Backup A to J

Backup January 2007 only

.. .. .. .. Alphabetical Index - World Kigo Database
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.................................................... AAA

Advent Christian Communities

.. .. .. .. African Haiku

AIDS, World AIDS Day Kenya, worldwide

.. .. .. .. Alaska Kiyose

Alberta Family Day, Canada
All Saints’ Day
All Souls' Day
Ambedkar Jayanti, Memorial Day India

Amida Prayer (Namu Amida Butsu) Japan. Amitabha

Anemone
Angelus Prayer (Catholic Communities)
Anklets (payal) India, Bracelets, Bangles
Ant, ants (ari)Japan, worldwide. Termites, fire ants

Apple (ringo) Japan. Including candy apple, apple pie and many more

April (shigatsu) 　　　　　　　　　　
..... April Fool (shigatsu baka) Japan. Worldwide

Armistice Day Europe (Poppy Day, Rememberance Day, Veterans Day)

..... Aroma, Smell, Fragrance in various kigo

Ash Wednesday

Aum (阿吽) A-Un, Om. India

..... Australian Seasons, Australian Saijiki
Autumn (aki, Japan)
. Autum Cherry Shikizakura (Japan)
. Autumn Equinox (aki higan) Japan
. Autumn Festival (aki matsuri) Japan
. Autumn Leaves (momiji, Japan) yellow leaves, colored leaves
. Autumn Melancholy Europe

Avocado pear (Kikuyu : Mûkorobîa) Kenya

Azalea (Japan) Tsutsuji, Satsuki, Oomurasaki



........................................................... BBB

..... Bahati Haiku Poetry Club, Kenya

BAMBOO .. An Asian Plant
Bhagavad Gita (India)
Banyan Tree (India)
Bargain SalesWorldwide
Baseball Playoff USA (05)
..... Baseball Winter Meetings, USA

Basho Memorial Day (Basho-Ki) Japan

Battledore (hagoita) Japan

Beach Pea (hama-endoo, Japan)
Bee (mitsubachi)
Begonia (shuukaidoo, shukaido) Japan

Bell, Temple Bell (kane, tsurigane, waniguchi, dootaku) Japan
..... Bell, Temple Bell in India

Bellows Festival (fuigo matsuri) Japan

Berlin Wall (Berliner Mauer) Cold War (Kalter Krieg), Iron Curtain (eiserner Vorhang). Germany
Between the Years (zwischen den Jahren, Germany)
Bhagavad Gita (India)

........ Haiku in Bhutan

Binzuru, Ceremony for the Arhat Binzuru (Binzuru mawashi) Japan

Birds of Winter Japan
Bird Haze in Spring (torigumori), "birds and wind", torikaze Japan.
..... Including "tori ni kumo" birds and clouds. flower haze, hanagumori. herring clouds, nishingumori.
Bird droppings Worldkide

Blackthorn (Europa)
Blinds, summer curtains (sudare)Japan. Inclucing bamboo blinds, seating mats (goza), rattan chairs (too isu) and a few more summer items for the home.

Blowfish (fugu, Japan) .. Puffer, Globefish, Swellfish

Bodhidarma, Daruma san in Japan
Bombax (Chorisia Tree) Kenya

Bon Festival (o-bon) (05) Japan.
..... Awaodori Dance (05) Japan, Bon-Odori, Bon-Dance
..... Bon Boats for Souls (shooryoobune) (05) Japan
..... Bon Flowers (bonbana) (05) Japan
..... Jizobon, Jizoo Bon 地蔵盆
..... Bon Stove (bongama) (05) Japan
..... Bon of Wind (kaze no bon) (05) Japan

Bonifacio Day Philippines

Bowing, bow (o-jigi, ojigi) Japanese greeting etiquette

Bread (pan) Worldwide
Briar Berry Briar Berries
Bridge (hashi) Japan Worldwide
Brigid's Day (Ireland) St. Brigid

