Fallen leaves (ochiba)

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Fallen leaves (ochiba) and related kigo

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: All Winter . see below
***** Category: Plant

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Explanation

fallen leaves, falling leaves, ochiba 落葉 おちば

rake for sweeping fallen leaves, ochiba kaki 落葉掻（おちばかき）
... sweeping fallen leaves, ochiba haku 落葉はく
basket for collecting fallen leaves, ochiba kago 落葉籠（おちばかご）

time for the leaves to fall, ochiba doki 落葉時（おちばどき）
mountain (forest) with fallen leaves, ochiba yama 落葉山（おちばやま）


withered leaves, kareha 枯葉 (かれは)
When we walk among these leaves in a forest, they often make a special rustling sound, associated with the sadness, solitude and the hardships of the cold winter days of the Edo period and before that time.
"rustling leaves" is not a kigo, though, since it can also refer to leaves still on the trees which are rustling in the breeze. You have to specify this is your haiku.


decayed leaves, kuchiba 朽葉 (くちば)
They can be used as compost in spring. Many of our local farmers go to the woods in winter and carry loads of decayed leaves to their fields in an attempt to use natural fertilizers. This practise was common use before the advent of chemical fertilizers.


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leaves of trees, ko no ha 木の葉 (このは)

falling leaves making a sound like rain, ko no ha no ame
... 木の葉の雨（このはのあめ）
falling leaves making a sound like sleet,
... ko no ha no shigure 木の葉の時雨（このはのしぐれ）
It reminds the Japanes of the sound of rain or sleet in winter. Here the action of falling and the sound this produces is the main theme of the kigo.

leaves falling down, leaves scattering, ko no ha chiru
木の葉散る（このはちる）
burning tree leaves, ko no ha yaku 木の葉焼く（このはやく）


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Fallen leaves from special trees:
all are kigo for early winter

"red leaves are falling down", momiji chiru 紅葉散る (もみじちる )
... chiru momiji 散紅葉（ちりもみじ）

larch trees shedding needles,
karamatsu chiru 落葉松散る (からまつちる)




fallen leaves from the big magnolia,
Magnolia hypoleuca, hoo ochiba 朴落葉（ほおおちば）




fallen leaves from the persimmon tree,
kaki ochiba 柿落葉, 柿落ち葉（かきおちば）




fallen leaves from the gingko tree,
ichoo ochiba 銀杏落葉 いちょうおちば



one leaf of the paulownia tree, kiri hitoha 桐一葉
(this may also be placed in early autumn, see below)

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yellow (leaves) falling, kooraku 黄落 (こうらく)
is a kigo for late autumn.
This may save the day of the misunderstandings, see below?!



From the fallen leaves it leads us to the withered trees, bare trees, kareki koboku 枯木 and related winter kigo.


For details about these trees, see related kigo below.

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kigo for late mid-spring

kashiwa ochiba 柏落葉 (かしわおちば)
fallen leaves of oak trees
..... kashiwa chiru 柏散る（かしわちる）



kigo for late spring

haru ochiba 春落葉 はるおちば fallen leaves in spring
..... haru no ochiba 春の落葉（はるのおちば）
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kigo for early summer

. sugi ochiba, sugiochiba 杉落葉（すぎおちば）
fallen needles (leaves) of cedar 　

tokiwagi ochiba 常盤木落葉 ときわぎおちば
(needles and leaves of evergreens falling)

matsu ochiba 松落葉（まつおちば） pine needles falling
松葉散る（まつばちる）、散松葉（ちりまつば）
momi ochiba 樅落葉（もみおちば） fir needles falling
hinoki ochiba 檜落葉（ひのきおちば） hinoki cyrpess needles falling

shii ochiba 椎落葉（しいおちば） quinquapin leaves falling
kashi ochiba 樫落葉（かしおちば） kashi oak leaves falling
kusu ochiba 樟落葉（くすおちば） camphor tree leaves falling

hiiragi ochiba 柊落葉（ひいらぎおちば） holly leaves falling
tsuge ochiba 黄楊落葉（つげおちば） boxwood leaves falling

mochi ochiba 冬青落葉（もちおちば） Aquifoliaceae
mokkoku ochiba 木檞落葉（もっこくおちば）

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Some autumn kigo for special leaves


kigo for early autumn

. kiri hitoha 桐一葉 (きりひとは) one paulownia leaf
..... hitoha, hito ha 一葉（ひとは）one leaf
..... ichiyo, ichi yo
hitoha otsu 一葉落つ（ひとはおつ）one leaf falls
hitoha no aki 一葉の秋（ひとはのあき）autumn of one leaf
kiri no aki 桐の秋（きりのあき）paulownia in autumn


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kigo for mid-autumn

. yanagi chiru 柳散る
leaves of the willow are falling
chiru yanagi 散る柳（ちるやなぎ）
yanagi kibamu 柳黄ばむ（やなぎきばむ）willow leaves getting yellow


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kigo for late autumn

. itchoo chiru 銀杏散る (いちょうちる) gingko leaves falling



nanoki chiru, na no ki chiru 名の木散る (なのきちる)
leaves from famous special trees are falling
na no ki, lit. "trees with a name"



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Why are fallen leaves a kigo for WINTER in Japan?

Most of us Europeans and the haiku friends in North America see them falling in autumn.... Even here in the rural Japan of Okayama they start falling in october, but it takes well into december until they are all gone.

In Japanese traditional poetry and in haiku, autumn is mostly associated with the beautiful colored leaves, momiji, and parties of viewing these beautiful leaves. In contrast to these autumn activities, haiku poets tend to see the "fallen leaves" in the next season, winter.

"Falling leaves" do indeed give us the feeling of late autumn, whereas "fallen leaves (the correct translation for ochiba)" are what is left over all winter, after they have fallen on the ground.

Trees need to get rid of their leaves to withstand the snow and cold in winter. Watching the colored leaves slowly decay on the ground reminds us strongly that winter is approaching fast, in fact is here now and will stay with us for quite a while.

This is a difficult kigo in the worldwide context. If you can accept the conventions of traditional Japanese haiku, it will be winter. You also have to consult with the leader of your group of linked verses and how he wants to use it.

Please add your thoughts to the discussion of fallen leaves in a worldwide kigo context!

Gabi Greve


© PHOTO Gabi Greve, Persimmon leaf, September 2007

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Quote from the University of Virginia Saijiki

Leaves drifting down one by one, and those driven off the branches by gusts of wind--all are potent signs of approaching winter. Ochiba refers both to leaves falling and to those already lying on the ground, though when the latter become dry and faded they are called "withered leaves" (kareha). The sound of these under foot calls to mind the dreariness of winter.


