Noon, daytime (hiru)

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Noon, daytime (hiru)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Various, see below
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Explanation


Every day we experience noon and daytime, but some are so special they are kigo for haiku !
Let us look at them here.

The word NOON, DAYTIME / HIRU , just like that, is a topic for haiku.



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SPRING

shunchuu 春昼 しゅんちゅう daytime in spring
haru no hiru 春の昼（はるのひる） spring noon


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SUMMER

late summer

enchuu 炎昼 (えんちゅう) heat during daytime
natsu mahiru 夏真昼（なつまひる） daytime in summer


atsuki hi 暑き日 (あつきひ) hot day


. long day, days getting longer, daylight getting longer 　
hinaga 日永


. hirune, hiru-ne 昼寝 (ひるね) nap, Mittagsschlaf 　



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AUTUMN


aki no hiru 秋の昼 (あきのひる) autumn noon


. hiru no tsuki 昼の月（ひるのつき）moon at midday, daymoon



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WINTER


. short day, days getting shorter, mijika hi, tanjitsu 短日 　
days getting shorter, hi tsumaru 日つまる
dusk comes early, kure hayashi　明早し



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kigo for late winter


hiashi nobu 日脚伸ぶ (ひあしのぶ) days getting longer
After the winter equinox, one begins to feel a slight lenthening of the daytime light period.
This is a kigo of joy, around the middle and end of January.
It is rather new, since the Meiji period.
With the lunar calendar, this period fell in the time of the old year/new year activities and people had not much time to enjoy this leisurely.




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NEW YEAR




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. Morning (asa)　


. Noon, daytime (hiru) 　


. Evening (yuube, yoi)　


. Night (yoru)　


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Morning (asa)

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Morning (asa)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Various, see below
***** Category: Season and see below

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From morning to mid-day to evening to night . . .

Each time of the day has been associated with a season in court poetry.
For example Sei Shonagon 清少納言　wrote

haru wa akebono - in spring the daybreak, dawn
natsu wa yoru - in summer the the night
aki no yuugure - in autumn the dusk, evening
fuyu wa tsutomete - in winter the early morning




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Every day we experience a morning, but some are so special they are kigo for haiku !
Let us look at them here.

The word MORNING / ASA, just like that, is a topic for haiku.


. kesa 今朝 this morning 　
topic for haiku

The daybreak, dawn in all its stages of Japanese vocabulary:

akegata 明け方, ake 明け

yoake 夜明け night breaks into day

akatsuki　暁

shinonome 東雲

akebono　曙

reimei 黎明

kawataredoki 彼誰時

hinode 日の出 sun comes out


akemitsu doki 明け三つ時
the time from 5 to 7 in the morning in Edo


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SPRING

haru no asa 春の朝 (はるのあさ) morning in spring
..... shunchoo 春朝（しゅんちょう）spring morning
..... haru ashita 春あした（はるあした）


. haru no asahi 春の朝日（はるのあさひ）
morning sun in spring



. spring morning light, spring dawn, shungyoo
春暁 (しゅんぎょう)
..... haru no akatsuki 春の暁（はるのあかつき）
spring dawn, haru no akebono 春の曙（はるのあけぼの）
..... shunsho 春曙（しゅんしょ）

daybreak in spring, haru no yoake
春の夜明（はるのよあけ）
.... haru no asake 春の朝明（はるのあさけ）




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SUMMER


summer of this morning, kesa no natsu
今朝の夏（けさのなつ)


natsu no asa 夏の朝 (なつのあさ) summer morning

natsu no akatsuki 夏の暁 (なつのあかつき) dawn in summer
..... natsu ake 夏暁（なつあけ）
natsu no yoake (yo-ake)夏の夜明（なつのよあけ）daybreak in summer
natsu mimei 夏未明（なつみめい） early morning in summer


