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Museum Haiku
about famous people and artwork
Gustav Klimt
Juan Gris
Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin
Louvre, Paris
Maruyama Okyo
Mondigliani
Marchel Duchamp
Mausoleum
Mona Lisa / Leonardo
Claude Monet
Henry Moore
Edward Munch
Pablo Ruiz Picasso
Odilon Redon
Vincent Van Gogh
Der Blaue Reiter - The Blue Rider
National Gallery of Art, Washington,D.C. USA
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Gustav Klimt
(July 14, 1862– February 6, 1918)
was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement.
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Art gallery –
sweet memories
of Valentine’s day
- Shared by Virginia Popescu
Joys of Japan, March 2012
blazing sunshine
her body adorned
with Klimt's The Kiss
2012 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Gustav Klimt.
His work is in/famously known for "frank eroticism," and his primary subject was the female body.
Today, Cologne is the first of 150 cities in which Morales-de la Cruz plans to present great art on nude women.
Chen-ou Liu
March 2012
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Juan Gris
(March 23, 1887 – May 11, 1927)
José Victoriano (Carmelo Carlos) González-Pérez
Spanish painter and sculptor who lived and worked in France.
Cubism
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front porch
sunlight and shadows
on the old guitar
- Shared by Jimmy ThePeach -
Joys of Japan, 2012
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Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin (1841 - 1927)
French impressionist painter and lithographer.
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Crozant, solitude 1915
loneliness
forgotten, a thing I find
in solitude
- Shared by Jimmy ThePeach -
Haiku Culture Magazine, 2013
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Louvre, Paris
Diana of Versailles
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the Antique goddess
ornament of the Louvre
and ancient stories
- Shared by Gennady Nov
Gennady Nov -
Haiku Culture Magazine, 2013
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Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus
Turkey
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the place
a memory worthy to a king
now a ruin
- Shared by Gennady Nov
Gennady Nov -
Haiku Culture Magazine, 2013
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Maruyama Ookyo, Maruyama Okyo
Maruyama Ōkyo (1733–1795; 円山 応挙)
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モジリアニの女の首の夜寒かな
Mojiriani no onna no kubi no yosamu kana
the neck
of Mondigliani's women -
cold night
Yamagami Kimio 山上樹実雄
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920)
Italian artist who worked mainly in France.
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Marchel Duchamp, Fountain
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at the urinal
I remember a found art:
Fountain
Chen-Ou Liu, Canada
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Claude Monet
(14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926)
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geese are gone...
a different kind of silence
from the pond
Monet - The Water Lily Pond
- Shared by Jimmy ThePeach -
Joys of Japan, 2012
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Monalisa, Mona Lisa
モナリザの不思議な笑い山葵漬
Monarisa no fushigi na hohoemi wasabizuke
the wonderous smile
of Mona Lisa ...
wasabi pickles
source : 俳句の累積
Tr. Gabi Greve WKD : Wasabi Pickles
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hydrangea
when thinking of
Mona Lisa's smile
Poetry in the Moment , Chen-ou Liu
Published in Haiku News (March, 5)
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facing Mona Lisa,
a Japanese tourist
with his Genji smile
Valeria Simonova-Cecon, on facebook
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the wall that keeps
the Mona Lisa alive...
chilly morning
Wilfredo R. Bongcaron
Philippines
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15 seconds
in front of the Mona Lisa and
on all life
- Shared by Gennady Nov -
Haiku Culture Magazine, 2013
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Henry Moore
(30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986)
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Double Oval (1968-70)
on a bench
in a sculpture garden...
at a loss for words
- Shared by Jimmy ThePeach -
Joys of Japan, 2012
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Edward Munch, the Scream
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The Scream ...
the urge to clap my hands
over my ears
Chen-ou Liu, Canada
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Pablo Ruiz Picasso
(October 25, 1881 – April 8, 1973) Spain
Picasso / FACTS
hiyayaka ya Pikaso no aoki gitaa-hiki
so chilly...
Picasso's blue
guitarist
Ritsuo Okada
trans. Tadashi Kondou and William J. Higginson,
from "Over the Wave: Selected Haiku of Ritsuo Okada,"
Santa Fe, From Here Press, 2001.
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時の日やダリの歪めし大時計
toki no hi ya Dari no yugameshi daitokei
Time Day -
the warped big clock
of Dali
Yamaguchi Shozo (Shoozoo) 山口正三
. toki no hi 時の日（ときのひ） "time day" : KIGO
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Odilon Redon
(April 22, 1840 – July 6, 1916) France
Redon / FACTS
French symbolist painter and printmaker, a precursor of Surrealism
LOOK at some paintings by Redon
ten takaku moete rudon no uma kakeru
the sky is high
and blazing...Redon's
horse gallops
Ritsuo Okada
trans. Kondou & Higginson, ibid.
Compiled by Larry Bole
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Vincent Van Gogh
Sunflowers (1888)
Van Gogh's Sunflowers -
A moth escapes
the humdrum of dust.
Heike Gewi. Yemen, 2008
first crocus -
I remember Gogh and
the yellow sunflowers
Gabi Greve, February 2011
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my Irish friend weeps
before The Potato Eaters ...