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Priest Ryokan sweeping leaves


© PHOTO www.kurashiki.co.jp/entsu-ji

Ryokan Memorial Day (Ryokan-ki, Japan)

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The Bamboo Rake / Ray Rasmussen
http://www.raysweb.net/bamboorake/


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Japanese page with beautiful colored fallen leaves.
http://www.janjan.jp/photo-msg/0410/0410199864/1.php


Link with many more pictures, click any of the buttons.
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落ちてから風引きおこす一葉かな
ochite kara kaze hiki okosu hitoha kana

whenn it falls,
it makes a little wind -
one paulownia leaf

Machida Kyoko, the calligraphy Sensei
of Isabelle Prondzynski


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sweeping fallen leaves -
the wind sweeps
faster
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/happyhaiku/message/933


sweeping the leaves
with a broom like old Jittoku -
again and again

Here you also find the story of the Broom and Jittoku.
Kanzan and Jittoku 寒山拾得

Gabi Greve


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留主のまに　あれたる神の　落葉哉
rusu no ma ni aretaru kami no ochiba kana

The god is absent;
dead leaves are piling
and all is deserted.

Matsuo Basho
Tr. R.H.Blyth

The Gods are Absent (kami no rusu)
kigo for winter



文ならぬいろはもかきて火中哉
fumi naranu iroha mo kakite kachuu kana

not enough for a letter
raking colored leaves
into the fire . . .

or

not enough for a letter
writing the IROHA
and into the fire . . .

A very early one by Basho, when still in Iga Ueno, Basho age 18 - 29. A typicle sample of the Teimon school 貞門風 of haikai.

This is a double pun
iroha 色葉 colored leaves and iroha いろは, the Japanese alphabet.
kakite 掻きて can mean to rake leaves or 書きて to write.

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


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


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- - - - - Kobayashi Issa


おち葉して憎い烏はなかりけり
ochiba shite nikui karasu wa nakari keri

fallen leaves--
not a single crow
is irksome



おち葉してけろりと立し土蔵哉
ochiba shite kerori to tateshi dozô kana

among fallen leaves
the storehouse
unconcerned
Tr. David Lanoue

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猫の子がちょいと押へるおち葉哉
neko no ko ga choi to osaeru ochiba kana

effortlessly
the kitten steps on
a blowing leaf
Tr. Chris Drake


This winter hokku is from the lunar 10th month (November) of 1815, when Issa had temporarily left his hometown to make a three-month trip back to the city of Edo and the area around it to see and reconnect with various haijin and students in the area. Most deciduous trees in lowland areas of Japan don't begin dropping their leaves until the tenth lunar month (November), and lunar winter begins with the tenth month, so "fallen leaf/leaves" is a winter image. Brightly colored leaves immediately after they fall, especially colored leaves floating on a pond or river, are often considered autumn images, depending on the exact season of the composition of the hokku and the kind of tree involved. In Issa's hokku, the limbs of most trees are probably already bare or have only a few leaves left on them, and faded leaves lie here and there on the ground. The kitten, however, is apparently interested in one leaf which seems to be skittering along the ground in a breeze or wind.

The verb osaeru implies that the kitten has a paw on the leaf and is holding it in place, enjoying its ability to keep the leaf from being blown somewhere else. Since it's a kitten, it may have been playing with the leaf a bit, allowing it to move here and there for a while, but when it decides to pounce its movements are deft and sure, with no wasted effort or hesitation. Issa is impressed by how lightly and naturally the kitten moves, with free and easy motions that make humans look clumsy, slow, and overly burdened by mental calculations. In the Edo language of Issa's day the adverbs choi to and, in many contexts, choi-choi meant: a bit, a little; lightly; easily, freely, effortlessly, simply, without difficulty, fluently, offhandedly, naturally, spontaneously, artlessly.
Issa wrote a similar hokku about an adult cat at about the same time.

Chris Drake

. WKD : Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 in Edo .

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落葉踏む　きょうの明るさ　あすもあれ 　
ochiba fumu kyō no akarusa asu mo are

I tread on
fallen leaves in today's light--
let there be tomorrow, too

Mizuhara Shūōshi

There are a lot more haiku in this saijiki.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/haiku/saijiki/index.html


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lautlos
fallende Blätter
decken sich zu

Rainer Wolf
Germany, January 2010

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red and yellow -
autumn spreads a carpet
weaving with leaves

Alex Serban
Romania, September 2010


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falling leaves ...
news that an old flame
has passed away

first fallen leaves ...
my window panes clean
after a downpour

fallen oak leaf ...
one by one my friends
reach half a century

our son
and his wedding plans ...
first fallen leaves

Ella Wagemakers
Netherlands, August 2010


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fallen leaves ...
a lizard running through
scares me


fallen leaves-
autumn wind chasing them
on the pavement

Sunil Uniyal
New Delhi, August 2010


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fallen leaves ...
a lizard running through
my "Allah-ulakbar"

Heike Gewi
Still is Ramadan and 10 days to go...
Yemen, August 2010

Read this :
THE DESIRABILITY OF KILLING A GECKO
(HOUSE LIZARD)(SAHIH HADITH MUSLIM)


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no unread
emails in your box...
first fallen leaves

Chen-ou Liu
Canada, September 2010


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Shiki Kukai September 2010

silent night -
the crackling of footsteps
on fallen leaves

~ Rhoda Mutheu, Kenya

. Results from the Kenya Haiku Poets



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*****fallen leaves of bamboo (take ochiba 竹落ち葉）
kigo for summer


***** bonfire (takibi 焚き火）
kigo for all winter

asa takibi 朝焚火（あさたきび）bonfire in the morning
yuutakibi 夕焚火（ゆうたきび）bonfire in the evening
yotakibi 夜焚火（よたきび）bonfire at night, nighttime bonfire
takibi ato 焚火跡（たきびあと）remains of a bonfire

A bonfire is lit outside to keep warm in winter. I remember our carpenters starting the day with a bonfire and before leaving, again, warming their hands at one. Farmers also burn a lot of trash with these bonfires, although it is not so common nowadays. Others put potatoes and sweet potatoes in the hot ashes to prepare for dinner.



***** burning fallen leaves (ochiba taki 落葉焚）
kigo for early winter


This kigo brings out the image of a remote temple or rural hamlet, where a priest in his long robes, equipped with a bamboo broom, is sweeping the temple grounds. In our valley, the smoke lingeres in the valley to bring a fragrance too, sometime of some sweet potatoes roasted in the ambers. It is also a kind of communicative "smoke sign", since we know: "Ah, Morita-san is burning his leaves!" when we look at the neighbour on the distand site of the valley.

ochiba taku imo ga kuro-gami tsutsumu kana

burning leaves--
sweet potatoes wrapped
in black paper

Issa / Tr. David Lanoue

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The famous Zen priest, Ryokan san (Ryookan 良寛）, also enjoyed to sweep his temple grounds, as you could see in the picture above.

The leaves are falling
Just enough to make a fire―
A gift of the wind!

http://www.amie.or.jp/daruma/Ryokan.html


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西吹けば　東にたまる　落葉かな
nishi fukeba higashi ni tamaru ochiba kana

blowing from the west
fallen leaves gather
in the east

- - - - - Further Discussion :
. Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 in Edo .


