Newsletter 2011

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Newsletter 2011
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Keywords, non-seasonal haiku topics, all year topics, all season topics, miscellaneous
no season, muki 無季、無期 ...


. SAIJIKI
the complete WKD-LIST 　


. Japan - after the BIG earthquake . 　
Reporting since March 11, 2011



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................................................................ December 2011


"Deity of the Year" (Toshitokujin, toshigami) Japan

Toshibi iwai - birthday celebration at the New Year Okinawa
..... shoonen iwai - celebrating the birthday

Shishinden 紫宸殿 Hall for State Ceremonies Japan

Echigoya 越後屋 and Mitsui Store　三井 Edo, Japan

Shichikoozan mairi 七高山詣 - Nagasaki
Pilgrimage to the Seven High Mountains Japan

Miyake Shozan 三宅嘯山 Miyake Shoozan (1718 - 1801)

Chanting of the Buddhas' Names -( Butsumyo-e, Butsumyooe) Jpana

Temple Kozan-Ji 高山寺 and Saint Myoe Shonin 明恵上人
memorial service for the bugs at Toganoo

Healing Haiku, Haiku therapy, psychotherapy

Koofukuji 興福寺 Temple Kofuku-Ji, Nara

Chishaku-in rongi 智積院論義
public debate at temple Chishaku-In


Nomura Kiwao 野村喜和夫 (1951 - )

Nyudo goblin at the gate (kado nyuudoo) Japan

. Magatama jewels, curved beads .

Iwakura Daiun-Ji Temple and Waterfall Japan

Flower kagura (hana kagura, sakaki oni) Japan

Toyama December Festival (Tooyama no shimotsuki matsuri) Nagano, Japan

Isonokami Shrine (Isonokami Jingu) Festivals Japan

Tamaki Jinja 玉置神社 and Kunitokotachi Japan

Otagaki Rengetsu 太田垣 蓮月 (1791 - 1875) Waka poetess, nun Lotus Moon

Time and Space
haiku about past, present and future events

Wara ningyoo 藁人形 straw dolls for curses Japan

Rohatsu (Rohachi) ceremony at Zen temples Japan

Kurokawa Noh performance and kigo

Konpira Shrine festivals (Kompira)

Shrine Suitengu 水天宮 and festivals. God of Water.

Shrine Munakata Taisha 宗像大社 Fukuoka and festivals

Izumo Grand Shrine Festivals Shimane

Shitenno-Ji Temple Festivals Osaka

Yoshida Kenko, Tsurezuregusa Japan

Auspicious box (chigibako) Japan

Nezu Jinja 根津神社　Nezu Shrine

Manners of Edo (Edo shigusa) Japan

Ningyoo kuyoo 人形供養 Memorial Ceremony for used dolls 　

Ooji no kitsunebi 王子の狐火 "fox fire at Oji Inari Shrine
. Kitsunebi 狐火 きつねび Will-o'-the-wisp . "Fox fire"


Edo Sanza 江戸三座 the three famous Kabuki theaters of Edo.
Sakai machi and Basho

Komachi Ki 小町忌 Ono no Komachi Memorial Day

negai no ito 願の糸 "string for wishes"
for Tanabata

mangansai 万願祭 "festival of the fulfilled wish"

Great Festival at Mount Osorezan (Osorezan taisai) Aomori, Japan

Suppootei Matsuri 数方庭祭 Suhotei Festival Yamaguchi

. The Atago shrines of Japan . Atago Jinja

. Doro ningyoo 泥人形 "mud dolls", clay dolls .
from Tientsin and Kiangsu in China

Heian matsuri 平安祭（へいあんまつり） Heian festival Japan
Jidai Matsuri "Festival of the Ages"

Natsume Soseki (1867 - 1916)

Hikosan Jinguu 英彦山神宮 Hikosan Shrine
Fukuoka

Yoshinaka Memorial Day - Taira no Yoshinaka and Tomoe Gozen. Japan

Dice and gambling (saikoro, bakuchi) Japan

Breast Cancer Awareness Month USA

Folsom Street Fair and Festival San Francisco, USA

Hakoniwa 箱庭 landscape garden

We Day We Schools in Action

Cowboys Blanket Dallas, Texas, USA

Fire festival at Nachi (Nachi no himatsuri) Japan
..... oogi matsuri 扇祭（おうぎまつり) hand fan festival

Love letter (kesoobumi) Japan

Measuring box or cup (masu) Japan
masu ichi 枡市（ますいち）measure cups market (kigo)

Sannoo matsuri 山王祭 (さんのうまつり) Sanno Festival
Hiyoshi matsuri 日吉祭（ひよしまつり） Hiyoshi festival
sarumatsuri 申祭（さるまつり）monkey festival

. Haiku, Kigo and Dolls . INFO . Japan

Joys of Japan - Tribute

World Homeless Day . October 10

Bullfinch (uso) Japan
exchanging carved bullfinches (usokae)

