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.................... List of Seasonal Words

from Kenya and other tropical areas

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In Kenya, we have the following haiku seasons:

.. .. .. hot dry season
.. .. .. long rains
.. .. .. cool dry season
.. .. .. short rains

Some of the rainy season kigo appear twice in the course of the year.

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.. .. .. .. .. Seasonal Items

hot and dry season
(roughly November to March, with January being the hottest month)

-- Buying textbooks
-- Buying school uniforms
-- Cassia blossom
-- Caterpillar, Hairy Caterpillar
-- Census
-- Christmas worldwide
-- Dust
-- Exam resultsKCPE and KCSE Exam Registration and Results
-- Form One entrants and monolisation
-- Frangipani, Plumeria
-- Goat Meat, also Goats in general
ice cream
-- Jamhuri Day (12 December)
-- January
-- Maasai Cattle (Masai Cattle)
-- Mabati shimmering roofs
-- Maize, Green Maize (for corn/maize see below)
-- Mango (ripe fruit)
-- New Year
open shoes
-- Orchid Show, Nairobi
-- Papyrus and other grasses couch grass, napier grass, African star grass
-- Paying school fees
-- peaches, ripe peaches
-- Plums, ripe plums, plum fruit
-- Start of new school year Kenya
... ... see also Start of Schoolyear, worldwide
-- sweating
vest
-- Water shortage , drought
-- Weeds
-- World AIDS Day

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long rains (roughly March to May)

-- Bombax blossom
-- First rainfall, imminent rain
-- bullfrogs Frog (kawazu, kaeru) worldwide
-- Easter
-- flooding
-- flying termites kumbi kumbi
-- Grass, fresh grass, green grass, young grass
-- Guava fruit
-- Gumboots, gum boots
-- heavy raindrops
-- Ibis (Hadada)
-- Labour Day
-- Long Rains Haiku by Bahati Club
-- Long Rains
-- Mabati roofs rusting and harvesting rainwater
-- Mosquitoes in Kenya

-- Mud (Swahili : matope)
including: Brickmaking, Dry mud, Bukusu Initiation (Circumcision) 　
-- Mudslide, landslide

-- Palm Sunday
-- Pneumonia
-- Power failure, blackout 　　　　
-- Puddle, puddles
-- Rhinoceros beetle , a scarab beetle
-- Shoe wiper
-- Stepping stones, step-stone bridge 　
-- Umbrella

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cool and dry season
(roughly from June to September, with July being the coldest month)

-- August moon
-- Avocado pear (Kikuyu : Mûkorobîa)
-- Beanie cap Kenya
-- Bukusu Initiation / Circumcision
-- Cold Dew (kanro) worldwide
-- Cold dry season, cool dry season 　　

Datura suaveolens, Moonflower, Angel's Trumpet, trumpet plant
-- Day of the African Child (16 June)　　
-- Dust
-- Glove, gloves
-- Frangipani, Plumeria 　　　　　　
-- freezing
-- Hawkers for warm things glove, hot coffee, uji maize porridge, scarf, sweater ...
Irish potatoes (viazi)
-- Jiko (brazier)
-- July
-- Maasai Cattle (Masai Cattle)
-- Mabati roors collect dew
-- Madaraka Day (1 June)
-- Maize, Green Maize
-- Martyrs’ Day Uganda

-- Nairobi Bomb Day (7 August)
-- Nairobi International Trade Fair (end of September)
-- no meetings (August)
-- Oranges (Swahili : Mchungwa)
Referendum August 2010
-- Sunflower
-- Sesbania Tree (Sesbania sesban (L.) Merr.)
-- Shivering, to shiver
-- start of university year
-- Weeds

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short rains (roughly October and November)

-- Aramanthus, vegetable
-- bullfrogs > Frog (kawazu, kaeru) worldwide
-- First rainfall, imminent rain
-- Ocotber rain
-- Flamboyant Tree (Swahili : Mjohoro)
-- Flooding in 2006
-- flying termites kumbi kumbi
-- Graduation Ceremony in Kenya
... ... see also Graduation (sotsugyoo) worldwide
-- Gumboots, gum boots
-- Jacaranda blossom
-- heavy raindrops
-- Kenyatta Day
-- Messiah for the Hospice