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***** . matsu ochiba 松落ち葉 pine needles falling down

kigo for summer


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Reference

Autumn Leaves (momiji, Japan) yellow leaves, colored leaves
and many related kigo

Gingko biloba tree (gingkoo)

Larch tree, Tamarack Tree, Larix kaempferi (karamatsu)

Magnolia, big magnolia flowers(hoo no hana)

Paulownia flowers (kiri no hana) 　P. tomentosa

Persimmon (kaki)


Paper mulberry leaf (kaji no ha 梶の葉)
and writing poetry on leaves


. Trees in all seasons .

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Leafy hair (ko no ha gami)

kigo for early winter

leaves on the hair, ko-no-ha-gami, konohagami, 木の葉髪

reflects leaves falling and lodging in one's hair, but also the elderly who are loosing their own hair.


kowai hodo ima shiawase ya ko no ha gami

my hair thinning –
I've never been happier, so much
so, that I feel frightened

Tomita Tomie (1912-2001)
http://www.worldhaikureview.org/2-1/requiem_ttomie.shtml

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釧路より根室へ流れ木の葉髪
Kushiro yori Nemuro e nagare konohagami

from Kushiro
they flow to Nemuro -
my thinning hair

Yamamoto Dadashi 山本駄々子 (やまもとだだし)


Kushiro and Nemuro are towns in Hokkaido.

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Some Japanese Haiku with this kigo.
original is here
http://www.haisi.com/saijiki/konohagami.htm


木の葉髪高くまとめて祝ぎの座へ

稲畑汀子 Inahata Teiko


木の葉髪 　　ko no ha gami 　　　
93句 haiku 作品

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Chamaecyparis obtusa
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asunaro hinoki アスナロ / 翌檜 Asunaro Hinoki
Thujopsis dolabrata


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Egg Nog

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Egg Nog, Egg Nogg, Eierlikör

***** Location: USA, other countries
***** Season: Winter
***** Category: Humanity

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Explanation

Eggnog (eggs beaten with sugar, milk or cream, and some kind of alchohol)
It is a traditional holiday drink reserved almost exclusivly for Christmas and New Year's parties.
Michael Baribeau

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Egg-flip, Egg-hot, Egg-nogg:
The History of Egg Nog

From Buckingham Palace to the White House to New England homes everywhere, toasting the holidays with egg nog is a custom rich in tradition. Historically, egg nog is first mentioned in the early part of the seventeenth century as a beverage used to toast one's health.

Many believe that eggnog is a tradition that was brought to America from Europe. This is partially true. Eggnog is related to various milk and wine punches that had been concocted long ago in the "Old World". However, in America a new twist was put on the theme. Rum was used in the place of wine. In Colonial America, rum was commonly called "grog", so the name eggnog is likely derived from the very descriptive term for this drink, "egg-and-grog", which corrupted to egg'n'grog and soon to eggnog. At least this is one version...

Other experts would have it that the "nog" of eggnog comes from the word "noggin". A noggin was a small, wooden, carved mug. It was used to serve drinks at table in taverns (while drinks beside the fire were served in tankards). It is thought that eggnog started out as a mixture of Spanish "Sherry" and milk. The English called this concoction "Dry sack posset". It is very easy to see how an egg drink in a noggin could become eggnog.

Eggnog, in the 1800s was nearly always made in large quantities and nearly always used as a social drink. It was commonly served at holiday parties and it was noted by an English visitor in 1866, "Christmas is not properly observed unless you brew egg nogg for all comers; everybody calls on everybody else; and each call is celebrated by a solemn egg-nogging...It is made cold and is drunk cold and is to be commended."

Our first President, George Washington, was quite a fan of eggnog and devised his own recipe that included rye whiskey, rum and sherry. It was reputed to be a stiff drink that only the most courageous were willing to try.

Read more here:
http://www.kitchenproject.com/history/eggnoghistory.htm

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Advocaat, Adwokaat, Egg Flip, Egg Nog, Eier Cognac
A creamy sweet drink known widely, the common elements being egg yolks, sugar and high-proof alcohols.




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Germany

Eierlikör
The most famous was the Advocaat.
Advocaat is a dutch liqueur, made from a rich and creamy blend of unpasteurised egg yolks, sugar, aromatic spirits, and grape brandy with a hint of vanilla. It has a distinctive smooth yellow consistency with a strength akin to fortified wine.
This is not to be an advertisement, just an information about a German custom to drink this during Christmas times.
http://www.drinksmixer.com/desc147.html

We had special wide glasses with a short stem, a heirloom from Grandmother, to lick it off leisurely. These glasses were packed away after January 6, when the Christmas season was over.
We also have special Eierlikör cakes and cockies and other kinds of cocktail drinks.

There is even a mix with Japanese tea "sencha" and egg nog aroma, bee pollen, malve flowers, sunflowers and orange flowers, which to my palate sounds terrible.
... www.tee-katalog.de/


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Eggnog, a Haibun

Everyone in the department brings their seasonal food for the daybefore the end of the year holiday break. There are dishes fromIndia, Africa, China, Brazil, Germany, France, England, Denmark,Italy, and America. I am ashamed to say I went through the line morethan once!

eggnog:
rum is not allowed
at the office

chibi
... WHChaibun


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egg nog-
dogs bark
at the television

Kate Steere

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eggnog
everyone stops to watch
the toddler's first sip

Why? The stuff tastes nasty, that's why!:-)

Michael Baribeau

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***** . Hot and Cold Drinks - SAIJIKI



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Emperor's Birthday, Japan

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Emperor's Birthday (tennoo tanjoobi)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Various, see below
***** Category: Observance

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Explanation

The date of this special day varies with the change of each emperor.

The Saijiki lists it as a kigo for late spring (it was April 29)

tennoo tanjoobi 天皇誕生日 (てんのうたんじょうび)
Emperor's Birthday (Hirohito (1926 - 1989)
..... Tenchoosetsu 天長節（てんちょうせつ）　

koogoo tanjoobi 皇后誕生日 (こうごうたんじょうび)
Empress's birthday (Koojun, 19023 - 2000 香淳皇后)
..... chikyuusetsu 地久節（ちきゅうせつ）　
kigo for mid-spring

The present empress, Michiko, has her birthday on October 20, 1934.


Akihito and Michiko



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The Emperor's Birthday (天皇誕生日, Tennō tanjōbi) is a national holiday in the Japanese calendar. It is currently celebrated on 23 December. The date is determined by the present Emperor's birthdate.Emperor Akihito was born on this date in 1933.

During the reign of Hirohito (Showa period, 1926–1989), the Emperor's birthday was observed on 29 April.
29 April remained a public holiday, posthumously renamed Greenery Day in 1989 and Showa Day in 2007.

