Ice (koori)

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Ice (koori)

***** Location: Japan, other areas
***** Season: Late Winter
***** Category: Earth

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Explanation

There are some kigo related to ice in late winter.
For ICE kigo about spring, see below.

ice, koori, kōri (こおり, こうり) 氷
thick ice, atsugoori 厚氷
thin ice, "like cicada wings" semigoori, 蝉氷

mirror of ice, mirror ice, himo kagami 氷面鏡
..... koori no kagami　氷の鏡

"cotton ice" watagoori　綿氷
..... at the bottom of small brooks

"ice like a sword", koori no tsurugi　氷の剣 （こおりのつるぎ）

"below zero" hyootenka 氷点下

koori no neya 氷の閨（こおりのねや）icecold in the bedroom


ice forming, ketushyoo　結氷
..... hyooketsu 氷結
..... koori musubu　氷結ぶ
..... koori haru　氷張る
..... hyookai 氷塊（ひょうかい）

kooritozu 氷閉ず（こおりとず）enclosed by ice


hyoojoo 氷上（ひょうじょう）on the ice


When the ice crystals start to form, we can even hear it:
"voice of the ice", koori no koe　氷の声

ice floes, floating ice, ryuuhyoo 流氷
ice chrystals, hyooshoo 氷晶
.... when it gets below 20 degrees centigrade
diamond dust, daiamondo dasuto　ダイアモンド　ダスト

"flowers of ice", koori no hana 氷の花
..... ice patterns on a flat surface, like ripples

"ice dress", koori no koromo　氷の衣 （こおりのころも）
..... ice forming around things

koori no kusabi 氷の楔（こおりのくさび）wedge of ice


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. tsuki kooru 月氷る（つきこおる）"freezing moon"

kane kooru 鐘氷る（かねこおる）frozen temple bell

tsuyu kooru 露氷る（つゆこおる）frozen dew

harawata kooru 腸氷る（はらわたこおる）"frozen intestines"
feeling the cold deep inside

. kage kooru 影氷る（かげこおる）frozen shadow 　


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hyooheki 氷壁 (ひょうへき) ice wall, wall of ice

seppeki 雪壁（せっぺき）snow wall
A steep mountain slope frozen.
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March cold
icicles of spring day
freeze tears

- Shared by Gennady Nov, Russia
Joys of Japan, March 2012



icicle, ice pillar (hyoochuu), tsurara 氷柱
hanging icicle, taruhi 垂氷
standing icicle, tachihi　立氷
large icicle, ootsurara 大氷柱
"silver bamboo" ginchiku 銀竹（ぎんちく）
"ice chopsticks" hyoocho 氷著 （ひょうちょ）
..... hyoojoo 氷条（ひょうじょう）
..... hyoojun 氷笋（ひょうじゅん）
..... hyookin 氷筋（ひょうきん）


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iced lake, hyooko 氷湖
iced sea, hyookai 氷海
iced waterfall, idetaki 凍滝, taki kooru 滝氷る
..... koori no taki　氷の滝
..... karedaki 涸滝
iced bridge, kooribashi 氷橋


. mizuumi kooru 湖凍る（みずうみこおる）frozen lake 　

kamiwatari 御神渡 (おみわたり) gods crossing the frozen lake
miwatari, mi-watari 御渡（みわたり）
At Lake Suwako 諏訪湖 in winter, when it is frozen and has special patterns like a path on the ice.
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. hyookai 氷海 (ひょうかい) frozen sea, ocean frozen 　


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hyoosetsu 氷雪（ひょうせつ）ice and snow
hyooden 氷田（ひょうでん）field with ice
hyooya 氷野（ひょうや）plain/ wild fields in ice



icy dew cover, muhyoo　霧氷
when the moist air floats upward and builds ice around branches
..... jusoo　樹霜
"tree icicles" juhyoo　樹氷、sohyoo 租氷　


rain and ice, uhyoo 雨氷 (うひょう)


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hatsugoori 初氷 はつごおり first ice,
first frozen water
kigo for mid-winter
(hatsu koori)

first ice -
a sparrow picks
at its reflection

Gabi Greve, December 2009




Googeling for more haiku with
FIRST ICE


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Photo Gabi Greve


cold sunshine -
the icicles refuse
to melt

. Gabi Greve, January 2011


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. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .



瓶割るる夜の氷の寝覚め哉
kame waruru yoru no koori no nezame kana

I wake up at night (from the sound of)
the water jar breaking
from the ice . . .


