Tarweed

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Tarweed

***** Location: Ireland
***** Season: Summer
***** Category: Plant

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Explanation

Common tarweed.
Specimens kept in the Dublin Botanic Garden. Tarweed is a heavily scented annual alien plant probably originating from western North America, which some botanists describe as resinous, composite, with little white (mountain tarweed) or yellow (common tarweed) daisy-like flowers. Occasional specimens can be found in the Wicklow mountains and the Mountains of Mourne areas.

Anatoly Kudryavitsky


Cluster tarweed, Mountain tarweed. Madia glomerata





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mountain tarweed –
touching the flowers
smelling my fingers

Anatoly Kudryavitsky
(from 'Morning at Mount Ring', DOGHOUSE Books, 2007)

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Meadowsweet

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Meadowsweet

***** Location: Ireland
***** Season: Summer
***** Category: Plant

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Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria)
is a common fen plant growing amongst other tall herbs and forming extensive stands, to 1m or more. It is a a tall hairless perennial herb, growing in damp meadows, ditches and bogs, at the edges of ponds, on river banks and in damp open woodland.

It is common throughout Northern Ireland, as well as throughot other parts of Europe. It can also be found in the eastern US and Canada. The creeping rootstock sends up a reddish, angular stem, up to 120cm tall, branched near the top and bearing alternate long-petioled leaves composed of two to five pairs of ovate, serrate leaflets, which are green above but silvery below.

The small, sweet smelling, creamy-white five-petaled flowers with over twenty protruding stamens grow in panicled cymes from June to August. The flowers do not develop where the plant is in shade and it is absent from permanently waterlogged ground. Meadowsweet and water mint were held in high regard by the Druids and later by the "fairy doctors" who existed in rural Ireland until recently. These days you can buy packages of meadowsweet tea in some Irish shops.

Anatoly Kudryavitsky




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damp meadowsweet –
horses in mist
up to their oxters

Kate Newmann

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Gooseberry

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Gooseberry

***** Location: Ireland
***** Season: Summer
***** Category: Plant

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The Gooseberry (Ribes uva-crispa, syn. R. grossularia)
is a species of Ribes, native to Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia. These plants are derived from garden stock: it is not native to Ireland. However this spiny shrub is frequent in hedgerows in many parts of lowland Northern Ireland.
An Irish mother would explain to her kids that a newborn baby was found in the cabbages or in the gooseberry bushes.

Anatoly Kudryavitsky





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Stachelbeere


. Alma, amalika - Indian gooseberry .
Phyllanthus emblica (syn. Emblica officinalis)



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low summer sky –
in the gooseberry bush
cats' eyes

Kate O'Shea


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tangled and thorny...
goosebrry bush
and politics

- Shared by Pat Geyer ‎.
Joys of Japan, March 2012



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. WKD : Berry, berries in all seasons .


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Cormorant

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Cormorant

***** Location: Ireland, other countries
***** Season: Early autumn
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A large and conspicuous waterbird, the cormorant has an almost primitive appearance with its long neck making it appear almost reptilian. It is often seen standing with its wings held out to dry. Regarded by some as black, sinister and greedy, cormorants are supreme fishers which can bring them into conflict with anglers and they have been persecuted in the past.

The UK holds internationally important wintering numbers and with its breeding concentrations at a few sites it is an Amber List species.



http://www.photobirdireland.com/photobirdireland/index.asp



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Japan

humanity kigo for all summer

ukai 鵜飼 (うかい) cormorant fishing



ubune 鵜舟（うぶね）boat for cormorant fishing
ukaibi 鵜飼火（うかいび）torchlight for cormorant fishing
..... ukaigari 鵜篝（うかがり）
..... utaimatsum u taimatsu 鵜松明（うたいまつ）
ushoo 鵜匠（うしょう）fisherman using cormorants
..... utsukai, u tsukai 鵜遣（うつかい）

