Autumn Festival (aki matsuri)

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Autumn Festival (aki matsuri)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: All Autumn
***** Category: Observance

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Explanation

aki matsuri 秋祭 (あきまつり) autumn festival
sato matsuri 里祭（さとまつり）village festival
..... mura matsuri 村祭（むらまつり）
zaimatsuri 在祭（ざいまつり）shrine festival

uramatsuri 浦祭（うらまつり）bay festival
(to pray for the safety of fishing boats)

Many take place in the ninth lunar month (now october).


Aki Matsuri, Autumn Festivals 　秋祭り　to thank the gods for a good harvest and pray for the wellbeing of each family in the community. They are celebrated all over Japan after the rice harvest. Preparations take weeks and are a means to get the young men and women of the village together to practise the dances and tunes.

Today, on the second weekend of October, is the Autumn Festival at our local shrine, I just come back from the simple but really endearing festivities.
The local gods are transferred to small portable shrines (mikoshi), put in front of the shrine and groups of 3 men perform a lions dance in front of them. The kindergarden children this year also wearing colorful costumes and danced with their paper lion mask.

This is our lion



Look at more details here
Autumn Festival in Sakai 2005

Then all take the protable shrines about 500 meters to a clearance in the forest, where more ricewine for the elders and more dance for the gods is performed.
With loud shouting they walk back to the shrine, another final dance and that was it.

And on the following links, you find some very similar festival, since after all, most mountain communities in Okayama are the same.

Here are some lovely pictures of such a small village autumn festival.
http://www.e-village.jp/earth-c/html/9910oct/html/000050.html
http://www.e-village.jp/earth-c/html/9910oct/html/000052.html

Here is some kind of Lion Dance in Takebe, the village next to mine.


. . . CLICK here for Photos !

Gabi Greve

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Here is a great link with haiku and pictures about many Autumn festivals in Japan.


Copyright (C) 2000-2004 Yoshio Wada.

http://wadaphoto.jp/haiku.htm

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Some famous Aki Matsuri

September
Sep.7-9 Kakudate Festival: Kakudate Town, Akita
The second weekend of September: Hanamaki Festival: Iwate
Mid. September Towada Aki Matsuri: Towada-city, Aomori
Mid. September Kishiwada Danjiri Festival: Kishiwada-city, Osaka
Sep. 14-16 Morioka Fall Festival: Morioka-city Iwate
Sep. 14-16 Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Festival: Kamakura-city, Kanagawa
Sep. 22-24 Aizu Fall Festival: Aizuwakamatsu-city, Fukushima
Sep. 23-24 Ohara Hadaka Matsuri (naked men festival): Isumi-city, Chiba


October
Oct. 4-6 Nihonmatsu Chochin (lantern) Festival: Nihonmatsu-city Fukushima


. 日本三大くんち The three famous KUNCHI of Japan 　
(kunchi, o-kunchi, refers to autumn festivals in Kyushu)
長崎くんち（長崎県長崎市） Nagasaki
唐津くんち（佐賀県唐津市） Karatsu
博多おくんち（福岡県福岡市） Hakata

Oct. 7-9 Nagasaki Kunchi: Nagasaki-city, Nagasaki 長崎 くんち祭り
At the shrine Suwa Jinja.
Hakata Kunchi in Fukuoka city, October 23 & 24
Karatsu Kunchi in Karatsu city, Nobember 2 to 4
Wild dances, the mikoshi are carried from the shrine to a stop spot 御旅所 for more dances.

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Oct. 9-10 Takayama Fall Festival: Takayama-city, Gifu
Oct. 11-12, 2008 Nagoya Festival: Nagoya-city, Aichi

. Oct. 14-15, Nada Kenka Matsuri 灘けんか祭 　

Oct. 16-17 Nikko Toshogu Fall Festival: Nikko-city Tochigi

Mid. Oct. - early Nov.Hirosaki Castle Fall Foliage Festival: Hirosaki-city, Aomori
Oct. 22 Jidai Matsuri Heian Jingu Shrine: Kyoto
Oct. 30 - Nov.3, 2008 Saga Baloon Festival: Saga-city, Saga
Oct.24 - Nov.3, 2008 Shuri Castle Festival: Naha-city Okinawa


November
Nov. 1 - 24 Yahiko Kiku Festival (Chrysanthemum festival): Yahiko-mura, Niigata
Nov. 2-4 Karatsu Kunchi: Karatsu-city, Saga
Nov. 3 Hakone Daimyo Parade: Hakone Town, Kanagawa


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Village Children
Just for the fun of it, children harvesting rice by hand. The same sceene is also here in my village.
http://www.e-village.jp/earth-c/html/9910oct/html/000079.html

This is a site with many Japanese topics, made by children, but in English, so you might enjoy to see more.
http://www.e-village.jp/earth-c/html/9910oct/html/

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HAIKU

yamasato ni kodomo no egao aki matsuri

.. .. .. in the mountain village
.. .. .. all children laughing -
.. .. .. autumn festival

Gabi Greve, Okayama Japan


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町沸かす 子供みこしや 秋祭り　　
machi wakasu kodomo-mikoshi ya aki matsuri

the whole village in uproar -
the children's portable shrine !
autumn festival
(Tr. Gabi Greve)

Mochizuki san 望月琉巳子

There are more Japanese haiku on this link.
http://www2.tokai.or.jp/hikarino-ie/hp/satonomiti/h14.htm


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autumn festival -
a streak of sunshine
on the priest



Gabi Greve, Japan, 2007

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***** Oktoberfest (Germany)

***** Harvest Thanksgiving (Europe) Harvest Festival, Erntedankfest



Saijiki of Japanese Ceremonies and Festivals



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Autumn Cherry Blossom (shikizakura)

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Autumn Cherry Blossoms (shikizakura, Japan)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Late Autumn
***** Category: Plant

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Explanation

Cherry blossoms of the four seasons SHIKIZAKURA 四季桜
blossom twice a year, in spring and in autumn. They begin to bloom around the day of the Vernal Equinox and their white or pale pink blossoms are at their best around the same time as those of other kinds of cherry trees. Other types bloom from October through December. In Obara they are called 'SHIKIZAKURA' (four-season cherry blossom trees), while they are called 'Fudanzakura' (constantly -blooming cherry blossom trees), Fuyuzakura 冬桜　(winter cherry blossom trees) or Kanzakura　寒桜 (cold-season cherry blossom trees) in other parts of Japan. (See below for the Winter Kigo.)