Buckwheat (soba), Buckwheat flowers Japan

Buddha, Shakyamuni, Shaka India, Japan
Buddhabird (buppoosoo) (05) Dollarbird and Eurasian Scops-Owl; Japan
Buddha's Birthday, Flower Festival, Flower Hall (kanbutsu-e, shuuni-e, hahamatsuri, hana midoo 　 Japan
Buddha's Seat (hotoke no za)(Japan)

.. .. .. .. Buddhist Ceremonies and Events, a topical Saijiki Festivals of Japan

Bukusu Culture, Babukusu People Kenya

..... Bulgaria Collection of the Europa Saijiki

Butterbur sprouts (fuki no too) and butterbur (fuki) Japan

Butterfly (choo)Japan. Worldwide
..... Butterfly in Winter(fuyu no choo) Japan including frozen/freezing butterfly (itechoo)

"Buy Nothing Day" Worldwide



........................................................... CCC

Caladium (Elephant Ears) Tropics

..... Calendar Systems, Asian Lunar Calendar, 12 Zodiac Animals, 24 Seasons
Helpful reference to understand Japanese Haiku Seasons.

Camellia (tsubaki) Sasanka, Sazanka, yabutsubaki, ochitsubaki

..... ..... Canada Saijiki

Candle Night (Japan)
Card Games (karuta) Japan

Carnation, Nelke Japan. Wild Carnation (nadeshiko)
Carneval (Carnival) see also Shrovetide
Carp Streamers (koinobori, Japan)
Cassia Blossom (Kenya)
Cat (neko, Japan)

Caterpillars worldwide
..... Including : hairy caterpillar, woolybear, kemushi　
..... looper, inchworm, shakutori
..... ..... Caterpillar, Hairy Caterpillar of Kenya

Cemetery Sunday Ireland (Roman Catholic parishes)

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

..... ..... Chesapeake Bay Saijiki (USA)

Chestnut, sweet chestnut (kuri) Japan

Chidambaram Dance Festival India, Tamil Nadu
Child, Children (kodomo) of all kinds

Chimney Sweeping, chimney sweep, Schornsteinfeger England, Germany

Chittorgarh Fort (Rajasthan) India

Christmas
... Christmas Cactus (Schlumbergera bridgesii) Weihnachtskaktus
...Christmas Moon
...Christmas Tree

Chrysanthemum kiku, chiyomigusa (Japan)
..... Wild Chrysantheumu (nogiku) Japan
Chrysanthemum Festival kiku matsuri (Japan)

Cicada (semi) Japan, other areas
Clear Autumn Sky (ten takashi, Japan) ... high autumn sky, spacious sky
Cloud, clouds(kumo) Japan, worldwide. Various Kigo.

Coins, Money (zeni) Japan Worldwide

Cold (samusa, samui), cold wave, cold spell (kanpa, kanpa) Japan, worldwide
..... Cold Dew (kanro) Japan

..... Colors in Haiku Traditional Japanese Colors

Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara), Europa Butterbur Dandelion, fuki tanpopo (Japan)

Coolness (suzushi) 　 Japan. Cool breeze (ryoofuu) and many more.
..... including: Coolness in Autumn (aki suzushi)　
Cool dry season Kenya

Cormorant fishing (ukai) Japan
Corpus Christi Procession Trinidad & Tobago, Germany (Fronleichnam)

Cosmos Flowers (Japan)

Cotton ly (watamushi) Japan. Snow fly (yukimushi), snow firefly (yuki hotaru, yukibotaru)
Cottonwood Populus deltoides (Midwestern US)
Cotton rose, Rose-Mallow (fuyoo, fuyo, fuyoh) Hibiscus mutabilis. Japan

Couple’s Day (fuufu no hi, Japan) February 2

Cow, Oxen (ushi) Japan
..... Cow (Pashu, Gai) The Holy Cow of India
..... Cowbells (Kuhglocken, Germany)

