8/08/2010

Animals in Autumn . . . SAIJIKI

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Animals in Autumn

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Autumn
***** Category: Animal


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Explanation

Many animals have their main entry in a different season and when mentioned in autumn, this has to be added explicitly

animal in autumn

Please check the entries carefully!
Most of the LINKS given below contain longer lists with more kigo.




The dragonflies are quite representative of the Japanese autumn, so are the many chirping insects.
In autumn, we already have some animals to begin hibernating.

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Kigo for early autumn


"day-darkener", clear toned cicada, higurashi 蜩 (ひぐらし)
Tanna japonensis
monk-cicada, hooshisemi (hooshizemi) 法師蝉
Meimuna opalifera



ephemera, kageroo 蜉蝣



fireflies in autumn, aki no hotaru 秋の蛍



fly, flies in autumn, aki no hae 秋の蠅


Insects of early autumn
fruit cricket 鉦叩 kanetataki
grass cricket 草雲雀 kusahibari
long-horned grasshopper 螽斯 kirigirisu
snowy cricket 邯鄲 kantan



slug-caterpillar moth, iramushi 刺虫 (いらむし)
and its larvae
fam. Limacodidae



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Kigo for mid-autumn


ant, ants start hibernating
ari ana ni iru 蟻穴に入る(ありあなにいる)



frog, frogs in autumn, aki no kawazu 秋の蛙
frogs start to hibernate



lizard starts to hibernate
tokage ana ni iru 蜥蜴穴に入る(とかげあなにいる)




mosquitos beyond their prime, abureka 溢蚊



snake in autumn, aki no hebi 秋の蛇 (あきのへび)
snakes go into their holes, snakes start hibernating
hebi ana ni iru 蛇穴に入る



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Kigo for late autumn


bear on a shelf (kuma no tana 熊の架)
kuma kuridana o kaku 熊栗架を掻く(くまくりだなをかく)
bear scratching his chestnut shelf
kuma no kuridana 熊の栗棚(くまのくりだな)
bear on his chestnut shelf
Bears tend to sit on branches, eating their nuts to fatten up.




bee and wasp larvae, hachi no ko 蜂の仔 (はちのこ)
hachi no ko meshi 蜂の子飯(はちのこめし) rice with bee larvae



butterfly in autumn, aki no choo 秋の蝶



Insects still left over, nokoru mushi 残る虫
remaining insects



silkworm in autumn, akigo 秋蚕 akigo, shuusan



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Kigo for all autumn


bagworm, minomushi 蓑虫
"straw raincoat bug", case moth
larvae of Psychidae
"child of the devil", oni no ko 鬼の子(おにのこ)
..... the bagworm is making a sound, minomushi naku
蓑虫鳴く(みのむしなく)



bee, bees in autumn, aki no hachi 秋の蜂




Chatatemushi, chatatemushi 茶立虫 (ちゃたてむし)
"tea whisking insect"

chabashiramushi, chabashira mushi 茶柱虫(ちゃばしらむし)
konachatate 粉茶立(こなちゃたて)
kakurezatoo 隠座頭(かくれざとう)
. Azukiarai 小豆洗い and Gegege
The insect "Wahsing red beans" appears with Mizuki Shigeru Monsters.
A group with more than 5000 subgroups, Stenopsocus aphidiformis
Psococerastis tokyoensis, Longivalvus nubilus, Psococerastis kurokiana, Amphigerontia sp.




cicada in autumn, aki no semi 秋の蝉 (あきのせみ)
locusts in autumn



deer, shika 鹿 (しか)
"red maple-leaf bird", momijidori 紅葉鳥




. Dragonfly, tonbo, Tombo 蜻蛉  
Japan was once called Akitsushima meaning
"The Island of the Dragon-fly".
red dragonfly, aka tonbo 赤蜻蛉 赤とんぼ . アカトンボ




fart bug, hekiri mushi 屁ひり虫 , kamemushi
A whole family of bugs which leave a terrible smell when touched or when they feel in danger. In autumn they try to come inside the old farmhouses.
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gnat, Yokobai gnat 横這 よこばい
yokobuyo よこぶよ
fam. Cicadellidae "little cicada"
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green caterpillar, imomushi 芋虫 (いもむし)
yuzuboo 柚子坊(ゆずぼう)




horse fattening, uma koyuru 馬肥ゆる (うまこゆる)
autumn colt, autumn pony, autumn horse, aki no koma 秋の駒




. . . Insects, mushi 虫
autumn of the insects, mushi no aki 虫の秋
lit: "voice of the insect", chirping insects,
mushi no ne 虫の音
crickets, koorogi 蟋蟀
large, brown grasshopper/locust, batta ばった 
small green grasshopper/locust, イナゴ
inagomushi 稲虫 (いなむし) "rice locust"
itodo 竈馬 (いとど) cave cricket
A long kigo list of well-loves insects, like crickets and grashoppers, and human activities around them.




leaf caterpillars, namushi 菜虫 なむし
aomushi 青虫(あおむし)"green caterpillar"
namushi tori 菜虫取る(なむしとる)picking leaf caterpillars.
The larvae of butterflies, expecially the cabbage butterfly.
They feast on leafy vegetables, like big radish and cabbage.





leaf hopper, ukan うんか . (浮塵子)
nukabae 糠蠅(ぬかばえ)biting midge
"rice bran insect"
awamushi 泡虫(あわむし)"bubble insect"
. Sanemori mushi 実盛虫(さねもりむし)
and Saito Sanemori 斉藤実盛 
fam. Ceratopogonidae
Reiskäfer, Stirnhöckerzirpe, Kleinzirpe




mole-cricket singing, mimizu naku 蚯蚓鳴く
lit "earthworms singing", "earthworms' song"
kera naku 螻蛄鳴く (けらなく) mole cricket singing
..... okera naku おけら鳴く(おけらなく)
Gryllotalpa orientalis




mosquito in autumn, aki no ka 秋の蚊
nokoru ka 残る蚊(のこるか)mosquiots still left




Praying mantis, kamakiri 鎌切, tooroo 螳螂
Tenodora aridifolia, Paratenodera sinensis




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skeleton shrimp, warekara われから / ワレカラ
mo ni sumu mushi 藻に住む虫(もにすむむし)
insect that lives in algae
mo no mushi 藻の虫(ものむし)
mo ni naku mushi 藻に鳴く虫(もになくむし)
insect that sings in the algae
mo ni sumu mushi no ne ni naku 藻に住む虫の音に泣く(もにすむむしのねになく)
Skelettgarnele




snakes go into their holes, snakes start hibernating
hebi ana ni iru 蛇穴に入る




wild boar, inoshishi 猪 (いのしし)
whale of the mountain forest, yamakujira 山鯨



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