-- Moi Day (10 October) renamed :
. . Mashujaa Day since 2010
-- Mosquitoes in Kenya
-- Mud (Swahili : matope)
-- Mudslide, landslide

-- Nairobi Marathon
-- Power failure, blackout
-- Puddle, puddles
-- Shoe wiper

-- School exams KCSE / KCPE
------ Short Rains and more kigo about this season
-- Stepping stones, step-stone bridge
-- Tipu tree (Tipuana tipu)
-- Umbrella

.. .. .. Glossary of Kenyan Terms and more Haiku Topics

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............. Topics for which the season changes

-- Diwali (Devali, Divali)
-- Ramadan in Kenya
-- Ramadan ends (Idd ul Fitr)

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............. Non-seasonal Topics

Ageing ... Getting old in Kenya. Grandfather, Grandmother
Akala ... Sandals
Arusha Tanzania
. . . Brick making in Arusha
. . . Namanga-Arusha Highway Road

Banana
Banana ring, to carry things
Bat, bats . . . and the Mukuyu tree
Beggar
Bisquits and cookies
Boma Homesteads
Buibui, to cover the head and face of a Muslim woman face veil
Bukusu Culture, Babukusu People
Bull fighting, bullfight

Cabbage
Calabash, calabashes, gourd
Camel, Dromedary, Kamel, Dromedar
Casuarina Tree
Central Park, Children's Traffic Park
Chameleon
Chapati, flatbread Chokoraa, chokora - "street boy" or "parking boy"
Coffee plant blossoms, coffee blossoms
Crickets, cricket

Dandora, Municipal Garbage Site Nairobi
Demolitions in Patanisho, Nairobi

Eucalyptus tree Fam. Myrtaceae

Fences and hedges
Flame tree (Erythrina fam.)
Flies, Fly, Housefly, Fruitfly
Fountain (in a park)

Githeri
Grevillea tree
Guitar

Hell's Gate National Park
Hornbill

Irio (mûkimû)

Jeevanjee Gardens and Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee
Jua kali artisans

Kajiado wilderness
Kale, kales, a cabbage (sukumawiki)
Kamba People A funeral in Ukambani
Kanga, kangas, wrapping cloth
Kenya Railway Museum Kukai August 2010
Kenyatta National Hospital,Nairobi
Khamsin wind Egypt, North Africa
Kiambu County
Kibera Slums
Kisii in Nyanza Narok plains, Ogembo Street
Kitale Town in Western Kenya

Longido Hills
Lugari Forest

Magadi, Lake Magadi in the Rift Valley
Maize (Swahili : Mahindi, American : Corn, South African : Mealies)
Masai, Maasai, Massai ... indigenous African ethnic group of semi-nomadic people located in Kenya
Mandazi, a kind of doughnuts ndazi (singular)
Marabou Stork, Leptoptilos crumeniferus
Marikiti Farmers' Market Nairobi
Matatu minibus
Mkokoteni - hand cart, pushcart pl. mikokoteni
Mount Kenya and Kilimanjaro
Mourning
Mzungu, muzungu ... person of European descent... "white person"

Nairobi City
Haile Selassie Avenue, Soweto Market, Wakulima Market, Thika road, Tom Mboya street, Marikiti market, Kawangare slums . . .

Ngaramtoni at the flank of Mount Meru
Newspaper vendor, newspaper boy
Night life
Njiiru Plains

Passion fruit, Passiflora edulis
Pawpaw tree(Asimina) paw paw, paw-paw, papaw
Peace (Swahili : Amani)
Pelican
Pig, pigs
Pine tree, Pinus Patula
Pineapple, Ananas comosus
Pokot people West Pokot and Baringo Districts of Kenya
Pomelo (Citrus maxima or Citrus grandis) Chinese grapefruit
Posho mill, poshomill -- to grind wheat, maize and other grains

Rift Valley
Royal Palm Tree Roystonea regia

Scorpion
Sisal (Agave sisalana)
Slasher to cut grass
Sorghum (mtama) and milled porridge (uji)
Sowbug, a brown snail
Sufuria .. cooking pot or saucepan

