Rose chafer

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Rose bug (Cetonia aurata)

***** Location: Europa
***** Season: Summer
***** Category: Animal

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Cetonia aurata,
known as the rose chafer, or more rarely as the green rose chafer, rose bug, is a beetle, 20 mm (¾ in) long, that has metallic green coloration (but can be bronze, copper, violet, blue/black or grey) with a distinct V shaped scutellum, the small triangular area between the wing cases just below the thorax, and having several other irregular small white lines and marks. The underside is a coppery colour.



Rose chafers are capable of very fast flight; they do it with their wing cases down thus resembling a bumble bee. They feed on flowers, nectar and pollen, in particular roses (from where they get their name); which is where they can be found on warm sunny days,
between May and June/July, occasionally to September.

Rose chafers are found over southern and central Europe and the southern part of the UK where they seem to be sometimes very localized.
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tamamushi 玉虫 / 金花虫 (たまむし) jewel beetle
two-striped green buprestid, metallic wood borer
Fam. Julodinae, Polycsetinae
kigo for late summer


. Beetles in all seasons .


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attempting to fly off
the mellow grape,
a tipsy rose bug

s prezrelog grozda
pokušava poletjeti
pripit gundevalj

- Shared by Tomislav Maretic, Croatia -
Joys of Japan, 2012



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Crow

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Crow

***** Location: Croatia
***** Season: Non-seasonal Topic
***** Category: Animal

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Japan

. Crow, Raven (karasu) 　　


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my morning walk --
a crow
on the snowy roof










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on a bare tree-top
a crow enjoying the day's
last winter sunbeam






Haiku and Photos from Tomislav Maretic
Croatia 2011


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Holy Basil

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***** Location: Serbia
***** Season: Autumn
***** Category: Humanity

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The basil used as a spice for food is a TOPIC for haiku.


Holy Basil - Босиљак - sweet basil

is used to purify sacred water. The holy water and some pots of basil are placed below the altar of the church.


Sava I, saint – archbishop (27 January) St Sava's Day.
Sava II, saint – archbishop (21 January)
Sava II Branković (Brankovich), saint – metropolitan (7 May)
Sava III, saint – archbishop (8 August)

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It was St. Sava who introduced the ritual of the baptismal Slava, or Patron Saint's Day, into practice on a liturgical basis. Since the time of St. Sava, this ritual and its accompanying customs gradually assumed the form it has today.

Consecrating the Water
In some parts of the country, as in Vojvodina, Belgrade and elsewhere, the custom is for the priest to go to the homes of the celebrants before the day of the Slava itself and to bless the water. The housewife places before the household icon, a candle, a censer and incense and lights the thurible. The priest then blesses the water which the housewife will use to knead the flour for the Slave cake.

For that occasion it is necessary to prepare the following: a censer, a flame (or a briquette made of special coal), a candlestick and incense, as well as a posy of sweet basil and a vessel of clear water. All this has to be on a table facing the icon of the relevant Slava which hangs on the eastern wall of the room.The housewife treats the consecrated water as something sacred. She handles it with care and puts it in a specific place.

Then, on the eve of the Slava, when she has completed all the preparations for the following day, she uses this water and takes flour to knead the dough for the Slava cake, adding the requisite amount of salt and yeast. In some regions the Slava begins already on the prior evening with a supper, because liturgically regarded, that is already a new day, that is, the Slava day and vespers and the wake are held for the next day. Nevertheless, it is rare for the Slava cake to be cut at that time as this is done on the very day of the Slava.

Going to Church
On the morning of the slava, the cake, a wheat cereal dish, and red wine are carried to the church. In the church, the joint consecration of the wheat dish and blessing of the bread and wine is performed and then the priest pours wine over each dish of wheat cereal and cuts each cake separately. At this time, the celebrant, before the commencement of the holy liturgy, offers a list of the living and deceased members of the family for the purpose of having their names mentioned and the wafers placed on the oblation table - for the good health of the living and the peace of the soul of the deceased.

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The slava (Serbian Cyrillic: слава),
also called krsna slava (крсна слава) and krsno ime (крсно име, literally "christened name" in Serbian), is the Serbian Orthodox tradition of the ritual celebration, veneration, and observance of a family's own patron saint. The family celebrates the slava annually on the patron saint's feast day.