Paraverse by Gabi Greve
This is difficult to translate.

the Japanese lines contain these words

water jar breaks/cracks
ice at night
I wake up

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寒い夜、甕＜かめ＞の割れる音で目が覚める。寒さのために氷が張って甕を割ったのであろう。甕の中には明日の朝の飲み水や、ご飯を炊くための調理用の水などが入っていたはずである。芭蕉庵の冬の夜の厳寒と底深い静寂があたりを覆っている。
source : yamanashi-ken.ac.jp
On a cold night, from the sound of a jar breaking, the poet wakes up. He might wonder, has the jar really broken? In the jar was the water for cooking tea and cook rice for the breakfast next morning. Basho records this extreme cold and the loneliness of his living condition.


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The scene is a winter's night, obviously, and a water jar cracking from the expansion of the ice. This has some relationship to waking, but in Japanese grammar it is unclear who is awake, or woken. You could choose to say "I", and you could choose to be awake in the night (lonely and unable to sleep), or suddenly awakened by the cracking of the water-jar. There is plenty of scope!
source : www.haiku.insouthsea.co.uk

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a water jar cracks :
in the freezing of the night
I lie here awake
source : www.tclt.org.uk

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The sound of a water jar
Cracking on this icy night
As I lie awake
Wen-zhi (Wortdenk) translation

source : poetrybeingzen.blogspot.com

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awakened at midnight
by the sound of the water jar
cracking from the ice
Tr. Sam Hamill


- - - - There is a similar poem attributed to Basho:

油こほりともし火細き寝覚哉
abura koori tomoshibi hosoki nezame kana

Awake at night,
the lamp low,
the oil freezing.
Tr. Robert Hass


oil is freezing
and the light is low
(as I) wake up at night . . .
Tr. Gabi Greve

The cut marker KANA is at the end of line 3.


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御仏の御鼻の先へつららかな
mihotoke no mihana no saki e tsurara kana

on the tip of
the Buddha's blessed nose
an icicle

Kobayashi Issa
Icicle, tsurara - University of Virginia Library



on honorable Buddha's
honorable nose
an icicle
Tr. David Lanoue


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hazy afternoon
the woodpecker's call
bounces off the ice

après-midi brumeuse
l'appel du pic
résonne sur la glace

Copyright Cindy Zackowitz, 2000

Look at a great photo here
http://www.tempslibres.org/cindy/en/idxglace.html

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Float Ice, ryuuhyoo from Abashiri, Hokkaido.
網走川北側海岸にて撮影



Look at a photo site about floating ice
http://www.abashiri.pref.hokkaido.jp/syasinkan.htm

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流氷や宗谷の門波荒れやまず
ryuuhyoo ya Sooya no to nami areyamazu

float ice !
at Sooya the waves
never come to rest
(Tr. Gabi Greve)

山口 誓子
http://www.shibunkaku.co.jp/artm/kyoudai/list.html

The Cape of Sooya in Hokkaido (Soya Misaki 宗谷岬) is a famous place. Many haiku have been written there.
Here is a famous song about the place (in Japanese).

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LIED VOM GETRIEBENSEIN

Rauhe Inseln aus
Packeis treiben nach Süden
In blauer Weite.

Œuvre Copyright © 2002ff. by Hans-Jürgen Murer
http://www.kurztexte.de/seite173.htm

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Related words

ICE kigo for early spring

ice in spring, haru no koori 春の氷（はるのこおり）

ice still left over, nokoru koori 残る氷（のこるこおり)
thin ice, usurai 薄氷 (うすらい )
..... usugoori 薄氷（うすごおり）
usurai is a rather thinclear ice, usually sparkling and finely crystallized. It forms on cold spring nights and is gone when the sun comes out warmly during the day.
Shiki placed this kigo in early sping.
Before him, the reading was "hakuhyoo" and used in winter.



ICE kigo for mid-spring

ice is melting, koori toku 氷解く (こおりとく)
kaihyoo 解氷（かいひょう）
ukigoori 浮氷（うきごおり）
ice vanishing, koori kiyu 氷消ゆ（こおりきゆ）
time of melting ice, kaihyooki 解氷期（かいひょうき）

lake with melting ice, kaihyoo ko 解氷湖（かいひょうこ）



driftice, floating ice
drifting ice, floating ice, ryuuhyoo 流氷 (りゅうひょう)
time of drifting ice, ryuuhyoo ki 流氷期（りゅうひょうき）
layer of melting ice, ryuuhyoo ban 流氷盤（りゅうひょうばん）
ice is drifting, koori nagaruru 氷流るる（こおりながるる）



Drifting ice along Abashiri, Hokkaido, Japan


usurai wa namida o tomeru saku nari shi

The thin coating ice
was a fence
to dam up tears

Niji Fuyuno
Tr. Ryu Yotsuya

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soft icy face ... (usurai ya)
of the pond ... (bidoo danisenu)
not a sign of movement .... (ike no omo)

©　Michi Umeda


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ice shards
from moment to moment
underground chill

- Shared by Verica Zivkovic -
Joys of Japan, January 2013


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