Tea (Swahili : chai)
Tilapia fish
Toilet, outhouse
Tomato, tomatoes

Ugali and Uji, maize porridge
Umbrella tree / Schefflera actinophylla

Warthog
Weaver birds (Ploceidae family)
Webuye Town
Wildebeest
migration
Wimbi, bulo ... Millet
Wood, firewood

Zebra

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Haibun . Haiku in Combination

Construction and Development

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.. .. .. .. .. National Holidays in Kenya

l Jan -- New Year's Day -- International New Year's Day Holiday
> -- WKD ... : New Year (shin-nen)

Varies -- Good Friday -- Christian holiday commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ
> -- WKD ... : Easter

Varies -- Easter Monday -- Christian holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ
> -- WKD ... : Easter

1 May -- Labour Day -- International Day of the Worker
> -- see also : Labour Day, USA

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Mashujaa Day

10 Oct -- Moi Day -- Established on the 10th day of the 10th month 10 years after the inauguration of President Daniel arap Moi as the second President of Kenya.
October 2010:
The new constitution scrapped Moi Day and replaced Kenyatta day with Hero's (Mashujaa) Day in efforts to celebrate the men and women who fought for Kenya's freedom .

20 Oct -- Kenyatta Day -- This is to commemorate the arrest of Jomo Kenyatta and the declaration of the State of Emergency on 20 October 1952.
October 2010:
The new constitution scrapped Moi Day and replaced Kenyatta day with Hero's (Mashujaa) Day in efforts to celebrate the men and women who fought for Kenya's freedom .

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12 Dec -- Uhuru or Jamhuri Day -- This is to commemorate the day on which Kenya achieved its Independence, on 12 December 1963.
> -- Jamhuri Day

25 Dec -- Christmas Day -- Christian holiday celebrating the Birth of Jesus Christ.
> -- Bahati Haiku Club : Christmas
> -- WKD ... : Christmas

26 Dec -- Boxing Day -- celebrating St Stephen's Day and the second
day of the Christmas season.
> -- WKD ... St Stephen's Day

Varies -- Idd ul Fitr
The Muslim festival of Idd-ul-Fitr is also a public holiday and takes place on the sighting of the new moon at the end of Ramadhan. The exact date varies according to the position of the New Moon.

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.. .. .. .. .. .. Annual events in Kenya

Apart from big celebrations that are held on Madaraka, Kenyatta and Independence Days, Nairobi is also the venue for a number of large international and national sports matches. Nairobi further enhances its cosmopolitan image by hosting a number of annual shows and
festivals.

The Kenya Schools Music Festival is held in Nairobi in May/June and

The Agricultural Society of Kenya (A.S.K.) Show takes place at Jamhuri Park at the end of September or beginning of October. See Nairobi International Trade Fair

The long established and international Safari Rally begins and ends in Nairobi - drawing ever larger crowds.
http://www.kenyaweb.com/

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Introduction to the

Haiku Clubs of Nairobi

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More LINKs in the Kenya Saijiki

Getting to Know Kenya

Poetry and Literature of Kenya

Music of Kenya, by Douglas Paterson

Missionaries in Kenya

Wildlife in Kenya

Plants and Animals of Kenya, LIST by Allen & Nancy Chartier

Kakamega Forest Birds

Nature Kenya Organization

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Autumn flowers

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Autumn
***** Category: Plant

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Explanation

. AUTUMN FLOWERS
and other plants of autumn . MAIN LIST 　

This is a list of more autumn flowers, which do not have an entry of their own yet.

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kigo for early autumn

hoosenka 鳳仙花 (ほうせんか) touch-me-not / impatiens
..... hoosenkuwa ほうせんくわ
..... tsumakurenai 爪紅 (つまくれない) "fingernail red"
..... tsumabeni 爪紅 (つまべに)
..... senshisoo 染指草【(せんしそう) "dye finger plant"
Impatiens species
. . . . . also

tsurifunesoo 釣船草 (つりふねそう) jewelweed
Impatiens textorii
..... tsurifunesoo 吊船草（つりふねそう）
. horagaisoo, horagai soo 法螺貝草（ほらがいそう）
"conch trumpet plant" 　
murasaki tsurifune 紫つりふね（むらさきつりふね）violet
ki tsurifune 黄つりふね（きつりふね）yellow
yubihamegusa ゆびはめぐさ Fingerhut plant
no hoosenka 野鳳仙花（のほうせんか）wild hoosenka
yama hoosenka 山鳳仙花（やまほうせんか）mountain hoosenka
kaware hoosenka 河原鳳仙花（かわらほうせんか）hoosenka near a brook