SHIKIZAKURA has been designated as the village tree of Obara 小原の四季桜. The village has made considerable efforts to protect and propagate these objects of beauty, and there are about 6,000 trees throughout the village now.
http://www.kankou-obara.toyota.aichi.jp/shikizakura/top.html

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A four-season cherry tree owned by Mamoru Futamura a resident of Maebora, Obara, is estimated to be more than one hundred years old and was designated as a natural monument by the Aichi prefectural government.

In autumn Shikizakura start to bloom in the beginning of October, however they are at their best from the middle to the end of November.

Shikizakura is said to be a hybrid of Mame-zakura and Edo-higan-zakura.

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Festival of the Shikizakura Blossoms / Shikizakura Matsuri

Aichi Prefecture, Obara Town 小原の四季桜


http://www.kankou-obara.toyota.aichi.jp/shikizakura/matsuri.html

Links with beautiful pictures of Obara and the Cherry blossoms
http://hideitabi.com/travel/obara2004/main.html
http://www.japan-net.ne.jp/~nagayama/page/2340obara.html
http://homepage3.nifty.com/SWEET/2004kou/obaramura.htm

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North America

I was so unnerved at everyone's surprise when I wrote that there are cherry trees in bloom here in Palo Alto that I drove over to school and photographed them today. I also spent a lot of time in Google looking for blooming times and learned indeed that there are forms of Higan cherry that bloom in winter.

You will know them as pink and often weeping in habit, but apparently they can bloom white and can have broad non-weeping canopies. Our Palo Alto trees are not particularly spectacular as specimens, but since the city has planted them I assume they are a variant that requires little care, and that they were chosen for the street on either side of the gate to the cemetary so that things would not be quite so dismal for winter funerals.



white petals drop
on a funeral cortege
winter blooming cherry

Incidentally, I found that we have a cherry that is native to the eastern United States called the Black Cherry (prunus serotina). It's the tree for cherry furniture and flooring, and the bark is used for cough medicine:

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=66
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/factsheets/trees-new/prunus_serotina.html
http://www.honeygardens.com/hnews2.html

late winter cold
one last wild cherry cough drop
in my pocket

Linda Papanicolaou

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HAIKU

never too late
to start flowering -
autumn cherry blossoms

autumn cherry blossoms -
the cold wind feels
much warmer

enjoying a sip
of hot ricewine -
autumn cherry blossoms

Gabi Greve

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***** Winter Cherry Blossoms, fuyuzakura 冬桜
Cherry Blossom in the cold, kanzakura　寒桜
fuyuki no sakura 冬木の桜 (ふゆきのさくら) cherry tree in winter
karezakura 枯桜（かれざくら） withered cherry tree


***** pink winter cherry blossom hikanzakura 緋寒桜
..... Prunus cerasoides var. campanulata


Kigo for Late Winter.

Smaller trees which blossom twice, in December and April.


Look at more photos here:
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~db3t-kjmt/kigi/sakrookn.htm


山の日は　鏡のごとし　寒桜
yama no hi wa kagami no gotoshi kanzakura

the mountain sun
is like a mirror -
cherry blossoms in the cold
(Tr. Gabi Greve)

Takahama Kyoshi

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The PINK version grows in Kyushu and Okinawa and shows bright pink flowers during January to March.
Look here for some great photos from Amami Island.
http://amamicco.net/amami/amami14.html



***** Cherry Blossoms (sakura, Japan)
... and many related kigo



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Autumn Melancholy EUROPA

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Autumn melancholy

***** Location: Europa
***** Season: Autumn
***** Category: Humanity


Autumn Melancholy, Autumn Solitude ... There are many words for it.

Autumn evokes certain feelings as melancholie, solitude & world sickness...

Rilke wrote in one of his poems:

Herbst ...
wer jetzt kein Haus hat
baut sich keines mehr,
wer jetzt allein ist,
wird es lange bleiben ....


Autumn ...
He who does not have a home
Will not built one any more
He who is now alone
Will be so for a long time...



Compiled by Dietmar Tauchner
WHCgerman


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source : The Origa Haiku Gallery
Olga Hooper


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Japan

shuushi 秋思 (しゅうし) autumnal melancholy
shuui, shuu-i 秋意 しゅうい feeling of autumn
aki sabishi 秋さびし（あきさびし） feeling lonely in autumn
herbstliche Melancholie



人生や我が家もただの秋の宿　

Oh, the Human Life !
my own home just another
lodging for autumn

. Gabi Greve, Autumn 2006 .