unawa 鵜縄（うなわ）rope for cormorants
ukago 鵜籠（うかご）basket for cormorants



arau, ara-u 荒鵜（あらう）wild cormorant
tsukare-u 疲鵜（つかれう）tired cormorant
hanare-u 離れ鵜（はなれう）
kachi-u 徒歩鵜（かちう）
ukawa, u kawa 鵜川（うかわ）river with cormorants

u 鵜（う）cormorant
..... u no tori 鵜の鳥（うのとり）
umi-u 海鵜（うみう）sea cormorant
kawa-u 川鵜（かわう）river cormorant
hime-u 姫鵜（ひめう）pelagic cormorant
mizudori 水鳥（みずどり）"water bird"
Shimazudori 島津鳥（しまずどり） bird from Shimazu
(old province in Kyushu)

.SAIJIKI ... HUMANITY - Kigo for Summer 　

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Cormorant fishing has a long tradition in Japan.

Historically, cormorant fishing has taken place in Japan and China from around 960 AD. and recorded from other places throughout the world.

To control the birds, the fishermen tie a snare near the base of the bird's throat. This prevents the birds from swallowing larger fish, which are held in their throat, but the birds can swallow smaller fish. When a cormorant has caught a fish in its throat, the fisherman brings the bird back to the boat and has the bird spit the fish up. Though cormorant fishing once was a successful industry, its primary use today is to serve the tourism industry.

The types of cormorants used differ based on the location. In Gifu, Japan, the Japanese Cormorant (P. capillatus) is used; Chinese fishermen often employ Great Cormorants (P. carbo). Darters (Anhinga), which are very close relatives of cormorants, are also used for this fishing technique on occasion.

Cormorant fishing, called ukai (鵜飼) in Japanese, takes place in 13 cities in Japan.
The most famous location is Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, home to Cormorant Fishing on the Nagara River, which has continued uninterrupted for the past 1,300 years.
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岐阻路ノ驛　河渡長柄川鵜飼船
by Eisen 英泉

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Cormorant as a roof tile at the Akai-ya 閼伽井屋, which is a well house of the temple hall Nigatsu-do in Nara. During the Omizu-tori ceremony, water will be taken from the well in this building.

The cormorant is the sacred animal of the deity
鵜草葺不合尊 Ugayafukiaezu no mikoto
father of Jinmu Tenno 神武天皇

Omizu-tori　お水取り is a ceremony to receive subsoil water which was "sent" from Wakasa by Omizu-okuri ceremony. Omizu-tori and Omizu-okuri ceremonies originate in a legend about the Wakasa deities (Wakasahiko and Wakasahime) and their apostle cormorants.

- Shared by Taisaku Nogi -
Joys of Japan, 2012


"Cormorant River" at Wakasaand the O-Mizutori rituals.
. U-no-se (鵜の瀬)" River Unose .


Water-spouting statue of a cormorant in Temizuya at
. Uwase Shrine 宇波西神社, Mikata .


. The Wakasa Wedding .
Wakasahiko Jinja (若狭彦神社)
Wakasahime Jinja (若狭姫神社)


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Noh play UKAI 鵜飼 (能)


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"The sight of cormorants catching fish one after another in rapid succession is so exciting that the thoughts of sin, retribution, and afterlife all go out of my mind."
"It is so sad to see the darkness after the torchlight on the boat goes out."


About Basho's haiku below:

Barnhill notes that this hokku appears in Basho's haibun, "Cormorant Fishing Boat 鵜舟 ubune ."
In the haibun, Basho refers to the Noh play "Cormorant Fishing."

Ueda mentions that "today [as of 1992], as in Basho's time, it is practiced only in the Nagara River, on a moonless night."

The commentator Shoogatsudoo (in Ueda's "Basho and His Interpreters") points out that "this hokku draws on two sentences that appear in the noo play 'Ukai' [Cormorant Fishing].

Blyth mentions that there is apparently an earlier version, "where we have 'weeping' instead of 'sad' [no romaji available]."