Kasetori - "Imitating the Cock's Call" Japan. Festival in Yamagata

Cold water . Kenya

Haboob, sandstorm Arizona, USA

Yamazaki Sokan 山崎宗鑑 Yamazaki Sookan (1465 - 1553)

Iga Manko (Banko) 伊賀万乎（まんこ） (? - 1724, August 15)
and the Iga Students of Basho 伊賀蕉門 Iga Shoomon

Saikusa matsuri 三枝祭 (さいくさまつり) Saikusa Festival
Lily festival (yuri matsuri) Nara

Mt. Fuji and kigo Japan

Soma Nomaoi Horse Festival (Sooma Nomaoi) Fukushima. Japan

Usaka matsuri 鵜坂祭 (うさかまつり)
Usaka Shrine festival Toyama

Ondeko 鬼太鼓 (おんでこ) Demon's Drums Sado Island

Sapporo Matsuri 札幌祭 Sapporo Festival

Hie Jinja sairei 日枝神社祭礼 festival at Hie shrine Tokyo
Sanno Matsuri, Tenka Matsuri.

Hyakumangoku Matsuri 金沢百万石まつり
Kaga Hyakumangoku Festival Kanazawa, Ishikawa. Japan

Atsuta matsuri 熱田祭 Atsuta Festival Nagoya, Japan

Tsuruoka Tenmangu Festival (Tsuruoka Tenmangu matsuri) Yamagata, Japan

Fujimori Festival (Fujimori matsuri) Kyoto.Japan

Mulberry, mulberries (kuwa no mi) Japan. Maulbeeren

Mifune matsuri 三船祭 Mifune festival Kyoto. Japan

Nankoosai 楠公祭 Nanko Festival
Festival for Lord Kusunoki Masashige 楠木正成

Hatano Soha (Sooha) 波多野爽波 (1923-1991)

Waka no Ura festival (Wakanoura matsuri) Wakayama. Japan

Market, markets (... ichi) flea markets, sales, worldwide

Kibune matsuri 貴船祭 Kifune Festival

Hitomi Enkichi Tomei 人見 圓吉 東明 1883 -1974

Blazing sky (enten) Japan. scorching sun, very hot weather, sweltering heat and more

Rice Planting at Ise Shrine (Ise no Taue Matsuri) Japan

Kanda Festival (Kanda Matsuri) Tokyo, Japan

Sanja matsuri 三社祭　Asakusa Festival Tokyo

Memorial Day Decoration Day. USA.

Izumo matsuri 出雲祭 Izumo festival Shimane, Izumo Shrine, Japan

Seihakusai 青柏祭 (せいはくさい) Seihaku Festival

. Aoi Matsuri 葵祭 Aoi Festival

Yase matsuri 八瀬祭 Yase Festival

Dentist haiku and toothache teeth, tooth ... and the god of toothache

Yamazaki Festival (Yamazaki matsuri) Kyoto. Japan

Takaya Soshu 高屋窓秋 Takaya Sooshuu (1910-1999)

Uji Festival (Uji matsuri) Japan

Imamiya Shrine Festival (Imamiya matsuri) Japan

Kobe Festival (Kobe Matsuri) Japan

Yanagawa Suitengu shrine festival (Yanagawa suitengu matsuri) Okinohata Suitengu Festival. Japan

Eighth day of the uzuki month (uzuki yooka) Japan

Yamaga Lantern Festival (Yamaga Tooroo Matsuri) Kumamoto, Japan

Kamo Shrine complex Festivals Kyoto, Japan

Horse race (kurabe uma) Japan

Fuchu Festival (Fuchuu matsuri) Tokyo, Japan
and
Gomottomo sama at Mitsumine shrine

Goryo Festival (Goryoo matsuri) Kyoto, Japan

Obarazashi 大原志 Obara shrine festival

Ozawa Minoru 小澤實 (1956 - )

Shinran Shonin 親鸞 Saint Shinran (1173 - 1263). Hoonko kigo

Hakone ekiden race, hakone relay marathon Japan

Kinkazan (Kinkasan) Miyagi, cutting antlers of deer

Edith Piaf French Singer.

Cedar (sugi) cryptomeria Japan. Cryptomeria japonica. Japanische Zeder

Wall hanger (kabekake) Japan. Wandbehang

Amelia Mary Earhart USA. aviation pioneer and author

Nicolae Grigorescu Romania

Kisongo Market Tanzania

Sand harvesting, sand mining Kenya

Cow nose ring ritual (hanaguri kuyoo) Japan

Henri Coanda Romania

Isukuti Dance Kenya

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Taira no Kiyomori 平清盛 Heike Monogatari

Du Fu 杜甫 Tu Fu Chinese Poet

Japan - after the BIG earthquake March 11, 2011

Nai no kami 地震神 God of Earthquakes

Milan Kundera, Writer

Budapest Hungary

Sentei Festival (senteisai) Japan. Remembering Antoku Tenno

Jomo Kenyatta Kanya

Tsuburo fertility dance (tsuburosashi) Japan. a penis festival

Ota Dokan Memorial Day (Dookan ki) Japan.

