12/18/2005

Erika Schwalm

Erika Schwalm - In Memoriam

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Was born in 1941 in Frankfurt. She started writing haiku with the help of Dr. Tadao Araki, Fuyuo Usaki and Tohta Kaneko. In 1988 she founded the "Frankfurt Haiku Circle" and belongs to the board of the German Haiku Society.

She is as well a teacher of Sogetsu Ikebana, which she studied in the course of many travels to Japan. Her original way is connecting ikebana and haiku. She has published two Ikebana books.

Erika is corresponding with ikebana and haiku-groups all over the world.

Copyright (c) 2001 World Haiku Association.

http://www.worldhaiku.net/poetry/de/e.schwalm.htm

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Erika, you will live on in our hearts and haiku!

Representing the Members of WHCworldkigo

Gabi Greve
Director of WHCworldkigo
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WHCworldkigo/

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surrounded by flowers
a life turns back
to earth


Erika, I will miss you so much! We had already made plans for a meeting in Japan !

Gabi

Let me quote a few words from your last letter:

Dear Gabi,
Mit groser Freude verfolge ich Deine Seiten im Netz und die intensive und geduldige Korrespondenz.
Fuer all Deine Muhe mochte ich Dir herzlich danken.
Herzliche Gruesse
Deine Erika.

November 25, 2005

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she visits
her native place
no more roses




Geert Verbeke
http://users.skynet.be/geert.verbeke.bowls

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in the sadly universal way of things, i never told erika how much her presence on this list meant to me.

erika was a haiku buff and an ikebana buff.

so am i.

the two arts are so much the same.

consider this instruction from an ikebana text:

take about eighteen inches from the end of a magnolia branch and trim away most of the leaves, leaving a branch with a few leaves that conveys the essence of what a magnolia is.

is this not what we do with our haiku moments...scribble down the haiku moment and later, write a proto-haiku that captures the moment, then trim, trim trim until it is the essence of that haiku moment.

erika, you live on in our hearts.

and we will pass you on to others.


ooo ooo ooo

Another happy memory with Erika:

a few years back i gave a talk on haiku to the sogetsu ikebana club here in dallas. (erika was sogetsu school).

they told me that they were doing a 'linked form' of ikebana that day. each woman had brought a black 'container'. the leader brought common flowers to be included in each arrangement and each woman had brought some of her own choosing to add to her arrangement.

a woman would make an arrangement and the next was to link to it and shift the next arrangement in another direction.

'why, that is an ikebana renga', i cried.

'what???', they cried.

later i shared this story with erika. erika was the only person on the planet (that i knew) who 'got' what i was talking about. plus she had done many ikebana renga....

it is so wonderful and rare to find someone who understands what you care about.

susan delphine delaney md
plano, texas

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Erika the haijin
butterfly, moves on freely
into another cosmos

Narayanan Raghunathan ~

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snuffed out by a draft
the candle's scent lingers
in the moonlight

Norman Darlington

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Erika, ich werde dich nie vergessen!

Gerd

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ich bin so traurig über die Nachricht von Erikas Tod...

Im Oktober konnte ich sie in einem Seminar ihres Frankfurter Haiku-Kreis noch einmal treffen, sie war so voller Pläne und hat mir zwei Tage vor ihrem Tod sogar von ihrer geplanten Japanreise 2008 gemailt und mich gefragt, ob ich mir nicht überlegen wollte daran teilzunehmen. Unbegreiflich, dass sie uns so kurz darauf verlassen musste. Ich kann es noch gar nicht fassen!

Eine Erinnerungs- und Gedenkseite für sie einzurichten, war eine sehr schöne Idee von dir. Ich habe ihren unermüdlichen Einsatz für das Haiku und die Menschen, die sich mit dieser Art der Dichtung beschäftigen immer bewundert. Sie wird eine sehr große Lücke hinterlassen.

Andrea

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Introducing Erika and her work at the World Kigo Database / Ikebana


Her last contribution to the database



Christmas Tree Ikebana, December 2005

World Kigo Database: Christmas Tree


Advent

Bamboo

Carneval

Emperor's Birthday

Lampionflower




Boys festival, May 2005

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......................... More Contributions for Erika

Auf der Homepage steht ein Satz, der mich ganz besonders anspricht...

Thank you and come back soon ! 

Das ist, was sich jetzt viele Menschen wünschen.

Gasshô
Mario

WHCgerman

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my numb hands
in the winter twilight –
a friend is leaving


Sonja Koranter, Slovenia

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Bad Nauheim –
May rain silently
falling into itself

(I met Erika, for the first and the last time, in May 2005, in Bad Nauheim, where the 1st European Haiku Congress was held. Erika was so full of energy, enthusiasm ...)

putting a twig
into the ikebana vase ...
it breaks

a willow tree –
its reflection reaches
the opposite river bank

a blade of grass
under the heavy snow –
still green

Alenka Zorman, Slovenia

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In the winter night
a star shinning within ikebana:
her white-like-snow soul

A fallen petal -
the winter wind carries it
to the Heaven


Vasile Moldovan

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For the Erika,
with a large smile
and her kind eyes,
a friend for ever


From Romania, Laura Vaceanu,
President of Constantza Haiku Society

We miss you so much our dear friend.