- Compiled by Larry Bole
Kigo Hotline, December 2007



source :　itoyo/basho

Ubune 鵜舟
岐阜の庄長柄川の鵜飼とて、世にことごとしう言ひののしる*。まことや、その興の人の語り伝ふるにたがはず、淺智短才の筆にも言葉にも尽すべきにあらず*。
「こころ知れらん人に見せばや」*など言ひて、闇路に帰る、この身の名残惜しさをいかにせむ.

松尾芭蕉

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おもしろうてやがて悲しき鵜舟哉
omoshiroote yagate kanashiki ubune kana

so fascinating,
but then so sad:
cormorant fishing boat
Tr. David Landis Barnhill



so exciting
and, after a while, so sad -
cormorant fishing
Tr. Makoto Ueda

Written in 1688, 元禄一年 Basho age 45

At the river Nagaragawa in Mino 美濃の長良川

. Matsuo Basho　松尾芭蕉 .


. Emotions expressed in Haiku .



source :　circleboard - sukesan


River Nagaragawa 長柄川 / 長良川
has its source in the city of Gujō, Gifu Prefecture, and its mouth in the city of Kuwana, Mie Prefecture, Japan. Along with the Kiso River and Ibi River, the Nagara River is one of the Kiso Three Rivers of the Nōbi Plain.
Previously, the river was named Sunomata River (墨俣川 Sunomata-gawa). With a length of 166 km (103 mi), it drains an area of 1,985 square kilometres (766 sq mi) in the Chūbu region and empties into Ise Bay.
. . . Cormorant fishing takes place in two cities: Gifu, where it is called "Cormorant Fishing on the Nagara River,"
and Seki, where it is called "Oze Cormorant Fishing" (小瀬鵜飼 Oze Ukai). Though eleven other places in Japan also host cormorant fishing, only the fishing masters on the Nagara River are Imperial Fishermen of the Household Agency.
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鵜とともに心は水をくぐり行く
u to tomo ni kokoro wa mizu o kuguriyuku

My soul
Dives in and out of the water
With the cormorant.
Tr. Blyth

. Uejima Onitsura 上島鬼貫 .


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つくづくと鵜ににらまるる鵜飼哉
tsuku-zuku to u ni nirama[ru]ru ukai kana

Haiku by Issa

the cormorants stare
at them hard...
cormorant fishermen

renku by Sakuo

安い賃金ストをも辞せず
yasui chingin suto o mo jisezu

cheap wages
come on strike　


Haiga by Nakamura Sakuo


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鵜のつらに篝こぼれて哀れなり
u no tsura ni kagari koborete aware nari

How pitiful!
The torches drip
On the faces of the cormorants.
Tr. Blyth

Katoo Kakei 加藤かけい Kato Kakei (1900 - 1983)


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akatsuki ya u-kago ni nemuru u no tsukare

Morning twilight;
In their basket, the cormorants
Asleep, exhausted.
Tr. Blyth

. Masaoka Shiki 正岡子規 .


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autumn storm
a cormorant sits
on the throne of winds

by Anatoly Kudryavitsky
(from 'Morning at Mount Ring', DOGHOUSE Books, 2007)


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cormorants glide
over orange bull kelp--
autumn sea

©　Deborah P. Kolodji / tinywords

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for a shining breath
the comorant surfaces --
how short, this waking life

©　Erin Noteboom


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cormorants glide
over sea duck decoys -
autumn sea

© Jim Tantillo / huntinghaikudaily


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***** . Keta Taisha U Matsuri 気多大社鵜祭
Cormorant festival at Shrine Keta Taisha 　　

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Cotoneaster

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Cotoneaster

***** Location: Ireland, other countries
***** Season: Summer
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Any of various erect or creeping shrubs of the genus Cotoneaster in the rose family, native to Eurasia (Himalayas). Small-leaved cotoneaster, also called rockspray or entire-leaved cotoneaster, is a once-common garden shrub which has now become naturalised and established in many wild situations.

