottery .
Arts and Crafts Miwa Jusetsu
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Mingeikan Tokyo, Pottery Gallery
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HAIKU
colors of nature
born out of fire -
autumn on my pot
Text and Photo by Gabi Greve
Click on the photo to see more.
Bizen Pot by my friend, Takagaki Mondo
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Related words
***** Pottery and Haiku / Gabi Greve
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Pottery (yakimono 焼物)
***** Location: Japan, worldwide
***** Season: Non-Seasonal Topic
***** Category: Humanity
*****************************
Explanation
Everyone uses pottery in the daily life. Pots, Plates, Figurines, Decoration pieces ... and much more.
Let us try and find some haiku with relation to these items.
Check my Haiku and Pottery pages before you carry on.
Gabi Greve
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Bankoyaki 萬古焼 だるま Banko Pottery
- source : banko.or.jp -
- quote -
Banko Pottery Center
Yokkaichi's famed Banko ware pottery
Banko Ware, a pottery art form with hundreds of years of history behind it, thriving in the port town of Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture.
Banko ware was first created by Nunami Rozan a wealthy merchant who lived in the mid 18th Century. Like many wealthy people of the time, he developed a deep interest in the traditional Way of Tea. Rozan also dabbled in pottery, and the dark colored items he made for his own enjoyment soon caught the eye of other exponents of the Tea Ceremony, and so Banko ware was born. Rozan’s work was stamped with the words bakofueki, or “constant eternity”, in the hopes the pieces would be used and enjoyed well after his death. Interestingly enough, despite the popularity of Banko ware, it wasn’t until well after his death that the art form was revived and reached greater heights These days Banko ware teapots, tea cups, small sake ochoko cups and serving bottles, vases, plates and ornamental ware are in great demand from those with an eye for pottery, made all the rarer as there are just 22 government recognized Banko Master Craftsmen amongst the 1,300 potters working to preserve their art.
Banko ware implements have long been favored among Tea Ceremony practitioners for their refined simplicity and because the oil from people's hands and tannin from the tea leaves gives Banko ware a beautiful sheen the more it is used. For that reason, specialists caution against scrubbing or washing with detergent.
Another reason is due to its light weight. The body, spout, handle and lid are made as finely as possible, by means of thinly rolled clay being stretched over a wooden mold of several interlocking yet easily removable pieces. This unique process in Japanese pottery was developed during a resurgence in Banko ware popularity in the late Edo Period.
The characteristic dark, rusty color of Banko Ware is due to both the specially prepared iron-rich red clay and yellow clay blend, and due to the firing process. Low oxygen levels and incomplete combustion makes the kiln more akin an oven. The end result is color variation according to the kiln temperatures and amount of oxygen. Decorations are simple, and done while the clay is still wet. Often seen patterns include a pine bark like effect, a stamped floral effect and light carvings. Most are fired as is, but some pieces are partially glazed for a different feel and look.
These pieces and the different styles employed can all be seen at the Banko Pottery Center in Yokkaichi, which exhibits and sells quality Banko ware as a representative craft of Mie Prefecture. There is a small studio on the first floor of the center offering fascinating one-day Banko art classes. Reservations are required in advance.
To further your knowledge and appreciation, the Yokaichi City Commerce and Industry Division run “Banko Ware Factory Tour” is also recommended, taking in 13 factories and kilns where visitors can also try their hand at pottery making and painting at certain studios.
Every May, the Banko Pottery Center draws thousands to the two day Yokkaichi Pottery Fair, famous for it’s wide array of traditional and original Japanese pottery. It’s a great opportunity to meet the craftsmen, see the various styles available and get a bargain at the same time.
- source : japantravel.com/mie/banko-pottery-center -
Banko-yaki vs Tokoname-yaki
Banko-yaki, visit to Yokkaichi
- source : japaneseteasommelier -
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The Nun Rengetsu (Rengetsuni 蓮月尼) scraffitoed her poetry onto her pottery. She didn't have a studio, wheel or kiln. She hand built her ware and fired in other potter's kilns.