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12/17/2005

Lampionflowers (hoozuki)

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Lampionflowers (hoozuki)

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


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hoozuki 鬼燈 - 鬼灯 - ほうずき Chinese lantern plant
ground cherry, lampion flower, winter cherry, husk tomato
Physalis alkekengi

With its swollen body it carries a lot of good luck (fuku 福)and is thus a good omen, bringing good fortune to its owner.
It is also the protector deity for women, healing ladies illnessen and helps making them pregnant.

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kigo for mid-summer

hoozuki no hana 鬼燈の花 (ほおずきのはな)
flowers of the lampionflower





kigo for late summer

ao hoozuki 青鬼燈 (あおほおずき) green Hoozuki
..... 青酸漿(あおほおずき)

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kigo for all autumn

hoozuki 鬼燈 lampionflower, lampion flower
..... 酸漿(ほおずき) / 鬼灯
“The Demons Lantern”
ground cherry
Physalis alkekengi Linn. var. franchetii (Mast.) Hort



Ikebana by Erika Schwalm


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observance kigo for late summer

hoozuki ichi 鬼燈市 ほおずきいち lampion flower market
..... 酸漿市(ほおずきいち)
shiman rokusen nichi 四万六千日(しまんろくせんにち)
46000 days
rokusen nichi sama 六千日さま(ろくせんにちさま)



The famous market for Demons Lanterns is held at the Asakusa Temple in Tokyo and used to be a speciality already at the Edo period. It is held for two days on July 9/10 and is in itself a kigo for summer. More than 250 stalls sell their plants.

The 10th of the 7th lunar month is also a special day to get some religious merit at the Asakusa temple. If you visit on that day, it is worth the merit of 46000 days (shiman rokusen nichi) or (126 years) of temple visiting.

Why 46000 days, you might ask?
This is supposed to be the number of rice grains in one Japanese measure of rice, Japan being an old rice-growing nation and wasting even one grain of it was a big sin.

. Asakusa Kannon 浅草観音


Hozuki were also made into a powerful medicine and sold at the Hozuki market and the monthly temple prayer days (ennichi) at Asakusa.
If a special hozuki tea was prepared and drunk on the tenth day of the seventh lunar month, it would cure dysenterie and intestinal parasites. This lore dates back to a dream of a man in the Shiba district, who saw the Atago deity in his dream.

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Physalis alkekengi
(Bladder cherry, Chinese lantern, Japanese lantern, or Winter cherry; Japanese: hōzuki), is a relative of P. peruviana (Cape Gooseberry), easily identifiable by the larger, bright orange to red papery covering over its fruit, which resemble Chinese lanterns.
It is native from southern Europe east across southern Asia to Japan.
© More in the WIKIPEDIA !


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hoozuki ningyoo 鬼灯人形 Hozuki Dolls


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hoozuki asobi ほおずき遊び」 playing with Hozuki


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With its swollen body it carries a lot of good luck (fuku 福)and is thus a good omen, bringing good fortune to its owner.
It is also the protector deity for women, healing ladies illnessen and helps making them pregnant.

. tsurushibina, tsurushi bina つるし雛 / 吊るし雛 small hanging hina dolls .


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hoozuki ya tsumi-nokori tsumu too bakari

Demons Lanterns
Picking the ones left over,
Just ten of them


Ozawa Hekido 小沢碧童


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hoozuki no tasuke o sugishi kaze ni iro

passing the lampionflower
the wind gains
color


Hata san
© Photo and Haiku : Denhata Saijiki

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kago kabau hoozuki-ichi no yoi no ame

Covering up the baskets!
evening downpoor at the
Hozuki-Market


Mizuhara Shuohshi 水原秋櫻子


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- - - - - Playing with lampionflowers and haiku


鬼灯でピエロ人形創りたり 

from the lampionflower
we make the doll
of a pierrot




鬼灯を鳴らすを知らぬ子等ばかり

so many children
do not know how to blow
the lampionflower



鬼灯はさびしき庭の灯となれり

lampionflowers
in a lonely garden
they are the only lanterns


source : 牧陽子 Maki Yooko


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***** Market selling Morning-Glories, asagao ichi 朝顔市
Market at Iriya in Edo, Iriya asagao ichi 入谷朝顔市

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. Legends from Japan 伝説 - Introduction .

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Gifu, 洞戸村 Horado
A local Kappa (gawairo ガワイロ) changes into a Hozuki. If people pick it up, they will become sick and die.

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Miyagi
If you plant Hozuki in the garden of your estate, people will get sick.

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東京都 Tokyo

A boy got an intestinal worm infection (カイチュウ) and had a terrible stomach ache about once a month. Then he got some Hozuki from Jizo お地蔵様 and ate it. This healed his illness.

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Yamagata, 小国町 Oguni
If farmers plant Hozuki and tear grass (hatomugi ハトムギ Coix lacryma-jobi), there will be many sick people in the village.


