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April Fool

***** Location: Japan, worldwide
***** Season: Mid-Spring
***** Category: Observance

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Explanation

四月馬鹿 (しがつばか) shigatsu baka,
April fool / April Fool's Day
eipuriru fuuru エイプリルフール
"all fools season", bangu setsu 万愚節（ばんぐせつ）

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April Fool's Day or All Fools' Day
is a notable day, though not of its own right a holiday, celebrated in many countries on April 1. The day is celebrated by the execution of hoaxes and practical jokes of varying sophistication with the goal of publicly embarrassing the gullible.

Traditionally, pranks are supposed to end by noon. Those done afterwards are supposed to bring bad luck to the perpetrator. However, this is not universally adhered to, and many of the hoaxes listed below appeared after noon....

The custom of playing practical jokes on April Fool's Day is also very widespread and of uncertain origins. The victim of a joke is known in English as an April Fool; in Scots as a gowk (cuckoo or fool); and
in French as a poisson d'avril (April fish).
©　More in the WIKIPEDIA !

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There are many explanations for the origin of this day.

April Fool's Day is one of the most light hearted days of the year, yet it stems from a serious subject—the adoption of a new calendar.

A Traditional New Year's
Ancient cultures, including those as varied as the Romans and the Hindus, celebrated New Year's Day on April 1. It closely follows the vernal equinox (March 20th or March 21st.) In medieval times, much of Europe celebrated March 25, the Feast of Annunciation, as the beginning of the new year.

In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII ordered a new calendar (the Gregorian Calendar) to replace the old Julian Calendar. The new calendar called for New Year's Day to be celebrated Jan. 1. Many countries, however, resisted the change. In fact, some European countries held out for centuries (Scotland until 1660; Germany, Denmark, and Norway until 1700; and England until 1752).

Many French Refuse
In 1564 France adopted the reformed calendar and shifted New Year's day to Jan. 1. However, many people either refused to accept the new date, or did not learn about it, and continued to celebrate New Year's Day April 1.
Other people began to make fun of these traditionalists, sending them on "fool's errands" or trying to trick them into believing something false.

April Fish
The French came to call April 1 Poisson d'Avril, or "April Fish." French children sometimes tape a picture of a fish on the back of their schoolmates, crying "Poisson d'Avril" when the prank is discovered.

Great Britain Accepts the Calendar
In 1752, Great Britain finally changed over to the Gregorian Calendar, and April Fool's Day began to be celebrated in England and in the American colonies.
Pranks and jokes are of course still popular on this day—not to mention the rest of the year.

source : www.infoplease.com

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Jim Hunt Illustration | Facebook

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Worldwide use

Germany

Aprilscherze sind in den meisten europäischen Ländern üblich.
Am ersten April werden die Leute in den April geschickt.

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Trinidad and Tobago

the Catholic church observes the soleminty of The Holy Innocents and children bring their toys to church with them and they are blessed by the priest in the presence of the congregation.
However April is the day on which we celebrate april's fool and on that day one must be wary of tricks and pranks played by mischevious person

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New Zealand
A New Zealand tradition is the capping stunt, wherein university students perpetrate a hoax upon an unsuspecting population. They are traditionally executed near autumn graduation (the "capping").
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from the WKD policy

Calendar reference kigo
are for example the names of each month and then the many festivals of a specific date and the memorial days of people or things.
Japanese haiku poets up from the North of Hokkaido down to the South of Okinawa have no problem when using DECEMBER as a kigo within the convention of writing haiku, for example. Neither do the Japanese haiku poets who live in Brazil complain about the saijiki.

Northern and Southern Hemisphere
If there is not specific mention in the WKD, a calendar reference kigo refers to the Northern Hemisphere as its place of origin, since haiku and the saijiki concept originates in Japan.
For the Southern Hemisphere, add six months.
For a calendar reference kigo originating in the Southern Hemisphere, add six months to get to its Northern counterpart.
These adjustments will not be mentioned specifically for each kigo.