You can see some of her work here:
Rengetsu and her Pottery
Lee Love
Potter Lee in Mashiko
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Fuji-san's pure white snow
melted in my hand
Hagi sake cup!
Robert Yellin
eYAKIMONO Homepage
Japanese Pottery Information Center, Robert Yellin
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
source : facebook
- quote
Kintsugi (金継ぎ) (Japanese: golden joinery) or
Kintsukuroi (金繕い) (Japanese: golden repair)
is the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with lacquer resin dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum a method similar to the maki-e technique. As a philosophy it speaks to breakage and repair becoming part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.
© More in the WIKIPEDIA !
. yakitsugiya, yakitsugi-ya 焼継屋 repairing broken pottery .
In Edo and even now.
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Tea Ceramics from Richard Milgrim (Kyoto)
*****************************
Worldwide use
Philippines
a new friend...
from earthen jars
the scent of basi
"Basi" is wine made from sugarcane. The photo of the jars where they are stored in.
-- roh mih
*****************************
Things found on the way
Daruma san and Japanese Pottery
Articles by Gabi Greve
. Yakimono 焼物 Daruma in and on pottery .
Arts and Crafts Miwa Jusetsu
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Mingeikan Tokyo, Pottery Gallery
*****************************
HAIKU
colors of nature
born out of fire -
autumn on my pot
Text and Photo by Gabi Greve
Click on the photo to see more.
Bizen Pot by my friend, Takagaki Mondo
*****************************
Related words
***** Pottery and Haiku / Gabi Greve
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Mildew, mold (kabi)
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Mildew, mold (kabi)
***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Mid-summer
***** Category: Plant
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Explanation
kabi 黴 （かび / カビ) mildew, mold, Schimmel
aokabi, ao-kabi 青黴（あおかび）green mold
kurokabi, kuro-kabi 黒黴（くろかび）black mold
shirokabi, shiro-kabi 白黴（しろかび）white mildew
kekabi 毛黴（けかび）"mold with hairs"
often found on bread, mochi and other food items.
kabi no yado 黴の宿（かびのやど）a home with mildew
kabi no ka 黴の香（かびのか）smell of mildew
kabi kemuri 黴煙（かびけむり）"smoke of mildew"
kabi no hana 黴の花（かびのはな）flowers of mildew
hibiru 黴びる（かびる） get moldy, get mildewy
kabi nuguu 黴拭う（かびぬぐう）wiping, moppin, scrubbing mold
tsuyudake 梅雨茸 (つゆだけ) "bacteria of the rainy season"
tsuyu kinoko 梅雨菌（つゆきのこ）
tsuyu no kinoko 梅雨の茸（つゆのきのこ）
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quote
Mildew refers to certain kinds of mold (mould) or fungus. In Old English, it meant honeydew (a substance secreted by aphids on leaves, formerly thought to distill from the air like dew), and later came to mean mildew in the modern senses.
The term mildew is often used generically to refer to mold growth, usually with a flat growth habit. Molds can thrive on any organic matter, including clothing, leather, paper, and the ceilings, walls and floors of homes with moisture management problems. Mildew often lives on shower walls, windowsills, and other places where moisture levels are high. There are many species of molds. In unaired places, such as basements, they can produce a strong musty odor.
What most horticulturalists and gardeners call mildew is more precisely called powdery mildew. It is caused by many different species of fungi in the order Erysiphales. Most species are specific to a narrow range of hosts, and all are obligate parasites of flowering plants. The species that affects roses is Sphaerotheca pannosa var. rosa.
© More in the WIKIPEDIA !
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Worldwide use
Schimmel, Schimmelpilz
Gammel
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Kenya
safari ants
under the mouldy avocado --
I almost slipped
~ james bundi
rubbish pit --
decayed bread covered
by houseflies
~ eric mwange
source : Kenya Saijiki Forum
July cold --
green moulds sprout on
the granary walls
~ hussein
filthy pit --
moulds form on
rotten coconuts
~ Violet
dust bin --
moulds erupt on
decaying rice
~ Nicodemus
awkward smell--
grey mouldy crumbs
surrounded by flies
~ Nzomo
cold July --
safari ants crawl over
the mouldy bread
~ Khadija
pigs fight for
a piece of mouldy bread --
cold July
~ Duncan
source : Peacocks, more Mold Haiku
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Things found on the way
kabi Daruma カビだるま
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HAIKU
scrubbing tiles -
the mind focused on
mold and haiku
Gabi Greve, June 2009
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. WKD ... on FACEBOOK, July 6.
