Owl (fukuroo)

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Qwl (fukuro, fukuroo, fukurō)

***** 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
gorosuke 五郎助（ごろすけ）
torafuzuku 虎斑木菟（とらふずく）long-eared owl
komimizuku 小木菟（こみみずく）small owl
washi mimizuku 鷲木菟（わしみみずく） "eagle owl"

collared scops owl、ookonohazuku 大木葉菟
..... (Otus bakkamoena)

hahakuidori 母食鳥（ははくいどり）"bird that eats its mother"

fukuroo naku 梟鳴く（ふくろうなく）owl is howling

shimafukuroo しまふくろう "striped owl"
Blakiston's fish-owl . Ketupa blakistoni

shirofukuroo しろふくろう "white owl"
snowy owl, Nyctea scandiaca, Bubo scandiacus



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


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observance kigo for mid-summer

. fukuro no atsumono 梟の羹 (ふくろうのあつもの)
"hot soup with owl meat" 　



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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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Florida, USA

. Snowy owl 　　

topic for haiku from Florida



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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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susuki mimizuku すすきみみずく　
horned owls made from susuki grass

amulet for getting pregnant (with a large tummy like these stuffed owls)

Susuki grass pas plenty in Edo and this little toy and amulet was quite popular, especially in temples dedicated to . Kishibojin 鬼子母神 . and her temple in Ikebukuro. Now there is even a group to keep up the tradition of making them, sponsored by the head priest. They have to go as far as Saitama to get the proper grass ears. The ears and bill are made from wood.

Legend knows this:
Once there was a poor mother and daughter living in Edo. The mother got ill and the daughter went to the temple of Kishibojin for 100 days to pray for her recovery. On the last day the daughter had a dream:
"Go out, get some susuki grass, make some owls from it and sell it to become rich."
So she did and soon she had enough money to buy medicine for her ill mother.



. Amulets and Talismans from Japan .　



source : national diet library
artist unknown

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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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two owls
on the same old branch -
good couple's day

Gabi Greve, January 2007


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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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Toshi Yoshida (1911-1995)


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Because of a pun with the name, the FUKU brings good luck to people.
There is also a pun with

fu kuroo 不苦労　no hardships, no worries

chiebukuro　知恵袋 a wise person - chie no fukuro

. Amulets and Toys with the FUKU　福 owl .


. WKD . BIRD SAIJIKI


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