. natsu asahi 夏朝日（なつあさひ）
morning sun in summer




asasuzu 朝涼 coolness in the morning, morning cool



. asanagi 朝凪 (あさなぎ) no wind in the morning
..... asa nagu 朝凪ぐ（あさなぐ） calm in the morning


asaniji　朝虹 （あさにじ） morning rainbow



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AUTUMN


autumn of this morning, kesa no aki
今日の秋（きょうのあき）


aki no asa 秋の朝 (あきのあさ) autumn morning
..... shunchoo 秋朝（しゅうちょう）
shungyoo 秋暁（しゅうぎょう） autumn daybreak



. asazukuyo 朝月夜（あさづくよ）moon at dawn
ariakezuki 有明月（ありあけづき）dawn moon in autumn


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kigo for late autumn


asa samu 朝寒 (あささむ) cold morning
asa samushi 朝寒し（あささむし）, asa samumi 朝寒み（あささむみ）



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WINTER

winter of this morning, kesa no fuyu
今朝の冬（けさのふゆ）
early winter


spring of tomorrow, asu no haru 明日の春（あすのはる）
late winter

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kigo for all winter

fuyu no asa 冬の朝 (ふゆのあさ) morning in winter
fuyu akebono 冬曙（ふゆあけぼの）sunrise in winter
kangyo 寒暁（かんぎょう）cold sunrise
fuyu akatsuki 冬暁（ふゆあかつき）daybreak in winter


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NEW YEAR


kesa no haru 今朝の春（けさのはる）spring of this morning
ganchoo 元朝 がんちょう New Year Morning


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TOPIC

akemutsu, 明け六つ the sixth double-hour of the morning
asamutsu


In the Edo Period, the dawn (Akemutsu) and the dusk (Kuremutsu) were set as reference points that divided the day into day and night. Day and night were then each divided into six equal intervals. The length of each interval differed for days and nights and varied with the seasons.
source : www.seiko.co.jp/en



source :　itoyo/basho
memorial stone at the bridge Akemutsubashi in Fukui
福井市浅水町「朝六つ橋」


あさむつや月見の旅の明け離れ
asamutsu ya tsukimi no tabi no ake-banare

six in the morning -
my trip for moon-viewing
ends at dawn

Written on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month (full moon day)
in the year 1689 元禄2年
It is said Basho wrote 15 haiku wandering around in this night, which were recorded by Miyazaki Keikoo 宮崎荊口 (? - 1725), a haiku poet in Mino (Gifu), a samurai from Ogaki 大垣藩士.
This was the last one when it became light.
It is also a kind of pun of ake-mutsu and akarui, to become light in the morning.
Asamutsu 朝六つ橋 is also the name of a bridge he crossed in Fukui.


Around six in the morning
my moon viewing journey
breaks off at break of dawn
Tr. Liza Dalby


Oku no Hosomichi in Tsuruga
. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .


quote
bridge of morning
a journey of moon-viewing
at dawn

With this haiku came a preface:
"When we crossed the bridge of Asamutsu, which is popularly known as 'Asazu', I recall a passage in 'The Pillow Book of Sei Shanagan (a female poet) who wrote:
"The most interesting bridges are the bridge of Asamutsu, (and of Nagara and of Amabiko)". This is the very bridge.
According to Jane Reichhold the third sentence 'ake banare' in a longer translation would be to say 'to leave the darkness of night into the light of morning'. The bridge of Asamutsu is about 8 km soutj of Fukui, in Asuwa.
source : Kristjaan Panneman


When the famous poet Saigyo crossed this bringe, he wrote

越に来て富士とやいはん角原の
文殊がだけの雪のあけぼの　

Saigyoo 西行

. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - and Saigyo .



. kuremutsu 暮れ六つ; 暮六つ six o'clock at night .


. toki no kane 時の鐘 The Bell to Tell the Time .



