Local Japanese Kigo

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Local Japanese Kigo (chiboo kigo)
地貌（ちぼう）季語, 地貌季語

Collecting regional kigo, sometimes even in dialect, from rural areas of Japan.
Natural phenomenon are included, and more interesting, the local festivals, food and other necessities of the daily life.

BOO, kao 土地の貌（かお）, the real face of the region.


This is a movement dating back to
Maeda Fura 前田普羅.
see below.

In our times, the poet Miyasaka Shizuo 宮坂静生 collects these kigo and has produced a book about them. His home base is Matsumoto

語りかける季語ゆるやかな日本
Katarikakeru kigo
yuruyaka na nihon


Published in 2006


It contains words like
おしら遊び，つるし雛，うりずん，蝦夷梅雨，青味返り，いぶりがっこ，
小夏日和
Arranged in the five seasons and seven categories.
With one sample haiku and a page of explanation.
A real treasure of local lore and customs.


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With the ageing population and young people leaving the countryside, this is also an effort to bring back life to the rural communities, by writing about their beauty and traditional ways of life.

With his "mountain haiku" groups "Take Haiku Kai" 岳俳句会 he collects kigo from all areas of Japan.




宮坂静生 Profile

WEB 575 Internet Haiku Magazine


He teaches NHK HAIKU since April 2007.

. Miyasaka Shizuo - my translations .



Reference about Maeda Fura


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Kumamoto Fudoki Saijiki
Kumamoto Fuudoki Saijiki
熊本風土歳時記



俳句「霏霏」の関係の集り
From the Kumamoto Haiku Group
HIHI 霏霏 (Silent Snowfall)


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Haiku Saijiki of the Northern Provinces
北国俳句歳時記


A collection of 15000 haiku by the Haiku Group
北国俳壇 Hokkoku Haidan
from more than 2500 poets, including
直野碧玲瓏、藤井紫影、室生犀星
Published in 2003


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Ginkoo Annai Shiriizu 吟行案内シリー
guidebook for a local ginko haiku walk
From various regions of Japan, including Yamato, Musashino, Osaka, Oku-Tama, Hyogo, Kaga and Noto Hanto and more.
from the
Association of Haiku Poets and Museum of Haiku Literature
http://www.haijinkyokai.jp/book/poetry.html


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Satoyama Saijiki
by Uda Kiyoko
里山歳時記 . 宇多喜代子
(Published in 2004)
The Traditional Rural Landscape of Japan



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Maeda Fura 前田普羅 (1884～1954)
1884年（明治17年）4月18日 - 1954年（昭和29年）8月8日）

His name was Maeda Chuukichi 前田忠吉 Chukichi. Born in Tokyo (some sources say Yokohama). Studied at Waseda University, but stopped and joined a newspaper.
During the great Kanto Earthquake in 1923 he lost his home and everything and became newspaper reporter in various regions of Japan.




乗鞍のかなた春星かぎりなし
norikura no kanata haruboshi kagirinashi

at Mount Norikura
the stars of spring on the horizon
with no limits


source :　norikura.co.jp

. Norikuradake 乗鞍岳 - Introduction .



うらがえし 又うらがえし 大蛾 掃く
uragaeshi mata uragaeshi taiga haku

it turns one side up
then the other side up -
I sweep a big moth



春更けて諸鳥啼くや雲の上　
haru fukete morodori naku ya kumo no ue

spring deepens
so many kinds of birds chirp
above the clouds



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Related words


***** . History of Japanese Saijiki 　
Furusato Dai Saijiki ふるさと大歳時記
the BIG Regional Saijiki　



***** KIGO – Its use in haiku World Kigo Database

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