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12/06/2005

Leaf Watching (momijigari)

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Leaf watching, leaf peeping (momijigari)

***** Location: Japan, worldwide
***** Season: Late Autumn
***** Category: Humanity


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"hunting for red leaves" momijigari
紅葉狩 (もみじがり)

going out to enjoy a picnick and the colored leaves of autumn. The famous temples of Kyoto and in other area were especially crowded during this season.
.... momiji mi 紅葉見(もみじみ)
..... kanpuu 観楓(かんぷう)




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Leaf watching, Leaf peeping



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紅葉狩まずは田楽食べてをり .. .. .. 雛菊
momijigari mazu wa dengaku tabete ori

watching red leaves -
first of all lets eat
delicious rice dumplings

Little Chrysanthemum
http://www.interone.jp/~touri/garo/garo.htm .. .. 紅葉

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.. .. .. .. .. momijigari

autumn leaves
he comes only
for his coat

golden leaves
I place another bracelet
on buddha

dogwood leaves
their circles in circles
the pond

the lighter shades
of yellow and red
morning sun

the park bench
on its green -
two red leaves

sunlight
through the yellow leaf
my index finger

Deborah Russell
Baltimore, MD USA

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***** Autumn Leaves (momiji 紅葉 もみじ)
yellow leaves, colored leaves



momiji tenpura もみじ天ぷら/ 紅葉の天ぷら
sweet tempura from maple leaves

from Mino town, Osaka
Tempura von roten Ahornblättern


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Leonid Meteor Shower

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Leonid Meteor Shower

***** Location: Worldwide
***** Season: Winter, November
***** Category: Heavens

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Explanation

Leonid Meteor Shower
The Leonids, which recur each November, had a spectacular run between 1999 and 2002. The meteor showers of those years approached the intensity of "meteor storms," a threshold generally marked when viewers can see a thousand meteors an hour.
This week marks the return of the Leonid meteor shower. The heavenly show is expected to peak on Friday, November 19, at 1:40 a.m. ET for sky-watchers in North America. The spectacle looks to be the second-to-last chance to see the shower in this century.
Read more here in the National Geographic
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/11/1112_041112_leonid_meteor_shower.html



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There are superb pictures of the Leonid storm on the link below.
Observed from Big Bay, Illinois, 2:30am - 4:30am CST November 18, 2001 and
Ayers Rock, Australia November 19-20, 2001



http://www.icstars.com/HTML/Leonids2001/orionbolide.html
http://www.icstars.com/HTML/Leonids2001/


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German Link about the Leonids
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leoniden


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. nagareboshi 流れ星 ryuusei 流星 shooting star .
meteor in various seasons

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USA
the meteor showers visible in north america are as follows:

*quadrantids jan 4 40 per hour 2 days
*lyrids apr 21 15 per hour 4 days
*eta aquarids may 4 20 per hour 6 days
*delta aquarids july 28 20 per hour 14days
*perseids aug 12 50 per hour 4 days
*orionids oct 21 25 per hour 4 days
*s. taurids nov 3 15 per hour
*leonids nov 16 15 per hour
*geminids dec 13 50 per hour 5 days
*ursids dec 22 15 per hour 4 days

the meteors appear to originate in the constellations that give the meteor showers their names.

the duration 'centers' on the peak date shown. thus, you will see some showers in the days before and after the peak date. theoretically, the peak date will have the peak number of meteors.

the source of the above is 'the golden skyguide, a field guide for amateur astronomers'.
i also have 'the peterson field guide to the stars and planets' and the collins gem guide 'the night sky'. each has its own value. the night sky would fit in the pocket of anyone it is about 3" x 4.5". Suited to take on a walk.

Susan Delaney

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i will be looking up, watching for the meteors.
a funny story:

it was 5.30 a.m. and comet Hale-Bopp was high and bright in the eastern sky.

i was walking in my neighborhood. a man, already dressed for business, came out to get his paper just as i approached his sidewalk.

'have you seen the comet?', i asked.

'no, but i was in a chat room with Bopp last night, etc, etc.'

'have you seen the comet?', i asked again.

'no, but blah, blah, blah, about the science of it.'

'have you seen the comet?', i asked again.
he was beginning to get that i was trying to tell him something.
he paused and stopped his 'head talk'.

i pointed to the comet.
he looked up, mouth agape.

i walked away silently, leaving him to commune with the comet.

susan delphine delaney md
plano texas


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Radio Meteor Observatory's On Line
http://radio.data.free.fr/main.php3

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Leonidenstrom -
in der Nachbarwohnung
ein lauter Streit

。。。。。Leonid Storm -
。。。。。in the neighbour’s flat
。。。。。noisy quarreling

Andrea D`Alessandro

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part of a kasen dated this autumn 2004:

Novembermond
gespiegelt im Weiher
wie ein Diamant
(Laura D`Alessandro, daughter of Andrea)

**Teleskopblick
**zum Leonidenstrom
(Andrea D`Alessandro)

Moon of November,
mirrored in the pond
like a diamond
(Laura D`Alessandro)

** Telescope-view
** to the Leonids.
(Andrea D`Alessandro)


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leonids--
the sparkle
in her laugh


Deborah Kolodji
Published : tinywords in 2007/11/19


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ryusei no tsukai-kire-zaru sora no take

Shugyo Takaha (1930-)

a shooting star...
unable to use up the length of
the vast sky


(Tr. Susumu Takiguchi)
Daily Yomiuri, September 2005
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/language/20050906TDY19002.htm


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Leonid Meteor shower
brings us
the thousands of blisses .