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misohagi 千屈菜 (みそはぎ) Lythrum anceps
shooryoobana 聖霊花（しょうりょうばな）
mizohagi 溝萩（みぞはぎ）、misohagi 鼠尾萩（みそはぎ）、千屈萩（みそはぎ)
mizukakegusa 水懸草（みずかけぐさ）
mizuhagi 水萩（みずはぎ）、soohagi 草萩（そうはぎ）

. mizuhiki no hana 水引の花 (みずひきのはな) .
Antenoron flower
Antenoron filiforme, Polygonum filiforme
Knöterich

moyoobyu 模様莧 (もようびゆ / モヨウビユ)
Joseph's Coat Rose (rosa)

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senkyuu no hana 川芎の花 (せんきゅうのはな) Cnidium officinale
..... senkyuu 芎藭（せんきゅう）
..... onnakazura, onna kazura おんなかずら
The roots and rhizome are used for Chinese medicine.
Also called "kyuukyuu" きゅうきゅう in some regions.

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sennoo 仙翁花せんのう Senno
sennooge 仙翁花（せんのうげ）
koobaigusa 紅梅草（こうばいぐさ）"red plum plant"
senshuura 剪秋羅（せんしゅうら）
senshuusa 剪秋紗（せんしゅうさ）
senkooka 剪紅花（せんこうか）
furannerusoo フランネル草（ふらんねるそう）"flannel plant"

Lychnis senno, of the carnation family
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tsurigane ninjin 釣鐘人参 (つりがねにんじん)
Adenophora triphylla var. japonica
totoki ととき、shajin 沙参（しゃじん)
A perennial herb of the bellflower family.

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tsuyukusa 露草 (つゆくさ)
common commelina, Asian dayflower
"dew plant"
Commelina communis
Commeline, Tagblume
. . . . . also called
aobana 青花（あおばな）"blue flower"
hotarugusa 螢草 "firefly plant"
oosenkisoo 鴨跖草（おうせきそう）
tsukikusa 月草（つきくさ）"moon plant"
utushibana うつし花（うつしばな）
booshibana 帽子花（ぼうしばな）"hat plant"
kamatsuka かまつか

. aobana and Yuzen 友禅 dyeing .

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kigo for mid-autumn

sanshichi no hana 三七の花 (さんしちのはな) flower of Porophyllum
..... sanshichisoo 三七草（さんしちそう）
Porophyllum japonicum. of the chrysanthemum family.
It has been introduced from China and used as a medicine since the Edo period.

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kigo for late autumn

waremokoo 吾亦紅 (われもこう) great burnet
..... waremokoo 吾木香（われもこう）/ 我毛香
Sanguisorba officinalis. Wiesenkopf

This is a very simple flower and many haiku express a kind of solitude and down-to-earth living.

－俳句 - - 吾亦紅 - samples -

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kigo for all autumn

. kusa no hana 草の花 (くさのはな) wildflowers, wild flowers 　
akikusa 秋草 (あきくさ) autumn plants

inokozuchi 牛膝 (いのこずち) "ox knees"
Achyranthes bidentata var. japonica. Inokozuchi
Its root is used as a Chinese medicine for snake bites.
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oshiroibana 白粉花 (おしろいばな) marvel-of-Peru
four o'clock flower. lit. "white face-powder flower"
Mirabilis jalapa. Wunderblume
..... oshiroi おしろい Oshiroi
..... yuugeshoo 夕化粧 (ゆうげしょう). lit. "evening make-up"
kingeshoo 金化粧（きんげしょう）"gold make-up"
gingeshoo 銀化粧（ぎんげしょう）"silver make-up"
nomatsuri 野茉莉（のまつり）wild marvel-of-Peru
murasaki matsuri 紫茉莉（むらさきまつり） purple marvel-of-Peru

oshiroi is also the name of a white make-up, often used by Geisha.
neri-oshiroi 　練白粉　/ 練りおしろい　kneaded white powder

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***** Autumn (aki) 秋

. AUTUMN - Category PLANTS
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