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Texas

for us here in texas, after a brutal summer, the coming of autumn is a joyful thing. one friend wrote me this week that 'fall makes living in texas possible'.

yet the fogs of autumn do inspire solitude, whether or not one feels melancholy. it feels to me that fog is in some way the home of my spirit.

i have noticed on several years, that on the two days seven days on either side of the winter solstice (december 14 and december 28) that there is always a faint lavender fog. i have seen it on no other days of the year but these two. maybe you would like to watch for these lavender fogs this year, on the days seven days removed from the winter solstice in your hemisphere.

this early morning lavender fog has to be an 'earth tipping in its orbit'phenomena.

susan delphine delaney
WHCworldkigo



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a black hole
on the window pane
fall solitude

Dietmar Tauchner

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autumn solitude
an acorn bounces
through the oak

　　　　　Susan Delaney


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cat and the mouse
taking a nap -
autumn solitude


Gabi Greve
October 2004



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Herbst-Schwermut -
so leer der Bach
ohne die Wildenten

..... ..... ..... autumn melancoly -
..... ..... ..... so empty the brook
..... ..... ..... without wild ducks

Luise E., Italy


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autumnal melancholy -
the guitar in the corner
awaits my friends

- Shared by Tomislav Maretic -
Joys of Japan, 2012


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***** Autumn in the home Japan


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Autumn (aki)

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Autumn (aki) 秋

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: All Autumn
***** Category: Heavens and others

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Explanation

The autumn season in Japanese Haiku
is fixed according to the Asian lunar calendar from the beginning of autumn at the eighth of August until the seventh of November.
In reality the autumn in Central Japan lasts roughly from September to the end of November.
There are many kigo with relation to "Autumn", we will start to pick them up here.
Gabi Greve

WKD : The Asian Lunar Calendar


. . . . AUTUMN - the complete SAIJIKI

. Autumn Moon (aki no tsuki　秋の月) 　
The most important autumn kigo in all details.



Koshihata Village, Okayama, 2008
. Takadono 高殿鑪 in Koshihata .


In the agrarian rice cultures of Asia, spring for planting and autumn for harvesting were the most important seasons.
Autumn was also a time to give thanks to the deities for a bountiful harvest.

In the court poetry of the Heian period, autumn became a season for autumn melancholy and the fading away of things, especially the ending of a love affair.
aki　飽き to get bored with things, a homonym of AKI.


春 はただ花の一重に咲くばかり
物のあはれは秋ぞまされる

haru wa tada hana no hitoe ni saku bakari
mono no aware wa aki zo masareru

Spring
Blooms simply
in one petal of the cherry blossoms -
In autumn mono no aware
is at its highest.

Shuishu 拾遺集　/ 拾遺和歌集
Tr. Norinaga Motoori, Michael F. Marra


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見渡せば花も紅葉もなかりけり
浦の苫屋の秋の夕暮れ

miwataseba hana mo momiji mo nakarikeri
ura no tomaya no aki no yugure

As I look around
cherry blossoms or crimson leaves
are not to be found -
by the rush-thatched hut along the shore
in autumn's evening dusk.

Fujiwara no Teika, Shinkokin-shu

Maples and Japanese Literature - Hayashida Hajime
source : mohsho.image.coocan.jp



. Seasons ending - kigo collection .

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kigo for early autumn

aki meku 秋めく あきめく autumn at its best
..... akizuku 秋づく（あきづく）
..... akijimu 秋じむ（あきじむ）


autumn begins, hatsu aki 初秋 (はつあき)
..... aki hajime 秋初め（あきはじめ）
..... shoshuu 初秋（しょしゅう）
"new autumn", shinshuu 新秋（しんしゅう）
"head of autumn", shushuu 首秋（しゅしゅう）

beginning of autumn, jooshuu 上秋（じょうしゅう）
mooshuu 孟秋（もうしゅう）
chooshuu 肇秋（ちょうしゅう）, ranshuu 蘭秋（らんしゅう）

early autumn, sooshuu 早秋（そうしゅう）
dooshuu 桐秋（とうしゅう）
bonshuu 盆秋（ぼんしゅう）


autumn is "thin", aki asashi 秋浅し（あきあさし）
early into autumn, akiguchi 秋口（あきぐち）


"autumn stands up", risshuu 立秋 (りっしゅう)
aki tatsu 秋立つ（あきたつ）

autumn of this morning, kesa no aki 今朝の朝（けさのあさ）
autumn of today, kyoo no aki 今日の秋（きょうのあき)

autumn is coming, aki kuru 秋来る（あきくる）
aki saru 秋さる（あきさる）

entering autumn, aki ni iru 秋に入る（あきにいる）

. WKD : Beginning of a Season .


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kigo for mid-autumn

shuusha 秋社 (しゅうしゃ) autumn shrine
aki no shanichi 秋の社日（あきのしゃにち） day of the autumn shrine visit

. Tanokami 田の神 Field Kami and festivals .

"Spring Shrine" shunsha 春社


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kigo for late autumn

banshuu 晩秋 (ばんしゅ) late autumn
..... oso aki 晩秋（おそあき）
..... kishuu 季秋（きしゅう）
matsushuu 末秋（まつしゅう）
sue no aki 末の秋（すえのあき）



. yuku aki 行く秋 (ゆくあき) 　autumn is leaving
"fleeting autumn" (tr. Higginson)
and more kigo about this part of the season.



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Autumn in England

silent willow leather
village green abandoned-
crimson leaves fall

Paul Oxberry, 2007


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By Soji
http://www.haikupoetshut.com/



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"The turning of the leaves in the American autumn is, in its own way, wonderful, but it lacks a poignancy and an elegance suggestive of the passing of time.
There is nothing in the world as all-encompassing as Japanese nature. Religion, art, history and literature are latent within it.""
Masako Shirasu 白洲正子 (1910-98)

Reference : Masako Shirasu
Famous collector and writer about Japanese art and antiques.
Her husband was the politician Jiro Shirasu 白洲次郎.

. Buaisō 武相荘 Buaiso villa .
home of Jirō Shirasu and his wife Masako in Machida, Tokyo.


Autumn Haiku Collection and Thoughts
Roger Pulvers, September 2010


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. Autumn: Reflections on the Season 　
By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
October 2010



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秋たつや何におどろく陰陽師 (おんみょうじ)
aki tatsu ya nani ni odoroku onmyooji
(Blyth is quoted as writing "inyôshi".)

autumn begins -
why is the fortune-teller
looking so surprised?
Tr. Gabi Greve


. Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 in Edo .