The slava is a tradition of the Serbs, who are a people now living in the modern states of Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina (mostly in Republika Srpska), and Montenegro, as well as in the former Military Frontier (parts of modern states of Croatia, Hungary, and Romania). The Serbs regard the slava as one of their most significant feast days. The tradition of the slava is also preserved among the Serbian diaspora.
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slava cake


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India

The holy Indian basil is a miracle plant.

. Holy basil, tulsi, tulasi, thulasi
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Slava and Saint Nicolas

Every Orthodox family in Serbia has one patron saint. Each family celebrates the feast day of their saint with a unique Serbian Orthodox religious tradition, Krsna Slava or Thanksgiving, on the day when their ancestors were baptized (Serbians accepted Christianity by families and whole tribes). This same saint is the family's saint from generation to generation through the centuries.
Sveti Nikola (St. Nicholas) is the patron saint for so many families that there is a Serbian saying for St. Nicholas Day, 6 or 19 December,
"Half of Serbia is celebrating their Slava today,
and the other half is going to a Slava."
It is a very important day for Serbian Orthodox.

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Очева мајка
стављала је у недра
стручак босиљка.

Father's mother
used to put a stem of sweet basil
on her bosom

Vrbislava Starovic / Врбислава Старовић


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Sports - soccer

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Sports - Soccer, Football (Fussball)

***** Location: Germany, worldwide
***** Season: Various, see below
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and other Winter Sports

American Football, see below

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Soccer World Cup in Germany, 2006


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Australia

Australian Football League season begins

kigo for autumn

Australian Football League
source : www.afl.com.au


a turnover
in the football match -
a leaf becomes yellow

- Shared by Myron Lysenko
Joys of Japan, 2012


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England

Football -
hardly ever called soccer in the uk, its home or the football world in general but always soccer in the USA - traditionally starts the season in very early autumn and these days it's getting eariler - so traditionally August - its the played right through autumn and winter and the season ends in spring.

FA CUP FINAL, U.K.
Kigo for Early Spirng always in May

Soccer World Cup
Kigo for Summer

paul conneally

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Germany

Fussball, Fußball
The most common group game in Germany.

Deutscher Fussball-Bund


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India

squashed football
breeds white-ants
awaits empty air ~

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Japan

soccer, sakkaa　サッカー
Kigo for All Winter

Originaly a common sport from England and later Germany, introduced to Japan after 1873. A competitive sport with two teams of 11 people.

Also called "Association Football" アッソシエーション・フットボール.

Around 1960, it was officially separated from
American Football アメリカン・フットボール and
Rugby Football　ラグビー・フットボール.


Another related game in Japan is the Kick-Ball, Kemari
First Kick-Ball Game (kigo for New Year) Japan

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Kenya

There are various soccer events in Kenya.

Moi Golden Cup
Africa Cup of Nations


World Cup Haiku 2006 from The Bamboochas
Bahati Haiku Club Kenya

hot and fresh from the Bamboocha haiku kitchen!

a man on the roof
fixing the tv antena for clear vision--
world cup
Raymond Otieno

cellphones on ears
hullo are you coming one match
is about to start
Raymond Otieno

two teachers betting
on Brazil and Australia match
fifty shillings
Raymond Otieno

Patrick Sensei
gives his fifty shillings in bet
his team loses
Raymond Otieno

food grows cold on tables
Raymond is not eating as
his eyes are stuck on tv.
Raymond Otieno


pensive wives at home--
husbands away watching football
world cup in Kenya
Catherine Njeri

Croatia is defeated--
Zachariah is jubilant
i won the bet
Catherine Njeri

World Cup again--
Brazilian supporters in rapturous joy
the trophy is ours
Samson Onyango

happy faces
all over the world
watching matches
Nicholas Kasyoki

sleepless nights
watching football matches
on big screens
Maximilla Kasandi

happy Ghanians--
scoring many goals in
sweet cool Germany
Maximilla Kasandi

all eyes on screen
ears on radios
expecting winners
Lameck Odhiambo

happy football fans
keenly watching screens--
world cup again
Kennedy Odhiambo

people congested in bars
watching and hearing world cup
shouts of goal...goal
Anne Kanini

goal...goal everywhere
as Ronaldo scores the goal
World Cup in Germany
David Wandera

teams gather
Ronaldihno scores one goal
kenyans cheer
anonymous

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/151?l=1

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July 5, 2006

Here in Kenya, the World Cup has taken a tragic turn.
A boy was killed in Kisumu over Brazil's defeat by France.