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. WASHOKU
Asagohan あさめし (朝飯) breakfast
"morning meal" asagohan


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winter morning
a child carrying a flower
for the teacher

nk singh, India

冬の朝
子供は一輪を
先生に

シング、インドから

Misaki School Haiku Club, 2006
Teaching Haiku by Gabi Greve



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. Today (kyoo) , tomorrow (asu) 　


. Morning (asa)　


. Noon, daytime (hiru) 　


. Evening (yuube, yoi)　


. Night (yoru)　


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Hole (ana) and hibernating animals

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Hole (ana) and hibernating animals

***** Location: Japan
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Many animals hibernate in winter, which means they go into a hole before it gets too cold and come out again when it gets warmer.



There are other expressions for hibernating (toomin 冬眠), here we are only concerned with the
hole (ana　穴).　

Let us look at some kigo in this context.

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kigo for mid-autumn

. ari ana ni iru 蟻穴に入る（ありあなにいる）
ants going into their holes 　



. kawazu ana ni iru 蛙穴に入る（かわずあなにいる）
frogs going into their holes 　
frogs start to hibernate


. tokage ana ni iru 蜥蜴穴に入る（とかげあなにいる）
lizard going into his hole 　
lizard begins to hibernate



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kigo for early winter

. kuma ana ni iru 熊穴に入る / くまあなにいる
bear entering the den to hibernate


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When the animals come out again, the kigo reflect that it is now getting warm and there is the joy of springtime.


kigo for mid-spring

. ari ana o izu 蟻穴を出づ (ありあなをいづ)
ants coming out of their hole 　
.... ari ana o deru 蟻穴を出る（ありあなをでる）
ari izu 蟻出づ（ありいづ） ants coming out (again), ants emerge




. hiki ana o izu 蟇穴を出づ (ひきあなをいづ)
toad coming out of its hole
..... hiki ana o deru 蟇穴を出る（ひきあなをでる）
hiki izu 蟇出づ（ひきいづ）toad coming out
　


　　
. kuma ana o izu 熊穴を出づ くまあなをいづ
bear coming out of the den 　
..... kuma ana o deru 熊穴を出る（くまあなをでる）



. tokage ana o izu 蜥蜴穴を出づ (とかげあなをいづ )
lizard coming out of his hole 　
..... togake ana o deru 蜥蜴穴を出る（とかげあなをでる）
tokage izu 蜥蜴出づ（とかげいづ） lizard coming out



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Bungo and Koogo 文語　と　口語

With verbs, we have the problem of
"written literary, classical language" (bungo　文語)　
and
spoken colloquial kogo language (koogo 口語).

To bring this over in a translation is quite difficult.

To express the fact that an animal is coming out of its hole/den ... we have two expressions

izu 出づ the literary form
deru 出る the colloquial form


Tradtitioal haiku were mostly written in bungo, but nowadays, especially withe the Gendai movement, there are quite a few using colloquialisms or local dialects of Japan.


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ants out of a hole —
when did I stop playing
the red toy piano?

Fay Aoyagi, 2006

. Discussion at THF, January 2011


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Yew tree (ichi-i)

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Yew Tree (ichi i, ichii, ichi-i)

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kigo for late spring

flower of the yew tree, ichi-i no hana　
一位の花　いちいのはな
..... araragi あららぎ
..... onko おんこ

ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo


kigo for late autumn

red fruit of the yew tree, ichi-i no mi
一位の実　いちいのみ
..... araragi no mi　あららぎの実
..... onko no mi　おんこの実
..... kyaraboku no mi 伽羅木の実
..... ichi-i no mi 水松の実


Ichi-i いちい written in hiragana is also another name for the acorn, donguri.

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Ichii (Yew)

By LINDA INOKI



And thou from earth art gone
Long since and in some quiet churchyard laid;
Some country nook, where o'er thy unknown grave
Tall grasses and white flowering nettles wave --
Under a dark red-fruited yew-tree's shade.

From "The Scholar Gypsy" by Mathew Arnold (1822-88)

In autumn, the feathery branches of yew trees are dripping with lovely, translucent red berries. But beware -- they contain a poisonous seed. As for the shiny leaves, they are even more dangerous than the berries. Nevertheless, yews are handsome, highly regarded trees.