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autumn dusk
scarecrow points
to the rising moon

Philip D Noble
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~philipdnoble/autumn.htm


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


one by one
everyone has left
autumn wind

© Haiga by Jerry Dreesen


秋立や寝れば目につく雪の山
aki tatsu ya nereba me ni tsuku yuki no yama

fall's here --
lying down, all I see
are snowy mountains
Tr. Chris Drake

This early autumn hokku is from 7/6 (August 27) of 1808, the day before the 7/7 Tanabata Star Festival, when Issa is in his hometown, having returned four days earlier. He's making the trip in order to attend the Buddhist 33rd year memorial service for his grandfather and to discuss his father's will with his half-brother and mother-in-law. Unlike Edo, where Issa is living in 1808, his hometown is surrounded in the distance by high mountains, and signs of autumn appear earlier here than in the city.

At first Issa doesn't really notice the peaks, and if you're standing up inside it's hard to see them. When he lies down on a floor or on some grass, however, his perspective changes and he has time to really look. He's amazed at how white the mountains actually are already. You could tell fall had arrived even if you didn't have a calendar. There seems to be a subliminal link between physically lying down, the snow cover descending the mountain slopes, and the year beginning to grow cooler, almost as if it were getting ready to lie down. Lying down also suggests closeness to the floor and the earth, and I wonder if this hokku doesn't suggest an old, childhood way of feeling time that is gradually returning to Issa's consciousness.

Chris Drake

. Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 in Edo .


天広く地ひろく秋もゆく秋ぞ
ten hiroku chi hiroku aki mo yuku aki zo

vast sky
vast earth - autumn is now
a passing autumn . . .



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http://crossspot.net/hoophorn/IkebanaHaiga.jpg

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Renga by Isabelle, Sakuo and Gabi (translating a bit)
Kigo Discussion Group, September 2005

asa no kumo
aki no owari o
ori ni keri

izuko no aki mo
onaji aki kana

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morning spider
weaving
end of summer

where ever there is autumn
it is the same autumn
... ... ...

Spinne am Morgen
das Ende des Sommers
webt sie

wo immer es Herbst ist
der gleiche Herbst

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WHCworldkigo/message/2130


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*****. Autum Cherry Shikizakura (Japan)

***** . Autumn Equinox (aki higan) Japan

***** . Autumn deepens, autumn is deep (aki fukashi) Japan

***** . Autumn Festival (aki matsuri) Japan

***** . Autumn Leaves (momiji) Japan. yellow leaves, colored leaves

***** . Autumn Melancholy Europe


***** "loneliness in autumn" autumn melancholy,
aki sabu 秋寂ぶ (あきさぶ)
SABU, means also "getting rusty", autumn is rusting. It may also hint to the color of the autumn leaves.



***** Cold weather in autumn, winter and spring . .
KIGO LIST



***** Withered tips, withered scene, uragare 末枯 うらがれ
ura garuru 末枯るる（うらがるる）
kigo for late autumn

kiete yuku no mo uragare no hotoke kana

Fields dying off:
the underside of grasses frozen
hour of my death.

© Gokei

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***** Fine weather in autumn, akibare　秋晴れ
..... aki no hare　秋の晴れ
..... aki biyori 秋日和　あきびより



***** Autumn evening, autumn dusk,
aki no kure　秋の暮
Details are here:
. Autumn dusk, autumn twilight (aki no kure) Japan



***** Autumn night, aki no yuube, aki no yoru
秋の夕べ　。　秋の夜
You can feel the red shine of the late sun in the sky, but know it is over soon. So the feeling of things passing, loneliness and melancoly are very strong. Same as in autumn dusk.


***** Autumn deepens (aki fukashi)


***** Seasons coming to an end ..
relevant kigo for all seasons, including AUTUMN.



***** AUTUMN FOOD ... ... a KIGO LIST

***** . AUTUMN KIGO LIST ... Category SEASON


***** . HUMANITY and autumn kigo ... LIST


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***** Lamplight in autumn, lanterns in autumn (shuutoo) Japan


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kigo for early autumn

***** Lingering Heat (zansho 残暑　nokoru atsusa 残る暑さ）：
shuusho 秋暑（しゅうしょ）, aki atsushi 秋暑し（あきあつし）
sensho 餞暑（せんしょ）"farewell heat"

This referst to hot days after the official beginning of Autumn according to the the Asian lunar calendar of risshuu　立秋, August 8 . The word "lingering" zan in Japanese, gives the haiku poet a feeling of "not for long any more", and the heat will be easier to bear.
zanshoo lets us feel the heat of summer, whereas
shuusho lets us feel a welcome "cool" heat of autumn

A warm spell after it has been cool for a while is rather welcome and called
warm autumn day, aki atsushi 秋暑し


lingering heat
the squirrel runs from
green to brown

Owen Burkhart

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Autumn deepens (aki fukashi) Japan. Basho's famous haiku translations


Spring (haru, Japan)
Summer (natsu, Japan)
Winter (fuyu, Japan)

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Ash Wednesday

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Ash Wednesday, Aschermittwoch

***** Location: Europe, worldwide
***** Season: Early Spring
***** Category: Observance

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In the Christian calendar,
Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent.

It occurs forty days before Easter not counting Sundays (which are not included in Lent); it occurs forty-four days before Good Friday counting Sundays. Its placement varies each year, according to the date of Easter. The date can vary from early February to as late as the second week in March.