- Shared by Chappy Fukuda -
Haiku Culture Magazine, 2013



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***** Geminid Meteor Shower
kigo for winter (December)

The Geminid meteor shower is ongoing through December 19th. Peak activity occurs during the 13th and 14th. The meteors are composed of debris from asteroid 3200 Phaethon. The Geminids have increased in intensity since first seen in 1862.
This information is from accuweather.com




the Geminid meteor shower:
scratches in the night blanket
day light peeks through

Fred Masarani
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cherrypoetryclub/message/20989



The Geminids peaked last night about midnight, USA EST. My sons saw two bolides (fireballs or bright long trailed meteors). I counted four meteors, total, but only was able to see one bolide.

shooting stars:
Daruma recites sutra
after surta!

Chibi
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Darumasan-Japan/message/625


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***** Perseid Meteor Showers: August 12,
Kigo for Early Autumn


The Game of Lugh.
This is an old Celtic name for the Perseids, the most familiar of all meteor showers, that take place at around this time of year. Associated with the Swift-Tuttle Comet, the Perseids have been well documented since at least 830 CE and take their name from the constellation Perseus where shooting stars appear. We can well imagine ancient Celts looking upon these wonders and associating them with other phenomena of the season between the equinox and solstice, including the heat of the last ofthe Dog Days. They attributed the celestial display of Perseid lights to games being played by Lugh, 'the shining one'.

References:

NASA site featuring information on the Perseids:
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/22jul_perseids2005.htm

Wilson's Almanac
http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/aug1.html

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Haiku

12 August is a promising night for shooting stars -- so, I ventured out to the hotel terrace in the dark of midnight in the German forest area of the Eiffel. A breathtaking sky -- in Brussels, one forgets how many stars there are... And, within five minutes, three shooting stars!

midnight sky
star upon star upon star
one falling... two... three...

Isabelle Prondzynski


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a perseid night -
from the flames
the fire spirit


- Shared by Shawn Lee Whitney -
Joys of Japan, 2012


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meteor shower
how many dreams
to fulfill


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Joys of Japan, August16, 2012



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On Saturday at dusk, after the fire tragedy that also destroyed a transformer and left a section of Soweto in darkness for three days, while we stood by watching the Kenya Power and Lighting Company staff fixing the trasformer:


shooting star--
we mistake its bright streak
for power return


Patrick Wafula
Kenya, August 2012



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Related words

Morning star (myoojoo), evening star, venus Japan, worldwide

Star (hoshi), shooting star (流星 nagareboshi), Big Dipper
Japan. Many related KIGO !

Star Festival (Tanabata, Japan) Milky Way (ama no gawa)


. Astronomical Saijiki .
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12/02/2005

Last Day of the Year (oomisoka)

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Last Day of the Year (oomisoka)

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


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Misoka 晦日 is the name for any last day of a month, so the oomisoka, the great last day of the last month, 大晦日.
Also called "Great Year" ootoshi 大年.

The season shortly before the change of the year is called "the year coming to an end" toshi no kure 年の暮れ、saimatsu 歳末、toshi no se 年の瀬、saiban 歳晩。
The "Year is leaving" yukutoshi 行く年,
"to send the year off " toshi okuru 年送る、
"to think fondly of the past year" toshi oshimu 年惜しむ

. Seasons ending .


Google December 31, 2011


One of the chores for the end of the year is cleaning the home from top to bottom and then back again, so that no speck of the dust of the passing year is left in the new one:
great cleaning, oosooji
kure no oosooji 暮れの大掃除



To clean off the soot, suszuharai 煤払い
is another cleaning activity going on in temples and shrines. Large poles of bamboo are used to wipe away spider nets and other dirt. On the picture you can see the monks cleaning the head of a Buddha statue at the Temple Manpuku-ji.

http://www.heiankyo.co.jp/topics/cho/image/200012-7.jpg
In the Edo period, it was the custom to pay all your amounting bills until the last day of the year, so you could see the money collectors walking around too. Now, the run to the bank is some kind of equivalent.

On the last evening, later in the night, many temples and shrines are prepared for the first visitors of the New Year and sound the bell 108 times, to wipe away the disturbing thoughts of the old and let in a refreshed mind:

striking the bell, joya no kane 除夜の鐘
on December 31

Look at this bell
http://www.zen-shop.net/Joya-no-kane.html

Here is another one

http://www.ajinomoto.com/traditions/winter_06.html


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observance kigo for mid-winter

roojitsu 臘日 (ろうじつ) last day of the year
..... roosai 臘祭(ろうさい) festival on the last day of the year

The word ROO means つなぎあわせる "to hold together"
It implies reverence to the ancestors and all deities of Japan. It was also a banquet to pray for good harvest in the next year.

It also holds together the last month of the old and the first month of the new year.
The 12th month is sometimes called 臘月 Roogetsu.


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observance kigo for mid-winter

There are quite a few rituals performed on the last day of the year.
Here are some of them.


toshi tori 年取 (としとり)
getting one year older

..... toshi toru 年取る(としとる)

On the last day of the year, people eat a proper meal with a whole fish (with head and tail fin).
Everyone would be one year older on the next day. Individual birthdays were not celebrated in the Edo period.


. Matsuo Basho at Suma no Ura - toshi tori


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toshi mamoru 年守る (としまもる)
to watch over (the passing year)

toshi moru 年守る(としもる)
shusai 守歳(しゅさい)
toshi okuru 年送る(としおくる)

People stay awake on the last night. Some visit a shrine or temple, others go to the seaside, others stay at home and watch television. A Year-End party at home is not so common in Japan.


