Woman divers (ama)

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Woman divers (ama)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Late Spring
***** Category: Humanity

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ama 海女 (あま) woman diver
lit. "woman of the sea" / ama 泉郎 "seafolk’
Taucherin



..... isodo 磯人（いそど, iso ama 磯海女（いそあま）
"woman of the sea shore"
iso nageki 磯嘆き（いそなげき）
"long deep breath on the sea shore"
when coming out of the water

oki ama, oki-ama 沖海女（おきあま）
"woman of the open sea"
kazuki かずき、moguri もぐり
kachido 陸人（かちど）、funado 船人（ふなど）

ama no fue 海女の笛（あまのふえ）
"flute of the ama diver"
when coming out of the water, they would breath out long making a sharp sound, like a flute


ama no koya 海女の小屋（あまのこや）
hut for the ama divers
They make a fire there and keep warm, drink hot tea and prepare some seafood.

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isooke, iso-oke 磯桶（いそおけ）"bucket on the sea shore"
where they keep their prey and are fastened to the "inochizuna　命綱　" lifeline.


Now this is a name for seafood arranged in a large barrel, served in seaside hotels.
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The majority of ama are women.
Japanese tradition holds that the practice of ama divers may be 2,000 years old. Traditionally, and even as recently as the 1960s, ama dived wearing only a loincloth. Even in modern times, ama dive without scuba gear or air tanks, making them a traditional sort of free-diver.
Depending on the region, ama may dive with masks, fins, and torso-covering wetsuits at the most. Only divers who work for tourist attractions use white, partially transparent suits.

Ama are famous for pearl diving, but originally they dove for food like seaweed, shellfish, lobsters, octopus, and sea urchins — and oysters which sometimes have pearls.

Ama divers can keep diving well into old age. The older divers are generally able to stay submerged longer than the younger. Usually they also have another job, typically working on a farm.

It's supposed that the majority of ama are women because of how their bodies differ from men. The fat on a female body is distributed differently to men, which ensures that they can stay warmer in colder water.
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Ama are privileged to eat the freshest seafood, right after they come out of the sea and share their catch.

. WASHOKU :Tsuboyaki 壷焼 (つぼやき)
turban shell fried in the conch 　


tekonezushi てこねずし . 手こねずし
fish sushi mixed with the hands
Red fish like katsuo bonito and maguro tuna are sliced for sashimi and marinated in soy sauce. Then they are mixed with sushi rice. Perilla leaves, ginger or other seaweed can be mixed. It started with the fishermen of the SHIMA region on their boats, who did not have much time for preparing meals and mixed it with their hands. The ama divers also eat this.

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Specialities from Mie prefecture

. WASHOKU
Food served on board (funaryoori) 　

. WASHOKU
Awabi 鮑 (あわび, 鰒) abalone 　

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The many ama divers along the shores of Japan are professional divers, who dive to support their daily life and sell what they take out of the sea.

They are not to be mixed up with diving for pleasure, as tourists enjoy.

moguri 潜り（もぐり） diving (for pleasure)
..... mizu kuguri 水潜り（みずくぐり）

kigo for all summer

. WKD : Summer on the Beach
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Ishigami san　石神さん Stone Deity
at shrine Shinmei Jinja 神明神社, Toba, Mie



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There is a small Shrine called "Ishigami-san" at the Shimmei Jinja Shrine.
The enshrined goddess"Ishigami-san"is said to grant a wish of all female visitors who offer prayers. This legend has attracted many women and continues to do so to this day.
Ama huts are popular touring spots where meals are served while enjoying friendly conversation with the divers.
Ishigami-san Haru Matsuri Festival (Osatsu)/ May 7th.
This festival is to pray for bountiful fishing season and fulfillment of one's aspirations. On this day, men cook and treat women in appreciation for women divers who have supported the households with their hard work.
source : tobakanko.jp



御守り amulet from Shinmei Jinja

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Osatsu Ama Culture Museum
The fishing town of Ōsatsu has the highest population of ama (海女, "female diver") in the Toba-Shima region. The ama have been supporting their families as wives and mothers as well as economically by their hard, restless work. Even though they endure harsh working conditions and busy lives, the divers have always been happy with their lives by taking pride in being an ama and by spending heartfelt conversations with their companions in the diver huts (海女小屋, amagoya).
This museum provides you with an opportunity to get to know the history and life of Ōsatsu, nurtured by the kindness of the ama. Nearby is a Shinmei Shrine (神明神社, shinmei-jinja), also called Ishigami-san (石神さん, "Honorable Stone Goddess"), said to surely fulfill one wish to each of its female visitors.

source : tourismmiejapan.com

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AMA - Die Taucherinnen von Japan

In vielen Fischerdörfern fahren die Männer zur See und die Frauen suchen in den flacheren Küstengebieten nach Meeresfrüchten, insbesondere Seeigeln, Abalonen, Oktopus und Seetang. Auch beim Ausfindigmachen der Perlen-Austern sind sie unentbehrlich.