A low-growing or prostrate evergreen shrub producing numerous small white to pinkish flowers which are followed by tiny, bright red or black fleshy berries containing two or more hard stones. Has flowers and, and frequently cultivated for ornament.

The leathery leaves are c. 7 mm long, oval with a notch at the tips, dark green and shiny. In many places, especially rock exposures in quarries, on crags, or on masonry. There is an extensive colony on crags on Garron Head high above Garron Tower, County Antrim.
http://www.habitas.org.uk/


Kudryavitsky Anatoly

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Cotoneaster
where an orchestra of bees
tunes up for summer

Clare McDonnell


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Cornflower

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Cornflower

***** Location: Ireland, other countries
***** Season: Summer
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The bright blue Cornflower was once a common sight in the countryside through the months of July, August and September. In the past it grew as a weed in fields of corn on light soils and was very plentiful - sadly, it is now on the edge of extinction except for a population found on the Aran Islands and in Wicklow.

The Cornflower has many cultivated relations, and these are very popular as fresh cut and dried flowers. Cornflower is proven to help grain grow due to root secretions and is now used as a beneficial weed in some USA grain crops. In 1992 Design By Nature saved the Irish Cornflower from extinction. However pollen from garden strains of cornflower effected the crop in 1998 and the breeding program had to be restarted again.
http://www.wildflowers.ie/

Anatoly Kudryavitsky






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Germany
Kornblume


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her eyes, blue sky -
and now only these
cornflowers

by Anatoly Kudryavitsky
(from 'Morning at Mount Ring', DOGHOUSE Books, 2007)

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Meines Papas knotige Hände
pflanzen Zwiebeln.
Eine Kornblume blüht im Krug.

Aksiniya Mihailova. Bulgarien

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Kiss on July 1

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Kiss on July 1

***** Location: Bulgaria
***** Season: Summer, July 1
***** Category: Humanity

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Bulgarians kiss each other as they meet the first July sunrise at the Black Sea coast of Varna, some 450 kilometers (280 miles) east of the capital Sofia, Sunday, July 1, 2007.
Every year on 1st of July hundreds of Bulgarians traditionally celebrate this July morning.


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Thousands Bulgarians Hail the Sunrise Hippy-Style on July Morning

Thousands young people gathered at Kamen Bryag village on the Black Sea coast, the traditional location for the hippy-style celebration of hailing the sunrise, known as July Morning.
The tradition dates back to the hippy period in the 1970s and 1980s and originated as a protest against the restrictions of the communist regime. Nowadays this meaning is lost but the sun worship as a symbol of a new beginning in life motivates young people to keep the tradition alive.

As the name suggests, the anthem of the celebrations is British rock band Uriah Heep's 1972 hit July Morning. This year July Morning was marked with a concert of Uriah Heep vocals John Walden and Bulgarian rock band BTR.

The tradition begs for associations with the sun worship of Peter Dunov followers, who hail the sunrise at the Hill of Prayers in the Rila mountian, which they consider to be a divine mystery.

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Kissing is done at any time, any season . . . so the word

KISS is not a kigo.

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kemono tsurumu 獣交む (けものつるむ) animals mating
kemono sakaru 獣交る（けものさかる）animals in heat
. WKD : animals in spring .

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The tradition of kissing under the mistletoe -
. WKD : Mistletoe (Viscaceae) .
kigo for all winter.

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羨ましい　皆で祝う　夏のキス
urayamashi minna de iwau natsu no kisu

enviable--
all celebrating
summer kiss

Nakamura Sakuo

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July First Morning:
sunrise and kisses warming us
all the way through

Larry Bole

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***** Europa Saijiki


. BULGARIA SAIJIKI .


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Matonge Festival

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Matonge Festival (Fête du Quartier Matonge)

***** Location: Brussels, Belgium
***** Season: Mid-summer
***** Category: Observance

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At the end of June every year, the Brussels area of Matongé (within the commune of Ixelles) takes an entire week-end to stage a huge street party. The through roads are blocked for the festivities, and people come from all over Brussels and beyond, to enjoy themselves. Brussels loves summer street festivals, but this is one of the biggest!