Previous to World War II, it was called Tenchōsetsu (天長節), or Emperor's Birthday, but after the war the new government renamed it Tennō tanjōbi, or "The Emperor's Birthday", in 1948, when it was established as a holiday by law. Under the law, the Diet of Japan must convene and change the holiday date before the reigning emperor's birthday becomes a public holiday. Thus, there exists a small chance that the former emperor's birthday may come before the change can be made.

On 23 December, a public ceremony takes place at the Imperial Palace which, usually off limits to the public, opens its gates. The Emperor, accompanied by Empress Michiko and several other members of the Imperial family, appears on a palace balcony to acknowledge the birthday congratulations of crowds of festive well-wishers waving tiny Japanese flags. Only on this occasion and on 2 January may the general public enter the inner grounds of the Imperial Palace.

When the Emperor ceases his greeting (however brief), the crowd starts waving the flags again and the Imperial Family wave back.
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- Shared by Hayato Tokugawa
Joys of Japan, February 2012


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kigo for mid-winter

December 23rd is the Emperor of Japan's Birthday (Akihito). This is a National holiday in Japan. The Japanese trace the lineage of their Emperors back for over 2 thousand years.

Called tenno no tanjobi, the national holiday changes as each new Emperor takes power in Japan. The previous Emperor's birthday often becomes a new special holiday.
For example, Emperor Meiji, the Emperor who took power at age 15 and whose policies were the subject of the rebellion in The Last Samurai, had his birthday on
November 3rd. That is now Culture Day (bunka no hi).
(kigo for early winter)

Emperor Akihito was born on December 23, 1933. He had four older sisters, but as the first born male, he was first in line for the throne.

According to tradition, he was taken from his family when he turned 3 and was raised by tutors and nurses. However, unlike previous royalty who were strictly kept apart from all "normal people", Akihito was in fact sent to school with regular children so he would understand better their plight and needs. He was only in grade school during World War II.

In 1959, Akihito decided to ask Michiko Shoda to marry him. Many were shocked at this, as Shoda was not an aristocrat. The family brought even more modernity into their lives when they chose to raise their 3 children at home with them, instead of sending them off into the hands of others.
In 2003, Emperor Akihito turned 70 years old.
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art15716.asp

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Meiji Jinguu Sai 明治神宮祭 (めいじじんぐうさい)
Meiji Shrine Festival
kigo for early winter, November 3

In honor of the birthday of Meiji Tenno 明治天皇.

A grand solemn Shinto ceremony is held to commemorate the anniversary of Emperor Meiji's birthday. During the ceremony, Yoyogi-no-Mai is performed.



Yoyogi-no-mai 豊寿舞 ("Dance of Yoyogi")
The words were written by emperor Meiji:

Inquire into what befalls
Through ancient history.
And render clear the many doubts
That puzzle men today!

(That means, developing new ideas based on study of the past.)

source : Meiji Jingu HP


Toyohogi no mai 豊寿舞（とよほぎのまい）
Yoyogi 代々木

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Some other festivals at Shrine Meiji Jingu

Jan. 7 Musashino-Goryo-Yohaishiki
Emperor Showa Memorial Day rite

Feb. 11 Kigensai
National Foundation Day festival

Mar. 20 or 21 (vernal equinox) Koreiden-Yohaishiki
Paying respect towards the Imperial Palace sanctuary Koreiden
(also on the autumn equinox, September 23)

April 3 Unebiyama-Yohaishiki
Emperor Jinmu Memorial Day rite

April 11 Shoken-Kotaigo-Sai
Empress Shoken Memorial Ceremony

May 5 or 6 (Rikka, first day of summer) Onzosai
Ceremony of the changing of the divine robes

July 30 Meiji-Tenno-Sai
Emperor Meiji Memorial Ceremony

First Sunday in October
Ningyo-Kanshasai Festival

Oct. 18 or 19 Keneihikoshiki 献詠披講式
Ceremonial recital of poems

Nov. 1 Chinzakinensai
Meiji Jingu Enshrinement Anniversary Ceremony

Nov. 7 or 8 (Ritto, first day of winter) Onzosai
Ceremony of the changing of the divine robes

Nov. 23 Niinamesai : Harvest Ceremony

Dec. 23 Tenchosai
Celebration of the current Emperor's birthday


Meiji Shrine
dedicated to the deified spirits of Emperor Meiji and his wife, Empress Shōken.
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English HP of the shrine:
source : www.meijijingu.or.jp


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HAIKU

悪王も凡王もをり天皇誕生日　　
aku-oo mo bon-oo mo ori tennoo tanjoobi

some kings are bad
some kings are normal -
emperor's birthday

Kanzemi 寒蝉
http://www.sweetswan.com/kinenbi-touku/


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birthday kisses -
the lingering taste
of honey


November 3, birthday of Gabi Greve

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Emperor's Birthday--
when time honoured traditions
join past to present

Patrick Duffey
source :　my facebook friends


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***** Birthday (tanjoobi)

***** . bunka no hi 文化の日 culture day
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Meijisetsu 明治節（めいじせつ）Meiji seasonal festival
bunkasai 文化祭（ぶんかさい）
Third of November, a national holiday



***** . "Ten thousand years 萬歳 10000 years" 　



***** . Memorial Days of Famous People
SAIJIKI 　


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Earth Day

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Earth Day

***** Location: Worldwide
***** Season: Spring (April 22)
***** Category: Observance

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Explanation




How the First Earth Day Came About
By Senator Gaylord Nelson, Founder of Earth Day

What was the purpose of Earth Day? How did it start? These are the questions I am most frequently asked.

Actually, the idea for Earth Day evolved over a period of seven years starting in 1962. For several years, it had been troubling me that the state of our environment was simply a non-issue in the politics of the country. Finally, in November 1962, an idea occurred to me that was, I thought, a virtual cinch to put the environment into the political "limelight" once and for all. The idea was to persuade President Kennedy to give visibility to this issue by going on a national conservation tour. I flew to Washington to discuss the proposal with Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who liked the idea. So did the President.

The President began his five-day, eleven-state conservation tour in September 1963. For many reasons the tour did not succeed in putting the issue onto the national political agenda. However, it was the germ of the idea that ultimately flowered into Earth Day.
...

Earth Day worked because of the spontaneous response at the grassroots level. We had neither the time nor resources to organize 20 million demonstrators and the thousands of schools and local communities that participated. That was the remarkable thing about Earth Day. It organized itself.

Read more here:
http://earthday.envirolink.org/history.html

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Earth Day is a time to celebrate gains we have made and create new visions to accelerate environmental progress. Earth Day is a time to unite around new actions. Earth Day and every day is a time to act to protect our planet.

On the anniversary of the first Earth Day in 1970, the federal government is cleaning the air, promoting land conservation, and improving water quality.