AMA, die „Menschen des Meeres“, nur ausgestattet mit einem weißen Lendenschurz, einem Messer und einem Holzeimer an der Lebensleine, der gleichzeitig den Fang aufnimmt und als Schwimmer dient, sind als Nackttaucher schon seit mehr als 2000 Jahren in den Wassern Asiens auf der Suche nach Lebensmitteln. Inzwischen verwenden sie auch modernere Ausrüstungen mit Taucherbrillen und Taucheranzügen um sich warmzuhalten. Die weiße Farbe ihrer Ausrüstung sollte die Haifische abwehren.
Nach dem Auftauchen blies die Taucherin die Luft mit einem langen lauten fiuuuuu aus, um die Atmung wieder zu regulieren. Dieser unverwechselbare Ton wird „Pfeife der Küstentaucherinnen“ genannt.
Die Gedichtsammlung Manyoshu 万葉集　aus dem 8. Jahrhundert berichtet schon von diesen Taucherinnen.

Das reichliche Körperfett des Frauenkörpers bietet mehr Schutz vor dem Auskühlen im kalten Wasser, so konnten Frauen längere Zeit hintereinander tauchen, bevor sie sich in einer Strandhütte wieder am Feuer wärmen müssen.
Beim Tauchen von einem Holzschiff aus steht im Boot ein Holzkohlenofen. Auf dem Boot wartet der Ehemann mit der Lebensleine, and der die Frau mit ihrem Holzeimer angebunden ist.

Viele Taucherinnen haben den Beruf von ihrer Mutter gelernt und üben ihn voller Stolz bis ins hohe Alter hin aus. Auf der Halbinsel Izu, wo sie oft nach Agar-Agar tauchen, werden sie „kaito“ genannt, auf Okinawa „uminchu“.

Gabi Greve

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命綱たるみて海女の自在境
inochizuna tarumite ama no jizai kyoo

the lifeline
slackens .. the freedom sphere
of an ama diver

Tsuda Kiyoko (Sayako) 津田清子

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火の如く赤子泣きゐる海女の小屋
hi no gotoku akago naki-iru ama no koya

like a fire
the baby cries ...
hut of the divers

Hiro Hasei 廣波青 (1931 - )

He comes from Mie prefecture, where the pearl divers are common. Mikimoto is in Mie.

Mikimoto Pearls from Japan

みきもと幸吉 Mikimoto Kokichi (1858 - 1954)
みきもと‐こうきち【御木本幸吉】
三重県鳥羽（とば）市

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虫甘方の桜は波に埋もれて花の上漕ぐ海士の釣り舟
Kisakata no sakura wa nami ni uzumorete
hana no ue kogu ama no tsuribune

At Kisakata
A cherry tree is covered
At times by the waves;
Fishermen must row their boats
Above the cherry blossoms.

西行法師 Saigyo, tr. Donald Keene

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mizu no awa no kiete ukise wo wataru mi ni
urayamashiki wa ama no tsuribune

"I who must journey
Across a world vanishing
Like foam on the waves,
What I long for most of all
Is a little fishing boat."

source : 'Masukagami' (Book XVI)

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***** Woman, Women (onna, saotome) and related KIGO

. 海人 (能) Ama - The Woman Diver .
Noh play from temple Shidoji in Shikoku

- - - - - not to mix with
. ama 尼　Buddhist Nun .

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ides of march

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The Ides of March

***** Location: Italy, ancient Rome
***** Season: Spring
***** Category: Heavens

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The Ides of March (Latin: Idus Martias)
is the name of the date 15 March in the Roman calendar. The term ides was used for the 15th day of the months of March, May, July, and October, and the 13th day of the other eight months.
In Roman times, the Ides of March was a festive day dedicated to the god Mars and a military parade was usually held. In modern times, the term Ides of March is best known as the date that Julius Caesar was assassinated, in 44 BC, the story of which was famously dramatized in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar.


Vincenzo Camuccini, Mort de César, 1798


The term idūs (ides) is thought to have originally been the day of the full moon. The Romans considered this an auspicious day in their calendar. The word ides comes from Latin, meaning "half division" (of a month).
Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March, 44 BC, after declaring himself dictator of Rome for life.

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The Ides of March

The soothsayer's warning to Julius Caesar,
"Beware the Ides of March,"
has forever imbued that date with a sense of foreboding. But in Roman times the expression "Ides of March" did not necessarily evoke a dark mood—it was simply the standard way of saying "March 15." Surely such a fanciful expression must signify something more than merely another day of the year? Not so. Even in Shakespeare's time, sixteen centuries later, audiences attending his play Julius Caesar wouldn't have blinked twice upon hearing the date called the Ides.

The term Ides comes from the earliest Roman calendar, which is said to have been devised by Romulus, the mythical founder of Rome. Whether it was Romulus or not, the inventor of this calendar had a penchant for complexity. The Roman calendar organized its months around three days, each of which served as a reference point for counting the other days:

Kalends (1st day of the month)
Nones (the 7th day in March, May, July, and October; the 5th in the other months)
Ides (the 15th day in March, May, July, and October; the 13th in the other months)

The remaining, unnamed days of the month were identified by counting backwards from the Kalends, Nones, or the Ides.
For example, March 3 would be V Nones—5 days before the Nones (the Roman method of counting days was inclusive; in other words, the Nones would be counted as one of the 5 days).
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Die Iden des März
Die Iden des März (von lateinisch Idus Martiae) sind eine in vielen Sprachen gebräuchliche Metapher für bevorstehendes Unheil, die auf die Ermordung Gaius Iulius Caesars am 15. März des Jahres 44 vor Christus Bezug nimmt.

Nach Plutarch warnte der Augur Titus Vestricius Spurinna Caesar am Tage vor dem Anschlag mit den Worten: „Cave Idus Martias“
(deutsch: „Hüte dich vor den Iden des März“).