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toshi no hi 年の火 (としのひ) "fire of the year


In many areas on the last day of the year old sacred straw ropes (shimenawa) are burned outside in the garden, if people forgot to bring them back to the local shrine.
This fire would also purify the whole house and could be used to cook the last meal of the old year.
toshikoshi tondo 年越とんど bonfire to pass into the new year

. Shimenawa 注連縄 a sacred rope



. yotsugi hota 世継榾 (よつぎほた) "successor firewood"



. toshi no yu 年の湯 としのゆ last bath of the year


. misoka soba 晦日蕎麦 (みそかそば)
buckwheat noodles on the last day of the year



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toshi no yado 年の宿 (としのやど)
lodgings for passing into the New Year

..... toshiyado 年宿(としやど)
toshi no ie 年の家(としのいえ) home for passing into the New Year

Either one's own home or the home of the parents, or whilst travelling.


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Worldwide use

The last evening of the year is called
New Year's Eve.


Germany
This last evening is called Silvester. We have a big party to lead us into the new year. At the change of the clock at midnight, people start a firework in the garden and some towns officially.
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Guyana

House cleaning and painting are some of the most conspicuous events at Christmas time each year. It is a tradition.

final touches
the house painting
at year end


Kenneth Daniels, Guyana, December 2009

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Things found on the way


List of Events in Tamba (Japan), a local saijiki
http://www.city.sasayama.hyogo.jp/event/ev.html
Features a Market for the Last Day
http://www.city.sasayama.hyogo.jp/ev981231.html


Other traditional events and customs, all of which are kigo, mostly for the New Year.

SAPPORO SNOW FESTIVAL
HATSUHINODE First Sun <> New Year Kigo > First Sun, First Sunrise (hatsuhi, hatsuhi no de, Japan)
OSECHI RYORI (JAPAN) New Years Food <> New Year Kigo > New Year Part 2
HATSUMOUDE Fists visit to the temple <> New Year Kigo

KAGAMIMOCHI Offerings of Rice Cakes <> New Year Kigo

Here are more links to see these rice offerings
http://www.fushimi-net.co.jp/shopping/shop1-4.html
http://www.fushimi-net.co.jp/shopping/shop1-3.html

TAKOAGE Flying the New Year Kite <> New Year Kigo
JOYA NO KANE The Temple Bell on the last/first night > see above
TOSHIKOSHI SOBA Eating buckwheat noodles on the last evening
YUKIDARUMA Making a snowman > Snowman (yuki Daruma) Japan (yuki-botoke)
KAKIZOME First calligraphy
http://www.ajinomoto.com/traditions/winter_06.html


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Worldwide use again

Chikago

In Chicago, although the practice is illigal, some people celebratethe new year by shooting firearms into the sky.

new year's eve--
the revelers' gunshots close
a violent year

Ed Schwellenbach
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cherrypoetryclub/message/21203


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joya no kane



"Gong on New Year´s Eve"
Onda Akio (b.1924) 恩田秋夫


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HAIKU


shame, shame!
on the month's last day
a meadow butterfly


.はづかしや三十日が来ても草のてふ
hazukashi ya misoka ga kite mo kusa no choo

by Issa, 1810

Or: "meadow butterflies."
Shinji Ogawa explains that Issa's phrase, "month's last day" (misoka), alludes to bills that need to be paid. He paraphrases the haiku: "Shame, shame! on the month's last day I cannot pay my debt." In Issa's days, most people bought things on credit and paid up at the end of the month or, in some cases, end of the year. Issa replaces the phrase, "I cannot pay my debt" with "a meadow butterfly," which suggests, in Shinji's view, that he is "as penniless as a meadow butterfly."
All this is implied by Issa's Japanese, not stated--making the task of translation especially difficult.
I might make the comparison explicit, as Shinji suggests: shame, shame! on the month's last day I'm as penniless as a meadow butterfly ...but this makes for a less effective haiku, making explicit a thing that Issa leaves to the reader's imagination.



bamboo thicket--
on the year's last day, too
evening rain

Issa, 1805
Tr. David Lanoue

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大晦日卵の殻をつぶし捨つ
oomisoka tamago-no kara-o tsubushi sutsu

New Year's Eve
crushing up an eggshell
i throw it away


Dhugal J. Lindsay
http://www.cyberoz.net/city/dhugal/dhughaiku.html

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New Year's Eve-
sleepy eyes
close before midnight

Kate Steere

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just the two of us
in the year’s final moments …
and Jupiter

Christopher Herold Woodside, CA, USA
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/haiku/03/selection2002.html

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cleaning, susuharai:

awaiting the new year -
cleaning my house
for the Gods of Good Luck
(Tr. aided by Ed Schwellenbach)

Etsuko Yanagibori

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end of the year -
piles of haiku pages
gathering dust

awaiting midnight -
a ripple of temple bells
bless the New Year

Joachim Seckel, WHCworkshop

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***** New Year (shin nen 新年)


. NEW YEAR
SAIJIKI and KIYOSE


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12/01/2005

Additions November 2005

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WHC World Kigo Database <>
Newsletter November 2005

Dear Friends of World Kigo,

November has gone and we enjoyed some fine autumn days.
As for our kigo, the SILENCE has been received quite enthusiastically, we even could start a SILENCE and HAIGA gallery!
The FISH KIGO AQUARIUM is also beginning to take shape, thanks to many contributions.
The INDIA SAIJIKI is well on its way too, so there is plenty to check out this time.


http://worldkigo2005.blogspot.com/2006/12/latest-additions.html

Please share this information with your other Haiku Friends.
Feel free to add your information and haiku as comments to the BLOG.