Earthday.gov is a cooperative effort across the entire U.S. government.
http://www.earthday.gov/

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Welcome to Earth Day 2006 Online.
http://earthday.envirolink.org/


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google logo Japan, April 22, 2012




google logo Japan, April 22, 2013




aasu dii アースデイ earth day

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earth day
watching mountains
of debris grow

Earth day in our little township has been named as the "big trash pickup day" and there are huge piles of old furniture and other trash being piled on the curbs all up and down the street.

a black tomcat
on the broken sofa
eating leftovers

planting tomatos
under the dead pear tree
where is the shade?

picnic at the park
picking up someone's napkins
before lunch

cold sandwiches
and watermelon
BURN BAN

Brenda Roberts, USA

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Laka of the forest
celebrated by the hula
earthdays motions

Shanna Moore, Hawaii

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Earth Day morning
the robin
turns her eggs

Linda Papanicolaou, USA

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the fallow land
soaks up the rain
before the sun

yajushi, India

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earth day -
baby hummingbirds
show their peaks

il.balan


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earth day --
the darkness inside
leaf veins

- Shared by Stella Pierides -
Joys of Japan, 2012


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Earth Day---
a snake disappears
behind an apple tree

- Shared by Fred Masarani -
Joys of Japan, 2012


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Earth Day -
dandelions take over
the side yard

Earth Day -
dandelion fluff
in the wind

- Shared by Elaine Andre -
Joys of Japan, 2013



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Earth Day-
I give a bird feeder
to a friend

Angelee Deodhar


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Related words

***** . Trash, garbage, trash day .


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Easter

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Easter

***** Location: Christian Communities
***** Season: Late Spring
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fukkatsu-sai 復活祭り Easter
iisutaa イースター、
is not very common in Japan, in contrast to Christmas, which has its definite place in Japanese seasonal events.


fukkatsusetsu, fukkatsu setsu 復活節（ふっかつせつ）
sugikoshi matsuri 渝越祭（すぎこしまつり）

iisutaa horidii イースターホリデー Easter holidays
iisutaa ririi イースターリリー Easter Lily

iisutaa eggu イースターエッグ Easter egg
sometamago 染卵（そめたまご）colored egg
.... irotamago, iro tamago 彩卵（いろたまご）

iisuta kaado イースターカード Easter greeting card

pasuka パスカ、pasuha パスハ、paaku パーク Pashka
Russian Easter cheese dessert.
"paskha" is pronounced as "pahs-hah" with the stress on the first syllable.



shiroki nichiyoobi 白き日曜日 (しろきにちようび)
White Sunday, one week after Easter, Dominica in albis
Weisser Sonntag
byakui no jujitsu 白衣の主日（びゃくいのしゅじつ）
hikui jujitsu 低い主日（ひくいしゅじつ）"small Easter"
byakui no doyoobi 白衣の土曜日（びゃくいのどようび）
White Saturday / Weisser Samstag


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April 3, 1988 file photo.
(© AP Photo/Vatican, Arturo Mari)
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Easter is a festival of overwhelming joy. The joy that celebrates life. Or, rather, the victory of life over death. But does it have any historic background. Did life really overcame death? Most important, why Jesus is so remembered on Easter? And why those funny stuffs like eggs, and bunnies came to be mixed up with those ideas? Also who brought all those customs on the soil of America?

To know read on the following :
#1. Easter history
#2. roots of Easter in America
#3. the story of Resurrection
#4. Easter in other parts of the world
#5. Journey thru The holy Week
#6. History and Origin Of Easter Icons !


http://www.theholidayspot.com/easter/history/index.htm

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Easter Recipes and Crafts
Easter Clipart - Bunnies and Baskets
Have Some Fun With Easter Eggs

A lot more is here:
http://homeparents.about.com/od/eastercrafts/

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Denmark

påske = Easter
The "å" is a letter used in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. It's pronounced a bit like the "o" in more. Untill 1955 it was written "aa" though its history can be traced back to the 1300's.

Just like Christmas Easter goods start showing up in the shops in Denmark a month or so early. And it's usually Easter eggs and rabbits etc. made from chocolate. Like in so many other Christian cultures eggs are eaten at the traditional Påskefrokoster (Easter lunches) along with fish and lamb.

It's a holiday with a steadily decreasing/meaning/content/significance as Christianity (the "official" religion - you can be a priest in "our" church without believing in God, The Virgin Birth etc. (?!!!) really doesn't matter much to people under 50. An average Dane probably wouldn't know what Easter is about - let alone Pentecost - besides it meaning a few days off work and a couple of lunches with the opportunity to get drunk ...


påskeæg
det evige lys kommer
med chokolade

easter egg
the eternal light comes
with chocolate

- Shared by Johannes S. H. Bjerg
Joys of Japan, 2012


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Germany

Ostern
Children go looking for the easter eggs that parents and the ominous Easter Bunny (Osterhase) have hidden in the garden. This is one of my fodest Easter Memories.
Also we have this saying:

Wenn die Nonnen
Eier suchen in den Klostern,
DANN
ist Ostern.

Gabi Greve

Der Osterhase The Easter Bunny
ist heute als österlicher Eierbringer bekannt. Erste Belege für den Osterhasen aus dem Jahre 1678 sind von Georg Franck von Franckenau, einem Medizinprofessor aus Heidelberg überliefert. Vor über dreihundert Jahren ist der Brauch im Elsaß, in der Pfalz und am Oberrhein entstanden. Die Verbindung zwischen Ostern und Osterhase kann auf verschiedene Arten erklärt werden.

This story and the related customs started in the year 1678 in Heidelberg, Germany.
http://www.german-easter-holiday.com/osterbrauch/osterhase-osterhasen/

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Hungary

Hungarians girls dressed in their Sunday best run away as boys try to pour water on them during traditional Easter celebrations in Holloko, March 27, 2005. Locals from the World Heritage village of Holloko, northeast Hungary, celebrated Easter with the traditional 'watering of the girls,' a fertility ritual rooted in Hungarian tribes' pre-Christian past, going at least as far back as the second century after Christ.



REUTERS/ © Laszlo Balog
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India

sunrise service
Easter lilies abound
among the graves

Easter vigil
incense wafts into
the wooden reredos

Angelee Deodhar


sunrise service is a worship service on Easter practised by many Protestantchurches, replacing the traditional, ancient Easter Vigil preserved by the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran churches.
The service takes place outdoors, sometimes in a park, and the attenders are seated on outdoor chairs or benches.
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The rubrics of the Missale Romanum remind us that this “mother of all vigils” is the “greatest and most noble of all solemnities and it is to be unique in every single Church” (Missale Romanum, “Rubrics for the Easter Vigil” (EV), no.2). On this holy night, the Church keeps watch, celebrating the resurrection of Christ in the sacraments and awaiting his return in glory. Ilhe Vigil, by its very nature, “ought to take place at night” (EV, no. 3). It is not begun before nightfall1and should end before daybreak on Easter Sunday. The celebration of the Easter Vigil takes the place of the Office of Readings (EV, no. 5).
source :　www.usccb.org

A reredos or raredos is an altarpiece, or a screen or decoration behind thealtar in a church, usually depicting religious iconography or images.
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Japan

DECORATIVE FOOD ART FROM JAPAN FOR EASTER:







Bunny sushi

- Shared by Hayato Tokugawa
Joys of Japan, 2012


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Kenya

Much associated with spring time in the Northern hemisphere -- and with the start of the long rains in Kenya. I remember one year, when drought had reigned for a long time, with not a drop of out-of-season rain... as I walked to church for the Good Friday Service, under a blue and cloudless sky, the first drop of rain fell, seemingly out of nowhere...ﾝ and another, and another, each heavier than the last... before I had walked another 100 metres, I had to run from the downpour... arrived in the church building wet! That was a real blessing.