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Ides of March ...
anyone remember
the history teacher?

Gabi Greve
Japan, March 15, 2009

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Ides of March---
a math teacher defines
the median of a sample

- Shared by Fred Masarani
Joys of Japan, March 2012


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Ides of March
a squirrel trapezes along
the high tension wire

Angelee Deodhar
India, March 2013



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Sweat (ase)

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Sweat (ase)

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

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Perspiration (also called sweating or sometimes transpiration) is the production of a fluid, consisting primarily of water as well as various dissolved solids (chiefly chlorides), that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals. Sweat also contains the chemicals or odorants 2-methylphenol (o-cresol) and 4-methylphenol (p-cresol), as well as a small amount of urea.
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sweat, perspiration, you name it ... when it is HOT !

Of course we can sweat at any day of the year, from hard physical labour, when sitting near a stove in winter ... cold sweat when afraid of something.

But as a kigo, it refers to the effects of the summer heat.

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kigo for all summer

sweat, perspiration, ase 汗 (あせ)
to sweat a little, to start sweating, asebamu
汗ばむ（あせばむ）

beads of sweat, drops of perspiration, tama no ase
玉の汗（たまのあせ）
"sweat water", asemizu 汗水（あせみず）

dripping with sweat, ase midoro 汗みどろ（あせみどろ）

smell of sweat, ase no ka 汗の香（あせのか）


prickly heat, heat rush, asemo 汗疹 (あせも)
... aseba あせぼ、asemo 汗疣（あせも）


"sweat wiper", asetori 汗袗 あせとり
... asetori 汗取（あせとり）


special underwear made from made from twisted paper
and more summer robes to take the sweat off:
koyori juban 紙縒襦袢（こよりじゅばん）
gaze juban ガーゼ襦袢（がーぜじゅばん）
thin bamboo pipe juban 管襦袢（くだじゅばん）
bamboo juban 竹襦袢（たけじゅばん）



"thin sweat towel", ase nugui 汗拭い (あせぬぐい)
hankerchief, hankachiifu ハンカチーフ、hankachi ハンカチ、
hankechi ハンケチ
"sweat wiper", ase fuki 汗ふき（あせふき）
... ase tenugui 汗手拭（あせてぬぐい）



More about
Tenugui .. Thin Handtowels





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"sweat protector", ase tenuki 汗手貫 (あせてぬき)
Mostly used by monks, priests and old men to protect their precious silk robes for funerals and other ceremonies. It is worn round the wrist and arms. The material is hores tail, thin wisteria ropes, thick silk or mostly bamboo.
藤製汗除, 腕貫


汗手貫老僧も汗をかゝるゝ歟
ase tenuki roosoo mo ase o kakaruru ya

sweat protector ...
even the old priest
is sweating

Aoki Getto 青木月斗 (1879 - 1949)



emondake 衣紋竹 (えもんだけ) bamboo rack for airing robes
..... emonzao 衣紋竿（えもんざお） bamboo hanger for ariring robes
After wearing ceremonial silk robes which can not be washed easily, they are put on a bamboo rack or pole and left in the shadow to air and dry out.
Bambus-Kleidergestell


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powder against sweat, tenkafun 天瓜粉 (てんかふん)
..... genkafun 天花粉（てんかふん）
"not knowing sweat", "forget about sweat", ase shirazu
汗しらず（あせしらず）
This is a natural powder taken from the roots of some gourds in Japan. It is especially used for babies and small children.


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Even the rice is sweating in summer.

fermented rice, meshi sueru 飯饐える (めしすえる)
fermented rice, sue meshi 饐飯（すえめし）
"sweat of cooked rice", ase no meshi 汗の飯（あせのめし）
..... meshi no ase 飯の汗（めしのあせ）



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and on a hot spring day :

sweat in spring, haru no ase 春の汗（はるのあせ）
kigo for late spring



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Proverb with SWEAT

ringen ase no gotoshi
綸言汗の如し（りんげんあせのごとし）

An emperor's words are like sweat.

(once they are out in the open, he can not take them back again)


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We even have a sports drink called SWEAT :



Pocari Sweat is a mild-tasting, relatively light sweet drink and advertises itself as an "Ion supply drink." Ingredients listed are water, sugar, flavourings, acids, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, calcium lactate and magnesium carbonate. It is sold in liquid form, in aluminium cans and plastic bottles, and also in powder form.

The reference to the bodily fluid resulting from perspiration in the name of the beverage tends to have a certain offputting or humorous connotation for native English speakers.
However, the name was chosen by the manufacturers originally for the purpose of marketing the product as a sports drink in Japan, where people generally do not mentally translate names appearing in English and are therefore not bothered by the connotation.

It was largely derived from the notion of what it is intended to supply to the drinker: all of the nutrients and electrolytes lost when sweating (the first part of the name, Pocari, means "like a cloud floating in the sky" or "a situation in which a cloud is floating in the sky" in Japanese, and has a connotation of lightness, buoyancy, and ease). "Sweat" was apparently intended to suggest diligence and its fruits — the idea intending to connote to the user that Pocari Sweat works to make one feel fresh and relaxed.
However, some Japanese apparently drop "Sweat" from the name in common usage
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Even the Gods are sweating ...