. Seasons and Calendar reference kigo .

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Things found on the way

April as a cruel month?

T.S. Eliot (1888-1965). The Waste Land. 1922.

I. The Burial of the Dead

APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain....

Eliot, Thomas Stearns.
The Waste Land. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922
source : www.bartleby.com

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HAIKU

April fool's day
I water the sweet peas
and then it rains

Giselle Maya
St. Martin de Castillon, France
(Mainichi Haiku)

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>... April fool
> ... the dog chases its memory
> ... of a tail

© Juanito 2005
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WHCjapan/message/1572

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April fool's day --
the mannequin
blinked at me

© JJ March 21, 2005
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cherrypoetryclub/message/22430

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so many roads
for haiku and senryu --
April Fool

Gabi Greve, April 1, 2009

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Editorial
by Susumu Takiguchi
source : World Haiku Review, March 2009

The 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth is being celebrated across the world.

The interesting thing about Darwin is that the evolution of living things does not occur because they want it to happen. On the contrary, living things are in fact ultra-conservative and do not like evolution.
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I am in an evolutionary mood today and am thinking of the history of haiku in terms of evolution. It is 365 years since Basho’s birth and 400 to 500 years since the births of such fathers, or shall we say grandfathers, of haiku as Sokan Yamazaki, Moritake Arakida, Teitoku Matsunaga or Soin Nishiyama who all contributed to the development of Haikai-no-Renga which later begat haiku.
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The haiku evolution is still with us.
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Haiku now has so many different variants. However, almost all the origins of the modern haiku species outside Japan can be found in America. They experienced explosive evolution through the most unnatural selection ...
There have been no survival of the fittest (haiku) because there just has not been any need for these species to try to survive; they have thrived.

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don't tell me
you still live in March -
April Fool's Day

Gabi Greve, 2012
. Joys of Japan .

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once the first of the year
and then it changed...
April fools still celebrate

Pat Geyer ‎

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April Fools' Day -
heavy snow upon
the blooming trees

Zornitza Harizanova

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April Fools' Day--
I may tell you
it is a working day for toilers

Manu Kant

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April Fools' Day---
a street preacher says
the end of the World is coming

Fred Masarani

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To be, or not to be a joke:
that is not a question on April Fools' Day.:D

April Fools' Day:
I sext with my wife
for the first time

Chen-ou Liu

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Premier avril –
les chalutiers restent à quai
trop de concurrence !

April first -
the trawlers are docked
too much competition !

Patrick Fetu

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April Fool's Day
green pussy willows
getting whiter

- Shared by Irena Iris Szewczyk, 2013 -

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a siren
outside my door ---
April Fool

Bee Jay

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April fool's day
I wear my jacket
inside out

Angelee Deodhar

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the politician
fulfils his promise -
april fool

Sunil Uniyal

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April Fool's Day--
the stern teacher marks a pause
for dirty jokes

Brinda Buljore

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April's fool -
Cardinal Dolan says
he now supports gay marriage

Fred Masarani

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April fools day
the stomach smaller
than my eyes

Angelika Kolompar

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***** . April (shigatsu 四月) .

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3/22/2005

Cuckoo (kankodori)

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cockoo
Cuckoo (kankodori) - little cuckoo (hototogisu)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: All summer
***** Category: Animal

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Explanation

We have two different birds.

Cuckoo, Cuculus canorus, kankodori　閑古鳥
..... kakkoo　カッコウ
cockoo, cockuu

Little Cuckoo, Cuculus poliocephalis,
hototogisu ホトトギス, 時鳥
Click HERE to look at some photos !

Sometimes, the bush warbler (uguisu) and the little cuckoo (hototogisu) get mixed up.