An Gorta Mor
Chen-ou Liu
(Note:
the Irish phrases An Gorta Mor literally means the Great Hunger. It refers to a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration between 1845 and 1852. Outside of Ireland , it’s also known as the Irish Potato Famine. For further information, see the Wikipedia entry entitled Great Famine Ireland )
The Potato Eaters : More in the WIKIPEDIA !
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口笛ひゆうとゴッホ死にたるは夏か
kuchibue hyu to gohho shinitaru wa natsu ka
whistling pfffiii ...
when Gogh died,
was this in summer ?
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Fujita Sooshi 藤田湘子 Fujita Soshi .
(1926 - 2005)
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Stark Edo rain falls
Even in the Nederland
Vincent felt its force
The painting is by Vincent van Gogh
who copied the famous print by Utagawa Hiroshige of the O'Hashi at Atake
Benedict St Quentin Fitzpatrick
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Cyprès incendié
par les flammes des astres –
ville endormie
(Vincent Van Gogh : la nuit étoilée, 1889)
With more Museum Haiku by
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recession...
my Campbell's Soup Cans
is stolen
(Note:
Campbell's Soup Cans 33 x 24 print,
a work of art produced by Andy Warhol.)
Chen-ou Liu, Canada
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Der Blaue Reiter - The Blue Rider
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) was a group of artists from the Neue Künstlervereinigung München in Munich, Germany.
Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, August Macke, Alexej von Jawlensky, Marianne von Werefkin, Gabriele Münter, Lyonel Feininger, Albert Bloch and others founded the group.
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wer reitet so spät
durch Nacht und Wind?
der Blaue Reiter
who rides so late
through the windy night?
The Blue Rider
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beauty of abstract painting --
I can hang it
with any side on the top
Raju Samal,Mumbai, India, 2008
abstract painting —
an ocean for every fish
to enjoy
Kumarendra Mallick, Hyderabad, India, 2008
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the National Gallery
Japanese paintings---
outside Cherry trees
- Shared by Fred Masarani -
Joys of Japan, 2012
National Gallery of Art, Washington,D.C. USA
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***** . bijutsu tenrankai 美術展覧会
art exhibition
..... inten 院展（いんてん）
Japan Fine Arts Institute Exhibition 日本美術院
..... bijutsu no aki 美術の秋（びじゅつのあき）
autumn of the fine arts
and
airing the treasures of the Shosoin
正倉院曝涼 Shoosoin bakuryoo, Kyoto
Guide to Shos̄oīn Research
source : my.vanderbilt.edu
The Shōsō-in (正倉院) is the treasure house that belongs to Tōdai-ji, Nara.
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. Personal Names used in Haiku .
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1/01/2011
. . . Museum Art and Haiku
4/11/2009
Tundra
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Tundra
***** Location: Northern Hemisphere
***** Season: Non-seasonal Topic
***** Category: Earth
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Explanation
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In physical geography, tundra is a biome
where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons.
The term tundra comes from Kildin Sami tūndâr, which means "uplands, treeless mountain tract." There are two types of tundra: Arctic tundra (which also occurs in Antarctica) and alpine tundra. In tundra, the vegetation is composed of dwarf shrubs, sedges and grasses, mosses, and lichens. Scattered trees grow in some tundra. The ecotone (or ecological boundary region) between the tundra and the forest is known as the tree line or timberline.
Climatic classification
Tundra climates ordinarily fit the Köppen climate classification ET, signifying a local climate in which at least one month has an average temperature high enough to melt snow (0°C or 32°F), but no month with an average temperature in excess of (10°C/50°F). The cold limit generally meets the EF climates of permanent ice and snows; the warm-summer limit generally corresponds with the poleward or altitudinal limit of trees, where they grade into the subarctic climates designated Dfd and Dwd (extreme winters as in parts of Siberia), Dfc typical in Alaska, Canada, European Russia, and Western Siberia (cold winters with months of freezing), or even Cfc (no month colder than -3°C as in parts of Iceland and southernmost South America). Tundra climates as a rule are hostile to woody vegetation even where the winters are comparatively mild by polar standards, as in Iceland.
Scarcity or lushness (by polar standards) of native vegetation of tundra regions depends more upon the severity of the temperatures than upon the scarcity or copiousness of precipitation. The alpine tundra also lacks in precipitation compared to the Arctic tundra.
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PLACE NAMES used in HAIKU
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Japan
tsundora ツンドラ tundra
toodo tai 凍土帯 region with frozen soil
Mongolia
. Steppe, Mongolian-Manchurian steppe .
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Tundra
is a journal for short poetry rooted in the crystal image,
edited by Michael Dylan Welch.
For Tundra, I have a strong preference for poems of 13 or fewer lines, particularly haiku, senryu, tanka, and related Japanese forms.
source : www.haikuworld.org, January 1999
Tundra: The Journal of the Short Poem
"I myself define a short poem as any poem that will fit comfortably on a single normal-sized page--so should not be more than twenty normal lines in length."
source : Michael Dylan Welch, June 2002
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HAIKU
best known minimalist haiku of all-time
tundra
Cor van den Heuvel
quote
Carmen Sterba :
I would be interested in how you interpret your one word haiku, “tundra”.