In Japan the name means "tree of the first rank 一位." In ancient Britain, yew trees were planted on holy sites to ward off evil spirits, and in parts of Germany, Scandinavia and Russia, the yew is the origin of the mythical "tree of life." Today, Britain has the largest number of ancient yews; over 400 trees, each more than 1,000 years old.

They are often seen, dark and mysterious, in old churchyards, and have survived the woodman's ax because of their sacred nature. In addition, yews have few natural enemies, and some excellent strategies for survival. If a tree is blown down in a storm, it will stay alive as long as a small piece of root remains to connect it to earth. As a tree matures, it sends out shoots that flank the main trunk. As the old center slowly dies away, the new trunks take over and support the spreading tree.

The Japanese yew (Taxus cuspida) is faster-growing than the English yew (T. baccata), but both are slow-growing evergreens that are popular with gardeners. Yew wood has a beautiful grain, and in Japan it was used to make the ceremonial batons held by the Emperor and members of his court.

© The Japan Times, Nov. 1, 2006

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Europa

The European yew tree is taxus baccata :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxus_baccata


The Irish yew (taxus baccata fastigiata) differs from the European yew in having several trunks, all growing upwards together, as well as leaves spread all around the branches.

These are ancient and sacred trees, often growing around churches and in their graveyards and outlasting the churches even when these are closed for worship.

If the yew is kigo in Ireland, it would be winter, when the red berries look very attractive and provide food for the birds. They are associated with Christmas, though more loosely than the holly and the ivy.

In my rural Irish home, we have two short yew walks, one Irish yew, one European yew -- the European one provides wonderful shelter in the rain, as its branches grow outwards.

Isabelle Prondzynski

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. Temple 小谷山医座寺 Iza-Ji, Matsuyama .

Once upon a time in a village of the 医座山(白山) "White Mountain" there was 一位木(あららぎ) a sacred Araragi tree. The tree was so huge it made a large shadow on the nearby fields and the farmers asked Gyoki for help. So he felled the tree. To appease the spirit of the tree he then carved seven statues of Yakushi Nyorai and placed them in seven temples, which he founded in Iyo.
伊予七薬師霊場 The Seven Yakushi Temples of Iyo.
(医座寺・十輪寺・蓮華寺・安養寺・正観寺・雲門寺・西光寺)

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Daruma and netsuke are carved from this tree too.
Here is my favorite, the yawning Daruma. Carved in Hida/Takayama.



Read more about it here: Daruma Yawning


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一位の　実含みて吐きて　旅遠し

富安風生 Tomiyasu Fuusei

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YELLOW - the color

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. Yellow Mountain Rose (yamabuki 山吹) .
Kerria japonica

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The color YELLOW and haiku




spring sunshine -
challenging my concept of
Y E L L O W

- Gabi Greve, Spring 2007 -


The group of colors with a shade of yellow are often called

oodoiro, oodo iro 黄土色　"yellow earth color"
#c39143

In ancient China it was a well-respected color, used for the tiles of the Emperor's palace and not allowed for the common folk.

By the time of Prince Shotoku in Japan, there were two extremes, dark yellow 濃黄　and light yellow 薄黄　whith various shades inbetween.
Around 650, it had become a color for the robes of the common people. Plants for dyeing yellow cloth were plenty and it was nothing special.

kariyasu 刈安 (Miscanthus tinctorius #f5e56b) , kuchinashi 梔子 (gardenia #fbca4d 支子色), kihada 黄蘗　(Phellodendron amurense #fef263）plants.
Kihada was also used to color paper for copying sutras or other texts.

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Check out the Japanese color codes and samples of YELLOW
kiiro, ki-iro 黄色きいろ yellow - #ffd900
中黄ちゅうき
緑黄色りょくおうしょく
金色こんじき
and so on, too many to list them all here.
source : www.colordic.org



Shades of Yellow - Sunshine
These words are synonymous with or represent various shades of the color yellow: banana, cadmium yellow, chartreuse, chiffon, cream, golden, goldenrod, khaki, lemon, mellow yellow, saffron, topaz, yellow ocher.