Isabelle Prondzynski


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Poland



... in the Roman Catholic Church in Poland, the so-called święconka, i.e. blessing of decorative baskets with a sampling of Easter eggs and other symbolic foods, is one of the most enduring and beloved Polish traditions on Holy Saturday.

Polish pisanka (plural pisanki) is a common name for an egg (usually that of a chicken, although goose or duck eggs are also used) ornamented using various techniques. Originating as a pagan tradition, pisanki were absorbed by Christianity to become the traditional Easter egg. Pisanki are now considered to symbolise the revival of nature and the hope that Christians gain from faith in the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

There are various types of pisanki, based on the technique and preparation used:
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egg moon...
we wait
for sunrise

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USA

My Easter memories are of new clothes. The children were given new spring clothes for Easter. It was a Canadian custom, although I'm sure not everyone could do it. Most of my friends did receive new clothes. That and an Easter egg hunt of course...and Easter bonnets..special hats worn to Church. Certainly everyone decked out their children extra special on Easter Sunday. And we boiled many eggs to die in pastel colors. Now, we are more apt to hide plastic eggs filled with chocolates.

Carole MacRury

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Russia

In Russia it is an old tradition to boil eggs in onion peel in order to color them for Easter.
When the eggs are colored and chilled adversaries pick their eggs and hit them against each other. The goal is to break the shell of your opponents egg without breaking your own. If you succeed you can make a wish.

egg fight
your wish
under my shell

Natalia Rudychev

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An ecclesiastical full moon is formally the 14th day of the ecclesiastical lunar month (an ecclesiastical moon) in an ecclesiastical lunar calendar.

The ecclesiastical Full Moon is defined to occur on a particular date and festivals related to it use the same date in their own local time zone. In the case of choosing a date on which to celebrate Easter, church groupings use a set of tables to define the date of the Paschal Full Moon (an ecclesiastical Full Moon) and thus the Sunday following it which is celebrated as Easter.
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ecclesiastical Full Moon
white lilies glow whiter
around the grotto

Angelee Deodhar
India, Spring 2013


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queen of the night -
star in the window
on Good Friday

Alex Serban, Romania


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Good Friday night
under a table the boy
eating Easter eggs

Chen-ou Liu, Canada

Kigo Hotline, 2011

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easter monday picnic
the reformed nailbiter
eats ladyfingers

susan delphine delaney md plano, texas, usa

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Easter service -
a bee buzzes among
the new bonnets


Easter egg hunt -
a crow pecks at
a plastic egg

Carole MacRury

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Mir ist zu Ostern auch ein Haiku "zugefallen":
This is a haiku that came to me at Easter:

Frühlingsmorgenlicht
englische Suite von Bach
blauer Veilchenduft

spring morning light
suite music of Bach
blue scent of violets
(Tr. Gabi Greve)

blaettchen
http://www.seniorentreff.de/diskussion/archiv4/a109.html

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colorful eggs
on my monitor -
paper on the screeen

Gabi Greve, 2006
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Easter Sunday
(also Resurrection Day or Resurrection Sunday)


April rain
after the resurrection
bounty

kenneth daniels
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easter eggs -
my Daruma smiles
on each one

Daruma smiles -
East meets West
on Easter eggs




Painted by the kids of our local village school in Ohaga.


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a torching procession
slowly asncending the hill -
blazing prayer

finally at Golgotha -
everyone shields his
flame with his hand

silents bells -
the boys' wooden clappers
summon us to Mass

Exsultet...
a candle illluminates
the singer's voice

Easter bonfire...
in front of the church, a flame
burns in every hearth

Easter eggs -
smiling children with
colored facesd

- Shared by Tomislav Maretic -
Haiku Culture Magazine, 2013




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***** Easter Bunny, Easter Eggs, Easter Egg Hunt,
Easter Basket, Easter Day


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The season of Lent is a 40-day period of fasting and prayer, which leads up to the great feast of Christ's resurrection, Easter, in the Christian calendar.
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Palm Sunday--
I make a rope out of
three leaves

Catherine
Kenya,2010


. Palm Sunday in Kenya . 　


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snowy morning -
carrying an olive twig
toward the church

cornel branches
strolling on the paths -
a village church

early morning -
ablution in wildflowers before
Palm Sunday Mass

The custom in some part of Croatia and Bosnia&Herzegovina is to wash up the face early morning before Palm Sunday Mass.

- Shared by Tomislav Maretic -
Haiku Culture Magazine, 2013




chill Palm Sunday-
a gust of wind
raises a dead leaf

Eugen Posa, Romania



Palm Sunday
the callouses on my palms
after I mop the floor

Ella Wagemakers



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Pentecost (Pfingsten) and more

. Christian Celebrations in Japanese Kigo 　


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Drought (hideri)

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Drought (hideri)

***** Location: Japan, other regions
***** Season: Late Summer, see below
***** Category: Heavens

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.. .. .. drought, hideri, 旱

drought, kanbatsu 旱魃
fields during a drought, withered fields, hiderida 旱田
..... hideribatake 旱畑（ひでりばたけ）
hiderigusa 旱草（ひでりぐさ）plants in a drought


long drought, great drought, taikan 大旱

natsu hideri 夏旱（なつひでり）summer drought
hideri tsuzuki 旱続き（ひでりつづき) continuous drought

hiderizora 旱空（ひでりぞら）sky in a drought
..... kanten 旱天（かんてん）
hiderigumo 旱雲（ひでりぐも）clouds in a drought


hideridoshi 旱年（ひでりどし）year with drought




Fields withered by the cold is a kigo for winter.
Withered Plants (karekusa)


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kigo for all autumn

aki hideri 秋旱 (あきひでり) drought in autumn


.SAIJIKI ... HEAVEN
Kigo for Autumn


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kigo for all winter

fuyuhideri, fuyu hideri 冬旱 (ふゆひでり) drought in winter
kanhideri, kan hideri 寒旱（かんひでり）drought in the cold


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.. .. .. .. .. What is a drought?
A drought is defined as "a period of abnormally dry weather sufficiently prolonged for the lack of water to cause serious hydrologic imbalance in the affected area." -
Glossary of Meteorology (1959).