Crab (kani) Japan. Chesapeake Bay, USA King Crab (tarabagani), Queen Crab (zuwaigani), swamp crab (zawagani)
Crane, Grus japonensis (tsuru) Japan
Crape myrtle (sarusuberi) Japan, North America
Crappie (Pomoxis), North America
Cricket (koorogi)Japan 　 and other autumn insects　　　
Crisp, cool autumn weather .. sawayaka, Japan
Crocus (Europe, worldwide)
Crow, Raven karasu (Japan)

Cuckoo (kankodori), little cuckoo (hototogisu) Japan


........................................................... DDD

Daffodil, Narcissus and Jonquils Europa
Daigo Cherry Tree Daigo-zakura, Western Japan
Dance (odori, buyoo, mai) a haiku topic
..... Dance in India
Dandelion (tanpopo) Japan
Daphne (Jinchooge, Japan) Trident Daphne (Mitsumata) Plant

Daruma Flower (Darumasoo, Zazensoo, Japan
Daruma Memorial Day .. Daruma-ki, Japan

Day of Desolation .. Yom haShoah (Israel)
Day of the African Child 　Kenya, Africa, worldwide

Daylight Savings Time (DST) worldwide

Dead body, deceased person, corpse (hotoke) Japan Death Poems, Death Haiku

December
..... December Singers, Twelfth Month Singers (sekizoro) Japan

Deer (shika)　 Japan, other areas
Desires, Worldly desires, illusions, delusions (bonno) Japan
Devil's Claw (Southern USA) Teufelskralle
Dew, dewdrops (tsuyu) Japan heavy with dew, tsuyukeshi, tsuyukesa.beads of dew, tsuyu no tama.white dew, shiratsuyu, hakuro .. and many more

Divali (Diwali, India)

Dog Days (doyoo, Japan) Hundstage
Dog Winterberry (inu umemodoki)Japan. Ilex serrata.
Dogwood (Cornus family) .. (USA) yamabooshi (yamaboshi) Japan

Dollarbird (buppoosoo) Dollarbird and Eurasian Scops-Owl
Doll Festival (hina matsuri) Japan Peach Festival, Girl's Festival
Donkey (roba). Mule 　Japan, other regions　　
Dragon, a non-seasonal topic of Eastern Art
Dragonfly (tombo, tonbo) Japan
Drought (hideri, Japan)

Dussera, Dasara, Dussehra: Day Of Victory　India
..... Navarati : Nine Nights Of Festivities


........................................................... EEE

Eagle(washi) Japan ..... including other birds of winter, fuyu no tori

Earth Day Worldwide
Earthworms's song (mimizu naku) 　 Japan
　　
Easter .. Easter Bunny, Easter Eggs, Easter Egg Hunt, Easter Basket, Easter Day and more

Edo, the flourishing town of Edo (hana no O-Edo)Japan. "Blossom Capital" flourishing town (hana no miyako)

Egg Nog
Egret (shirasagi) Japan

Elephant (zoo) (India, Africa)

Embankment, dike, levee (dote, teiboo) Japan Worldwide
Emperor’s Birthday, Japan (tennoo tanjoobi, tenno tanjobi)
Epiphany, Three Kings DayEurope, Christian communities

........ ......................................... Erika Schwalm, - In Memoriam

..... EUROPA Saijiki

Evening at home, nightwork (yonabe) Japan, worldwide
Evening Shower (yuudachi) Japan


........................................................... FFF

Fallen leaves (ochiba) Japan
Fan (oogi, uchiwa, Japan)
Fart, farting (he) Furz Japan, worldwide
..... fart-bug, stinkbug (he-kiri mushi)
Father's Day

February
Fern (shida) Japan Farnkraut

Festival (matsuri) Japan.Introduction
..... Festivals and Ceremonies of Japan Topical Saijiki
..... Festivals of India They are all kigo.