Asekaki Jizo　汗かき地蔵
Sweating Jizo Bosatsu

Asekaki　Fudo　汗かき不動 , sweating Kannon 汗かき観音
Sweating Fudo Myo-O


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Kobayashi Issa

汗拭て墓に物がたる別哉
ase fukite haka ni monogataru wakare kana

mopping sweat--
at his tomb I tell my story
then go



老の身や一汗入れて直ぐに又
oi no mi ya hito ase irete sugu ni mata

growing old--
one drop of sweat
soon, another

Tr. David Lanoue

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Shirako San 白子 さん


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end of the day -
I stop counting
the sweat beads

Gabi Greve
End of September 2013 - it is still extremely HOT in many parts of Japan.



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Lawn (shiba)

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Lawn (shiba)

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

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Lawn, grass, turf ... many ways to translate
SHIBA, SHIBAFU, 芝、芝生。

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early spring

burning the turf, burning the grass, shiba yaku　芝焼く
shiba yaki 芝焼
"grass fire", shiba hi, 芝火


The old grass on lawns, dikes and mountain fields is burned down and used as fertilizer. It is a kind of festival in many public parks.

see also
burning the withered fields, noyaku 野焼く（のやく）




late spring

"young lawn", wakashiba 若芝 (わかしば)
lawn in spring, haru no shiba 春の芝（はるのしば）
sprouting lawn, shiba moyuru 芝萌ゆる（しばもゆる）
lawn buds, shiba no me 芝の芽（しばのめ）
lawn getting green, shiba aomu 芝青む（しばあおむ）


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cutting the lawn, shibakari 芝刈 (しばかり)
lawn mower, shibakariki 芝刈機（しばかりき）


aoshiba 青芝 (あおしば) green lawn
natsu shiba, natsushiba 夏芝（なつしば） lawn in summer


Watering the lawn or garden
kigo in Canada


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early summer

"Lawn Cutting Ceremony", shibakiri shinji
芝切神事（しばきりしんじ）
also called

Kamo Mikage Matsuri 賀茂御蔭祭 (かもみかげまつり)
"honorable shadow festival" mikage matsuri
御蔭祭（みかげまつり）
mi-aregi 御生木（みあれぎ）



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Miare shinji, Mikage matsuri

A divine manifestation rite and Mi-kage Festival. A festival of both Kamowakeikazuchi Shrine (Kamowakeikazuchi jinja) (Upper Kamo) and Kamomioya Shrine (Kamomioya jinja) (Lower Kamo) in Kita Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture.
On May 15 there is a procession. It is called the Hollyhock Festival (Aoi matsuri葵祭り) because the worshippers decorate everything from the oxen and horses to their flower caps with hollyhocks and katsura.

Before the festival there is a "Miare Rite" at Kamowakeikazuchi Shrine. At the manifestation place, trees for the divine possession are raised within a himorogi and enclosed with a hedge of fresh brushwood. In front of the stand is white sand is piled up into two cone-shaped heaps. The Rite is conducted by five shrine officials (shinshoku) in front of the himorogi on the night of the twelfth. The lights are extinguished and offerings are made. After this, the miare (temporary manifestation of the deity) begins.

The shrine officials chew the "Honorable Aides for Grasping (tsukami no goryō)." The deities mentioned in the secret songs that are silently intoned possess the five sakaki trees and are carried to the Inner Hall (honden) where they are installed. Also on this day at Kamomioya Shrine in Lower Kamo, the kami are greeted by a procession of sacred horses (shinme) that have gone as far as Mt. Mikage at the base of Mt. Hiei, in a ceremony called the Mikage Matsuri. The deities in their temporary manifestation are placed on the backs of the horses and brought to the main shrine.

The Hollyhock Festival is divided into three parts: the imperial palace rites, the street rites (the procession), and the shrine rites. The famous grand procession leaves the Kyoto Imperial Palace in the morning at goes to Kamomioya Shrine. After the shrine rites, it arrives at Kamowakeikazuchi Shrine. It returns to the palace in the evening.

There is an annual festival called the Hollyhock Festival on April 24 at Kono Shrine in Miyazu City, Kyoto Prefecture. Called a sword-waving rite, swords three shaku long (about three feet) are hidden inside poles four shaku long. Tassels of paper are attached to both ends and the performers wave these about their back and hips. A hayashi song called sasa-bayashi is included. The livestock market during the Hollyhock Festival is called the Hollyhock cow market.
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Participants wear traditional attire decorated with Aoi-Katsura (葵桂, bouquet of Aoi leaves and Katsura tree branches)

Mikage Matsuri - Kirishiba Shinji Ritual (御蔭祭切芝神事)

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. WKD : The White Horse of Shimogamo Shrine .


. WKD : Aoi matsuri 葵祭 Aoi festival


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. . . . . WINTER

withered lawn, kareshiba, kare shiba 枯芝 (かれしば)
shiba karu 芝枯る（しばかる）




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умолкла косилка --
в тёплом воздухе
сладкий запах травы

a mower stopped --
sweet scent of the grass
in the warm air

Larisa Zvyagina, Germany


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trampled grass
somewhere hidden
a bird's nest

Ella Wagemakers
Kigo Hotline


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Trillium (Trilliaceae)

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Trillium (kinugasasoo)

***** Location: Japan, North America
***** Season: Various, see below
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Trillium is a family of various flowers.