Listen to the voice of the hototogisu here:
source : www.youtube.com

More names for this bird:

first cuckoo, hatsu hototogisu 初時鳥（はつほととぎす）
mountain cuckoo, yama hototogisu山時鳥（やまほととぎす）
"calling his name" nanoru hototogisu
名乗る時鳥（なのるほととぎす）

waiting hototogisu, matsu hototogisu
待つ時鳥（まつほととぎす)

taosadori 田長鳥（たおさどり）
kutsutedori 沓手鳥（くつてどり）
imosedori 妹背鳥（いもせどり）

uzukidori 卯月鳥（うづきどり）
uzuki is the name for april in the lunar calendar

token 杜鵑（とけん）, too 杜宇（とう）、
hototogisu 杜魂（ほととぎす）

hototogisu 子規（ほととぎす）
The inside of the mouth of the cuckoo is so red that it looks like blood when the bird is singing.

Masaoka Shiki took the Chinese characters for his name、 because of tuberculosis, he would spit blood.
. WKD : Masaoka Shiki　正岡子規 .

hototogisu 蜀魂（ほととぎす）, hototogisu 不如帰（ほととぎす）

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© http://www.hana300.com/aafuda.html

..... Flower Trump (hanafuda) and haiku

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“Demon cockoo, oni kakkoo 鬼カッコウ　
Eudynamys scolopacea

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岩倉の狂女恋せよほととぎす　
Iwakura no kyoojo koi seyo hototogisu

A little cuckoo across a hydrangea - Yosa Buson
与謝蕪村

cause the madwoman at Iwakura
to fall more deeply in love
o hototogisu
source :　Cheryl A. Crowley

Discussion of this haiku
. Iwakura waterfall and
temple Daiun-Ji 岩倉大雲寺 .

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Germany

Kuckuck - Cuculus canorus

Gackelkuckuck - Cuculus poliocephalus
Kleiner Kuckuck
Rötelkuckuck

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India

There is a bird associated with the Monsoon in India:

the Pied Crested Cuckoo; may be called the Rain bird.
It is called 'Erattatthalachi Kuyil' in Malayalam and 'Kondai Kuyil' in Tamil. It Hindi, it is 'Chatak.' It's observed that this Cuckoo appears in South India and in North India just before the Monsoon to herald the arrival of rain.
It is believed, for instance, its arrival in Mumbai indicates that the first rains will fall within three days! Its call is wailing.

Very noisy when breeding. Calls also during moonlit nights. Its call is loud, rather plaintive, metallic piu-piu-pee-pee-piu… pee-pee-piu, or just a tinkling piu.. piu…
©　indulekha.com/rainraga

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a cuckoo's silence -
leaves on a mango tree rustle
in the breeze

- Shared by Surmeet Maavi -
Joys of Japan, 2012

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. Asian Koel (Eudynamys scolopaceus) .
Asian Koel, Koil, Kuil, Koyal
a member of the cuckoo order of birds
oni kakkoo オニカッコウ "demon cuckoo"

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Things found on the way

The famous comparison of three famous warlords

鳴かぬなら　殺してしまえ　ホトトギス
鳴かぬなら　鳴かせてみせよう　ホトトギス
鳴かぬなら　鳴くまで待とう　ホトトギス

Here is the famous story to shed light on the temperament of the three most famous warlords in Japanese history:
When confronted with a nightingale in a cage, which would not sing, each had his own approach to this situation.

Nobunaga
If the bird does not sing, kill it!

Hideyoshi
If the bird does not sing, I will make it sing!

Ieyasu
If the bird does not sing, I will wait until it sings!

Read my details here

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Azumabashi in Edo

Ando Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重
名所江戸百景「駒形堂吾妻橋
One hototogisu in the clouds of the rainy season.

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The Haiku Magazin "Hototogisu"

"Hototogisu" was first published on 15th, Jan. of 1897 (Meiji 30). This Haiku magazine had about thirty pages and it was 0.06yen (6-sen) a copy. This magazine had 300 circulations and edited by Kyokudo Yanagihara.

The number twenty of "Hototogisu", published on 31st, Aug. of 1898 (Meiji 31), was the last number published by the publishing office of "Hototogisu" in Tachibana-cho, Matsuyama, which had been based on "Shofu-kai in Matsuyama".