Or is that left to the reader?
Cor van den Heuvel:
It is what it is: “a level or undulating plain characteristic of arctic or subarctic regions.” The important things are to see it alone in the mind or in the middle of an otherwise blank page and to color it with a season, preferably spring when it is blowing forever with grasses, flowers, birds (with their nests and eggs), and insects; or in winter when it is covered with endless drifted snow. To see the vastness of it spreading out from the word across the page and across the world. And to hear the sound of it. The word.
source : THF / Essence #3
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summer sun ~
the honking of snow geese
on the tundra
Martin Cohen
http://tinywords.com/haiku/2001/08/03/
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Polar night --
sparkle of precious stones
in a tundra sky
Olga Hooper
WKD . Polar night : Kigo for Winter
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***** Siberia, Hokkaido, Okinawa
topic for Haiku
Although Siberia and Hokkaido seem cold places,they are not consequently kigo for winter.
Although Okinawa seems a warm place, it is not consequently a kigo for summer.
And so on for other larger areas of the world.
***** Tundra swan (kohakuchoo)
kigo for winter
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4/03/2009
One Day Saijiki
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One Day Saijiki
ichinichi saijiki 一日歳時記
イチニチサイジキ / ワンデイサイジキ
一日（ワンデイ）歳時記
金田一 秀穂 Kindaichi Hideho
ISBN： 9784093878036
Kigo and haiku collection from morning to evening and then the night ...
with beautifull photos ...
Have you ever considered
how many kigo there are
in the course of one day ?
. uroobi, junjitsu 閏日 Leap Day .
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. . . Morning (asa) Japan. a KIGO list
bird catching in the morning 朝鳥狩（あさとがり）asatogari
Dawn moon in autumn (ariakezuki)Japan.
mist in the morning, ariake gasumi.
Dawn in spring, Spring morning light (shungyoo, haru no akebono)
Spring morning (haru no asa) and others
Morning-Glory (asagao) Japan
..... Bindweed (hirugao). Evening Face (yorugao)
Morning east wind (asagochi)
northwind in the morning, asagita 朝北風（あさぎた）
Morning Market (asa ichi, asa-ichi, asaichi) Morgenmarkt Japan
Morning star (myoojoo), evening star, venus Japan, worldwide
New Year's Morning 元朝 (がんちょう) ganchoo
and related kigo
sleeping in the morning 朝寝 (あさね) asane
Spring morning (haru no asa, haru no akebono)
and more SPRING MORNING KIGO
..... Today (kyoo), tomorrow (asu)Japan. This morning (kesa)
Trumpet Flower (datura) Korean Morning Glory, Mandala Flower
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. . . Daytime, noon (hiru) Japan. a KIGO list
Long days (hinaga), long nights (nagaki yo)
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. . . Evening (yuube, yoi) Japan. a KIGO list
Autumn dusk (aki no kure)
and related kigo
Evening at home, nightwork (yonabe) Japan, worldwide
evening East wind (yuugochi 夕東風)
Evening Shower (yuudachi) Japan
evening shower in spring, haru yuudachi 春夕立（はるゆうだち）
and more RAIN kigo
Clouds for an evening shower, yuudachi gumo 夕立雲（ゆうだちぐも）
and more CLOUD kigo
Evening star, venus Japan, worldwide
Evening, night in spring, haru no yo 春の夜
and related kigo
Moon in the evening, Evening moon, yuuzuki 夕月
Night moon, yoizuki 宵月... and more kigo
Twilight (kure) and related seasons
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. . . Night (yoru) Japan. a KIGO list
..... Candle Night Japan
Dussera, Dasara, Dussehra: Day Of Victory India
..... Navarati : Nine Nights Of Festivities
Night of Power, Lailatul Qadr / Lailat-Ul-Qadr Yemen
Night work (yonabe) Japan
picking mulberries at night 夜桑摘む（よぐわつむ）
yokuwa tsumu
for the silk worms
Polar Night Polar Circle
Shiva Ratri Night, Festival India, Nepal, Hindu Communities
Sleet, night sleet
Walpurgis Night (walpurgisnight) Walpurgisnacht (Germany).
... White Night Polar Circle
TBA
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TOPICS for haiku
Breakfast (asagohan, asameshi)
Sunset (yuuhi) Japan
Noh-Performance at night (Takagi Noo)
Japan. yugen (yuugen).
Yugiri Memorial Day (Yuugiri Ki) and the Tale of Genji Japan
"Evening mist"
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According to Chinese customs,
the days of January were dedicated to animals and the last day of the week to man.
1日を鶏の日 chicken day
2日を狗（犬）の日 dog day
3日を猪（豚）の日 wild boar day
4日を羊の日 sheep day
5日を牛の日 cow/bull day
6日を馬の日 horse day
7日を人の日 day of man (jinjitsu)
In Japan, Jinjitsu (人日, jinjitsu), literally "Human Day",
is one of the five seasonal festivals (五節句, gosekku).