Trillium, kinugasa soo 衣笠草 (きぬがさそう) キヌガサソウ
"flower hat plant", hanagasa soo 花笠草（はながさそう）
kigo for late summer in Japan




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Trillium grandiflorum
kigo for spring in North America

Trillium is a genus of about 40-50 species of perennial herbaceous flowering plants, native to temperate regions of North America and Asia. They used to be treated in the family Trilliaceae or Trillium family, a part of the Liliales or Lily order. The AGP II treats Trilliaceae as a synonym of the family Melanthiaceae. Common names include trillium, wakerobin, and birthroot. The above ground parts of Trilliums are scapes with three large, leafy bracts with the true leaves reduced to underground papery coverings around the rhizomes.

In the east of North America, the most common is Trillium grandiflorum (Large-flowered Trillium). This plant has a large, often white, three-petaled flower above three broad bracts that look like leaves. The name was given by Linnaeus. Trillium grandiflorum is often the first wildflower noticed by casual walkers; other spring wildflowers are much less apparent.

In western North America, a typical species is Trillium ovatum (Western Trillium) also with white flowers, that slowly turn into a shade of purple in the middle of spring.
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dripping pines
trilliums line a
forest path


beaver pond
trilliums glisten
with new rain

© bob
Happy Haiku Forum


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trillium -
a spot of white
beside the trail

©　bethel
Kigo Hotline Forum



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Pinewood Derby

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Pinewood Derby

***** Location: North America
***** Season: Spring
***** Category: Humanity

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In towns all across America every spring there is the Pinewood Derby. A fine Cub Scout tradition. Other organizations have similar events involving small wooden cars built by the boy with help from his dad (or, all too often, whomever happens to be around).

Bethel Prescott, USA

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The pinewood derby is a racing event for Cub Scouts in the Boy Scouts of America. Cub Scouts, with the help of parents, build their own cars from wood, usually from kits containing a block of pine, plastic wheels and metal axles. With the popularity of the pinewood derby, other organizations have developed similar events and a small industry has developed to provide tracks, timers, scales and other products. The pinewood derby was selected as part of "America's 100 Best" in 2006 as "a celebrated rite of spring" by Reader's Digest.
Similar Cub Scouting events include the raingutter regatta with boats and the space derby using rubber band powered rockets.
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by his car
a proud boy stands alone -
Pinewood Derby

Bethel Prescott, USA



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Turtle (kame)

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. kame 亀と伝説 Legends about turtles .
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Turtle, turtoise, tortoise (kame)

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

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A turtle looking in all 8 directions 八方睨みの亀


turtle making a sound, crying, turtle chirps
kame naku 亀鳴く (かめなく)
kigo for all spring

"turtle reciting the sutras"
kame no kankin 亀の看経（かめのかんきん）
Their sounds remind the Japanese of monks reciting the morning sutras.

. shinshi 神使 the divine messenger .
kame 亀 turtle - at Matsunoo Taisha 松尾大社

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sea turtle, umigame 海亀 (うみがめ)
kigo for mid-summer
red sea turtle, akaumigame 赤海亀（あかうみがめ）
blue sea turtle, aoumigame 青海亀（あおうみがめ）
..... shoogakuboo 正覚坊（しょうがくぼう)
Fam. Cheloniidae. Meeresschildkröte



hawksbill turtle, taimai 玳瑁（たいまい）
Eretmochelys imbricata. Karettschildkröte



turtle babies, kame no ko 亀の子 (かめのこ)
kigo for mid-summer
pond turtle, zenigame 銭亀（ぜにがめ）
(children of the Ishigame, Japanese pond turtle) Fam. Mauremys.
Sumpfschildkröte; Schildkrötenbaby


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hanachigame 放ち亀（はなちがめ） setting a turtle free
kigo for mid-autumn

Part of the Buddhist rituals to gain good points in the next life. Many kinds of small animals are set free, birds to fly or fish and turtles in the water.


. hanashi kame uri 放し亀売り
vendors of turtles to be set free in Edo .

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In Chinese culture, especially under the influence of Taoism the turtoise is the symbol of heaven and earth, its shell compared to the vaulted heaven and the underside to the flat disc of the earth. The tortoise was the hero of many ancient legends. It helped the First Chinese Emperor to tame the Yellow River, so Shang-di rewarded the animal with a lifespan of Ten Thousand Years. Thus the turtoise became a symbol for Long Life.

It also stands for immutability and steadfastness. We often see stone grave steles on a stone tortoise or reliquiaries standing on it.
The tortoise is also regarded as an immortal creature. As there are no male tortoise - as the ancient believed - the female had to mate with a snake. Thus the turtoise embracing a snake became the protector symbol of the north, but since the word "tortoise" was taboo in Chinese, it was referred to as the "dark warrior" (genbu 玄武 ) and finally became one of the protector gods of the four areas, Zhenwu in Chinese Taoism.

Read more of my story HERE
Turtle, Crane and Daruma san


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Worldwide use

Yemen

African Helmeted turtle [Pelomedusa subrufa]
kigo for spring



P.s. subrufa nest once per year. A nest is dug to a depth of approximately 15 cm and the eggs deposited. Eggs are white/grayish and covered with a clear slime. They measure 28-31 mm x 15-18 mm and approximately 4-6 grams. Fertile eggs develop a white spot or area on top and hatching occurs in 65-68 days.
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In warm sand
a case for fire ants..
turtle's nest

Heike Gewi, Yemen, May 2008
WKD Yemen Saijiki


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Some Cosmic Fun
A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said:
"What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady.
"But it's turtles all the way down!"


Russell comments:
If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument. It is exactly of the same nature as the Hindu's view, that the world rested upon an elephant and the elephant rested upon a tortoise; and when they said,
"How about the tortoise?"
the Indian said, "Suppose we change the subject."