The Matongé is the African area of Brussels -- named after the elegant city centre street of Kinshasa (DR Congo). It started modestly with a few African shops and a hostel for African university students. Over the decades, it has grown in both size and attractiveness, and is now sought out by the Brussels Africans and non Africans alike for its relaxed, tropical atmosphere and the African music, groceries, restaurants, textiles and hair care provided by the many outlets. The Brussels Africans are well integrated into European society -- they are on the whole no poorer than the local Belgians, and some of them are quite wealthy, liking to flaunt it!

The Matongé is always an enjoyable area, but at festival time, it goes wild!

There is non-stop music up to (and beyond!) midnight for two days, there are cultural events in the many centres around the area, and there is lots of eating and drinking, with the numerous African restaurants of the quarter setting out their various foods. Although there is an increasing population of Anglophone Africans (mostly Nigerians and Ghanaians) now living in Brussels, the Matongé is Francophone, and the local specialities are most often from Congo, Senegal and other West African countries. The atmosphere is relaxed, and the party is for everyone, children and grown-ups alike.

The greatest joy for me, over the years, has been the mixing and blending that I observe. In 2007, most of the tables set out in the streets had mixed parties of African and European friends or family who had come to enjoy the party. A huge proportion of the children are mixed African and European, and a new coffee-coloured generation is growing up into beautiful young citizens.


Enjoying themselves at the Matongé Festival 2007

Text and photo © Isabelle Prondzynski

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One of the “must-see” sights of Brussels, certainly among the Top Ten on the Brussels sightseeing trips, is the Matongé mural named “Porte de Namur -- Porte de l’Amour” (Namur gate -- the gate of love). It can be found attached to a house near the old city gate of the road to Namur, and shows a leisurely scene depicting well-off Africa in Brussels -- with a show of flesh that would not be altogether typical!!


©　PHOTO virtualtourist.com

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Matonge : la fresque

Chéri Samba, peintre congolais de réputation internationale, a été invité à peindre un tableau traduisant les sentiments multiples qui habitent les habitants du quartier Matonge à Ixelles et à rapporter avec humour les éléments signifiants de leur vie quotidienne.

Cette toile a été agrandie sous forme d'une fresque photographique de 15mx12m qui est accrochée à la facade du magazin Hema situé à la rencontre de la chaussée de Wavre et de la Chaussée d'Ixelles à Bruxelles.

Le projet a été accompagné d'animations scolaires et de conférences publiques.

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Matonge feast --
traffic jams reach out
far and wide

lured by
a drummer from Senegal --
Matonge beat

a rasta whirls --
his trinkets and chains
all dance with him

~ Isabelle Prondzynski


Photo © Isabelle Prondzynski


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***** Kenya and African Haiku

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Europe Day

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Europe Day - Europa-Tag

***** Location: European Union
***** Season: Early summer (9 May)
***** Category: Observance

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Europe Day is a public holiday for European civil servants and other EU staff worldwide. But even those who do not get the day off, can join in the Europe Day celebrations and festivities in the European capitals and many other towns and cities.

Elsewhere around the world, there are Press articles, reports to commemorate the event, and the usual diplomatic receptions and celebrations to wish Europe well on its “national day”.

Even though the Treaty of Rome was signed on 25 March 1957 (50 years ago in 2007, a year of celebrations), the foundations were laid earlier, on 9 May 1950, when Robert Schuman made his famous speech (see below), which was soon followed by the creation of the first of the European Communities, that on Coal and Steel.


© PHOTO European Commission.

2007 is special for another reason as well -- Bulgaria and Romania joined the European family, and (it pleases the Irishwoman in me to say!) Irish finally became an official language of the European Union.

The week-end before Europe Day is a day of open doors to the European Institutions, and the public enjoy the information, the little gifts, the fun and the many multi-cultural activities laid on for them in the well-known buildings of Brussels, Luxembourg, Strasbourg and the EU Delegations and Representations elsewhere. My haiku notebook dates back to Europe Day 2004!