It is celebrated on January 7.
. Names of months and solar seasons .
Five Sacred Festivals
five seasonal festivals 五節句 gosekku
corresponding to the double-prime numbers of the lunar months
人日（じんじつ＝正月七日）Jinjitsu (January 7)
上巳（じょうし＝三月三日）third day of the third month (Hina Doll Festival)
端午（たんご＝五月五日） fifth day of the fifth month (Boy's Day)
七夕（しちせき＝七月七日）seventh day of the seventh month (Tanabata)
重陽（ちょうよう＝九月九日）ninth day of the ninth month (Chrysanthemum Festival)
Each of these days is a kigo in its own right.
Jinjitsu 人日 - by Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉
四方に打つ薺もしどろもどろ哉
. yomo ni utsu nazuna mo shidoro modoro kana .
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. Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 .
人の日や改めがたし庵のかゆ
hito no hi ya aratamegatashi io no kayu
Mankind's Day--
but nothing special
in my rice gruel
"Mankind's Day" (hito no hi) is the seventh day of First Month, at which time the seven herbs of health are boiled with rice gruel.
But Issa's own gruel is hard to change (aratame-gatashi).
David Lanoue
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12/04/2008
Newspaper Headlines
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Newspaper Headlines
***** Location: Worldwide
***** Season: Topic
***** Category: Humanity
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Explanation
Haiku News, Haiku World News
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Welcome to the Haiku Daily News, the newspaper written in the Japanese poetic form of haiku. Every week the Haiku News team will bring you news stories from around the world compacted into just three short lines. Underneath each poem is a list of headlines linking to on-line news coverage of the story that inspired the poem, meaning that if it is of interest, you can go on to read all about it.
“Young Girl Killed Brutally in Iran” (DW)
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
her father’s voice
between each gunshot
silence
http://www.wayfarergallery.net/haikunews/
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HAIKU
Haiku News
on Twitter . . .
that's news
Gabi Greve, December 2009
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4/20/2008
Olympic Games
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Olympic Games, Olympics, Olympiade
***** Location: Worldwide
***** Season: Non-seasonal Topic
***** Category: Humanity
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An Olympiad is a period of four years, associated with the Olympic Games of Classical Greece. In the Hellenistic period, beginning with Ephorus, Olympiads were used as a calendar epoch. In this reckoning, the first Olympiad lasted from the summer of 776 BC to that of 772 BC.
An Olympiad started with the games, which were held at the beginning of the Olympic new year, which fell on the full moon closest to the summer solstice.
By extrapolation, the 4th year of the 696th Olympiad begins in summer 2008.
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The Summer Olympic Games or the Games of the Olympiad are an international multi-sport event, organised by the International Olympic Committee. The Olympics are the most prestigious such event in the world, though they are not the world's most-watched sporting event - the television audience for the single-sport FIFA World Cup is larger. Medals are awarded in each event, with gold medals for first place, silver for second and bronze for third, a tradition which started in 1904.
Organisers for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing expect approximately 10,500 athletes to take part in the 302 events on the programme for the Games.
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The Winter Olympic Games (or Winter Olympics) are a winter multi-sport event held every four years. They feature winter sports held on ice or snow, such as ice skating and skiing.
Fewer nations participate in the Winter Olympics than the Summer Olympics, due largely to the reduced popularity of winter sports in many countries nearer to the equator where access to winter sport training facilities are relatively limited or non-existent.
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Olympic Games, just like this, is not a kigo.
But we have the kigo
Summer Olympics
Winter Olympics
The Summer Olympic games 2008 in Peking. Reference
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Google Japan August 8, 2008
Summer Olympic Mascots 2008 and Daruma san !
Summer Olympic Mascots 2012
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HAIKU
olympic torch relay 2008
Zenko-Ji -
the relay stops
before it starts
NAGANO — 善光寺
Zenkoji, the city of Nagano's main temple, declined Friday to serve as the starting point of the Japan leg of the torch relay for the Beijing Olympics, citing safety concerns and the crackdown on Buddhists in Tibet.
Zenkoji Temple's decision will force organizers to alter the route with just eight days to go before the relay, which has been marred by protests in other parts of the world.
"Indiscriminate killings were undertaken in Tibet," Shinsho Wakaomi, a Zenkoji official, told reporters at City Hall. "We were concerned about the crackdown on Buddhists in Tibet who rose up."
Wakaomi said the temple, which played a role in opening the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics by ringing its bell, received more than 100 calls about the torch relay, including protests over its earlier plan to use its premises for the starting ceremony.
The torch run was to start from Zenkoji Temple at 8:30 a.m., covering 18.5 km.
Quote from the Japan Times
Saturday, April 19, 2008
... Read the full article here: Japan Times
More about the
. Temple Zenkoo-ji in Nagano and Haiku
Gabi Greve, April 19, 2008
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the Olympic torch-relay ~
stranded
in a road-jam
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fireworks
of bronze, silver and gold
... Summer Games
Ella Wagemakers, August 8, 2008, Holland
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anguish, tears and joy
court my countenance...