... the story is patently wise, teaching us that we will never get to the bottom of things.
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見立浦島 Young Woman Riding a Turtle
(Parody of the Story of Urashima Tarô)
Suzuki Harunobu (1725–1770)


. Urashima Taro 浦島太郎 .

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African Spurred Tortoise
(Geochelone sulcata)
“crying tortoise”La tortue qui pleure
To protect his eyes against the sand and the dry climate, it produces tears and the eyes are often wet.

reference : “crying tortoise"

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. tsurushibina つるし雛 / 吊るし雛 small hanging hina dolls .



With the wish for a long life of 1000 years, like the mythical turtle.


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. WKD : Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 .

星待や亀も涼しいうしろつき
hoshi matsu ya kame mo suzushii ushirotsuki

they wait for the stars --
turtle's backside, too
looking cool
Tr. Chris Drake

Issa's diary says this hokku was written on the same day on which Issa went to the monthly haikai meeting led by a leading Edo poet, Suzuki Michihiko (1757-1819), which was held on the 6th of every month. It was a gathering Issa often joined. This particular meeting was on the 6th of the 7th month (July 31, 1805), and Issa wrote the hokku there or soon after. Issa linked verses a few times with Michihiko, but I couldn't find any information about whether renku were written at this meeting in addition to hokku.

The hokku is about the night of 7/7, the Tanabata star festival. Many people are looking up at the sky, waiting for the Milky Way to rise, since according to a legend that goes back to China, the weaving woman star (Vega) and the oxherd star (Altair) love each other madly but are able to meet only one night a year -- on 7/7, and only if there are no clouds in the sky. If the sky is clear, the weaving woman crosses the Milky Way on a bridge formed by magpies and meets her lover. Many decorations are set up, including ikebana and tall cut bamboo trees with poems and decorations hanging from their limbs. In Issa's time most people stayed up late to eat, drink, and watch the stars, and many stayed up the whole night, as they did on the night of the harvest moon.

In Issa's vision a group of people stand watching the sky with their back to him, and their total absorption in the Milky Way makes them -- and Issa watching them -- feel cool, as if they were momentarily fused with the cool sky, even though the night must be quite hot. It's the feeling of coolness that counts, not the objective temperature. The coolness is so strong at that moment that even a turtle, who seems to be looking up at the same part of the night horizon as the humans, looks cool. Turtles don't wear thin robes the way humans do in summer, yet something about the turtle's stance suggests that it, too, influenced by the night sky, feels cool. This synesthetic hokku seems to be about the power of feelings and the sense of sight to overlap with and influence tactile sensations as well as about the relation of humans and other animals to the cosmos. That it is backsides which strike Issa as being so cool suggests that the absence of individual faces may increase the sensation of non-duality with the universe. Often masks in No drama have a similar effect.

Chris Drake



Turtles enjoying Tanabata


. WKD : Star Festival (Tanabata 七夕).

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亀鳴くや男は無口なるべしと　
kame naku ya otoko wa mukuchi narubeshi to　

the turtle calls ...
a man should better not
talk too much

Tanaka Hiroaki 田中裕明 (1959 - 2004)

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俳人のしきりに亀を鳴かせけり
haijin no shikiri no kame o nakase keri

ever so often
haiku poets make
the turtle cry


Yokoi Haruka 横井遥 (born 1959 in Nagasaki)

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the turtle is slow;
i capture it with much ease
time to eat it now

a hardshell tortoise.
is there any other kind?
rabbit lost the race

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spring moonrise
sea turtles hatch and struggle
toward the waves

Jim Grossmann


baby sea turtles
serenaded on the beach...
me and my guitar

Tom Conally

source : Happy Haiku Forum .


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***** World Turtle Day
May 23

***** box turtles mating
kigo for spring

. box turtles (Terrapene) .

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. Japanese Legends - 伝説　民話　昔話 – ABC-List .

海亀の卵は憚って取らない。取ると祟りがあってその年は不漁になる。海亀は海中において竜王の次に勢いのあるものだという。


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千葉県 Chiba 銚子市 Choshi

If the fishermen take good care of the sea turtles, they will have a good fishing harvest.

umigame no tatari ウミガメの祟り curse of the Sea Turtle
Toward the end of the Meiji period, around 1912, some workers on a maschine boat on the Tonegawa caught a 海がめ sea turtle and ate it.
That day when they finished work and wanted to go back to the harbour, the sea suddenly turned wild and the boat capsized. Only one of the workers made it back to the shore alive.
Others found him mumbeling "this turtle, this huge sea turtle . . . " and then he breathed his last too.
The fishermen of Choshi say this was the curse of the sea turtle and have great respect for this animal.
. Legends from river Tonegawa 利根川 .

At the shrine 御嶽神社 Mitake Jinja の海亀墓石塔にまつわる伝承。S42年，イワシ漁の最中にウミガメを巻き込んで殺してしまった。その後一ヶ月ほどは漁に出ても網に入ったイワシが皆出て行ってしまうことが続いたが，石塔を建立して供養すると漁ができるようになった。


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香川県 Kagawa 三豊郡 Mitoyo district 詫間町 Takumacho

亀エビスは海亀を祀ったものである。あるとき、藻を取りに海へ行くと、大きな海亀が死んでいた。海へ一度捨てたが、翌朝になるとまたあった。そこでここにおりたのだろうと言って、今の場所に埋めて祀ったという。


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兵庫県 Hyogo, 明石市 Akashi city

. The grain wholesaler named 龜屋 Kameya .