Shiki composed the following Haiku celebrating the first issue of "Hototogisu".

" Greeting a Happy New Year
A bush warbler just starts to chirp
The Hototogisu was first published "

(Shiki)

Read more HERE !
© "Hototogisu" - Kyokudo,Hekigotou,Kyoshi

Nightingale, bush warbler (uguisu) Japan

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HAIKU

cuckoo--
hot tub steam stirs
as does the grass

hototogisu yukeburi soyogu kusa soyogu
時鳥湯けぶりそよぐ草そよぐ

by Issa, 1813
Tr. David Lanoue

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Compiled by Larry Bold
Translating Haiku Forum

Matsuo Basho haiku with various translations :

ほとゝぎす大竹藪をもる月夜
hototogisu ootakeyabu o moru tsukiyo

Henderson's word-for-word translation is:
Cuckoo large-bamboo thicket's seep-in moon-evening

And Barnhill's word-for-word translaton is:
cuckoo large-bamboo grove leak moonlight

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Moonlight slants through
The vast bamboo grove:
A cuckoo cries
trans. Blyth

Moonlight slanting through
all this long bamboo grove
and nightingale song.
trans. Bellenson

From moon wreathed
bamboo grove,
cuckoo song.
trans. Stryk

Song of the cuckoo:
in the grove of great bamboos,
moonlight seeping through.
trans. Harold Henderson

Cuckoo--
through immense bamboo groves
the moonlight
trans. Stephen Addiss

hototogisu--
through a vast bamboo forest
moonlight seeping
trans. Makoto Ueda

a cuckoo's cry--
moonlight seeping through
a large bamboo grove
trans. Haruo Shirane

cuckoo:
filtering through the vast bamboo grove
the moon's light
trans. David Barnhill

Moonlight slanting
through the bamboo grove;
a cuckoo crying.
trans. Robert Hass

A cuckoo cries,
and through a thicket of bamboo
the late moon shines
trans. Sam Hamill

So, we have for what the bamboo is in: grove, thicket, and forest.

For what the moonlight does we have: shines, slants/slanting, filtering, seeps/seeping, "through" with no verb (Addiss), and wreathed.

For what the cuckoo is called, we have: cuckoo, nightingale, hototogisu.

For what the cuckoo does, we have: cry/cries/crying, song, and no verb (just the bird's presence itself implying its sound).

little cuckoo -
moonlight filters through
the vast bamboo grove

Tr. Gabi Greve

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. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .
"Oku no Hosomichi" Station 9 - Sesshooseki Hot Spring 殺生石
"the murder stone", "Slaughter Stone" , "Killing Stone"
The hot spring has poisonous yellow water and bees and butterflies can not live there.

野を横に馬引き向けよほととぎす
no o yoko ni uma hikimuke yo hototogisu

road across a plain --
turn my horse sideways
toward that hototogisu!
Tr. Makoto Ueda

Across the field, turn
The direction of the horse
Towards the cuckoo!
Tr. Oseko Toshiharu

turn the horse’s head
towards that moor;
hototogisu
Tr. Michael Haldane

Lead the horse
Across the moor
To where the hototogisu is singing!
Tr. Blyth

across the plain,
turn my horse over there!
cuckoo
Tr. Barnhill

across the field
the horse pulls toward
the cuckoo
Tr. Jane Reichhold

- More translations -

- Reference : Sessho Seki

MORE
hototogisu hokku by
. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .