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

Fields, rice paddies (ta, hatake) Japan
Fig, Figs, Ficus carica Turkey

Fireflies (hotaru) (Japan)
Firework Display (hanabi, Japan)

..... First Ceremonies of the New Year (Japan)
... More Details about First Ceremonies in Japan
First Dream (hatsu yume, Japan)
... First Haiku 2007
First Kick-Ball Game (kemari hajime) Japan
First Water, "young water" (wakamizu) Japan. Including more kigo of this ceremony.
First Sun, First Sunrise (hatsuhi, hatsuhi no de) Japan

First Things (hatsumono) in Japan

First rainfall, imminent rain Kenya, tropical areas
First Snow (hatsuyuki) Japan

.. .. .. .. .. ..... FISH as a kigo
... ... ... ... Fish from Russia

Flamboyant Tree (Delonix regia) Kenya
Fleas (nomi) 　 Japan. Including lice (shirami)
　　　
.. .. .. .. .. Flower, Cherry Blossom and Hana 花の話.

Flower Trump (hanafuda) Japan

Flute (fue, yokobue) 　Japan

Fly, Flies (hae) 　Japan, worldwide　　
Fly-swatter (haetataki) Japan ... fly catcher, haetori-ki.fly-catching paper, haetorigami.

.. .. .. .. .. Fog, Mist, Haze and more

Food from India
Food from Japan (washoku) Sweets from Japan (wagashi)

Forsythia (Forsythia suspensa)rengyoo Also : wax forsythia
Fortune cookies; "Haikookies", O-Mikuji worldwide

Fox (kitsune) Japan
... including Fox God Shrine Festival (Inari Matsuri)

Frangipani, PlumeriaKenya, Australia, India
Freezing, frozen (itsuru, kooru) Japan. Iced, under ice and more

Fringed orchid, "Egret plant, Heron plant" (sagisoo) Japan

Frog (kawazu, kaeru) (Japan) toad, green frog, tree frog, kajika and more

Frost (shimo, Japan) , Late Frost
..... Frost in India, a season of its own

Fruit Cricket. Prayer Gong Cricket (kanetataki) Japan
Fruit Harvest (Romania)


........................................................... GGG

Gadfly .(abu, Japan)
Ganesh The Elephant-headed God, (India)
..... Ganesh Chaturthi Festival India
Ganges, the Holy River Ganga (India)

Geminid Meteor Shower
Gentle breeze, soft breeze (Linde Lüfte) Germany
.. .. .. .. .. German Saijiki and Kiyose

Ginger (shooga) Hawaii, India, Japan. Hajikami pickles.
Gingko biloba tree Japan (gingko nut, ginnan)
Girl Scout Cookies USA

Goa Carnival India
Goats and Goat Meat Kenya

God of the Rice Paddies (ta no kami) Japan
Gods are absent (kami no rusu)Japan. Old lunar 10. month (now November)

Goldenrod (seitaka awadachisoo) Japan
Gorse, Ginster enishida (Japan)

Grackle Bird (Quiscalus mexicanus) Oklahoma, USA Great-tailed grackle, boat-tail grackle

Graduation (sotsugyoo, Japan) Abitur, Schulabschluss
..... Graduation Ceremony, Kenya
Grapefruit League , Cactus League, USA
Grapes and Grape Harvest, Vendanges budoo (Japan)
Grape Festival (Winzerfest, Wine Festival) (Europe)
Grape Hyacinth, Europa muscari, Lampenputzer

Grave (haka) Japan, worldwide
Grave marker (sotoba) Japan

Great Cold (daikan, Japan)
Grebe Bird (Alaska) kaitsuburi, nio (Japan)

Green in Haiku Traditional Japanese Colors: midori, aoi
Green Caterpillar "green insect" (aomushi, namushi) Japan Kenya