Beijing Olympics
Beijing Olympics...
star athletes shine brighter
than the stars
Read more haiku here
Willie Bongcaron, August 2008, Philippines
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a four lane-road
for the Olympic Games --
here was his restaurant
Angelika Wienert, WHCgerman, August 2008
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Olympics in Nagano 1998
"One Haiku for the Olympics" Program
Greeting the people of the world through Japanese culture
The snow is waiting,
I am waiting for new friends,
Dreaming of the Games!
Yoshiko Yamaura -, Komoro City
Le bouddha en pierre
Avec son chapeau de neige,
Que veut-il me dire ?
Mitsu Kanazawa - Ueda
A peaceful river,
Whispering, shows me the way
To the Olympics.
Michiko Maruya - Omachi City
The sky of Nagano
Is everything I possess,
Jumping on my skis!
Tokusuke Fujii - Nagano City
Read more here
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winter olympics . . .
my TV broke down
just in time
We have a lot of hpye about
young "rebel" Kazuhiro Kokubo Kazuhiro,
the snowboarder.
Vancouver Olympics 2010
Details about Kokubo:
Gabi Greve, February 2010
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***** Marathon
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12/18/2007
Buildings tall and famous
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Buildings tall and famous, skyscrapers
***** Location: Worldwide
***** Season: Non-seasonal Topic
***** Category: Humanity
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Explanation
To differentiate buildings and other structures that are not intended for continuous human occupancy, the latter are called non-building structures. Structural height in technical usage is the height to the highest architectural detail on building from street-level. Depending on how they are classified, spires and masts may or may not be included in this height.
Spires and masts used as antennas are not generally included.
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Things found on the way
Ukimido Hall and Basho's Grave
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HAIKU
The Empire State Building
摩天楼より新緑がパセリほど
matenroo yori shinryoku ga paseri hodo
from the skyscraper
the fresh greenery of trees --
just like parsley
Takaha Shugyo, Japan (海外俳句 1969)
trans. Hoshino Tsunehiko and Adrian J. Pinnington
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no longer tallest
still, the Empire State building
by a winter moon
Roswilla
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Empire State Building lit
red white blue ---
'cause WTC is now higher
- Shared by Fred Masarani -
Joys of Japan, May 2012
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rainy winter day
distant skyscrapers
only partly there
clear winter sky
the chrysler building
points at the moon
Larry Bole
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reflection
in a tall glass building
tall buildings
Bill Kenney, New York, 2007
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あやとりのエッフェル塔も冬に入る
ayatori no efferutoo mo fuyu ni iru
the cat's cradle
the Eiffel Tower too
into winter
Akito Arima
trans. Emiko Miyashita and Lee Gurga,
from "Einstein's Century: Akito Arima's Haiku."
Eiffel Tower Pictures
direct paraverse by Gabi
"the Eiffel tower, which looks like an ayatori pattern, also begins the winter season"
There are many patterns for the ayatori game in Japan, but "Eiffel Tower" is a new image used by Arima sensei. Maybe he is in Paris on a dreary day in early winter and remembers the games of his childhood. ayatori is a game played inside during the long winter months. The skilfull use of the kigo brings this atmosphere of expectation of long dark months ahead.
. WKD : Arima Akito
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Big Ben
star in ascendance
summer sky
Noriko Yoshida (London)
published in the Asahi Haikuist Network,
8/31/2004
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Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world,
and the magnificent centerpiece of Downtown Dubai.
Burj Khalifa in spring
"Ladies first!" - she clicks skylobby
he B2
summer At the Top
he avoids to look closer
Burj Khalifa
Heike Gewi
Yemen
. YEMEN SAIJIKI .
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. Tokyo Sky Tree 東京スカイツリー Skytree .
Opening May 22, 2012
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Related words
. Place Names of the World and Haiku
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Computer and the Mouse
***** Location: Worldwide
***** Season: Non-seasonal Topic
***** Category: Humanity
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Explanation
A computer is a machine which manipulates data according to a list of instructions.
Computers take numerous physical forms. The first devices that resemble modern computers date to the mid-20th century (around 1940 - 1941), although the computer concept and various machines similar to computers existed earlier. Early electronic computers were the size of a large room, consuming as much power as several hundred modern personal computers. Modern computers are based on comparatively tiny integrated circuits and are millions to billions of times more capable while occupying a fraction of the space.
Today, simple computers may be made small enough to fit into a wrist watch and be powered from a watch battery. Personal computers in various forms are icons of the information age and are what most people think of as "a computer". However, the most common form of computer in use today is by far the embedded computer. Embedded computers are small, simple devices that are often used to control other devices—for example, they may be found in machines ranging from fighter aircraft to industrial robots, digital cameras, and even children's toys.