summer heat-
faucet water
tastes like mold
Claudia Cadwell
30-degree heat
mold on the bricks
turned grey
Ella Wagemakers, Holland
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the long drought
almost wistfully
I remember mold
- Shared by Sandi Pray, North Carolina -
Joys of Japan, July 2012
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Related words
***** Rainy Season (tsuyu) Japan
This is when mold is at its best in Japan !
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Mildew, mold (kabi)
***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Mid-summer
***** Category: Plant
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Explanation
kabi 黴 （かび / カビ) mildew, mold, Schimmel
aokabi, ao-kabi 青黴（あおかび）green mold
kurokabi, kuro-kabi 黒黴（くろかび）black mold
shirokabi, shiro-kabi 白黴（しろかび）white mildew
kekabi 毛黴（けかび）"mold with hairs"
often found on bread, mochi and other food items.
kabi no yado 黴の宿（かびのやど）a home with mildew
kabi no ka 黴の香（かびのか）smell of mildew
kabi kemuri 黴煙（かびけむり）"smoke of mildew"
kabi no hana 黴の花（かびのはな）flowers of mildew
hibiru 黴びる（かびる） get moldy, get mildewy
kabi nuguu 黴拭う（かびぬぐう）wiping, moppin, scrubbing mold
tsuyudake 梅雨茸 (つゆだけ) "bacteria of the rainy season"
tsuyu kinoko 梅雨菌（つゆきのこ）
tsuyu no kinoko 梅雨の茸（つゆのきのこ）
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Mildew refers to certain kinds of mold (mould) or fungus. In Old English, it meant honeydew (a substance secreted by aphids on leaves, formerly thought to distill from the air like dew), and later came to mean mildew in the modern senses.
The term mildew is often used generically to refer to mold growth, usually with a flat growth habit. Molds can thrive on any organic matter, including clothing, leather, paper, and the ceilings, walls and floors of homes with moisture management problems. Mildew often lives on shower walls, windowsills, and other places where moisture levels are high. There are many species of molds. In unaired places, such as basements, they can produce a strong musty odor.
What most horticulturalists and gardeners call mildew is more precisely called powdery mildew. It is caused by many different species of fungi in the order Erysiphales. Most species are specific to a narrow range of hosts, and all are obligate parasites of flowering plants. The species that affects roses is Sphaerotheca pannosa var. rosa.
© More in the WIKIPEDIA !
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Worldwide use
Schimmel, Schimmelpilz
Gammel
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Kenya
safari ants
under the mouldy avocado --
I almost slipped
~ james bundi
rubbish pit --
decayed bread covered
by houseflies
~ eric mwange
source : Kenya Saijiki Forum
July cold --
green moulds sprout on
the granary walls
~ hussein
filthy pit --
moulds form on
rotten coconuts
~ Violet
dust bin --
moulds erupt on
decaying rice
~ Nicodemus
awkward smell--
grey mouldy crumbs
surrounded by flies
~ Nzomo
cold July --
safari ants crawl over
the mouldy bread
~ Khadija
pigs fight for
a piece of mouldy bread --
cold July
~ Duncan
source : Peacocks, more Mold Haiku
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Things found on the way
kabi Daruma カビだるま
*****************************
HAIKU
scrubbing tiles -
the mind focused on
mold and haiku
Gabi Greve, June 2009
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. WKD ... on FACEBOOK, July 6.
summer heat-
faucet water
tastes like mold
Claudia Cadwell
30-degree heat
mold on the bricks
turned grey
Ella Wagemakers, Holland
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the long drought
almost wistfully
I remember mold
- Shared by Sandi Pray, North Carolina -
Joys of Japan, July 2012
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Related words
***** Rainy Season (tsuyu) Japan
This is when mold is at its best in Japan !
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Back to the Worldkigo Index
http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/
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