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鹿児島県 Kagoshima


kenmun ケンムン hinotoragami ヒノトラガミ
Kenmun is a kind of sea turtle Yokai, friend of Kappa san.

Kenmun live near アコウの木 / ガジュマルの木 the banyan trees . They like Sumo wrestling and often come to lure farmers at the beach, who are making salt.
Kenmun also does Sumo wrestling with Yamanokami.


ケンムン at Isen village 伊仙町（徳之島 Tokunoshima）
The Kenmun is related to legends about Yamanokami.
A man was walking in the evening when suddenly a kind of fireball came rolling down, with stones and all. He fled to his home as fast as he could.
There he hung up some amulets, but the flames kept lurking around his house all night.
Next day he killed a pig and hung the legs up. This helped him not to loose his own light.

. Yama no Kami 山の神 God of the Mountain .
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kenmun ケンムン / けんもん kenmon

If someone is sleeping in 砂糖小屋 the hut of the sugar makers and a Kenmun comes in, it is best to kick him out.
The Kenmun walks around the sugar pot and tries to lick some. If he does, the sugar will not get hard any more.
The Kenmun often sits in a corner so as not to disturb the sugar makers. Eventually the Kenmun will leave. Sometimes he leaves a blue fire fart when he goes.
Once a man was staying in the hut for the sugar makers when a Kenmun came in and asked:
"What are you most afraid of?" The man answered "Oh, I am afraid of money. And you?"
"I am afraid of octopus" said the Kenmun. The next day when the Kenmun came in the worker threw an octopus at him and he fled.
Next morning there was a lot of money at the door . . .
If someone tries to make 黒砂糖 brown sugar and does not succeed, they say it is the mischief of Kenmun.
The Kenmun was later celebrated as a deity at 井之川岳 Mount Inokawadake (645 m) and has never been seen again.
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海亀の卵をとるために、海岸の小屋で生活していたが、仕事が終わって帰ってみると火のそばにケンムンが坐っていた。人の気配にケンムンは慌てて入口から出ていったが、その際狭い入口から空気のようにすり抜けていった。
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Kagoshima 大島郡 Oshima district 瀬戸内町 Setouchi

kenmun ケンムン and hi no tama 火の玉 fire ball
旧暦の4月の頃の夜、産卵に来る海亀の見張りに行ったら、ガジュマルに直径10センチメートルぐらいの真白い火の玉がついた。火の玉はみるみる1メートルぐらいになり、その直後数百の玉になって散った。それはケンムンである。

kenmun from Uken village 大島郡 字検村
Once a woman was about to give birth. Her husband went to ガジュマルの木 a Gajumaru tree where he saw a Kenmun with two children. They let him know that his child would die when it was 19 years old.

kenmun 水蝹 water spirit
Kenmun are hairy water and tree spirits from the Amami islands in southern Japan. ...
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. kame 亀と伝説 Legends about turtles .

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Herring (nishin)

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Herring (nishin)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Late Spring, others see below
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Herring, nishin 鰊 (にしん) , 鯡（にしん）、青魚（にしん）、
黄魚（にしん） ,
"fish that brings spring", 春告魚（にしん）
kado かど、kadoiwashi かどいわし
"Korean sardine", koorai iwashi 高麗鰯（こうらいいわし）

"running herring", hashiri nishin 走り鰊（はしりにしん）

first herring, hatsu nishin 初鰊（はつにしん）
middle herring, chuu nishin 中鰊（ちゅうにしん）
late herring, ato nishin 後鰊（あとにしん）

herring are coming, nishin kuki 鰊群来（にしんくき）

place for herrings, nishinba 鰊場（にしんば）
pot for cooking herring, nishingama 鰊釜（にしんがま）
roasting herring, nishin taku 鰊焚く（にしんたく）

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Herrings are small, oily fish of the genus Clupea found in the shallow, temperate waters of the North Atlantic, the Baltic Sea, the North Pacific, and the Mediterranean. There are 15 species of herring, the most abundant of which is the Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus).[citation needed] Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are caught, salted and smoked in great quantities.
Canned "sardines" (or pilchards) seen in supermarkets may actually be sprats or round herrings.
Pickled herring is found in the cuisine of Hokkaidō in Japan, where families traditionally preserved large quantities for winter.

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kigo for all summer

herring in summer 夏鰊 (なつにしん) natsu nishin


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Germany

Pickled vinegared herring, Rollmops
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Bückling (smoked herring)
kigo for winter

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Above the cedars
a Mother eagle hovers
scent of herring

-　Angelika Kolompar Renville Bygott

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. Japanese Legends - 伝説　民話　昔話 – ABC-List .


............................................. Aomori 青森県
三戸郡 Sannohe district 五戸町

. kitsune densetsu 狐と伝説 fox legends .
A monk had been carrying nisshin 鰊 herring on his back on the way back to his temple.
But he was bewitched by a fox and lost them all.

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. kitsune 狐 fox，sake 鮭 salmon
. A fox had cheated an old man,
telling him there were many herring in the river.
So the man left his luggage and went into the river to get them.
Meanwhile the fox took his luggage and run away.
. sake 鮭と伝説 legends about the salmon .