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hot summer day--
I lean toward the computer's
cool blue start-up screen
Larry Bole, Kigo Hotline
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cat and the mouse
taking a nap -
autumn solitude
© Gabi Greve, October 2004
online ...
outside of my window
the seasons change
April 2008
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the restless patter
of a computer keyboard -
alone at midnight
Bill Kenney, New York, 2007
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winter dawn~
the cherry tree on my screen
still in blossom
Dana-Maria Onica, France
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bug-watcher
an ant comes and goes
inside his keyboard
Rosa Clement
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back on line
600 haiku
in out of the cold
Sally Evans
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winter night ...
the computer screen falls asleep
before I do
Ella Wagemakers
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12/05/2007
Tree (ki, jumoku) and forest
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Tree (ki, jumoku) and Forest
***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Non-seasonal Topic and see below
***** Category: Plant
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Explanation
tree, ki, jumoku 木, 樹
small forest, hayashi, rin 林
grove, kodachi 木立
forest, mori 森
..... shinrin 森林
Green young leaves, wakaba, are for all trees, but some with especially pretty ones have their own kigo.
... Green young leaves
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Famous tree, meiboku 名木
(do not mix with "meiboku" 銘木, wood suitable for processing)
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The 100 most famous trees of Japan
meiboku hyakusen 名木百選
Each prefecture then has its own choice of famous trees.
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One single cherry tree, ippon sakura 一本桜
Japanese are most fond of these lone trees !
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Cedar trees from Yakushima Island,
many are more than a few thousand years old fro the Jomon period
Jomon sugi (joomon sugi) 縄文杉
Yakusugi 屋久杉, Yakushima Sugi
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Old Tree, koboku 古木
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Sacred tree, "Tree of a Deity", shinboku 神木
Usually in a Shinto shrine.
"honorable sacred tree", go shinboku 御神木
. shinboku 神木, shinju 神樹 sacred tree divine tree .
and haiku
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Cedar of Kannon Bosatsu, Kannon Sugi, 観音杉
. Karasaki no Matsu 唐崎の松 / 辛崎の松 Black Japanese pine at Karasaki (Lake Biwa)
One of the three most famous pines and haiku
. katsura 桂 / カツラ Japanese Judas tree, Cercidiphyllum japonicum .
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yashikirin 屋敷林 ( やしきりん ) trees around a home
yashikibayashi, manor house forest
In many of the large planes facing the Sea of Japan, the winter winds are quite fierce and strong trees around an isolated homestead protect the houses. The small forests also provide good wood for building a house. The fallen leaves give firewood and compost. Many birds nest in special trees planted for them, leaving their droppings, which in turn provide new plants growing below the trees. Bigger trees on the outside protect fruit trees on the inside, providing food for the winter months.
Local varieties in the form of these small forests show the aesthetic feeling of an area.
In the plains around Izumo, for example, they take the shape of the roof of the Grand Shrine of Izumo.
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Compiled by Larry Bole :
William J. Higginson says on the topic of "tree" as kigo
(from "Haiku World"):
"The names of many trees suggest their blossoms or fruit which are often seasonal. But the evergreens and cedar and the names alone of many deciduous trees such as oak and birch, do not have particular seasonal assocations. ..."
Higginson then goes on to point out two specific exceptions to the observaton that "the names alone of many deciduous trees do not have particular seasonal associations," namely the maple (kaede, momiji, late autumn) and the willow (yanagi, late spring).
Young American beech trees (Fagus Grandifolia) keep their autumn leaves (golden brown) all winter. This makes them relatively unique among deciduous trees.
Could this aspect of a young American beech tree be a winter kigo?
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Tamamura Kōzaburō (1856 - 1923)
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Kigo in various seasons
. Acacia (akashia) locust tree .
Akazie
. Beech tree (buna 山毛欅 ).
Fagus sylvatica. Buche
Birch tree (shirakaba 白樺) Birke
Betula mandschurica var. japonica — Japanese birch
Betula grossa — Japanese cherry birch
. Cryptomeria (sugi 杉)
Cryptomeria japonica. Japanische Zeder
. Gingko biloba, ichoo,ichō 銀杏 Icho, Itcho .
. Hemp palm, hemp-palm (shuro 棕櫚) .
Trachycarpus fortunei. Hanfpalme
. Hinoki cypress ヒノキ、檜、桧.
Chamaecyparis obtusa
ーーーーー and
asunaro hinoki アスナロ / 翌檜 Asunaro Hinoki
Thujopsis dolabrata
. Magnolia (mokuren) and other kinds .
. Nettletree, Chinese hackberry tree (enoki 榎).
Celtis sinensis var. japonica. Chinese) hackberry
chinesischer Zürgelbaum
. Pagoda tree (enju えんじゅ【槐】) .
Styphnolobium japonicum, Sophora japonica
japanischer Schnurbaum
. Tamarack tree, Larch (karamatsu 唐松) .
Larix kaempferi (Lambert) Carriere. Lärche
Hackmatack - The American larch (Larix Americana)
. . . . . Spruce tree, Fichte
genus Picea
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Some kigo include the Chinese characters for
tree and forest given above
. Leaves of trees in all seasons .
kigo for spring
here GROVE means a grove with trees in full bloom
plum grove, bairin 梅林（ばいりん）
peach grove, toorin 桃林（とうりん）
grove in spring, shunrin 春林 しゅんりん
tree in spring, haru no ki 春の樹（はるのき）
forest in spring, haru no mori 春の森（はるのもり）
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kigo for early spring
. hinoki ochiba 檜落葉（ひのきおちば）
fallen leaves of the Japanese cypress .