In easier to understand terms, a drought is a period of unusually persistant dry weather that persists long enough to cause serious problems such as crop damage and/or water supply shortages. The severity of the drought depends upon the degree of moisture deficiency, the duration, and the size of the affected area.

There are actually four different ways that drought can be defined.
Meteorological-a measure of departure of precipitation from normal. Due to climatic differences, what might be considered a drought in one location of the country may not be a drought in another location.

Agricultural-refers to a situation where the amount of moisture in the soil no longer meets the needs of a particular crop.

Hydrological-occurs when surface and subsurface water supplies are below normal.

Socioeconomic-refers to the situation that occurs when physical water shortages begin to affect people.

What are the impacts of a drought?
Lack of rainfall for an extended period of time can bring farmers and metropolitan areas to their knees. It does not take very long; in some locations of the country, a few rain-free weeks can spread panic and affect crops. Before long, we are told to stop washing our cars, cease watering the grass, and take other water conservation steps. In this situation, sunny weather is not always the best weather.

................. Read more about it here:
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/fgz/science/drought.php?wfo=fgz


NOAA's Drought Information Center
National Drought Monitor Graphic Image
Palmer Drought Index Graphic


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Australian Saijiki : drought
topic for haiku


drought -
wind sweeps the stones
in the temple pond


long drought -
boulder lichen
holds on

Lorin Ford, Australia, 2009


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California
On the California coast a "dry season" lasts from the end of the rainy season in April until the rains commence again in November (dates approximate because El Nino, La Nina, dry spells and droughts have to be factored in).

In the dry season, the grass on the foothills dries of to a light oche--one Stanford author called them 'lion colored'.
Linda Papanicolaou



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Germany

Nicht ein Vogel singt
im sonnenverbrannten Feld.
Fern der dunkle Wald.

Beate Conrad
Sommer 2009



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In Ireland... a dry spell is that 5 minutes' break you get between the showers! And it can occur any day of the year.

Isabelle Prondzynski

............. After a long Dry Spell

> stars between the clouds-
> a broken umbrella lies
> in the puddle

Wlodzimierz Holsztynski
http://haiku.cc.ehime-u.ac.jp/~shiki/shiki.archive/html/9511/0209.html

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HAIKU

after the drought
faces lift
to the sky

M. Shanna Moore, Hawaii

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大海のうしほはあれど旱かな
Taikai no ushio wa aredo hideri kana

The water is deep　　
ln the ocean;　　
Drought in the land

It was written in 1904, when Kyoshi was 31 years old.
http://www.kyoshi.or.jp/work/e-work3.htm

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pouring here and there
words everywhere -
still the drought lingers

Louise Linville (Caladyelle)

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drought --
an ancient lake bed
swallows a traveler

©　Chibi 2007 知美

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***** Water shortage



The regular DRY SEASON of tropical areas is a different thing.

. SAIJIKI for tropical regions



.SAIJIKI ... HEAVEN
Kigo for Summer 　

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Dog Days (doyoo)

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Dog Days (doyoo)

***** Location: Japan, worldwide
***** Season: Late Summer
***** Category: Season

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Explanation



In former times, the DOYOO 土用 days (also spelled doyo) four times a year would be the 18 days before each changing to the next season, but nowadays they are only mentioned for the change from summer to autumn. The timing is from 13 days after the “small heat” (shoosho) until the beginning of autumn.

doyoo iri 土用入（どよういり）doyoo starts
doyoo mae 土用前（どようまえ）before doyoo
doyoo naka 土用中（どようなか）middle of doyoo
doyoo ake 土用明（どようあけ） doyoo ends

The days of DOYOO are then numbered in the Japanese counting of
“doyoo-taroo 土用太郎（どようたろう）”,
“doyoo-jiroo 土用次郎（どようじろう）”,
“doyoo-saburo 土用三郎（どようさぶろう”
and so on counting like the number of sons in a family, first one, second one, third one. Thus the farmers respect and know about the changes in the ground and the changes of the seasons, see doyoo-boshi further down.

The first day of doyoo in midsummer (and midwinter) is called ushi no hi, the day of the ox, as in the 12 signs of the Japanese zodiac. It is customary to eat broiled eel (kabayaki, see the photo above) on the day of the ox in summer (doyoo no ushi no hi, sometime in late July). This is because eel (unagi) is nutritious and rich in vitamin A, and provides strength and vitality to fight against the extremely hot and humid summer of Japan. The man who invented this well-loved custom is the famous scientist of the late Edo period, Hiraga Gennai 平賀源内.

Gennai was born in the Takamatsu domain as the son of a low-ranking samurai, moved to Nagasaki to study herbal medicine and in 1757 went to Edo to continue his studies and to write humorous books. He experimented with many natural substances, trying to make cloth of asbestos, thermometers and Dutch-style pottery. Soon he made his own style, Gennai-yaki. His activities included surveys for ore deposits, wool manufacturing and Western oil painting with other Akita painters. He also experimented with electricity and tried his hand at many inventions.

You can read more about him on this page, he is a maveric character worth knowing, not only because his close connection to the dog days (should we say OX days) of summer.

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Gabi Greve


. Suiteki, Water Dripper 水滴 　


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Food kigo

doyo eel, doyoo unagi 土用鰻 (どよううなぎ)
doyoo no ushi no hi no unagi
土用丑の日の鰻（どようのうしのひのうなぎ）
day of the eal, unagi no hi 鰻の日（うなぎのひ）

doyo corbicula shells, doyoo shijimi
土用蜆 (どようしじみ)
eaten in miso soup


Eel dishes (unagi) Japan. Some are kigo


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Worldwide use

Germany
Hundstage 23. July till 24. August
"Hundstage" ist die Bezeichnung für eine Schönwetterperiode, die nach dem Hundsstern Sirius, der Anfang August mit der Sonne auf- und untergeht, benannt wurde. Sie hat sich im Lauf der Jahrhunderte etwas verschoben, denn heute liegen sie meist schon in der Julimitte.