Brazil loses to France--
a Brazilian fan is killed
in Kisumu

Patrick Wafula, Kenya.


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World Cup 2010


World Cup--
they drum the mabati walls
celebrating Ghana

*Mabati is a Swahili word for corrugated iron sheets.

Caleb Mutua, Kenya


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Latin America

Futbol is the most popular sport in Latin America.
Huge amount of teams, millions and millions of devoted fans. Sport pages in newspapers are mainly about futbol. The best futbol players are real "celebrities"
The activity is very intense as much as in Europe or Africa.

9 of the 18 World Cups held up until now, were won by South America's national teams (Brazil five times, Argentina twice and Uruguay twice). When this edition of the World Cup comes to an end, Europe will have also 9 won.

L Am soccer has given the world great players, such as Pele and Maradona to mention the most well known. My country in particular won the first World Cup played in the year 1930 and also the one in 1950 (against Brazil in Maracana).

Carlos Fleitas, June 2006

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Romania

-football season starts (Russia&Scandinavia)
kigo for (early) spring

-football season starts (most of the rest of the world)
kigo for early autumn

-end of football season (Russia&Scandinavia)
kigo for early winter

-end of football season (rest of the world)
kigo for late spring/early summer

(actually, for us in Romania, the week after the end of the last league matches is very interesting: you see people gradually shifting their conversation topics from "important matters" to planning their summer vacation)

-Euro Cups start
kigo for autumn
(actually for smaller countries they start much earlier; but mid-September is when they start in earnest and media attention turns to them)

-Euro Cup finals
kigo for late spring

-Intertoto Cup
summer kigo
(I discovered I have a soft spot for the Intertoto Cup; it has a sort of "wabi" to it; it involves small, lower-budget clubs who generally know they're never going to be champions of their country and who sacrifice their summer breaks in pursuit of a very ellusive dream: out of 100 or so teams starting this year, only 3 will get the questionable prize of being allowed to contest the UEFA Cup from September onwards.
It involves smaller communities getting excited about their team playing "in Europe" and hosting another team they previously never heard of. In the admittedly too money-driven world of today's football, it has a flavour of gratuitousness about it).

Cristian Mocanu
a haijin whose grandfather was afootball/soccer club president!

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Trinidad & Tobago

returning football team
a cheer rises
fireworks
Loot at it here !

World Cup 2006 ! Haiga


we celebrate
in T and T
flamboyant in full bloom
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4379/2137/1600/We-celebrate.jpg


World Cup Soca Warriors Return

returning football team
a cheer rises
fireworks
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4379/2137/1600/02-World-Cup-2006.jpg

Gillena Cox, 2006

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an autumn haiku

first match
of the season
we follow the moon

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the world cup game
is still scoreless---
summer solstice

Fred Masarani, June 2006
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Mahiri misses
his pre-mock exams--
angry Principals

Macharia misses
Bahati board meeting--
complains

form four
students dozing in class--
angry teachers

jammed video
shows in Soweto--
cheers and boos

Partrick Wafula, Kenya, 2006

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end of the game
Ronaldo cries like a baby
on Zizou's shoulder

Carlos Fleitas, June 2006 (World Cup in Germany)

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game over --
all become Italians
hooting with joy

France plays Brazil --
only the swifts are heard in
Brussels streets

Isabelle Prondzynski, July, 2006

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ragubii ラグビー rugby



kigo for late winter

sukii　スキー skiing, ski
sujiijoo スキー場（すきーじょう）ski resort
sukii ressha スキー列車（すきーれっしゃ）train transporting people with ski
sukii yado スキー宿（すきーやど）lodging for skiers
sukiiyaa 、スキーヤー skier
sukii boo スキー帽（すきーぼう）hat/cap for a skier
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kigo words taken from the German language

gerende ゲレンデ Gelände, (skiing) slope
shantse シャンツェ Schanze, ski jump
shupuuru シュプール Spur, ski tracks, trail with one's skis