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- - - - - kigo using YELLOW 黄 ki

. yellow sand 　黄砂 (こうさ) koosa .


. "yellow sparrow wind" 黄雀風 koojakufuu.

. yellow conch trumpet plant 黄つりふね ki tsurifune .

. yellow plum blossom 黄梅 oobai .
Jasminum nudiflorum

. yellow cockscomb 黄鶏頭 kikeitoo .


. yellow chrysanthemum 黄菊 kigiku .

. Spring flowers with 黄 yellow .

. yellow (leaves) falling, kooraku 黄落 (こうらく) .


."yellow fish" nishin 黄魚（にしん）herring .

. "yellow horse fish" 黄鯛魚 watako .

. yellowtail 鰤 buri .
Seriola quinqueradiata

. yellow sea bream 黄鯛 kidai .
more sea bream with YELLOW 黄

. yellow gadfly 黄虻 kiabu, ki-abu .

. yellow bee 黄蜂 kibachi .

. yellow ant 黄蟻 kiari, ki-ari .

. yellow butterfly 黄蝶 kichoo .
monkichoo 紋黄蝶
asagi madara 浅黄斑蝶

. yellow (silkworm) cocoon 黄繭 kimayu .

. yellow sparrow, baby sparrow 黄雀 ki suzume .

. Narcissus flycatcher 黄鶲 kibitaki .
Ficedula narcissina


. Golden Week 黄金週間 oogon shuukan .

. yellow linen kimono 黄帷子 kibira .

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- - - - - topics using YELLOW

. yomi 黄泉 "the yellow springs" .
meido めいど【冥土 / 冥途】 the Netherworld, nether world
the world of the dead, the other world


. Yellow Fudo, Ki Fudo　黄不動明王 .
Fudo Myo-O with Yellow Eyes, Meki Fudo 目黄不動

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There is an animal
ko-oo, kichoo 黄鶯 "yellow uguisu" コウライウグイス
koorai uguisu 高麗鶯 Oriolus chinensis

kinakodori 黄粉鳥（きなこどり）uguisu with the color of kinako, soy bean powder


Haiku by Issa with a "yellow voice"

鶯や黄色な声で親をよぶ
uguisu ya kiiro na koe de oya o yobu

nightingale--
with a shrill voice
calling mother
Tr. David Lanoue


The young uguisu
Calls its parents
With a yellow voice.
Tr. Blyth


the Bush Warbler
with a yellow voice/call
calls for its parents

Japanese English: Language and Culture Contact
source : James Stanlaw


The youngest nightingale that can rejoice
calls to its parents in a yellow voice.

Issa must have been in deep meditation and he heard the nightingale rejoicing and calling to its parents in a yellow voice.
Issa is saying something about his silence. When you are in silence and a cuckoo from the bamboos starts singing, it deepens your silence.
source : shiromani






The Japanese expression is "yellow voice"
kiiro na koe きいろな［＝の］ 声（こえ）- kiiroi koe きいろい（黄色）声

kiiroi koe 黄色い声 "a yellow voice"
the shrill high-pitched voice of a small girl child, sounding something like
kiikii キイキイ in Japanese.
The Chinese character 黄 also has the faint meaning of
"a child 子ども" with a high-piched voice.

During the Edo period it was fashionable to compare the voice with a color, from white to the goshiki, five colors ５色の声.

kowairo 声色（こわいろ） the color of a voice
neiro 音色 （ねいろ） the pitch of a color

In ancient China yellow was already a symbol of alert.


. Voices of animals in haiku .

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Synesthesia
(also spelled synæsthesia or synaesthesia, plural synesthesiae or synaesthesiae), from the ancient Greek σύν (syn), "together," and αἴσθησις (aisthēsis), "sensation," is a neurological condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.

Sound → color synesthesia
According to Richard Cytowic, sound → color synesthesia is "something like fireworks": voice, music, and assorted environmental sounds such as clattering dishes or dog barks trigger color and firework shapes that arise, move around, and then fade when the sound ends. For some, the stimulus type is limited (e.g., music only, or even just a specific musical key); for others, a wide variety of sounds triggers synesthesia.