Bauernregeln Farmers Sayings
Heisse Hundstage prophezeien einen kalten Winter.
Was die Hundstage giessen, muss die Traube büssen.
Hundstage heiss, Winter lange weiss.
Hundstage hell und klar, zeigen ein gute Jahr.
Wie das Wetter, wenn der Hundsstern aufgeht, so wird`s bleiben, bis er untergeht.
http://www.garten-literatur.de/Kalender/hundstag.htm

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USA
Everyone knows that the Dog days of summer occur during the hottest and muggiest part of the season. Webster defines Dog days as...
1 : the period between early July and early September when the hot sultry weather of summer usually occurs in the northern hemisphere, beginning with the heliacal rising of Sirius (the dog star).
2 : a period of stagnation or inactivity
Read more here:
http://wilstar.com/dogdays.htm

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Things found on the way


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HAIKU

Dog days -
we name our new puppy
Sirius


.. .. .. .. Dog days -
.. .. .. .. the rippling air
.. .. .. .. above the asphalt


Dog days -
a man and his pooch
on the surfboard

Zhanna P. Rader

Read more of Zhanna's Dog Day Haiku here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/happyhaiku/message/1130


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dog days lonely night...
only one tongue for soothing
the old broken tooth

art
http://shiki1.cc.ehime-u.ac.jp/~shiki/kukai/kukai108-2.html

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.. .. .. .. .. Two one-line Haiku:


dog days beans drying on a car hood
Collection of Eric Amman
http://www.hardtofind.org/hardtofind/marlenemountain/1lhaiku/1lhai_mags1.html


dog days envelopes stuck shut
from Marlene Mountain
http://www.hardtofind.org/hardtofind/marlenemountain/backward/ftm_223_late70to90.html

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dog-day afternoon --
the cat stretched out
on its back

© Juanito
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WHCjapan/message/1572

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***** mushi-boshi虫干しdrying the bugs　－
mushi-barai (getting rid of the bugs),
doyoo-boshi, doyooboshi 土用干し　drying during the dog-days

The days of doyoo are usually dry and sunny and are used to air out the clothing, books, pictures and other things stored away during the rainy season. Hanging in the wind they will be cleared of mildew and unwanted bugs. Bokusho is a special name given to the books aired to prevent mildew.

In olden times, it was one of the annual events of shrines and temples to air their treasures, in winter we have the hoomotsu kaze-ire (airing the treasures), now usually on November 3, the Culture Day of Japan. The most famous “airing of books” happens at the treasurehouse Shoosoo-in of the Toodai-ji temple in Nara.
Gabi Greve


ryuuguu mo kyoo no shioji ya doyoo boshi

there is a tide way
to the Dragon palace today -
airing all things


. Matsuo Basho - Dragon Haiku .


naki hito no kosode mo ima ya doyoo boshi

even the robe
of the deceased included -
dog-day airing


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


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mushi-boshi no yamaga no ushi ni nakarekeri

airing out
the mountain hut
the oxen keep mooing

... Aro Usuda
http://www008.upp.so-net.ne.jp/kihakuso/html/04sai/natsu04.html

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Darumasama
korogarikomu ne
doyoo-boshi
.. .. .. chibi

Master Daruma
tumbles over so ~
summer airing
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Darumasan-Japan/message/27


dog days --
the search for hidden
hickory nuts
Chibi

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***** doyoo-boshi, draining the riece paddies
土用干し

From July to August, farmers drain the wet rice paddies of water, so that the ground can be seen, as in the picture. This will harden the ground for the harvesting machinery to roll into the fields. If you do not do this, the machines will get stuck in the wet earth. Since this happens during the formal doyoo-days, the name was choosen.
http://www.telenet.tv/users/ibaya/farmer/doyoboshi.html


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kigo for mid-autumn

otoshimizu, otoshi mizu 落し水 (おとしみず) draining water
draining the water from the rice paddies
mizu otosu 水落す（みずおとす）"water falls" (is drained)
tamizu otosu 田水落す（たみずおとす）
seki hazusu 堰外す（ せきはずす）take the water barrier off

This is an important part of rice farming to make sure the fields do not get too wet.


source :　www.to-ki.jp/center

For the draining of the paddies, the water is let out of the fields in a way that it falls down for a few centimeters to one meter (three shaku) through a gutter to the field below. This rushing water makes a special sound.


二三尺秋の響や落し水
nisan shaku aki no hibiki ya otoshimizu

water falls down
for two three shaku -
sounds of autumn

Matsumura Gekkei 松村月渓
(1752 - 1811)
He studied haiku and painting with Yosa Buson.

one shaku is about 30 cm.


. Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 in Edo .

阿武隈や五十四郡のおとし水
abukuma ya gojuushi gun no otoshi mizu

The Abukuma River;
Water drained off
Flows from fifty-four counties.
Tr. Shoji Kumano

. WKD : Abukumagawa 阿武隈川 in Fukushima .

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雨乞の小町が果や落し水
amagoi no Komachi ga hate ya otoshimizu

thanks to the rain ritual
of Ono no Komachi -
draining the paddies
Tr. Gabi Greve

. Amagoi Komachi 雨乞小町. Lit. rain prayer Komachi. .
One of the seven versions of Ono no Komachi 小野小町
c. 825 — c. 900. Waka Poetess and Famous Beauty

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足跡にひそむ魚あり落し水
ashiato ni hisomu uo ari otoshimizu

drained paddy field,
trapped in water footprint,
a small fish
Tr. ?

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足あとのなき田わびしや落し水
ashiato no naki ta wabishi ya otoshimizu

the lonsomeness
of a paddy without footsteps -
draining the water
Tr. Gabi Greve

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打々の寝心更けぬ落し水
muramura no negokoro fukenu otoshi mizu

Night deepens,
And sleep in the villages;
Sounds of falling water.
Tr. Blyth


in the villages
sleep wears on;
falling water
Tr. Haldane

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温公の岩越す音や落し水
onkoo no iwa kosu oto ya otoshimizu

the sound of Onko
coming over the rock -
draining the rice fields
Tr. Gabi Greve


Shiba Onkoo 司馬温公 Shiba Onko 司馬光 Shiba Ko (1019 - 1086)
Chinese politician
He once saved a boy who was trapped in a large jar by breaking it with a stone. He did not fear being punished by the owner of the precious jar.

- reference : pottery with his story -

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落水田ごとのやみとなりにけり
otoshimizu tagoto no yami to nari ni keri

draining the paddies
one by one they get darker
and darker
Tr. Gabi Greve

nari ni keri - hard to translate

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竜王へ雨を戻すやおとし水
ryuu-oo e ame o modosu ya otoshimizu

giving the rain
back to the dragon king -
draining the paddies
Tr. Gabi Greve

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落し水柳に遠く成にけり
otoshimizu yanagi ni tooku nari ni keri


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***** Mizuawase no harai
水合の祓 (みずあわせのはらい)
purification of the court well

mizuawase 水合（みずあわせ）well water purification

On the first day of doyoo, the master of yin-yang ceremonies, (onyooji 陰陽師 onmyooji) Daikoku Minbu 大黒民部　would go through the important buildings of the Heian court and hold purification rituals for the wells.
This is an old custom from China


Onmyōdō (also In'yōdō) is a traditional Japanese esoteric cosmology, a mixture of natural science and occultism. It is based on the Chinese philosophies of Wu Xing and Yin and yang, introduced into Japan at the turn of the 6th century, and accepted as a practical system of divination. These practices were influenced further by Taoism, Buddhism and Shintoism, and evolved into present-day onmyōdō approximately in the late 7th century.
Bureau of Onmyoo (陰陽寮, Onmyoo-ryoo)
Onmyōji (陰陽師, also In'yōji) was one of the classifications of civil servants belonging to the Bureau of Onmyō in ancient Japan's ritsuryo system. People with this title were professional practitioners of onmyōdō.
Onmyōji were specialists in magic and divination.
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