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とり辺野やしこ時鳥しこ烏
toribeno ya shiko hototogisu shiko karasu

Toribe Field--
ugly cuckoo!
ugly crow!

by Issa, 1824
Tr. David Lanoue

Read our discussion here:
Toribeno Cemetery
Cuckoo and Death in Japanese literature

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あるけばかっこういそげばかっこう
arukeba kakkoo
isogeba kakkoo

if I walk ... cuckoo
if I hurry ... cuckoo

Taneda Santoka
Tr. Gabi Greve

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channel-billed cuckoo
from beneath the dying fruit tree
I hear its storm cry

Alan Summers, UK
1. Snapshots three July 1998
2. Blithe Spirit Call of the Crow haibun Volume 14 Number 2 (June 2004)

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***** Toadlily, Tricyrtis hirta (hototogisu)

***** Nightingale, bush warbler (uguisu　鶯)

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The name is written with the Chinese character for 魂 "soul" :
hototogisu 杜魂（ほととぎす）
hototogisu 蜀魂（ほととぎす）
hototogisu 不如帰（ほととぎす）

Hototogisu with his blood-red throat is known as the bird of hell.
Some folks say it begins to sing for someone who is about to die.

時鳥棺をつかむ雲間より
hototogisu hitsugi o tsukamu kumoma yori

this little cuckoo
comes through a break in the clouds
to snatch a coffin

With its song the bird seems to tell the world he got another soul to bring to　閻魔 Enma, the King of Hell.

. Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 in Edo .

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The Enigmatic Japanese Cuckoo
..... The cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus) – or hototogisu has several meanings in Japanese folklore but its use in these prints appears to be transient or elusive – much like the bird itself. .....

- Hokusai, A Cuckoo and Rainbow

The cuckoo has long been popular as a subject in Japanese literature and Haiku, possibly to do with the word having five syllables; and in literature and myth it is associated with the longing of the spirits of the dead to return to their loved ones. Mourning, longing, melancholy; these are suggested maybe by its song and perhaps signals its persistent use in woodblock prints.

..... Kunisada, Soga Brothers (print)
The cuckoo here is pictured as a portent of tragedy (as is the rain) and of the echo of the dead and unquiet father.
..... Hiroshige, 100 Views of Edo (print)
Here the falling cuckoo is also used to imagine the oncoming storm and the melancholy of the windy night.
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. Japanese Legends - 伝説　民話　昔話 – ABC-List .

- reference : Nichibun Yokai Database -
時鳥 04 / ホトトギス 15 / ほととぎす 07 / 杜鵑 06

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3/19/2005

Crappie fish (Pomoxis) (05)

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Crappie (Pomoxis family)

***** Location: North America
***** Season: Late Spring
***** Category: Animal

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Explanation

It is a fish and in late spring early summer (April - May) Crappie-Thons are held across Texas. Like Bass Tournaments but for Crappie. Big thing here Radio and TV ads sponsors for prizes the whole shebang!

Don Haney, US
http://www.houstonaxl.com/

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Say hello to spring. It's the smell of flowers, a landscape of blooming dogwoods and spawning time at hand when hefty slabs put a bend in your pole.

There are several reasons why spring is the most popular season among crappie fishermen, but the main one is the movement of fish up into shallow water making them somewhat easier to find and catch. Spring is the season that brings the fish and the fishermen closer together than at any other time of the year.
http://www.crappieusa.com/

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Black Crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus)
Other names:
speckled perch, specks, papermouth, bachelor perch, calico bass, strawberry bass, or white perch

http://www.landbigfish.com/fish/fish.cfm?ID=12

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White Crappie (Pomoxis annularis)
Other names:
speckled perch, papermouth, silver bass, bachelor perch

http://www.landbigfish.com/fish/fish.cfm?ID=13

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Japan

ブラッククラッピー
http://f15.aaa.livedoor.jp/~ichthy/fisher/bass.html#pomoxis

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Things found on the way

CRAPPIE USA
In many cases, kids don't get the opportunity to go fishing. Some don't have a dad or mom, uncle or aunt, grandparents or guardian that has taken the time to introduce them to this great sport which has brought so much enjoyment to so many.

That's the other side of the coin we saw. Kids that wanted to yet seldom got the chance. For several, it was their first fishing trip. We pray it wasn't their last.

At many CRAPPIE USA 1-day events, we devoted a portion of our time and provided opportunities at the rodeos where, for a few short hours, a kid could go fishing, earn some degree of self esteem and go home a winner.

