Spring light

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Spring light, spring shining, shining spring (shunkoo)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: All Spring
***** Category: Heavens

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Explanation

spring shines, spring light, bright scenery of spring
shunkoo,shunkō 春光
..... haru no hikari 春の光（はるのひかり）

shunshoku 春色（しゅんしょく）"the color of spring"
..... haru no iro 春の色（はるのいろ）
spring scenery; the scenery in spring

haru no nioi 春の匂（はるのにおい）the smell of spring

harugeshiki 春景色（はるげしき）landscape in spring
..... shunyoo 春容（しゅんよう）
..... shunboo 春望（しゅんぼう）
..... shunkei 春景（しゅんけい）

shunkoo referes to the general brightness that comes with spring, not exclusively with the sunshine.


wind shines, kaze hikaru　風光る (かぜひかる)
"shining wind"
soft wind, kaze yawaraka 風やわらか（かぜやわらか）

These kigo refer to the sparkling of spring sunshine and a gentle wind on a sunny spring day.

harunokaze 春の風 (はるのかぜ) spring breeze / spring wind


Some of these Chinese character combinations relate to old Chinese poems.

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"bright breeze" is not a kigo, but a topic for haiku.



. uraraka うららか麗らか bright spring weather
hi urara 日うらうら（ひうらら）bright and clear day




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HAIKU

春光や三百年の城の景
shunkoo ya sanbyaku nenn no shiro ho kage

"The light of Spring brims over
The shadow of the Castle shows
The history of 300 years"

Sakai Mokuzen
酒井　黙禅〔さかい・もくぜん〕
明治16（1883）年～昭和47（1972）年

Haiku Stone Memorial in Matsuyama, Dogo Onsen Area



This Haiku monument unveiled on the 15h March of 1962 (Showa 37), Mokuzen's 80th birthday. The characters on this monument is Mokuzen's own hand writing.

It was the days of Sadayuki Matsudaira, the first leader of the domain of Matsuyama, of 1642 (Kanei 19), when the dungeon of Matsuyama Castle was constructed. It goes back to the old times of about 300 years ago from the year of 1962 (Showa 37).

The word of "the shadow of the Castle shows the history of 300 years" just implies the deep emotion for the long history of the Castle.We can take a good sight of Castle Hill from this public hall.

The old Mokuzen took on the job of teaching Haiku as many as several hundreds of times, as the leader of the Haiku gathering in Iwaidani public hall, since 1959 (at the age of 77).
http://www.lib.ehime-u.ac.jp/KUHI/ENG/kuhieng61.html

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風光るまことのなたに花ごろも
kaze hikaru makoto no nata ni hanagoro mo

Wind shines
around truth's flag
and the symphony of flowers as well


Japanese manga series by Taeko Watanabe.
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墨絵にもほのかなる紅風光る
sumi-e ni mo honoka naru momiji kaze hikaru

even in this ink painting
a tint of red autumn leaves -
shining wind

Fukushima Kazu 福島加津


. Sumie paintings and Haiku .


momiji here means the color of red autumn leaves in the painting.

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Alan Summers

bright breeze
the kettle warms up
a cloudless day
Publications credits: Presence #44 (2011)


bright breeze
a sighted person fingers
the statue’s eyes
Publications credits:
City: Bristol Today in Poems and Pictures (Paralalia 2004); tinywords.com

. Discussion at Kigo Hotline


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Related words

***** . Spring morning light (shungyoo) 　
spring dawn, haru no akebono 春の曙（はるのあけぼの）


***** . haru no hi 春の日 (はるのひ) sun in spring


***** . Wind in various kigo (kaze)


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