Chamaecyparis obtusa
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kigo for mid-spring
hannoki no hana, han no ki no hana 赤楊の花 (はんのきのはな)
alder tree blossoms
..... han no hana 榛の花（はんのはな）
hari no ki no hana , harinoki no hana はりの木の花（はりのきのはな）
hashibami no hana 榛の花 (はしばみのはな) hazle tree blossoms
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kigo for late spring
azusa no hana 梓の花 (あずさのはな) catalpa tree blossoms
..... hana azusa 花梓（はなあずさ）
yogusominebari no hana よぐそみねばりの花（よぐそみねばりのはな）
kaede no hana 楓の花 (かえでのはな) maple tree blossoms
..... hana kaede 花楓（はなかえで）
momiji saku もみじ咲く（もみじさく）"red leaved treees have blossoms"
kashi no hana 樫の花 (かしのはな) oak tree blossoms
kaya no hana 榧の花 (かやのはな) torreya tree blossoms
kibushi no hana 木五倍子の花 (きぶしのはな)
Stachyurus praecox
kuromoji no hana 黒文字の花 (くろもじのはな ) spice bush blossoms
Lindera umbellata. Fieberstrauch
. 雨城楊枝 "toothpicks from the Rain Castle". .
made from Kuromoji wood !
yamamomo no hana 楊梅の花 (やまもものはな)
bayberry blossoms Myrica rubra
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kigo for all summer
"new tree" shinju 新樹 (しんじゅ)
. tsuge ochiba 黄楊落葉（つげおちば）
fallen leaves of boxwood .
early summer
. silk tree flowers, nemu no hana 合歓の花 (ねむのはな)
..... nebu no hana ねぶのはな
hana nemu 花合歓 blossoming silk tree
"persian carpet flower tree" juuka ju
絨花樹（じゅうかじゅ）
..... nemuri gi ねむり木（ねむりぎ）
gookon 合昏（ごうこん)
Albizia julibrissin.
.... and kigo in other seasons
Crape myrtle (sarusuberi)
kusuguri no ki くすぐりの木（くすぐりのき）
Japanese wax tree, roo no ki 蝋の木（ろうのき）
..... haji no ki はじの木（はじのき）
The rhus tree (haze) as kigo
Rhus succedanea (Japanese wax tree)
grove in summer, natsu kodachi 夏木立 (なつこだち)
tree in summer, natsuki 夏木（なつき）
. konoshita yami 木下闇 (このしたやみ) darkness under the trees .
ko no kure 木の晩（このくれ）dusk under trees
..... kogure 木暮（こぐれ）
ko no kuregakuri 木の暗隠り（このくれがくり）
konokureshige 木の暗茂（このくれしげ）
koguru 木暮る（こぐる）, kogurashi 木暗し（こぐらし）
. morin 茂林（もりん）forest with thick leaves .
shigeri 茂 - 繁り (しげり) leaves grow thick
musubiba 結葉 (むすびば)
ryokuin 緑蔭 (りょくいん) shadow of trees
aogiri 梧桐 (あおぎり) Chinese parasol tree
..... 青桐（あおぎり）、gotoo 梧桐（ごとう）
Firmiana platanifolia
nezumimochi no hana 女貞の花 (ねずみもちのはな)
blossoms of Ligustrum japonicum
tobera no hana 海桐の花 (とべらのは)
blossoms of Pittosporum tobira 扉木
..... hana tobera 花とべら（はなとべら）
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kigo for late summer
doyoo me 土用芽 (どようめ) buds on the dog day
..... doyoo no me 土用の芽（どようのめ）
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. Trees blossoming in Summer - LIST .
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kigo for autumn
"red tree" kooju 紅樹（こうじゅ）
. red leaves, colored leaves, momiji (kooyoo 紅葉） .
urushi momiji 漆紅葉（うるしもみじ）momiji of the laquer tree
..... nurude momiji 白膠紅葉（ぬるでもみじ）
haze momiji 櫨紅葉（はぜもみじ）momiji of the wax tree
ichoo momiji 銀杏黄葉（いちょうもみじ）momiji of the gingko tree
kashiwa mojimi 柏黄葉（かしわもみじ）momiji of the Kashiwa oak
kaki momiji 柿紅葉（かきもみじ）momiji of the persimmon tree
ume momiji 梅紅葉（うめもみじ）momiji of the plum tree
nemu momiji 合歓紅葉（ねむもみじ）momiji of the mimosa tree
toodan momiji 満天星紅葉（どうだんもみじ）
momiji of Enkianthus perulatus
budoo momiji 葡萄紅葉（ぶどうもみじ）momiji of grapes
shirakaba momiji 白樺黄葉（しらかばもみじ）momiji of the birch tree
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kenbonashi 枳梖 (けんぽなし) Hovenia dulcis
..... genbonashi 玄圃梨（げんぽなし）
..... tenboonashi てんぽうなし
Hovenia dulcis. Japanischer Rosinenbaum
Its fruit is used in Chinese medicine.