Buckwheat (soba) plant and food Japan

Paperweight (bunchin) Japan

Tsuda Kiyoko Haiku Poetess

Maya Temple Visit (Maya moode) Kobe, Japan

Hira Hakko Ceremony (Hira hakkoo) Japan. Lake Biwa

Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan

Places in Florida USA

Grevillea tree Grevillea Robusta. Kenya

Prayer flags Tibet. Japan

Pool cage Florida

Snowy Owl, Bubo scandiacus Florida

Mount Yangming, Yang-ming shan Taiwan

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Takaha Shugyo 鷹羽狩行 Takaha Shugyoo (1930, October 5 - )

Mikurumayama matsuri : "honorable float festival"

Bird egg shells Yemen

Horyu-Ji Temple in Nara Japan

Sophie Magdalena Scholl Germany

Bussokusekika, bussoku sekika 仏足石歌
Poems on the Buddha's footprint stone Temple Yakushiji, Nara

Libya, Tripoli February 2011

Purification at Suma beach (Suma no misogi) Japan.

Neuville War Cemetary Belgium. Ardennes American Cemetery

Mie-Ji Temple Festival Gifu. Japan

Philippine Tarsier (Tarsius syrichta)
The world's smallest monkey.

Bahrain, February 2011

Miwa mountain and festivals (hanashizume) Japan

Monkey, monkeys in Kenya

Furukawa Drum Festival (Furukawa no okoshi daiko) Gifu. Japan

Mino Town Festival (Mino matsuri) Gifu. Japan

Munia bird, Chestnut Munia, maya pula Lonchura atricapilla jagori. Philippines

Lantern festival (Yuanxiao) China

Brush, pen (fude) Japan

Fude matsuri 筆まつり Brush Festival Kumano, Hiroshima, Japan.

. Dietrich Bonhoeffer 　Germany

Kaneko Tohta : Wolf Haiku from Chichibu

Spine, back (sesuji) Japan. Parts of the human body

Furuta Oribe, Potter (1544 -1615). Japan

Egypt February11, 2011.

Fire-swinging festival (hiburi matsuri, hifuri shinji) Aso Shrine, Kumamoto, Japan

Hans Küng, German theologian

Martin Heidegger and Matsuo Basho

Igor Stravinsky, composer

Bob Dylan

Kurama - Temple and Shrine Festivals Kyoto, Japan

Wife, my beloved wife (wagimoko) Japan

Awashima Festival Japan

Gunter Grass Germany. Günter Wilhelm Grass

Large cups of tea (oochamori) temple Saidai-Ji, Nara, Japan

Seimeisai 清明祭 Seimei festival, Okinawa

Hole (ana) and hibernating animals

Genghis Khan (jingisu kan) and the Yoshitsune connection

Ezra Pound

Language - "written literary, classical language" (bungo)　-
spoken colloquial kogo language (koogo)

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"Making a bonfire" ceremony (ohotaki) Japan

Itsukushima Shrine festivals Miyajima, Hiroshima, Japan

Festivals with a special twist (kisai) Japan. weird festivals

Marilyn Monroe

Last bath of the year (toshi no yu) Japan.

Raincoat, straw raincoat (mino) Japan

Red (akai) crimson, cinnabar Japan

. . . Music and Haiku - Introduction

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 　

Beethoven, Ludwig van Beethoven 　

Miyamoto Musashi (1584 - 1645)

Setagaya flea markes (Setagaya boroichi) Boro-ichi at Tokyo, Japan

Chuang-tzu, Zhuangzi 荘子 / 莊周 Sooshi, Sooji China

Kabaka, King of Uganda Buganda

Li Po, Li Bo (Ri Haku 李白) Li T'ai-po, Chinese poet

Cooking rice (kashigi) Japan. using the hearth fire

Hearth (kamado) in the kitchen (daidokoro) Japan

Machakos town, Masaku

. Urban Haiku .
A growing collection from many poets !

Needles and pins ceremony (hari kuyoo) Japan

Belt, sash (obi) Japan

Enlightenment, Zen and Haiku

Hasegawa Kanajo (1887 - 1969)

Sakaki tree (sakaki) Japan. Cleyera japonica

Asociación Navarra de Haiku - ANAKU Spain

Coming of Age Day　(seijin no hi, seijinshiki) Japan

First fortune-telling (hatsu mikuji) Japan

Morotabune Ship Race Ceremony (morotabune shinji) Japan

Corn shucking, corn husking USA

Sake brewers are coming (tooji kitaru) Japan

Entertaining the God of the Fields (ae no koto)


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