Sound often changes the perceived hue, brightness, scintillation, and directional movement. Some individuals see music on a "screen" in front of their faces. Deni Simon, for whom music produces waving lines "like oscilloscope configurations—lines moving in color, often metallic with height, width and, most importantly, depth. My favorite music has lines that extend horizontally beyond the 'screen' area."

Individuals rarely agree on what color a given sound is (composers Liszt and Rimsky-Korsakov famously disagreed on the colors of music keys); however, synesthetes show the same trends as non-synesthetes do. For example, both groups say that loud tones are brighter than soft tones, and that lower tones are darker than higher tones. Synaesthetes nevertheless choose more precise colours than non-synesthetes and are more consistent in their choice of colours given a set of sounds of varying pitch, timbre and composition.
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禁男の園の夏至光紺また黄
kindan no sono no geshikoo kon mata ki

in the male-forbidden school
the summer solstice light is
deep blue and yellow

平畑静塔 Seitoh Hirahata

Fay’s Note: The poet plays with the letter “dan.” Usually, “ 断” (dan: forbid) is used for the word, but he uses “男” (dan: male) instead. With a character meaning “forbid,” the word “kindan-no-sono” is “a garden with the forbidden fruits”.
Japanese school uniform is usually in deep-blue color. Is“yellow” he saw the color of ribbons on the female students?
Or does he want us think about the young girls’ high-pitched voices , “kiiroi koe” (literally translation: yellow voice)?
source : Fay Aoyagi


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Japanese haiku with a "yellow voice", the voice of small girls:

夕立や走る赤傘黄色声

連翹を抜けて黄色の風になる
source : www.gendaihaiku.gr.jp


夏台風黒雲払う黄色声
source : ichinichi ikku


キンセイ花黄色い声で大合唱
source : machikado


空元気闇汁血色黄色声　　　　　　　　
のぶべい
source : teacup.com

黄色声心頭滅却寒灸　　　　　　　　　
一路
source : teacup.com


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haiku with YELLOW, compiled by Larry Bole

2 hailku by BUSON

teshoku shite iro ushinaeru kigiku kana

The yellow chrysanthemums
Lose their color
In the light of the hand-lantern,
Tr. Blyth





cha no hana ya shiro ni mo ki ni mo obotsukana

Tea-flowers;
Are they white?
Are they yellow?
Tr. Blyth


The tea-plant flowers --
whether white or whether yellow,
hard to tell.
Tr. Sawa & Shiffert


. WKD : Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 in Edo .

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yamabuki no utsurite ki naru izumi kana

Catching the reflection
Of the yamabuki,
The spring is yellow.

Ransetsu
Tr. Blyth


. Yellow Mountain Rose (yamabuki 山吹) .
Kerria japonica


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since olden times,
the yellow voice of spring -
narcissus

- Shared by Gennady Nov -
Joys of Japan, 2012


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the wind carries
a yellow cloud over
the rape flowers field

Heike Gewi
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World Heart Day

***** Location: Worldwide
***** Season: Autumn
***** Category: Humanity

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September 28

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Like I always say the heart is big enough to hold love in enormous quantity - endless in fact.
Warmth, compassion and kindness accompanied with a big smile can do wonders in touching someone's heart.

28th september
my heart beats
for the downtrodden

Kala Ramesh, India

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september 28 ....
my heart weaves a nest
for my love bird

Kumarendra Mallick, Hyderabad India


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heartless bomb blasts
mark
world heart day

B.Vadivelrajan, India


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World Heart Day...
lad helps a paraplegic
cross the busy street

28th September...
bayanihan for a
cancer patient

"tequilas_sunrise11" Philippines
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28th september -
see this bouncing heart
on a little twig

Heike Gewi, Yemen


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world heart day --
why not for as long as
hearts keep beating?

hortensia anderson, USA






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Wolf, Japanese Wolf (ookami 狼)

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

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The wolf has been living in Japan for a long time, but now it is extinct, even in Hokkaido. The wolf has smaller ears than a dog, but his teeth are stronger. Since he was feared during all seasons, his name was "the Great God" ookami　大神、later the Chinese character changed to 狼.