Text © Isabelle Prondzynski

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The 2007 Europe Day poster is here, together with its predecessors :

http://europa.eu/abc/symbols/9-may/gallery_en.htm


The great array of 2007 celebratory events can be seen here :
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What is Europe Day?

On 9 May 1950 the first move was made towards the creation of what is now known as the European Union.

In Paris that day, against the background of the threat of a Third World War engulfing the whole of Europe, the French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman read to the international press a declaration calling France, Germany and other European countries to pool together their coal and steel production as "the first concrete foundation of a European federation".

What he proposed was the creation of a supranational European Institution, charged with the management of the coal and steel industry, the very sector which was, at that time, the basis of all military power. The countries which he called upon had almost destroyed each other in a dreadful conflict which had left after it a sense of material and moral desolation.

Everything, therefore, began that day. That is why during the Milan Summit of EU leaders in 1985 it was decided to celebrate 9 May as "Europe Day".

Every country which democratically chooses to accede to the European Union endorses its fundamental values of peace and solidarity.

These values find expression through economic and social development embracing environmental and regional dimensions which are the guarantees of a decent standard of living for all citizens.
http://europa.eu/abc/symbols/9-may/euday_en.htm



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Declaration of 9 May 1950

This is the first part of the proposal, which was presented by the French foreign minister Robert Schuman and which led to the creation of what is now the European Union :

World peace cannot be safeguarded without the making of creative efforts proportionate to the dangers which threaten it. The contribution which an organized and living Europe can bring to civilization is indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. In taking upon herself for more than 20 years the role of champion of a united Europe, France has always had as her essential aim the service of peace. A united Europe was not achieved and we had war.

Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity. The coming together of the nations of Europe requires the elimination of the age-old opposition of France and Germany. Any action taken must in the first place concern these two countries. With this aim in view, the French Government proposes that action be taken immediately on one limited but decisive point.

It proposes that Franco-German production of coal and steel as a whole be placed under a common High Authority, within the framework of an organization open to the participation of the other countries of Europe. The pooling of coal and steel production should immediately provide for the setting up of common foundations for economic development as a first step in the federation of Europe, and will change the destinies of those regions which have long been devoted to the manufacture of munitions of war, of which they have been the most constant victims.

The solidarity in production thus established will make it plain that any war between France and Germany becomes not merely unthinkable, but materially impossible. The setting up of this powerful productive unit, open to all countries willing to take part and bound ultimately to provide all the member countries with the basic elements of industrial production on the same terms, will lay a true foundation for their economic unification.

More here :
http://europa.eu/abc/symbols/9-may/decl_en.htm


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Worldwide use

The national holidays and independence days of many countries are comparable festivities.

In the World Kigo Database, see

***** Independence Day worldwide
................. Independence Day (India)

***** Jamhuri Day Kenya
***** Patrick's Day (Ireland) St. Patrick's Day

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The traffic roundabout outside the main building of the European Commission in Brussels (the Berlaymont) is called Rond-Point Schuman, to honour Robert Schuman, whose far-reaching ideas set it all in motion.

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HAIKU

Europe Day --
a new haiku notebook
to take away

Europe Day --
the sound of war only
on my radio

a new
Euro coin in my purse --
Slovenian

[Slovenia joined the Euro zone in 2007]

~ Isabelle Prondzynski

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Photo © Isabelle Prondzynski

year's first pleasant dream
coming true before its end:
crossing the border!

Admittedly, this haiku needs some explanations.

In Japanese tradition the first dream one has during the year is going to influence the rest of the year. If it's a pleasant one, the year will be good. It was a practice even to sell one's auspicious dream for big money. Some legends even tell of people having their exact dream fulfilled.