Grey (gray) in Haiku Traditional Japanese Colors: nezumi iro, hai iro
Groundhog Day North America, Europe

Guru (teacher) Sensei (Japan)
Gutsy Radish (dokonjoo daikon) Japan


........................................................... HHH

Hail (hyoo) Japan , also arare, snow pellets . worldwide

Hakama, the formal trouser-skirtJapan
..... Wearing the hakama for the first time, hakamagi　
..... Noh-Performance in Hakama, hakama noo

Halloween, Hallowe’en North America
Hammock (worldwide)

..... Harvest and its various kigo 　
Harvest Festival (niiname no matsuri)　 Japan
Harvest Thanksgiving (Christian communities) Harvest Festival, Erntedankfest
Harvest Moon, North America

Hat, Straw hat, hood (kasa, zukin, booshi) Japan Worldwide
..... Hawaii Saijiki
Hawaiian Spirit

Hazel, hazelnut (hashibami) Japan

Henna (mehandi) India. mehendi, (mehndi) Heena
Heron (aosagi) Japan

Himalaya Mountains, India
Hiroshima Day also: Nagasaki Day, Japan
Hickory Nuts (Carya Fruits) North America

Holly Tree
Holocaust Day .. .. Auschwitz Day, Dachau Day
Holy Innocents Celebration　 Christian Catholic Communities
Homeland, Hometown (furusato) Japan Heimat, Fatherland, Motherland

Honey (hachimitsu) worldwide. Honey wine, mead
Honey Spas 　 Russia. Also Apple Spas, Linen Spas. Honey Saviour.

Hoopoe, Upupa epops, Wiedehopf India

Horse (uma) Japan
..... Including various kigo such as plough horse, foal,cooling horses, fatten a horse, horse market, autumn colt, autumn pony, horses standing in the cold.

Horse chestnut (tochi) Japan ..... Horse Chestnut (Part 2)
.. .. .. Hot Drinks, a List
Hot Whiskey (Toddy, Irish Coffee)

Hula Dance and the Goddess Laka 　Hawaii

Humidity, steaming hot, sultry (shikke, mushiatsushi) Japan
Humid Southern wind (shippuu) Japan

..... Hungary Collection of the Europa Saijiki

Hunger Moon (North America)
Hungry Demons, Hungry Ghosts (gaki) Japan
Hunter's Moon England
Hyacinth (Hyacinthus orientalis) Europe, Japan, other areas


........................................................... III 200509
Ibis (Hadada) Kenya .. (Toki, Japan)
Ice, Icicle (koori, tsurara) (Japan)
Iced Coffee, aisu-koohii (Japan) Hot Coffee
Idd ul Fitr (Ramadan ends) Kenya. Eid Al-Fitr, Eid ul-Fitr

Ikebana Flower Arrangement (Japan)
Independence Day worldwide
..... Independence Day (India)

..... ..... ..... INDIA SAIJIKI
.. .. Indian Food (India)
Indian Summer koharubi Japan
Insects (mushi) Autumn insects, aki no mushi, Japan. Including grashoppers, locusts, crickets, praying mantiss and many more.
Incense (India) senkoo (Japan)

..... ..... ..... IRELAND, IRISH SAIJIKI

Iris (ayame, Japan) shoobu, hanashoobu, airisu, Kakitsubata
.. .. .. ISSA and his Season Words


........................................................... JJJ

Jacaranda (tropical tree) Kenya
Jamhuri Day Kenya
January Worldwide ... January in Japan (ichigatsu)
January Sale Ireland

.. .. .. .. .. JAPANESE Saijiki, Univ. of Virginia. Most extensive !
.. .. .. .. .. Japanese 500 Season Words

Jelly Bean Cake (mizu yookan) Japan, red bean cake (mizuyokan)
Jizobon, Jizoo Bon 地蔵盆
Juggernaut Festival (India)

June (rokugatsu)