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Smelt, Osmerus mordax Fish in America, kyuuri uo (Japan)Music: Shruthi in IndiaFrost in India, a season of its ownWinter in IndiaFish from Russia Snapper in Australia Angelus Prayer (Catholic Communities)

..... FISH as a kigo Including amongst many morewhitebait / icefish, shirauo 白魚young sweetfish, trout, junge Forelle, waka-ayu 若鮎red sea bream, sakuradai 桜鯛blossom cuttlefish, hana-ika 花烏賊herring, Hering, nishin 鰊Bonito, katsuo 鰹cherry salmon, yamame 山女trout, sweetfish, ayu 鮎 Forelleflying fish, tobi-uo 飛魚 Fliegende Fischegoldfish, kingyo 金魚salmon, sake, shake 鮭 Lachsgoby, haze 鯊 はぜreddened carp, momijibuna 紅葉鮒whale, kujira 鯨tuna, maguro 鮪Owl (fukuroo) (05) mimizuku. Snowy Owl (Japan)Henna (mehandi) India. mehendi, (mehndi) HeenaTrekking , Trek (India, worldwide)

SilenceSilence (maun) (India) . Shizukesa, Japan. Quietude, Stillness...... Silence by Narayanan..... Silence and Stones..... Continue to ... Silence and Haiga Rollerskates (India, worldwide) RollerbladesRamadan ends (Idd ul Fitr) (Kenya)Moon, waxing (moondraam pirai) India

Mushrooms (kinoko, Japan ki no ko, take: including pine mushroom, matsutake; hackberry mushrooms, enokidake; chestnut mushroom, kuridake; pasania mushroom, shiitake; meadow mushrooms, champignons, shimeji; rice with fresh mushrooms, kinoko meshi, takenoko meshi; looking for mushrooms in the forest, mushroom hunting, kinokogari; mountain with mushrooms, takeyama; first mushroom, hatsu-take hatsutake.

Anklets (payal) IndiaTansen The Musician, IndiaSari Dress for Ladies, IndiaHaiku from the Philippines including Roh Mih

Greetings from Japan
Gabi Greve


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11/12/2005

Korean Haiku

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Introducing Haiku from Korea

Some traditional "Japanese" things were originally Korean. Haiku are a simplified version of Korean sijo.

Korean poetry can be traced at least as far back as King Yuri's Song of Yellow Birds (17BC), but its roots are in still earlier Chinese quatrains.
Sijo, Korea's favorite poetic genre, is often traced to Confucian monks of the eleventh century, but its roots, too, are in those earlier forms. Its greatest flowering occurred in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Sijo is, first and foremost, a song. This lyric pattern gained popularity in royal courts as a vehicle for religious or philosophic expression, but a parallel tradition arose among the 'common' folk.

Sijo were sung or chanted with musical accompaniment, and still are. In fact, the word originally referred only to the music, but it has come to be identified with the lyric as well.
http://members.tripod.com/~theWORDshop/Sijo/sijo-index.htm

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Korean Haiku by Alice S. Astle

Published In Periodical: Exponent II 7.4 (Summer): 17

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Rainy construction site -
The mist on Geumjong Mountain
doesn't mind the noise.


Korean Haiku by Dan Bosworth

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Haiku Expeditions in Korea

Haiku Expeditions Com


Some Haiku from the trip in 2002


seoul lights
reflect bright
on the han


city madness
escaping it all
pukansan quietness



Read more and look at the marvellous photos !

© Sanjay Rajan 2002-2006

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Tortoise with fish painting (19th century)
COURTESY OF JAPAN FOLK CRAFTS MUSEUM



we wish you
a happy birthday
with a turtle and carp !

They are symbols for a long life!

Read more about Korean Folk Art

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Korean Haiku
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lost in reverie
thinking of blazing sunsets
and freezing mountains
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government issue
all that is necessary
shall be provided
.
but for my own sake
I requisition the sky
to fill my vision
.
I capture the cold
but hold it away from me
at a safe distance
.
I climb the mountain
my feet compressing the snow
into hard pathways.
.
frozen immobile
I see sunlight glittering
on yesterday's slope
.
maybe tomorrow
will bring a clearer meaning
of today's events

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end

anonymous, 2004

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From English Teachers in Korea

5.
Chan-Won cannot read.
Chang-Hee doesn’t know numbers.
New advanced class enrollees.

11.
Moo-Say was lied to.
His senior borrowed money.
Ain’t Confucianism grand?


Ya-ta Boy

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(Random Korean haiku)

Two drunk guys fighting
About who can drive the car
And not kill someone.


gypsyfish

Korea Haiku Forum, read them all !

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Koreaforum, by Gabi Greve


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***** Korean Ambassadors to Japan in the Edo Period


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11/06/2005

Kenya / List of Seasonal Words

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from Kenya and other tropical areas


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In Kenya, we have the following haiku seasons:

.. .. .. hot dry season
.. .. .. long rains
.. .. .. cool dry season
.. .. .. short rains

Some of the rainy season kigo appear twice in the course of the year.