In Romania this New Year's Day also meant our country joining the European Union. The first and most obvious consequence thereof was the supression of border control and of the humiliation of having to show a heap of papers and a lot of money (as a proof you had it, so they were just shown not given as a bribe) in order to be free to travel west. Thousands of people crossed the border to Hungary on foot, had a coffee in Hungary, then came back. Among them some elderly people who would never have had the money they were supposed to show...

~ Cristian Mocanu (Romania) (January 2007)

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two new faces
in the gathering round
the year's first hearth

first chorus -
this time an extra
lilt of harmony

Best wishes to all, but especially to those from our new family members (Romania and Bulgaria)!

~ Norman Darlington (January 2007)

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***** Eurovision Song Contest



This also takes place in May, is run by the European Broadcasting Union, and includes countries beyond the European Union, so that (in 2007) 42 countries will take part. The contest is held on two days, in form of a semi-final (10 May) and a final (12 May).

The event, which always attracts plenty of snide comments, is eminently watchable and enjoyable, and excitement mounts as countries send in their votes, all the way to a (usually) nail-biting finish.

The official web site is here :
http://www.eurovision.tv/


and a detailed Wikipedia write-up can be read here :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2007


eurovision --
the best song of all
is the blackbird’s

Isabelle Prondzynski, May 2007


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Croatia is set to become the 28th member state of the European Union on 1 July 2013.

Croatia applied for EU membership in 2003 and the European Commission recommended making it an official candidate in early 2004. Candidate country status was granted to Croatia by the European Council in mid-2004. The entry negotiations, while originally set for March 2005, began in October that year together with the screening process. The accession process of Croatia was complicated by the insistence of Slovenia, an EU member state, that the two countries' border issues be dealt with prior to Croatia's accession to the EU.
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this Sunday mass
as the summer purification
before entering EU

- Tomislav Maretic -
Haiku Culture Magazine, June 2013


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European Commission July 2017



Good meeting today between EU Commissioner Cecilia Malmström and Japanese Foreign Minister Kishida.
They ironed out the few remaining differences in the #EUJapan trade negotiations and recommended to leaders to confirm the agreement at the EU-Japan Summit on 6 July.

- Look at the video here
- source : facebook.com/EuropeanCommission... -

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Cheese / Käse

***** Location: Europe, worldwide
***** Season: Various, see below
***** Category: Humanity

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Explanation


Cheese has come to Japan rather late and is not included in the traditional Saijiki.
But we do have some seasonal cheese dishes from Europe and other parts of the world.

Thanks to Isabelle Prondzynski
KIGO HOTLINE


Of course we can eat cheese at any time of the year, but some just taste better in a certain season.


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Cheese is a solid food made from the milk of cows, goats, sheep and other mammals, by coagulating the milk. This is accomplished by first acidification with a bacterial culture and then employing an enzyme, rennet (or rennet substitutes) to coagulate the milk to "curds and whey."
The precise bacteria and processing of the curds play a role in defining the texture and flavor of most cheeses. Some cheeses also feature molds, either on the outer rind or throughout.

There are hundreds of types of cheese produced all over the world.

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kigo for summer


Greek feta cheese フェタチーズ
in a salad with fresh tomatoes and olive oil



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Feta is an aged crumbly cheese, commonly produced in blocks, and has a slightly grainy texture. It is used as a table cheese, as well as in salads (e.g the Greek salad), pastries and in baking, notably in the popular phyllo-based dishes spanakopita ("spinach pie") and tyropita ("cheese pie") and combined with olive oil and vegetables. It can also be served cooked or grilled, as part of a sandwich or as a salty alternative to other cheeses in a variety of dishes.
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kigo for winter



Raclette (Swiss)




Cheese fondue (Swiss)




Stracchino (Italy)

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Why had I never yet included cheese in a haiku... ...
I love cheese, so it is not that!

It must be that I have never yet thought about cheese in the context of the seasons.

In Kenya, cheese is rather good, but varieties are few, and volume is low. Cheese is simply too expensive for the large majority of Kenyans... and if it became affordable, there would not be the volume of milk to make it, Kenya having by nature insufficient reliable rainfall.