Ash Wednesday falls on the following dates in the following years:

* 2004 - February 25
* 2005 - February 9
* 2006 - March 1
* 2007 - February 21
* 2008 - February 6
* 2009 - February 25
* 2010 - February 17
* 2011 - March 9
* 2012 - February 22
* 2013 - February 13
* 2014 - March 5
* 2015 - February 18
* 2016 - February 10
* 2017 - March 1
* 2018 - February 14
* 2019 - March 6



Some Christians treat Ash Wednesday as a day for remembering one's mortality. Masses are traditionally held on this day at which attendees are blessed with ashes by the priest ministering the ceremony. The minister marks the forehead of each celebrant with black ashes, leaving a mark that the worshipper traditionally leaves on his or her forehead until sundown, before washing it off. This symbolism recalls the ancient Near Eastern tradition of throwing ash over one's head signifying repentance before God (as related numerous times in the Bible). Often these Ash Wednesday ashes are made by burning Palm leaves from the previous year's Palm Sunday celebrations and mixing them with olive oil as a fixative. In Roman Catholicism Ash wednesday is a day of fasting and abstinence. The penitential psalms are read.

Being the first day of Lent,
it comes the day after Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras, the last day of the Carnival season.

In certain parts of the United Kingdom, Ash Wednesday similarly involves the ritual consumption of the food hash.

In New Orleans, Louisiana it is sometimes jokingly referred to as
"Trash Wednesday" due to the large amount of refuse typically left in the streets by the previous day's Fat Tuesday Celebrations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Wednesday


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Australia

Ash Wednesday (bushfires) refers to major bushfires that occurred on February 16, 1983 across Victoria and South Australia. 75 lives were lost and over 2500 homes destroyed.


Here is an interesting conversation on the topic of this
Ash Wednesday in Australia:
Isabelle Prondzynski asking and Revd Ruth Dudley answering

1. Did the fire actually coincide with Ash Wednesday, so that there is a double appropriateness in the name for that particular day?

Right!!
The fires occurred on Ash Wednesday - and that is why the term is used - in much the same way as the term 7/11 is used. They were the Ash Wednesday fires.

2. If not, would Australians associate the words "Ash Wednesday" with the fire or with the religious holy day?

I guess it depends on context, but unless you were actually discussing bushfires, I'd say that those Australians who are in any way "churchy" would see the term "Ash Wednesday" as referring to the first day of Lent. This is my immediate take on the term.

However, in South Australia in particular, if you were talking about fires or the heat, or any other related subject & made any sort of reference to Ash Wednesday, the assumption would be that you were talking about *the* Ash Wednesday of the fires. Nevertheless, the term still denotes the religious holy day.

Thanks to both of you.

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Germany
.. .. .. .. .. .. Aschermittwoch
Seit dem 6. Jahrhundert bildet der Mittwoch vor dem 6. Sonntag vor Ostern („Invocabit”) den Auftakt zur österlichen Fastenzeit. Unter Einbeziehung von Karfreitag und Karsamstag und unter Ausschluß der Sonntage ergeben sich 40 Fastentage vor dem höchsten christlichen Feiertag, dem Gedächtnis an die Auferstehung Christi. Weil die Büßer in der Kirche an diesem Tag nach alter Tradition mit Asche bestreut wurden, erhielt dieser Tag den Namen Aschermittwoch. Seit dem 10. Jahrhundert läßt sich die Austeilung des Aschenkreuzes an diesem Tag nachweisen. Mancherorts hieß der Aschermittwoch auch Pfeffertag, weil Langschläfer mit grünen Ruten aus den Federn „gepfeffert” wurden.

Die Asche des Aschermittwochs wird seit dem 12. Jahrhundert aus den am Palmsonntag übriggebliebenen Palmzweigen des Vorjahres gewonnen.

Auf Vorschlag von Paul Claudel fand nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg in Paris erstmals ein „Aschermittwoch der Künstler” statt, eine Idee, die Josef Kardinal Frings in Köln 1950 aufgriff. Seitdem treffen in Köln alljährlich Bischof und Künstler zu einer religiösen Standortbestimmung zusammen. Weltweit findet der Aschermittwoch der Künstler in über 100 Städten statt.
(worldwide there is an Ash Wednesday of the Artists)

Read more about local customs in Germany on that day
http://www.religioeses-brauchtum.de/fruehjahr/aschermittwoch.html

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Ireland

Ash Wednesday is National No Smoking Day in Ireland!

‘Love is in the Clean Air you breathe!’ aims to prompt people to give up smoking

http://www.irishhealth.com/?level=4&id=6939

JUST over one-in-10 people decided to quit smoking because of the ban in the workplace, a national survey shows.
And almost a third of people who stopped smoking on Ash Wednesday last year failed to stay off cigarettes.
http://newsfeed.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/story.asp?j=183195226571&p=y83y95zz7x4x&n=183195227070

According to a survey conducted by the Irish Cancer Society some 25% of smokers would use the occasion to try to give up the habit. The most likely group to attempt to stop were the 25-34 age group, with under-25s the least likely.
http://www.irishemigrant.com/article.asp?iArticleID=40467&iCategoryID=10


Ireland has made huge strides forward during the past year in reducing smoking by banning it in *all* workplaces, i.e. including those of restaurant waiters and bartenders. It caused a huge furore when introduced, but seems to be well appreciated now by most smokers and non smokers alike. Around the border, there is of course the usual cross-border business opportunity -- busloads of smokers travelling to take their pints in Northern Ireland (6 counties out of Ireland's 32, which are part of the United Kingdom), and busloads of non smokers travelling to the Republic of Ireland (the remaining 26 counties) for a smoke-free drink.

ash wednesday --
forty ash free days
to easter

Isabelle Prondzynski


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Japan

hai no suiyoobi 灰の水曜日 Ash Wednesday. Aschermittwoch

. Japanese Kigo, Christina Festivals .
kigo for early spring


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Ash Wednesday is also the title of a long poem by T. S. Eliot.