Other kigo names for this animal:

mountain dog, yama-inu, yamainu　山犬、豺

Wolf of Ezo, Ezo ookami　蝦夷狼
..... Ezo is the old name of Hokkaido.


. Hayataro, Shippeitaro, the strong Mountain Dog .
and the Hihi (狒々, 狒狒 or 比々) Baboon Monkey Monster



. ookami 狼 Okami, wolf legends .
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Honshu Wolf (Canis lupus hodophilax)which occupied the islands of Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu in Japan.
The last known specimen died in 1905, in Nara Prefecture.

Ezo Wolf (Canis lupus hattai), the Hokkaido Wolf.
The Ezo Wolf became extinct in 1889.

http://www.answers.com/topic/japanese-wolf

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ONCE THERE WERE WOLVES
Shrines are no salve when it comes to extinctions

By ROWAN HOOPER

There were two subspecies, the Hokkaido wolf, and the smaller Honshu wolf (like the two bear species still living in Japan today, the animals living in Hokkaido needed to be bigger because of the harsher climate). Both were distinct from wolves in Europe and North America; the Honshu wolf, only about 30 cm tall at the shoulder, was the smallest known variety of wolf.

In former times, wolves were revered and respected. They were seen by farmers as guardians of their crops. It was believed that wolves kept deer, hares and wild boars from causing damage to farmland. The Heian Period warlord ruler of northeastern Honshu, Fujiwara no Hidehira (1096-1187), was said to have been raised by wolves, like Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome.

In Yamanashi Prefecture, offerings of azuki bean rice were left for wolves when cubs were born. It was sometimes believed that the tradition, known as inu no ubumimai, would be reciprocated by the wolf when a human child was born.

Read the rest here:

Wolves, Ookami, By ROWAN HOOPER

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Woodblock Print by Kayama Matazoo
加山又造　狼



http://www.444009.jp/interiahangatokkaseiru.htm

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JAPANESE WOLF FOLKLORE
by U.A. Casal

In the role of divine messenger, the wolf watches over mountains and forests. He sees to it that there is no undue cutting of trees or careless fire which may start a mountain conflagration, as also that there be no pollution of those little sanctuaries which are found all over a mountain.

Read this very interesting essay here:
JAPANESE WOLF FOLKLORE. by U.A. Casal

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Mitsumine Shrine (Mitsumine Jinja) is famous for its wolf cult.



There is a talisman print of the Wolf Deity from this shrine.
This for a wolf that accompanies the hunter home from the mountain and then gets a morcel to eat. (okuri ookami)



http://www.kitanippon.co.jp/pub/hensyu/chinmoku/maboroshi/050112.html


Okuri ookami, the wolf seeing you home

.... An extension of this semantic affinity of the wolf with the dog is the image (in myth and legend) as a protector of mankind -- a sort of banken (watchdog) in the mountains. This watchdog role appears in the benign okuri-okami (sending wolf) stories. "When someone is walking along mountain roads at night sometimes a wolf follows without doing anything. On nearing the house the wolf disappears."

Sometimes the ubiquitous okuri-okami tales also mention the danger of looking back or falling over while being followed by the wolf, acts that may invite the wolf to attack....Nonetheless, what is usually stressed is that the wolf's purpose is not to prey but to protect, to see the lonely human being safely home through the dangerous night-time mountains.... Even today many villagers claim to have had such experiences in their youth....
© Copyright 2004 Wolf Song of Alaska.