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.. .. .. .. .. Seasonal Items

hot and dry season
(roughly November to March, with January being the hottest month)

-- Buying textbooks
-- Buying school uniforms
-- Cassia blossom
-- Caterpillar, Hairy Caterpillar
-- Census
-- Christmas worldwide
-- Dust
-- Exam resultsKCPE and KCSE Exam Registration and Results
-- Form One entrants and monolisation
-- Frangipani, Plumeria
-- Goat Meat, also Goats in general
ice cream
-- Jamhuri Day (12 December)
-- January
-- Maasai Cattle (Masai Cattle)
-- Mabati shimmering roofs
-- Maize, Green Maize (for corn/maize see below)
-- Mango (ripe fruit)
-- New Year worldwide
open shoes
-- Papyrus and other grasses couch grass, napier grass, African star grass
-- Paying school fees
-- peaches, ripe peaches
-- Plums, ripe plums, plum fruit
-- Start of new school year Kenya
... ... see also Start of Schoolyear, worldwide
-- sweating
vest
-- Water shortage , drought
-- Weeds
-- World AIDS Day

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long rains (roughly March to May)

-- Bombax blossom
-- First rainfall, imminent rain
-- bullfrogs Frog (kawazu, kaeru) worldwide
-- Easter
-- flooding
-- flying termites kumbi kumbi
-- Grass, fresh grass, green grass, young grass
-- Guava fruit
-- Gumboots, gum boots
-- heavy raindrops
-- Ibis (Hadada)
-- Labour Day
-- Long Rains Haiku by Bahati Club
-- Long Rains
-- Mabati roofs rusting and harvesting rainwater
-- Mosquitoes in Kenya

-- Mud (Swahili : matope)
including: Brickmaking, Dry mud, Bukusu Initiation (Circumcision)  
-- Mudslide, landslide

-- Palm Sunday
-- Pneumonia
-- Power failure, blackout     
-- Puddle, puddles
-- Rhinoceros beetle , a scarab beetle
-- Shoe wiper
-- Stepping stones, step-stone bridge  
-- Umbrella

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cool and dry season
(roughly from June to September, with July being the coldest month)

-- August moon
-- Avocado pear (Kikuyu : Mûkorobîa)
-- Beanie cap Kenya
-- Bukusu Initiation / Circumcision
-- Cold Dew (kanro) worldwide
-- Cold dry season, cool dry season   

Datura suaveolens, Moonflower, Angel's Trumpet, trumpet plant
-- Day of the African Child (16 June)  
-- Dust
-- Glove, gloves
-- Frangipani, Plumeria       
-- freezing
-- Hawkers for warm things glove, hot coffee, uji maize porridge, scarf, sweater ...
Irish potatoes (viazi)
-- Jiko (brazier)
-- July
-- Maasai Cattle (Masai Cattle)
-- Mabati roors collect dew
-- Madaraka Day (1 June)
-- Maize, Green Maize
-- Martyrs’ Day Uganda

-- Nairobi Bomb Day (7 August)
-- Nairobi International Trade Fair (end of September)
-- no meetings (August)
-- Oranges (Swahili : Mchungwa)
Referendum August 2010
-- Sunflower
-- Sesbania Tree (Sesbania sesban (L.) Merr.)
-- Shivering, to shiver
-- start of university year
-- Weeds


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short rains (roughly October and November)

-- Aramanthus, vegetable
-- bullfrogs > Frog (kawazu, kaeru) worldwide
-- First rainfall, imminent rain
-- Ocotber rain
-- Flamboyant Tree (Swahili : Mjohoro)
-- Flooding in 2006
-- flying termites kumbi kumbi
-- Graduation Ceremony in Kenya
... ... see also Graduation (sotsugyoo) worldwide
-- Gumboots, gum boots
-- Jacaranda blossom
-- heavy raindrops
-- Kenyatta Day
-- Messiah for the Hospice
-- Moi Day (10 October) renamed : Mashujaa Day since 2010
-- Mosquitoes in Kenya
-- Mud (Swahili : matope)
-- Mudslide, landslide

-- Nairobi Marathon
-- Power failure, blackout
-- Puddle, puddles
-- Shoe wiper

-- School exams KCSE / KCPE
------ Short Rains and more kigo about this season
-- Stepping stones, step-stone bridge
-- Tipu tree (Tipuana tipu)
-- Umbrella


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............. Topics for which the season changes

-- Diwali (Devali, Divali)
-- Ramadan in Kenya
-- Ramadan ends (Idd ul Fitr)

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Ageing ... Getting old in Kenya. Grandfather, Grandmother
Akala ... Sandals
Arusha Tanzania
. . . Namanga-Arusha Highway Road

Banana
Bat, bats . . . and the Mukuyu tree
Beggar
Bisquits and cookies
Boma Homesteads
Buibui, to cover the head and face of a Muslim woman face veil
Bukusu Culture, Babukusu People

Cabbage
Calabash, calabashes, gourd
Camel, Dromedary, Kamel, Dromedar
Casuarina Tree
Chameleon
Chokoraa, chokora - "street boy" or "parking boy"
Crickets, cricket

Demolitions in Patanisho, Nairobi

Eucalyptus tree Fam. Myrtaceae

Fences and hedges
Flame tree (Erythrina fam.)
Flies, Fly, Housefly, Fruitfly
Fountain (in a park)