kigo for early spring

haru sukii 春スキー (はるすきー) skiing in spring


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kigo for late winter

sukeeto スケート skating, ice skating, Eislaufen
koorisuberi 氷滑（こおりすべり）
sukeeto joo スケート場（すけーとじょう）ring for skating
..... スケートリンク sukeeto rinku
sukeetaa スケーター , skaker, ice skater


aisu hokkee アイスホッケー ice hockey


bobusuree ボブスレー bob sley
riyuuju リュージュluge, toboggan
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kigo for late winter

kangeiko 寒稽古 (かんげいこ) practising (sports) in the cold
..... kanzarai 寒復習 (かんざらい), kanzarae 寒ざらえ（かんざらえ）, kannarai 寒習（かんならい）

kangoe 寒声 (かんごえ ) shouting loud (during winter practise in the cold)


kandori 寒取 (かんどり) practising sumo in the cold
..... kanzumoo 寒相撲（かんずもう）
..... kanzumoo 寒角力（かんずもう）

kanchuu suiei 寒中水泳 (かんちゅうすいえい) swimming in the cold season
..... kansui 寒泳（かんえい）, kan oyogi 寒泳ぎ（かんおよぎ）


kanbiki 寒弾 (かんびき) practising shamisen in the cold


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-Compiled by Larry Bole:

スケートの真顔なしつゝたのしけれ
sukeeto no magao nashitsutsu tanoshikere

So serious
The face of the skaters,
Yet so enjoyable!

--Yamaguchi Seishi, (1931) Tr. Blyth


スケートの 紐むすぶ間もはやりつつ
sukeeto no himo musubu ma mo hayari tsutsu

Even in the time
it takes to tie on ice-skates,
the heart beats faster.

--Seishi (1932)
Tr. Takashi Kodaira and Alfred H. Marks

Comment by Seishi:
The skating rink on top of the Asahi Building, near the Sumitomo Building. Since I had become expert at skating with 'geta' skates when I was in elementary school, I was able to master the use of shoeskates quickly. My heart would pound even as I tied the laces of the skates.

'Other points of interest':
the so-called 'geta'-skate has a single blade in place of the two usual "teeth" under the 'geta', and slipped onto the feet like thongs.


learning to skate
I was Hans Brinker
until I fell

--Larry Bole


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Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates
(full title: Hans Brinker; or,
the Silver Skates: A Story of Life in Holland)


Hans Brinker tying on his sister Gretel's ice skates

The novel takes place in the Netherlands, and is a colorful fictional portrait of early nineteenth-century Dutch life, as well as a tale of youthful honor.
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New Year's Day

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New Year's Day

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***** Season: New Year
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New Year's Day, ganjitsu 元日

This is the first day of the year, January 1st.
Lately, special festive events have become rare. The traditional mood has become a thing of the past and many people tend to simply stay home quietly. Nonetheless it is still considered a day when people welcome the new year with a refreshed mind.

The various terms which designate New Year's Day (元朝 ganchō, ganchoo;　元旦 gantan; 大旦 ōashita ooashita) particularly refer to the morning of the day, when the members of the family gather to celebrate by drinking spiced sake (屠蘇 toso).
gantan 元旦 : the kanji shows us the sun about to rise, so it refers more to "hatsu hi no de", first sunrise.
. hatsuhi no de 初日の出　 .

Another related term that means New Year (歳旦 saitan) extends its meaning to the first three days of the New Year.

元日や晴れて雀のものがたり
ganjitsu ya harete suzume no monogatari

New Year's Day--
the sun shines,
the sparrows' story

Ransetsu 嵐雪

University Virginia Saijiki

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元日や神代のことも思はるる
ganjitsu ya jindai no koto mo omowaruru

New Year's Day -
How it evokes
the Age of the Gods

. Arakida Moritake 荒木田守武 .


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元日に田毎の日こそ恋しけれ
元日は田毎の日こそ恋しけれ
ganjitsu wa tagoto no hi koso koishikere

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New Year’s Day:
Now I long to see
The sun over Tagoto.
Tr. Buntin

It is recorded that this haiku was composed on New Year’s Day of 1689, when Basho was 46 years old, at his residence in Ueno. The autumn before, Basho had made a journey to Mt. Obasute (in present-day Nagano Prefecture), as described in his book Trip to Sarashina. At the base of Mt. Ubasute there are many small rice paddies, tagoto in Japanese. The autumn moon reflecting off those paddies is a famous sight, and thus the area was given the place name “Tagoto.” Basho had long wanted to witness the scene of the autumn moon over the Tagoto rice paddies. After a difficult journey, Basho was rewarded with the view of his dreams.

