First Things, New Things

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First Things done at the New Year
and in other seasons

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Various
***** Category: Humanity, Observances

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Explanation

Question:
Does the word NEW, or FIRST, alwayd denote
the new year season and is a kigo?
Answer:
NO.
There are many other New and First activities and things throughout the year.

I will try and find some here.

Gabi Greve

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Many things done during the New Year holidays are kigo for haiku.

More are here:

New Year in Japan
Buddhist and Shinto Ceremonies are introduced here.


First Dream (hatsu yume, Japan)

First Haiku 2007

First Kick-Ball Game (kemari hajime) Japan

First Snow (hatsuyuki, Japan)

First Sun, First Sunrise (hatsuhi, hatsuhi no de, Japan)

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First Calligraphy, kakizome 書初め
..... kissho 吉書

taking the brush
365 days
first calligraphy

Gabi Greve
Read about Zen Master TANCHU TERAYAMA and Zen Calligraphy: Hitsuzendo
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Darumasan-Japan/message/662

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First Using of the Bellows
First Using of the Smithy

Blacksmith Work and Haiku


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First View of a famous mountain

They all come under the KIDAI

First view of the landscape, hatsu geshiki
初景色. 初気色 はつげしき


First view of Mount Fuji, hatsu Fuji 初富士

Hatsu Tsukuba, First view of Mt. Tsukuba, 初筑波 はつつくば

Hatsu Hiei, 初比叡 First View of Mt. Hiei (near Kyoto)

Hatsu Asama 初浅間 First View or Visit to Mount Asama, near Karuizawa Town

Hatsu Sengen, Hatsu Asama, 初浅間 First view or visit to the Asama Shrine (Mt. Fuji)


............................. The last kigo of this kidai is

field with green vegetables, wakana no 若菜野 わかなの


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The people of Edo loved first things of any season.

Here are more kigo related to these "hatsumono" 初物. I will introduce them here.


初ものや雪も仏につくらるる
hatsumono ya yuki mo hotoke ni tsukuraruru

first of the season--
the snow, too
made into Buddha



はつ降りや雪も仏に成にけり
hatsu furi ya yuki mo hotoke ni nari ni keri

first snowfall--
it too
becomes Buddha

Issa (Tr. David Lanoue)

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first bonito, hatsu-katsuo, hatsugatsuo　初鰹
FISH as kigo


shinbushi 新節 (しんぶし) new dried bonito shavings
new katsuobushi 鰹節 of the season
kigo for all summer
Dried bonito pieces (katsuobushi)

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kigo for all autumn

new silk, shinginu 新絹 (しんぎぬ)
silk of this year, kotoshi ginu 今年絹（ことしぎぬ）
new loom, shinhata 新機（しんはた）
Silk (kinu) and related kigo



new pinecone(s) 新松子 しんちぢり shinchijiri
青松毬（青松笠） あおまつかさ aomatsukasa, green pinecone(s)
Pine (matsu 松)and related kigo


new tofu (from the new beans harvest)
shindoofu 新豆腐 (しんどうふ)
kigo for early autumn
Tofu and related kigo



New Ricewine, shinshu 新酒
This ricewine is brewed with the first rice crop of a year.
kigo for mid-autumn

first run of a new sake, abarashiri 新走
ricewine of this year, kotoshizake 今年酒
early rice sake, wasezake 早稲酒
Ricewine, rice wine (sake, saké, saki) and related kigo


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kigo for winter

"new roll" aramaki 新巻（あらまき）with salmon
salted salmon, shiozake 塩鮭 (しおざけ)
Salted winter food and related kigo


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kigo for the new year

new mat, aramushiro 新筵（あらむしろ）
kake mushiro 掛筵 (かけむしろ) portable seating mat

Tatami and other floor mats as kigo



first green, hatsu midori 初緑
GREEN and haiku


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Things found on the way


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HAIKU

子宝や棒をひくのも吉書始
kodakara ya boo o hiku no mo kissho hajime

treasured child--
his cane dragging
the year's first writing

Instead of using a brush, the child draws a character on a larger scale--in mud or snow. Shinji Ogawa, who helped with this translation, notes, "It is a Japanese custom to write with a writing brush on the second day of the year."

Issa (Tr. David Lanoue)
http://cat.xula.edu/issa/

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Related words

***** Ceremonies and Festivals Saijiki


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