Legend from Aichi, 豊田市 Toyota
kenbonashi no ki けんぼなしの木 Kenponashi, Hovenia dulcis
Once the temple 薬師寺 Yakushi-Ji burned down. The hanshoo 半鐘 fire bell survived the flames and was burried in the ground. On this spot a Kenponashi tree was planted.
This tree grew very large and soon became a nuisance to the nearby farmers. So one cut some of its branches. but he became very ill after that.
. Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Aichi .
kisasage 木豇豆 (きささげ ) Catalpa ovata
..... hisagi 楸（ひさぎ）
Catalpa ovata. japanischer Trompetenbaum; japanische Katalpa
. Autumn leaves, red leaves (momiji)
. Oak trees of Japan (Quercus) and acorns (donguri)
. Nuts and fruits of trees (konomi)
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kigo for late autumn
sangoju 珊瑚樹 (さんごじゅ) "tree like a coral"
Viburnum
..... kisango きさんご
Viburnum odoratissimum var. awabuki. サンゴジュ
With bright red berries.
. . . . . but
sangoju no hana 珊瑚樹の花 (さんごじゅのはな)
..... hana sango 晩夏 花珊瑚（はなさんご）
kigo for late summer
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kigo for winter
frost on the forest, muhyoorin 霧氷林（むひょうりん）
... juhyoorin 樹氷林（じゅひょうりん）
. fallen leaves, ochiba 落葉 おちば
withered leaves, kareha 枯葉 (かれは)
and many more
. keyaki karu 欅枯る（けやきかる）withering zelkova tree .
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Arbor Day - April 10
observance kigo for spring in the USA
Arbor Day (from the Latin arbor, meaning tree)
is a holiday in which individuals and groups are encouraged to plant and care for trees. It originated in Nebraska City, Nebraska, United States by J. Sterling Morton. The first Arbor Day was held on April 10, 1872, and an estimated one million trees were planted that day.
Many countries now observe a similar holiday. Though usually observed in the spring, the date varies, depending on climate and suitable planting season.
Birdsey Northrop of Connecticut was responsible for globalizing it when he visited Japan in 1883 and delivered his Arbor Day and Village Improvement message. In that same year, the American Forestry Association made Northrop the Chairman of the committee to campaign for Arbor Day nationwide. He also brought his enthusiasm for Arbor Day to Australia, Canada and Europe.
Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication "Arbor Day," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for "public use celebrations" and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States[2] to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999. Today anyone can use the term "Arbor Day" as well as hold their own Arbor Day celebration.
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Japan celebrates a similarly themed Greenery Day, held on May 4.
Although it has a similar theme to Arbor Day, its roots lay in celebration of the birthday of Emperor Hirohito.
. Green Week (midori no shuukan 緑の週間) .
Greenery Day (みどりの日, midori no hi)
. WKD : World Days as Kigo .
arbor day -
the boy plants a pencil
beside the sand castle
Gabi Greve
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Baum, Bäume
Hain / Wald, Wälder
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Things found on the way
The Mandala Tree at the Mandala Temple
Trees, my best friends .. 巨木
................................ Camphor Tree Kusunoki 楠木 くすのき
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. Kodama 木霊 - 木魂 The Tree Spirit .
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sacred gingko tree -
a prayer falls
with every leaf
© Gabi Greve, Japan 2007
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useless tree -
too old to move,
I just sit here
Gabi Greve
Tao of a useless tree
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動く葉もなくおそろしき夏木立
ugoku ha mo naku osoroshiki natsu kodachi
Even leaves don't move
Awsome is the
Summer grove
Tr. Dr. Satya Bhushan Verma
Buson or Basho ?
- Reference -
It is not listed in the complete works of Matsuo Basho.
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屋敷林の奥あたたかし三輪車
yashikirin no oku atatakashi sanrinsha
the manor house forest
is warm deep inside -
a tricycle
Taniguchi Michiru 谷口みちる
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夏の月滝田栄の林立す
natsu no tsuki Takita Sakae no hayashi tatsu
summer moon . . .
I stand in the forest
of Takita Sakae
Hitotsu Maguro 一鮪
http://www.koshinfu.com/007.html
Takita Sakae 滝田栄 and his woodwork statues
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quoting Chuang-Tsu - Zhuangzi, Sooshi 荘子
Free and Easy Wandering
"What can I do with an old tree?"
"Why don't you plant it in Not-Even-Anything Village,
or the field of Broad-and-Boundless,
relax and do nothing by its side,
or lie down for a free and easy sleep under it?
Axes will never shorten its life, nothing can ever harm it.
If there's no use for it, how can it come to grief or pain?"
. Chinese background of Japanese kigo .
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. Cottonwood (Populus deltoides, Populus fremontii) . USA
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search for TREE ! Leaves, Blossoms, names of fruit ...
. Forest work ... in all seasons
. WASHOKU - Food from the Bountiful Woods
(Mori no Megumi)
. Food from the Sea, Food from the Mountains
Umi no Sachi, Yama no Sachi ... The Origin
. PLANTS - - - the Complete SAIJIKI .
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