When Basho saw the sun rising on New Year’s Day, ascending over the decorative New Year pine branches, it brought back fond memories of the moon’s reflection on the wet Tagoto rice fields, but at this time it would be the sun that was shining on the dry fields. By placing his distinctive signature within the circle--representing both the sun and the moon-–Basho suggests that his heart his would be equally captivated by the sight of either the moon or sun over the Tagoto rice fields.

Also, since tagoto can be taken to mean “the many rice paddies of Japan,” the haiku can be interpreted as meaning,
“A new year is dawning all over the land, each place receiving the light of the sun in a different manner, what a lovely thought that is, bringing back fond memories of the places I have visited.”
It is quite likely that this haiga was made on the actual day the haiku was composed; perhaps even haiku and painting were created together. It is browned with age but Basho’s brushwork remains bright and fresh. This is an extremely rare and fine Basho haiga.

Look at a tansaku script of this poem:
source : robynbuntin.com


On New Year's Day,
in every rice paddy
the sun is more dear.
Tr. McAuley


元禄2年元旦

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元日や思えばさびし秋の暮
ganjitsu ya omoeba sabishi aki no kure

First Day -
deep in thought, lonely
autumn evening
Tr. Barnhill


The First Day of the Year:
I remember
A lonely autumn evening.
Tr. Blyth


On New Year's Day,
now I think of it, how sad is
an autumn evening.
Tr. McAuley

Written in 1683 天和3年. Basho age 40.

On the first day of the year, many people stay at home and the village is more quiet than ever. It reminds the poet of the quiet sunset of a late autumn evening.
Written in the Danrin style of haikai.

. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .

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苦にやんだ元日するや人並に
ku ni yanda ganjitsu suru ya hito nami ni

all New Year's Day
I fight off my worries
like everyone else
Tr. Chris Drake

This hokku is from the 12th lunar month (January) of 1826. It was written several days before New Year's Day, so Issa may have been suffering fairly serious depression. He must have known what New Year's Day would be like because he already had serious anxieties about himself and his future and grieved for the souls of his dead family who once lived in his house with him. In 1823 Issa's wife Kiku died, and at the beginning of 1824 his third son Konzaburo died. This meant all four of his children had died young. To make things even worse for Issa, in the 5th month of 1824 he remarried a woman named Yuki, who very soon left him and in the 8th month forced him to divorce her. The shock must have been intense, since less than a month later Issa had a stroke that temporarily took away his ability to speak, and he had to spend the next four months recovering at the homes of various students.

Finally he recovered and returned to his empty house in the twelfth month. In 1825 Issa spent about 70% of his time at the houses of others, but the convivial atmosphere at his students' houses seems to have protected him against depression. After Issa returned to his empty home in his hometown in early January 1826, he became snowed in, and, if his hokku are any indication, his mood as he stayed alone in his house, surrounded by painful memories, seems to have become darker. Issa no doubt hoped to remarry and have a family, but at 62 his body was weakening markedly after a life of living mostly on the road, and he may have doubted he would ever marry again. In fact he did marry for a third time in the autumn of the following year, but he died in early 1828 before his last child was born.

In 1833 Issa's follower Souki edited Additional Hokku by Issa (Issa hokku-shou tsuika). It includes a variant of the above hokku with the word "Travel" written before it, so perhaps Issa wrote this version later, while he was visiting someone at New Year's. The original hokku, however, was written in the 12th month while Issa was at home.
His diary for the month says, "At home all thirty days."

Chris Drake

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Haiku and Photos from Tomislav Maretic, Croatia
2006



foggy morning --
first sparrows
on the bare branches

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New year morning --
Sljeme mountain slowly
comes out from the fog

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firecrackers in the morning -
the sparrows shift
from tree to tree

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rooster's crowing -
the new year day's
first felicitation

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groggy morning -
some champagne still left
in the glasses

new year's day --
for our hangover
this vegetable soup

first coffee -
waiting for the concert
from Vienna

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first mountain view!
while I find the camera
it's swallowed in fog

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Related words

***** New Year's Concert Vienna Austria

***** New Year (shin nen)


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