In Europe though, it struck me that some types of cheese are kigo.

Take Raclette, a gorgeous Swiss cheese which comes to our shops in winter time. Some of my friends have special electric grill-type appliances, allowing a party of 6 or 8 people to melt slices of Raclette in tiny dishes also containing hot boiled potatoes, salami, mushrooms, ham and anything else one's heart could possibly desire. Raclette and a white wine make for an entertaining evening among friends, and the heat of the cheese plus the electric heater make one feel warm right through!

Cheese fondue (also using Raclette as one of its main ingredients) is another typical winter cheese dish (and one of my top favourites!).

Raclette virtually disappears from the shops during summer time.

Another winter cheese is the Italian Stracchino, a soft mellow cheese with a very short shelf life. It does not well survive the transport routes during summer, and the Italian market traders who are the best source for this cheese in Brussels, just do not stock it then.

I cannot right now think of any summer cheeses (all of them, of course!), but perhaps the equivalent is whipped cream, such a popular addition to summer fruit such as strawberries, raspberries and redcurrants, and again for the autumn apple and blackberry crumbles and pies.

Making my mouth water!

Isabelle Prondzynski
KIGO HOTLINE

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Worldwide use

Holland





Cheese Market in Alkmaar, Kaas Markt in Alkmaar


Gouda cheese ...
my stomach scribbles
its own haiku

Here in The Netherlands, we have wat we call 'oude kaas', or old cheese, verrrrry very ripe cheese, dark yellow in colour, with a sharp taste. Very yummy, definitely. However, the fat content is 48%, which is not good for your cholesterol, especially if you're middle-aged and older, so I seldom buy it these days.

Goat cheese is also gaining in popularity. Not too long ago, our Bettina Grand Crue won the international 'Grand Prix' goat cheese competition, and if you ever visit, I can even take you to the farm where it's produced.

In The Philippines, we have what we call 'kesong puti' or 'white cheese', which is made from carabao milk. A carabao is a water buffalo, the ones with the horns that help plow the rice fields. Memory tells me that that is (for me, at least) super yummy, and unfortunately unavailable in Europe.

Back here, we also have cheese from Edam and Alkmaar, and Leerdam, and recently a new kind from Beemster.

And then you have all the imported ones -- Camembert, Brie, Danish Blue, Feta, and so on.

And now, too, a sudden memory from childhood -- cheddar cheese, as introduced by the US, usually in thick slices and often processed with ham, among others. Very heavy on the stomach.

Somehow, though, I can't think of cheese in connection with kigo because, seasonal or not, they're usually available the whole year round.

Happy eating!

Ella Wagemakers


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Japan


chiizu チーズ cheese

. History of Milk and Cheese in Japan


. So そ 蘇（そ）酥 / 蘇 milk products of the Asuka period
Nara



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Norway

Gjetost (pronounced ‘yet-oast’)
is a unique brown cheese from Norway with a fudge-like texture and a sweet caramel flavour.



It is made from a combination of milk, cream and whey which is slowly cooked until the naturally occurring sugars are caramelised, giving its distinctive colour and taste. The cheese is then cooled and set into blocks.
Gjetost was first made in the Gudbrandsdalen valley in Norway more than 130 years ago. Anne Hov, a farmer’s wife, was the first person to think of pouring cream into the kettle of whey. Her brown cheese got a higher price than her ordinary cheese and butter, and is reputed to have saved the valley from financial ruin in the 1880s.

Gjetost is best served in wafer thin slices and eaten on toast or Norwegian flatbread (very thin crackers). It is also makes a great addition to a cheese board or melted into a variety of food dishes.
http://www.norwegiancheeses.co.uk/ski_queen.htm


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Things found on the way


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HAIKU

eating feta cheese,
duct tape diffy-q's cell phone;
I spy gossamer?

©　by hazel


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Related words

***** Food from India


***** Food from Japan (Washoku Saijiki)

***** Sweets from Japan (wagashi)

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