January 2006

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January (ichigatsu, Japan)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: New Year / Late Winter
***** Category: Season

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Explanation

The following is a list of every day in January 2006 with its kigo.
Quoted from Haiku Alpha (Mainichi Shinbun)
「俳句アルファ」（毎日新聞刊）
Translations: Gabi Greve

Only haiku with food have been selected.

First Buddhist Ceremonies of the year

.................................. Kigo for New Year

January 1

first day of the year, gantan,
first shrine or temple visit, hatsumoode,
First Sun, First Sunrise (hatsuhi, hatsuhi no de, Japan)
mochi mo suki sake mo suke nari kesa no haru

I like mochi
I also like ricewine -
this New Year morning

Takahama Kyoshi

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January 2

first dream, hatsu yume
first luggage, hatsu ni
first calligraphy, kakizome

naganaga to kuchi e nobitaru zooni mochi

longer and longer
they hang out of the mouth -
gooey rice cakes in soup

Takizawa Iyoji

zooni is a special soup for the New Year and the mochi, rice cakes, are like rubber ...

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January 9


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January 10


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January 11


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January 13

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January 15

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January 17

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January 22


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January 24


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January 25

First Tenjin Ceremony of the year, hatsu Tenjin and other FIRST ceremonies

tara nabe no
fuda odorasete
daikazoku

hodgepot with cod
makes the lid dance -
a big family

Katoo Kenkoo 加藤 憲曠

a large ceramic pot filled with fish (cod), vegetables, tofu and other ingredients, boiled at the table, where all sit and wait to help themselves from the steaming broth.

taranabe, kigo for winter

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January 26

yuzu sutte kureshi
kama-age udon kana

grating citron peel
for the big pot of
hot noodle soup

Ooishi Etsuko 大石悦子

udon noodles eaten from a large pot filled with hot water. You take out each mouthfull, dip the noodles in flavored broth and eat it with pieces of tempura, vegetables or pure noodles. This is a speciality of some areas of Shikoku island.

kama-age udon　釜揚饂飩, kigo for winter

Yuzu (Japan) a ctiron fruit

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January 28

First Purification Ceremony and Festival at Koojin Temple, Osaka
Hatsu Harai Koojin Daisai　初はらい荒神大祭

First Fudo Ceremony of the year, hatsu Fudo and other FIRST ceremonies 初不動

koi wa bi no
okoze wa oni no
samusa kana

beautiful like a carp
develish ugly like the devil stinger
--- this cold

Suzuki Masajo

cold, samusa　寒さ, kigo for winter

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January 29

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January 30

sokobie no
yado no kinpira
goboo kana

foot-cold -
the little inn serves
local roots

Tsuda Teiko 津田汀ヶ子

foot-cold, sokobie, imagine a cold little hotel in Hokkaido, where the ground is frozen and the cold seeps through the thin tatami mats to your feet and bottom.

sokobie 底冷え, kigo for winter

comfrey, goboo 牛蒡　 is a vegetable good for your health because of its many fibers. Kinpira goboo is a side dish on every table, sort of the taste of mother and home.

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January 31

sanjuunichi shoogatsu、三十日正月

The first "last day of the year with the number 31", misoka. People celebrate it eating buckwheat noodles (soba).
December 31 is the "Great last day", Last Day of the Year (oomisoka, Japan)

yudoofu ya inochi no hate no usuakari

hot tofu -
at the end of my days,
a faint light

Kubota Mantaroo 久保田万太郎

tofu in hot water, yudoofu　湯豆腐, is a kigo for winter.

Kubota lost his first wife and his son commited suicide. He married again but that did not last. His third wife also died and he spend his old age quite alone. The faint light is shining from the Paradise of the West, where the souls reside after death.
Haiku about Amida Buddha in the Paradise of the West
by Gabi Greve

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Japanese LINK about January day kigo
http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/princesshiromi/5002

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