Githeri
Grevillea tree
Guitar

Hell's Gate National Park
Hornbill


Irio (mûkimû)


Jeevanjee Gardens and Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee
Jua kali artisans

Kajiado wilderness
Kale, kales, a cabbage (sukumawiki)
Kamba People A funeral in Ukambani
Kanga, kangas, wrapping cloth
Kenya Railway Museum Kukai August 2010
Kenyatta National Hospital,Nairobi
Khamsin wind Egypt, North Africa
Kibera Slums
Kitale Town in Western Kenya

Longido Hills

Magadi, Lake Magadi in the Rift Valley
Maize (Swahili : Mahindi, American : Corn, South African : Mealies)
Masai, Maasai, Massai ... indigenous African ethnic group of semi-nomadic people located in Kenya
Mandazi, a kind of doughnuts
Marabou Stork, Leptoptilos crumeniferus
Marikiti Farmers' Market Nairobi
Matatu minibus
Mkokoteni - hand cart, pushcart pl. mikokoteni
Mount Kenya and Kilimanjaro
Mourning
Mzungu ... person of European descent

Nairobi City
Haile Selassie Avenue, Soweto Market, Wakulima Market, Thika road, Tom Mboya street, Marikiti market


Ngaramtoni at the flank of Mount Meru
Newspaper vendor, newspaper boy
Night life
Njiiru Plains


Passion fruit, Passiflora edulis
Pawpaw tree(Asimina) paw paw, paw-paw, papaw
Peace (Swahili : Amani)
Pelican
Pig, pigs
Pineapple, Ananas comosus
Pokot people West Pokot and Baringo Districts of Kenya
Pomelo (Citrus maxima or Citrus grandis) Chinese grapefruit
Posho mill, poshomill -- to grind wheat, maize and other grains

Rift Valley
Royal Palm Tree Roystonea regia


Scorpion
Sisal (Agave sisalana)
Slasher to cut grass
Sorghum (mtama) and milled porridge (uji)
Sowbug, a brown snail
Sufuria .. cooking pot or saucepan


Tea (Swahili : chai)
Tilapia fish
Toilet, outhouse
Tomato, tomatoes


Ugali and Uji, maize porridge
Umbrella tree / Acacia tortilis


Warthog
Weaver birds (Ploceidae family)
Webuye Town
Wildebeest
migration

Wimbi, bulo ... Millet
Wood, firewood


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.. .. .. .. .. National Holidays in Kenya

l Jan -- New Year's Day -- International New Year's Day Holiday
> -- WKD ... : New Year (shin-nen)

Varies -- Good Friday -- Christian holiday commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ
> -- WKD ... : Easter

Varies -- Easter Monday -- Christian holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ
> -- WKD ... : Easter

1 May -- Labour Day -- International Day of the Worker
> -- see also : Labour Day, USA

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Mashujaa Day

10 Oct -- Moi Day -- Established on the 10th day of the 10th month 10 years after the inauguration of President Daniel arap Moi as the second President of Kenya.
October 2010:
The new constitution scrapped Moi Day and replaced Kenyatta day with Hero's (Mashujaa) Day in efforts to celebrate the men and women who fought for Kenya's freedom .

20 Oct -- Kenyatta Day -- This is to commemorate the arrest of Jomo Kenyatta and the declaration of the State of Emergency on 20 October 1952.
October 2010:
The new constitution scrapped Moi Day and replaced Kenyatta day with Hero's (Mashujaa) Day in efforts to celebrate the men and women who fought for Kenya's freedom .

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12 Dec -- Uhuru or Jamhuri Day -- This is to commemorate the day on which Kenya achieved its Independence, on 12 December 1963.
> -- Jamhuri Day

25 Dec -- Christmas Day -- Christian holiday celebrating the Birth of Jesus Christ.
> -- Bahati Haiku Club : Christmas
> -- WKD ... : Christmas

26 Dec -- Boxing Day -- celebrating St Stephen's Day and the second
day of the Christmas season.
> -- WKD ... St Stephen's Day


Varies -- Idd ul Fitr
The Muslim festival of Idd-ul-Fitr is also a public holiday and takes place on the sighting of the new moon at the end of Ramadhan. The exact date varies according to the position of the New Moon.

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.. .. .. .. .. .. Annual events in Kenya

Apart from big celebrations that are held on Madaraka, Kenyatta and Independence Days, Nairobi is also the venue for a number of large international and national sports matches. Nairobi further enhances its cosmopolitan image by hosting a number of annual shows and
festivals.

The Kenya Schools Music Festival is held in Nairobi in May/June and

The Agricultural Society of Kenya (A.S.K.) Show takes place at Jamhuri Park at the end of September or beginning of October. See Nairobi International Trade Fair

The long established and international Safari Rally begins and ends in Nairobi - drawing ever larger crowds.
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Introduction to the

Haiku Clubs of Nairobi


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More LINKs in the Kenya Saijiki

Getting to Know Kenya

Poetry and Literature of Kenya

Music of Kenya, by Douglas Paterson

Missionaries in Kenya

Wildlife in Kenya

Plants and Animals of Kenya, LIST by Allen & Nancy Chartier

Kakamega Forest Birds

Nature Kenya Organization


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