Excerpt from
http://www.crappieusa.com/library/Article_Detail.cfm?Article_ID=3

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HAIKU

late spring -
bridge piling serves
as a crappie bed

A piling of course is the columns supporting bridges and they make an awesome fishing hole for crappie, as well as sunken Christmas trees.

Christmas tree
in early summer
... crappie bed

After Christmas we round up Christmas trees that people are disposing of tie them together and weight them down and sink them in January and by April the crappie have made a home there - thus a fishing hole for the crappie-thon. We (myself and two friends) have been known to catch over a hundred in one day.

Don Haney
http://www.houstonaxl.com

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the Daruma bobber dunks deep: a slab!

"slab" is a local slang for a large crappie

Daruma is a folkfigure in Japan sort of the same shape and colors of those ubiquious round plastic fishing bobbers.

"chibi" (pen-name for Dennis M. Holmes)

Fishhook Daruma !!!

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cool morning
long line at ramp
crappie biting

Frank Brannock
©2003 Randy Brooks, Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois
http://www.millikin.edu/haiku/courses/globalPACE2003/FrankBrannock.htm

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***** crappie-thon

Come have a great time and win some prizes, fishing in the "Quiet Lakes" Crappiethon - Thousands of Dollars worth of tagged crappies are swimming in Ghost Lake waiting for some lucky anglers to catch them. Catch one and you win! Great cash prizes up to $xxx per tagged fish.
http://www.ghostlakelodge.com/specials/SpecialsB/page6.html

crappie-thon...
sun burned anglers
weigh in

Don Haney
http://www.houstonaxl.com/

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Crape myrtle (sarusuberi)

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Crape myrtle (sarusuberi)

***** Location: Japan, North America
***** Season: Mid-Summer
***** Category: Plant

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Explanation

This is one of my favorite trees, not only for its beautiful flowers, but for its name in Japanese, which means:
Even monkeys fall from trees! sarusuberi.

crape myrthle, crepe myrthle, pride of India. Lagerstroemia indica.
It has various names in Japanese

sarusuberi, hyakujikkoo 百日紅
shibi 紫薇
hakuyooju 怕痒樹
kusuguri no ki くすぐりの木
white for hundred days, hyakujitsu haku 百日白

Some saijiki place this plant in the late summer.

The origin of this plant is China. It flowers in pink and white, with single or double flowers (yae　八重). It was already known in the Kamakura period in Japan, where it was called
"Monkeys sliding" saru nameri　猿滑り。

Since it flowers from summer to autumn for more than 100 days, one of the names is "flowering a hundred days" in pink or white.

Gabi Greve

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Some plant facts from FLORIDATA:

The deciduous crape myrtle is among the longest blooming trees in existence with flowering periods lasting from 60-120 days. Crapes come in heights as short as 18 in (46 cm) and as tall as 40 ft (12 m). Leaves are alternate and smooth, but leaf size depends on variety. Flowers are borne in summer in big showy clusters and come in white and many shades of pink, purple, lavender and red. The fruits that follow are brown or black.

When mature they dry and split releasing disk shaped seeds. Depending on variety, crapes grow as large shrubs or as trees that may be either upright or spreading. Large varieties are very fast growing and can put on several feet in a single growing season. Many types have interesting bark that exfoliates in thin flakes exposing lovely cinnamon or gray inner bark. Crapes tend to produce many suckers that should be removed as they appear if you want to maintain them as trees with distinct trunks. They are enthusiastic reseeders so you may find yourself pulling up baby crapes throughout the summer.