Although I do not hope to turn again
Although I do not hope
Although I do not hope to turn

http://www.love-poems.me.uk/eliot_sweeney_ash_wednesday.htm

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Ash Wednesday -
a warbler in the plum
that late neighbor planted

Eiko Yachimoto
http://www.poetrylives.com/SimplyHaiku/SHv1n4/Yachimoto1_haiku.html

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by the third forehead smudge
I remember --
it's Ash Wednesday

Paul David Mena, Haiku in Low Places, Ltd.
http://haiku.cc.ehime-u.ac.jp/~shiki/shiki.archive/html/0003/0274.html


ash crucifix
the mark of His death
on my forehead

Debi Bender
http://haiku.cc.ehime-u.ac.jp/~shiki/shiki.archive/html/0003/0285.html

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in the church
candlelight
the ashes on her forehead

Mark Whittsett


incense drifting upward
he raises a blackened thumb
to my forehead

Alyson Ludek


bacon on her plate
she remembered Ash Wednesday
. . . too late

Lauren Taylor
http://www.millikin.edu/haiku/courses/globalSpring2003/AshWednesdayKukai.html

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We wear black crosses,
Dismissed to a holy Lent.
How shall we keep it?

Lionel E. Deimel
http://www.deimel.org/poetry/church_year.htm

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dust on dust
where trees will later grow
ash wednesday

Isabelle Prondzynski

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Dreams of peace.
The minister's blessing
cross of ash.
Asahi Haikuist Network, March 6, 2009

Träume von Frieden
und der Pontifex segnet
mit dem Aschenkreuz.

Beate Conrad

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Ash Wednesday---
a Hindu woman sits
facing a Catholic

Shared by Fred Masarani
Joys of Japan, February 2012



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Mardi Gras 2012

Mardi Gras in New Orleans is one of the biggest Carnival celebrations in the world, in/famously known for its "tradition of women baring their breasts in exchange for beads and trinkets."

Mardi Gras
one by one girls flash
their breasts for beads

Chen-ou Liu

The New Orleans Carnival season, with roots in preparing for the start of the Christian season of Lent, starts after Twelfth Night, on Epiphany (January 6). It is a season of parades, balls (some of them masquerade balls), and king cake parties. It has traditionally been part of the winter social season; at one time "coming out" parties for young women at débutante balls were timed for this season.

Celebrations are concentrated for about two weeks before and through Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras in French), the day before Ash Wednesday. Usually there is one major parade each day (weather permitting); many days have several large parades. The largest and most elaborate parades take place the last five days of the season. In the final week of Carnival, many events large and small occur throughout New Orleans and surrounding communities.
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far away from Mardis Gras
the faithful prepare for Lent
the rest plan to play

Lisette Root

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***** Carneval

***** Shrovetide Maslenitsa (Russia)

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. Christian Celebrations in Japanese Kigo .


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Armistice Day

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Armistice Day
Poppy Day, Rememberance Day, Veterans Day

***** Location: Europe
***** Season: Winter (November 11)
***** Category: Observance

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Explanation

quote
The term "armistice" means a cessation of hostilities as a prelude to peace negotiations. In the context of the First World War 'the armistice' is generally referred to in context of the agreement between the Germans and the Allies to end the war on November 11, 1918.

Germany may have agreed an armistice on November 11, but Bulgaria called it quits on 30 September of the same year, 1918. Turkey and Austria-Hungary - the latter having essentially sparked the war in the first place - concluded an armistice within days of each other, on 30 October and 3 November 1918; both were exhausted and could no longer continue to prosecute the war.



However the most significant armistice was signed at 5 a.m. on the morning of 11 November 1918, and came into effect six hours later at 11 a.m. (hence the oft-quoted 'eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month').

With German military morale in evident decline on the Western Front and revolution brewing at home - Kaiser Wilhelm II was himself obliged to abdicate on 9 November 1918 - the German government determined to negotiate an armistice with the Allies on 6 November, having issued preliminary diplomatic feelers two days earlier.

Consequently on 7 November the German Army Chief of Staff Paul von Hindenburg exchanged a series of telegrams with the Supreme Allied Commander, Ferdinand Foch, to agree a date, time and place for formal negotiations.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/armistice.htm


Reference : Armistice Day


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November 11, is the anniversary of the Armistice which was signed in the Forest of Compiegne by the Allies and the Germans in 1918, ending World War I, after four years of conflict.
At 5 A.M. on Monday, November 11, 1918 the Germans signed the Armistice, an order was issued for all firing to cease; so the hostilities of the First World War ended. This day began with the laying down of arms, blowing of whistles, impromptu parades, closing of places of business. All over the globe there were many demonstrations; no doubt the world has never before witnessed such rejoicing.

In November of 1919, President Woodrow Wilson issued his Armistice Day proclamation. The last paragraph set the tone for future observances:
To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nation.

In 1927 Congress issued a resolution requesting President Calvin Coolidge to issue a proclamation calling upon officials to display the Flag of the United States on all government buildings on November 11, and inviting the people to observe the day in schools and churches...But it was not until 1938 that Congress passed a bill that each November 11 "shall be dedicated to the cause of world peace and ...hereafter celebrated and known as Armistice Day."
http://www.patriotism.org/veterans_day/


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One of the greatest anti-war songs, "Willie McBride"
also called "The Green Fields of France"
(written by Eric Bogle)

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Lyrics and song by the Fureys here
source : www.youtube.com


In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

by Lt. Col. John McCrae, MD, (Canadian Army) 1872-1918
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poppies in the field –
the old soldier picks one
for his buttonhole

Adelaide Shaw, USA

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Veteran's Day -
pondering the poppy's
black center, too.

Carole MacRury, Canada


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Sorrowful women,
Raindrops are kissing the earth
Where the poppies grow.