Read a lot more about Japanese wolves:
http://www.wolfsongalaska.org/Wolves_Japan_on_extct.htm

My Essay about Japanese Wolf Worship
....... at Mitsumine Shrine Mitsumine Jinja 三峰神社

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Alaska

Wolves and Religion

The Role of Fox, Lynx and Wolf in Mythology
Meaning Wolf
Wolves and the Christian Church
Beware of Wolves
Wolves and Christianity
Wolves and Early Saints

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Ireland

The Irish Wolfhound (Irish: Cú Faoi)
is a breed of domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris), specifically a sighthound. The name originates from its purpose (wolf hunting with dogs) rather than from its appearance.
Irish Wolfhounds are the tallest of dog breeds.
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cú faoil...
keeping the wolves
from the door

- Shared by John Byrne -
Haiku Culture Magazine, 2013



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One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson
about a battle that goes on inside of all of us.
He said, "My son, the battle is between two wolves.


Read the story here:

feeding two wolves
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狼の糞を見てより草寒し
ookami no kuso o mite yori kusa samushi

seeing wolf shit
these weeds feel
even more cold

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山犬や鳴口からも霧の立
yama inu ya naku kuchi kara mo kiri no tatsu

mist rising even
from the gray wolf's
howling mouth
Tr. Chris Drake

This autumn hokku is from the seventh month (August) of 1823, when Issa was in his hometown. Before they became extinct in 1905, small gray wolves (Canis lupus hodophilax), called "Japanese wolves" (nihon ookami) in Japan and "Honshu wolves" elsewhere, were once common around Japan. In the hokku Issa refers to the wolf using the colloquial name "mountain dog," a name related to the wolf's size. Issa seems to be standing fairly close to the wolf, yet he doesn't seem to be afraid of it. He may share the common view in village Japan that wolves, like monkeys, are helpers and messengers of the mountain god and are benefactors of humans who are not to be feared or attacked.

Several Shinto shrines are devoted to the wolf god Ma-kami, "True God," and according to a widely believed folk etymology the word wolf (ookami) goes back to another ookami meaning "great god." In Japanese folktales wolves often walk along behind villagers, protecting them when they travel in the mountains. Female wolves were especially revered because of their fecundity, and they were commonly believed to ensure fertility among village women and good crops in the fields. In some areas, villagers even presented special dishes of rice with red beans in them -- dishes usually made to celebrate human births -- to the local mountain god shrine if it was discovered that a wolf mother near the village had given birth. Although gray wolves normally didn't attack humans, they did prey on deer, wild boars, raccoons, and other animals that like to ravage village fields, and so they were regarded as important allies of farmers.

The hokku is implicitly as much about thick mist rising up in an area apparently on or near a mountain or hill as it is about the wolf. The comparison of rising mist to breath suggests that the whole mountain and the area around it are alive and breathing, and Issa is impressed by the way the wolf and mountain seem to be closely connected and part of the same great living system. Issa does not explicitly say the mountain god is howling through the wolf, but he seems to be implying that the wolf and the mountain are both speaking the same mist-language, a language most humans are not able to speak fluently. This haiku may be both a salute to the wolf and mountain and an expression of thanks to them for their help in supporting human life in the high Shinano plateau, where Issa's hometown is located.

Chris Drake

. Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 in Edo .


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狼に墓の樒の乱されし　
ookami ni haka no shikimi no midasareshi

the wolves
have thoroughly destroyed
the shikimi around the grave
(Tr. Gabi Greve)　


石井露月 Ishii Rogetsu (1873-1928)
www.diary.ne.jp/logdisp.cgi?user=36640&log=20011113

... Read: Ishii Rogetsu by Susumu Takiguchi

Shikimi Flowers

http://www.hana300.com/sikimi1.html

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A wolf; one firefly clinging to it

Tohta Taneka
(trans. by Jim Kacian, Toshio Kimura, Ban'ya Natsuishi & Eric Selland )
[Haiku Troubadours 2000]
http://www.into.demon.co.uk/dew/number_4_reviews.htm

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Winter mountains,
Pass them not
run into a wolf.

Masaoka Shiki
http://www.risk.ru/auto/calendar2/50/index_en.htm



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ookami kemono o matsuru 豺獣を祭る
kigo for late autumn
one of the 72 seasonal points 七十二候



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