The common name of this plant is crape myrtle not crepe myrtle.
It is called this because the flowers have crinkly petals that resemble the material called crepe (which according to Webster is a "light crinkled fabric woven of any of various fibers") but many references tell us that you're supposed to spell it crape when it's in front of myrtle. Confused? I think somebody was full of crape when they came up with this name!
At any rate, it's a common name and since there's no authority that manages common names for plants you can spell (or call it) whatever you like!

http://www.floridata.com/ref/l/lager_i.cfm

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About the spelling of the word
W. J. Higginson

"Crape myrtle" is the correct, original, and in pre-1950s dictionaries the ONLY English spelling, on any side of whatever pond an English-speaker may sit. Nowdays, American dictionaries seem to be accepting "crepe myrtle" as an alternate, but still not the main, "correct" spelling. (OED and Websters also checked...)

Current garden books also list the plant under "crape myrtle" -- those from both America and Australia that I checked. "Crepe myrtle", though sometimes acknowledged as an alternate spelling, does not appear in their indices. The smaller plant dictionaries I have do not to list "crepe myrtle" at all.

I suspect that someone misspelled it "crepe myrtle", thinking of "crepe paper", and that this apparent Frenchism was taken up by others -- but that would be very strange, since the plant comes from East Asia. The OED says, definitively, that "crepe" is the French word equivalent to "crape" in English.

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Worldwide use

Australia

Here, in New Zealand and also in England the spelling is 'crepe myrtle'. The E should have the French accent.
The tree was named, I believe, because of the crepe-like texture of its 'petals' (crepe being the name of a type of fabric, presumably originating in France).
One of the crepe myrtles is a native of Queensland, Australia...Lagerstromia archeriana.

Lorin Ford

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The Crepe Myrtles Webiste
http://www.crapemyrtle.com/

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Southern USA

in the souther usa, just when the landscape dries up under the brutal heat, the crape myrtle, a woody shrub, bursts into enthusiastic bloom.

the crape myrtle, introduced the the us in 1795 by seagoing french botanist andre michaux. he settled in charleston south carolina and grew crape myrtles from seed.

the woody shrubs were a welcome addition to the southern landscape. the plant spread throughout the south in the 1800s. in the 1960s and 1970s, hybridizers worked their magic, and now the shrub is available in heights of 3 feet to 30 feet and in many colors. its white, pale to deepest pink and shades of light to dark lavendar grace the southern landscape. most are 15 feet tall.

the palest pink flowers seem to glow in shadow or low light. the pinks shout joyfully to passers-by. the lavendars evoke the lilacs so beloved in the northern regions, at least until fall when they clash with newly turning leaves!

just as they bloom, the crape myrtles shed their thin bark, which peels away in curls, revealing cinnamon colored stems. the spent blossoms fall to the ground to make way for more new blossoms.

the southern usa would be a much sadder sight if the crape myrtle were not working its magic.

susan delphine delaney
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Crape myrtle, like dogwood, has become a widely spread decorative tree in Georgia. More and more roads are lined with this beautiful tree that blooms all summer with white, red, pink, and other shades of red.

air-conditioned car -
crape-myrtles divide the highway
all the way home

Zhanna P. Rader

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Things found on the way

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HAIKU

in the lee
of the crape myrtle
a magneta whirlwind

susan delphine delaney md, plano, texas

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死に未来あればこそ死ぬ百日紅
shi ni mirai areba koso shinu sarusuberi

because there is a future
in death, I will die -
crape myrtle

Uda Kiyoko 宇多喜代子

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百日紅ごくごく水を呑むばかり　
sarusuberi gokugoku mizu o nomu bakari

The red crepe myrtles -
I only gulp down
glasses of water

. Ishida Hakyo 石田波郷 .

(tr. Noriko)
http://alpha-club.org/page03_01/arc01.html

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炎天の地上花あり百日紅
enten no chijoo hana ari sarusuberi

unter the scorching sky
on the ground these flowers -
crape myrtle

Takahama Kyoshi
(Tr. Gabi Greve)

Look at this page for more photos of the tree.
http://www.hana300.com/sarusu.html

百日紅写真集１（写真７枚）
百日紅写真集２（写真６枚）
百日紅写真集３（写真５枚）

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quietude
in the temple garden -
no monkeys in sight

© All photos on this page by Gabi Greve, 2005.

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