Doodles, free poetry


armistice day -
dodging bullets
in a hail storm

bridgetjanejone


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Remembrance Day–
the thin sound of a bugle
wavers in the rain

John Crook
http://www.theheronsnest.com/haiku/0302V7935/thn_rc_2.html



Armistice Day
an old soldier dozing
on the stage

J. C. Herring
http://www.theheronsnest.com/haiku/0211Z9753/thn_issue.h5.html



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Remembrance Day speech..
young girls stretch a banner
that reads Peace Is the Way

Chen-ou Liu
Canada, 2012


"There is no Way to Peace , Peace is the Way"
is a quote from A J MusteLyrics by Sr Jewel (using quotes from Thich Nhat Hanh)

source : www.plumvillage.org/songs


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Rememberance Day
the busker stops playing
for a minute

- Shared by Bee Jay -
Joys of Japan, November 2012


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The First World War officially ended on the eleventh hour on the eleventh day on the eleventh month, 1918 - Armistice Day. The act of a Two Minute Silence began on the anniversary of Armistice Day in 1919 by those who did not want to forget the millions killed, injured and affected.

Now generally called Remembrance Day, millions of people stop what they are doing and observe a Two Minute Silence at 11am on 11 November each year in the memory of those who have been affected in all conflicts.

The Royal British Legion is the nation's custodian of Remembrance, ensuring that people remember those who have given their lives for the freedom we enjoy today.

Remembrance Day . . .
the sound of trumpets
breaks the silence

- Shared by Deepi Sair -
Haiku Culture Magazine, 2013


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Poppy flowers (keshi no hana) Japan.


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All Souls' Day

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All Souls' Day, Allerseelen

See All Saints’ Day .. All Souls’ Day

. Hallowe'en, Halloween .


shoreisai 諸霊祭 (しょれいさい) All Souls' Day
shisha no hi 死者の日（ししゃのひ）"day of the dead"
hookyoo shishasai 奉教諸死者祭（ほうきょうししゃさい）


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Allerseelen
das Flackern in den Augen
eines Kürbis


All Souls' Eve
the flicker in the eyes
of a pumpkin

Dietmar Tauchner
http://www.haiku-heute.de/Haiku/haiku.html

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FOOD FOR THE DEAD

by John J. Dunphy

(published in RAW NerVZ HAIKU X:1)

Many families in old Ireland set out food for the dead on All Souls Eve, since it was believed that deceased relatives often returned to their homes on that night. My ancestors observed this custom, and a story has been passed down in my family concerning one particular All Souls Eve.

Food had been placed on the table. A candle burned next to the food to make the dead feel welcomed. While the rest of the family slept, two children slipped from their beds and hid so they could watch the food unobserved. About midnight a pale, gaunt man entered the house, ate his fill and silently departed.

My great-uncle, who related the story to me, noted it was logical to assume that the stranger was one of Ireland's many beggars who availed themselves of food left for the dead on All Souls Eve. At the time, however, some of our ancestors reached a different conclusion.

All Souls Day
children search for footprints
leading from the graveyard

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THE GIFTS OF THE DEAD

In Sicily on the night before All Soul's Day, many gifts are prepared for the children in the houses.
They are the gifts that the dead make to the children of their families. On the same day, the confectioner's shops sell bones-, skeletons- and skulls-shaped cakes made from almond paste.

sweet Death
children enjoy her
without fear

Moussia - Roma

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All Saints’ Day

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All Saints’ Day

***** Location: Worldwide
***** Season:　Late autumn, November 1
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banseisetsu 万聖節 (ばんせいせつ) All Saints’ Day
shoseijin no shukujitsu 諸聖人の祝日（しょせいじんのしゅくじつ）
shoseitobi 諸聖徒日（しょせいとび）
seitosai 聖徒祭（せいとさい）/ seijinsai 聖人祭（せいじんさい）


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All Saints' Day is a Christian festival, remembering those dead who do not have their own proper saints' days, and rejoicing in their memory -- it is also the patronal festival of many churches (including mine, in both Kenya and Ireland!), and transcends Christian denominations, being celebrated by all.

In Belgium as in Ireland, All Saints' tide is a mid-term school holiday, used by most simply to rest, travel or party.

Isabelle Prondzynski


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GERMANY

ALLERHEILIGEN AND ALLERSEELEN

Days remembering and commemorating the dead have been observed by peoples all over the world. In the northern countries, as days grew shorter and nights longer and as the year wound down, it became a time to focus on the mystery of human death. Especially in Germany there are, in November, many commemorations of the dead. Allerheiligen (All Saints) and Allerseelen (All Souls) are celebrated in Catholic areas at the beginning of November. November 9 is the commemoration of the Kristallnacht (crystal night) pogrom. On the 3rd Sunday in November the German Volkstrauertag (Memorial Day) is observed. On the last Sunday before Advent is Totensonntag (Sunday of the Dead) when Protestant Christians remember their dead. It corresponds to the Catholic All Souls Day.

On the Wednesday before, the original Protestant "Buss- und Bettag" (Day of Repentance and Prayer) takes place. The last Sunday before Advent is also the last Sunday of the Church Year. The new Church Year is ushered in with Advent and the expectation of Christmas.

All Saints/All Souls became focal points of veneration of the dead ever since Pope Gregory in 835 initiated the church wide celebration. Dates still fluctuate somewhat. In Bavaria and Austria the time between October 30 through November 8 is celebrated as "Seelenwoche" (All Souls Week). Hallowtide is a time to remember and honor the dead, and it is a time when the "veil between the worlds," this world and the next, is "thinner" than normally.

