Owl (fukuroo) (05)

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Qwl (fukuro, fukurō, Japan)

***** Location: Japan, other areas
***** Season: All Winter
***** Category: Animal

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Explanation


Bizen Statue by Takagaki Mondo　高垣門土

Owls are best observed in winter, when the leaves are gone and the nights are lone. Their mating season is in mid-winter, so they can also be heared more often at this time. A good place for owls is Hokkaido.

owl, ural owl fukuroo　梟
snow owl, shirofukuroo, 白梟
horned owls, mimizuku 木菟, ミミズク , zuku菟
collared scops owl、ookonohazuku 大木葉菟
..... (Otus bakkamoena)

Buddhabird owl, konohazuku 木の葉菟 コノハズク　(Otus scops japonicus)
.... see Buddhabird (buppoosoo)

The owl in Japan is an auspicious animal, because of its name, pronounced fukuroo. Read as fu kuroo 不苦労, it means "no hardships, no trouble". Therefore, little things with an owl are very popular in Japan.

Mother (o-fukuro お袋) and haiku

Gabi Greve

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Worldwide use

Canada


snowy owl = harfeng des neiges

Snowy owls are found all over Canada in the winter time. They are extremely beautiful owls, all white with black patches, so that are well camouflaged in our forests in winter.


snowy owl
stares at the moon
image of her eyes

harfeng des neiges
qui fixe la lune
image de ses yeux


Richard Vallance 2008


CANADA SAIJIKI


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Germany

Eule, Uhu.

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Things found on the way

Snowy Owl on Driftwood
by ROBERT BATEMAN



© Artline.com
http://www.artline.vaxxine.com/nature/bateman/snowyowlondriftwood.htm

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NATIONAL WILDLIFE MAGAZINE



Kim Steininger
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania

"I took this picture right before I ducked," says Steininger. On a bird-watching trip in Ontario, Canada, last winter, the network administrator noticed that one of the great gray owls she was photographing was staring back at her. "I didn’t think anything of it until it started flying at me," she says. Before getting out of the way, Steininger captured this digital photo with a 500mm telephoto lens.

Look at a great page with amazing nature photos, January 2006
http://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/printerFriendly.cfm?issueID=79&articleID=1158

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HAIKU

Dusk -
silently a snow owl
changes trees.

Deepening dusk -
an owl adds its voice
to the campfire song.

(1st place in the Shiki Double Kukai, February, 2004,
6th place in the 2004 Shiki Annual Double kukai)

Early night -
the great horned owls
hoot their off-key duets.

This cold night,
through the grave yard echoes
an owl's "whooo". . .

Zhanna P. Rader

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On my walk yesterday …. It was Late evening- saw a pair of owls … sitting on a low branch hooting away to glory!
I stopped to look and surprisingly one flew away, the other bent down to look at me!

night chill . . .
awake with me
the owl’s hoot

snow owl . . .
her resonant call rips
across the twilight

Kala Ramesh, India

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Related words

***** Buddhabird (buppoosoo)
"Owl in green leaves" konohazuku 木の葉木莵 , 小葉木菟
..... aobazuku　青葉木莵
kigo for all summer



***** Mother (o-fukuro) Japan

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