............................................. Fukushima 福島県
南会津郡 Minami-Aizu district

. neko 猫 / ねこ と伝説 Legends about cats, Katzen .
The cats belonging to the old woman オキシ O-Kitsu had survived for three generations.
Once a cat was seen leaving the house with a towel covering its head.
O-Kitsu gave it three 鰊 herrings and let it go.




............................................. Hokkaido 北海道

. kujira 鯨 whale - Walfisch .
Since olden times, the kujira 鰊 whale is
a special fish of Hokkaido 蝦夷 Ezo.
When the season comes, fishermen say special prayers and go out to sea.
In the second lunar month, it was not allowed to ring a large temple bell.
The vibrations of such a bell would be heared in the sea and the whales might disappear.
Words like whale, kitsune 狐 fox and awabi 蚫 were not allowed to use,
since these animals were enemies of the whale.

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江差 Esashi

. Orii baasan 折居婆さん grandmother Orii .
and the origin of Ubagami Daijinguu 姥神大神宮 Ubagami Daijingu
Shrine ofr the "old woman deity"

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函館市 Hakodate City

. Genko 玄狐 / Kurogitsune 黒狐 a black fox .

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松前町 Matsumae town

. Matsumae Kaido 松前街道 Matsumae Highway .
and Genko 玄狐 / Kurogitsune 黒狐 a black fox -
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. yamabushi 山伏 mountain priests .
The fishing season for herrings had been very bad,
so the villagers asked a Yamabushi for a purification ritual.




............................................. Niigata 新潟県

南魚沼市 Minami-Uonuma city

. Shanichi Sama, Shajitsu Sama 社日様
Deity of the Shrine Day .
and offerings of Herring soup.




............................................. Shiga 滋賀県
高島市 Takashima city

. kitsune densetsu 狐と伝説 fox legends .
Once a man went up to the mountain to gather chestnuts.
He picked up some chestnuts near the hole of a fox, so the fox bewitched him.
The farmer took some rice cakes and herring to apologize and soon
he got well again.

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Sardines (iwashi 鰯 (いわし)) /
urume (潤目)うるめ round herring big-eye sardine

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Spring morning light (shungyoo)

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Spring morning light (shungyoo)

***** Location: Japan, worldwide
***** Season: All Spring
***** Category: Season

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Already in the Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon we read:
"Spring is the best for the morning dawn!"

akebono is the older usage, later akatsuki was used.
But AKEBONO just like that is not a kigo, but a topic for haiku. The below examples have a different kigo to go with the DAWN.

The sky gets light slowly and we can begin to distinguish things around us again.

. Sei Shōnagon 清少納言 Sei Shonagon .


spring morning light, spring dawn, shungyoo
春暁 (しゅんぎょう)
..... haru no akatsuki 春の暁（はるのあかつき）
spring dawn, haru no akebono 春の曙（はるのあけぼの）
..... shunsho 春曙（しゅんしょ）

daybreak in spring, haru no yoake
春の夜明（はるのよあけ）
.... haru no asake 春の朝明（はるのあさけ）

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spring morning, haru no asa 春の朝 はるのあさ
..... shunnchoo 春朝（しゅんちょう）
..... haru ashita 春あした（はるあした）



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The word DAWN, just like that, is a topic for haiku.

It is NOT an "all year kigo".
Words introduced in ALL YEAR or MISCELLANEOUS sections of a saijiki are not kigo, but all-year haiku topics.



Bill Higginson writes:

The Japanese word _kigo_ means exactly "season word" or "seasonal word", as some would have it. In any case, it does not make sense to use a nonseasonal word or topic in a haiku and call it a "kigo". Rather, one could refer to it as a "topic" or, perhaps, as a "keyword". This last expression, "keyword", has actually been taken up by some Japanese haiku people to refer to exactly this kind of topic, a word or phrase that one might understand as linking a haiku to other haiku on the same topic, but one that has no seasonal meaning. (You might notice that I also use "keyword" to refer to the nonseasonal entries at the beginning of the saijiki index, as well.)

. NO to all season kigo, all year kigo 　



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明ぼのや しら魚しろき こと一寸
akebono ya shirauo shiroki koto issun

Matsuo Basho

at dawn -
how white the whitebait
of just an inch
(Tr. Gabi Greve)

Whitebait (shirauo)

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Issa about the Spring Dawn, AKEBONO

父ありて明ぼの見たし青田原
chichi arite akebono mitashi aodabara

if my father were here--
dawn colors
over green fields


明ぼのの春早々に借着哉
akebono no haru haya-baya ni karigi kana

at dawn
I start the spring...
borrowed clothes


大淀や大曙のんめの花
ôyodo ya ô akebono no n-me no hana

Oyodo Town--
plum blossoms the colors
of dawn


Tr. David Lanoue
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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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spring morning
the raven goes
where the wind went

©　Elizabeth Searle Lamb / The Heron's Nest 2003


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spring morning
these green leaves no longer
covered in dew

kathi rudawsky
photo haiku gallery


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MORE
haiku about Spring Dawn


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Related words

Dawn, daybreak in other seasons

. Morning (asa)



***** First Sun, First Sunrise (hatsuhi, hatsuhi no de) Japan
..... hatsu akebono 初曙（はつあけぼの）first dawn
..... hatsu yoake 初夜明（はつよあけ）first daybreak



***** Spring (haru, Japan)

***** Spring light, spring shining (shunkoo) Japan

***** Dawn moon in autumn (ariakezuki)
mist in the morning, ariake gasumi.

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