By the end of the middle ages, the celebration of All hallows Eve was an established part of the calendar of the Roman Catholic Church. However, after the Reformation, Protestants rejected Halloween and did not recognize All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day, because of strict adherence to the Ten Commandments, among which honoring the dead is not mentioned. Good deeds should not be carried out for the dead, but for the living. However, the Lutheran Church was not able to keep people from their need to commemorate their dead. Thus "Totensonntag" (Sunday of the Dead) was initiated, to be celebrated by Protestants on the Sunday before the first Sunday in Advent.
http://www.serve.com/shea/germusa/allsaint.htm

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MEXICO

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_dead

What is missing from that article is any mention of the fantastic folk-art imagery of the dead (Memento mori) that is often associated with the celebration, or how elaborate some of the altars or shrines (Ofrendas) might be. The following article gives one example of each:
http://www.houstonculture.org/cr/diade.html

The art of José Guadalupe Posada (or similiar macabre art of fancifully dressed skeletons) is associated with El Día de los Muertos:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Guadalupe_Posada
http://www.houstonculture.org/mexico/posada.html

PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) in the US even did a program on the Mexican observance of the Day of the Dead titled "Food for the Ancestors":
http://www.pbs.org/foodancestors/cult.html
http://www.pbs.org/foodancestors/art.html

This webpage has may examples of decorated gravesites and ofrendas (altars).
http://muertos.palomar.edu/dayofthedead.htm

More Día de los Muertos links:
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/feature/daydeadindex.html
http://oaxacalive.com/muertos.htm

November 1 is also an official Mexican government holiday: Informe Presidencial - the President's state of the nation address to the legislature, coinciding with the Catholic "Día de Todos Santos (All Saints' Day)
http://www.mexweb.com/holidays.htm

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Philippines
by roh mih

All Saints Day--
candles melting
in every gate

NOTE:
On the night of All Saints Day, the typical Filipino household traditionally lights a candle (or candles) and places it by the door or by the gate. The candle is supposed to scare ghosts or spirits away. But the tradition also reminds us of our mortality, and how short our life is on earth.
Here's a text message I received today from an elderly woman among the indigenous people in the northern part of the Philippines:

Remembering those gone first is recognizing our mortaility and honoring our short passage with faith and fidelity.


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聖者には永き死後ありリラの花
seija ni wa nagaki shigo ari rira no hana

saints spent
a long time in the afterlife -
lilac blossoms

Katayama Yumiko 片山由美子



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all saints' morning
my neighbor's witch
drooping

susan delphine delaney

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All Saints' Day joy --
great hymns of eternal rest
-- choir of the living.

Isabelle Prondzynski

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after All Saints'day -
withered flowers
on the tombs

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après la Toussaint -
des fleurs flétries
sur les tombes

¤

Marcel PELTIER (Belgium)

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***** All Souls' Day (Allerseelen in German)
All Souls' Day is a Roman Catholic festival, remembering thedead (and possibly tidying up graveyards).

***** Halloween, Hallowe’en North America

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BACKUP ONLY

All Saints' Day

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banseisetsu 万聖節 (ばんせいせつ)








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August (hachigatsu)

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August (hachigatsu 八月)

***** Location:　Japan. Worldwide
***** Season: Early Autumn
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Haiku hachigatsu in the Edo period relates to the climate of present-day September,
but some festivals are dated in our present-day August.

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August, eighth month, hachigatsu 八月 (はちがつ)

other names for this month (the 7th month in the Asian lunar calendar)

fumizuki 文月 (ふみづき) , fuzuki 文月（ふづき）
"month of the Tanabata Festival", tanabata zuki
七夕月（たなばたづき）
fumihiroge zuki 文披月（ふみひろげづき）
ominaeshizuki 女郎花月（おみなえしづき）

"first month of autumn" aki hazuki 秋初月（あきはづき）
"cool month" ryoogetsu 涼月（りょうげつ）
new month, shingetsu 親月（しんげつ）
sengetsu 餞月（せんげつ）, rangetsu 蘭月（らんげつ）,
soogetsu 相月（そうげつ）
nanayo zuki 七夜月（ななよづき）
medeaizuki めであい月（めであいづき）

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

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

related kigo to this month

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

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

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

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

. September (kugatsu 九月) .

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August---Looking up at the Night Sky
Inahata Teiko

　It is autumn on the calendar, after passing the risshu (the first day of autumn, about 8 August). Even though the hot days still continue, we feel a little relieved when these days are called zansho (lingering heat). Autumn is surely stealing up to us from nowhere, although we don't realize it. And it is these days that we are conscious of coolness of autumn in the morning and in the evening. We can find the keen sense of the season of autumn in a waka poem, composed by Fujiwara-no Toshiyuki, which is in the collection of the "Kokinwakashu ":

aki kinu to ... Autumn has come
me ni wa sayaka ni ... Without realizing clearly
miene domo ... With eyes, however,
kaze no oto nizo ... The sound of wind
odorokarenuru. .... Surprises us.


In haiku, the same sense can be recognized in the seasonal word shinryo (new coolness). It is not too much to say that the delicate sensibility toward the turning of seasons stems from the high spiritual culture which the Japanese have gained from living in harmony with nature.
It is important that we should pass down the seasonal words which our ancestors chose and formed .

As the heat, as well as the temperature, decreases in severity, the air gets clearer and the sky gets more beautiful. So you have more chances to look up at the night sky, don't you?

　In August there are many seasonal words related to the night sky like hoshizukiyo (starlit night=stars like the moon night), hoshimatsuri (Star Festival), tanabata (the Festival of the Weaver), ryusei (a shooting star).

　But recently the town is too bright to see the stars in the night sky. It is a pity that we might lose the beautiful starry sky as a result of our pursuit of a comfortable life in the city.

　In August there are also many seasonal words regarding the Bon Festival, welcoming the ancestral spirits. The way of life and the spirit of the Japanese, as an agricultural people, are reflected on these words. And also August 15th is the day commemorating our defeat in the World War II. Never forget the day. We should reflect on our past conduct, deeply think our history and offer prayers to the deceased. We don't think that the day of August 15 accidentally falls on the O-Bon.

©　Inahata Teiko, NATURE AND OUR LIFE


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Worldwide use

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

Calendar reference kigo

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Things found on the way


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Related words


***** August 1 (hassaku)
August second :nochi no futsuka kyuu　後の二日灸



***** Bon Festival (o-bon) Japan.



***** Calendar reference kigo


. WKD : August - KIGO CALENDAR .


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