Martenitsa Bulgaria

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Martenitsa

***** Location: Bulgaria
***** Season: Spring
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Martenitsa (Bulgarian: мартеница, pronounced [ˈmartɛnit͡sa]; plural мартеници martenitsi)
is a small piece of adornment, made of white and red yarn and worn from March 1 until around the end of March (or the first time an individual sees a stork, swallow, or budding tree).

The name of the holiday is Baba Marta. "Baba" (баба) is the Bulgarian word for "grandmother" and Mart (март) is the Bulgarian word for the month of March.
Baba Marta is a Bulgarian tradition related to welcoming the upcoming spring. The month of March, according to Bulgarian folklore, marks the beginning of springtime. Therefore, the first day of March is a traditional holiday associated with sending off winter and welcoming spring.



The same tradition is also held by those in the Republic of Macedonia, as well as in Greek Macedonia and Patras in the Peloponnese.
Romanians also have a similar but not identical holiday on March 1, called "Mărţişor". If and how these two holidays are related is still a matter of debate between ethnologists.
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back from a meeting --
on my keybord waits
a martenitsa





comparing
our martenitsa --
office fun







photos and haiku by
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March 2012



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Aurel Vlaicu

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Aurel Vlaicu

November 19, 1882 – September 13, 1913
was a Romanian engineer, inventor, airplane constructor and early pilot.



Aurel Vlaicu was born in Binţinţi (now renamed Aurel Vlaicu), Geoagiu, Transylvania. He attended Calvinist High School in Orăştie (renamed "Liceul Aurel Vlaicu" in his honour in 1919) and took his Baccalaureate in Sibiu in 1902. He furthered his studies at Technical University of Budapest and Technische Hochschule München in Germany, earning his engineer's diploma in 1907.

After working at Opel car factory in Rüsselsheim, he returned to Binţinţi and built a glider he flew in the summer of 1909. Later that year, he moved to Bucharest, in the Kingdom of Romania, where he began the construction of Vlaicu Nr. I airplane; it flew for the first time on June 17, 1910.

With his Vlaicu Nr. II model, built in 1911, Aurel Vlaicu won several prizes summing 7,500 Austro-Hungarian krone (for precise landing, projectile throwing and tight flying around a pole) in 1912 at Aspern Air Show near Vienna, where he competed against 42 other aviators of the day, including Roland Garros.

Aurel Vlaicu died in 1913 near Câmpina while attempting to cross in flight the Carpathian Mountains in his aged Vlaicu II airplane.
He is buried at the Bellu cemetery, in Bucharest.



Vlaicu was posthumously elected to the Romanian Academy in 1948.
Bucharest City Airport in Băneasa was named after him.

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Haiku and Senryu

Aurel Vlaicu was a Romanian engineer, inventor, airplane constructor and early pilot.
He died on Semptember 13, 1913,
testing a airplane, crossing the Carphatian Mountains.


Aurel Vlaicu
crossing the Carpathians
viewing the abyss

Alex Serban, Romania


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Karl Marx

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Karl Marx

Karl Heinrich Marx
(5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883)
was a German-Jewish philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement. He published various books during his lifetime, with the most notable being
The Communist Manifesto (1848) and
Capital (1867–1894);
some of his works were co-written with his friend, the fellow German revolutionary socialist Friedrich Engels.


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Capital, Volume I (1867),
by Karl Marx,
is a critical analysis of capitalism as political economy, meant to reveal the economic laws of the capitalist mode of production, how it was the precursor of the socialist mode of production, and of the class struggle rooted in the capitalist social relations of production. The first of three volumes of Das Kapital, Kritik der politischen Ökonomie (Capital: Critique of Political Economy) was published on 14 September 1867, and was the sole volume published in Marx's lifetime.
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. Karl Marx .

カール・ハインリヒ・マルクス

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Haiku and Senryu

in the bank locker
my legacy to my daughter -
Marx's Das Kapital


mid-life crisis--
I settle on
Marx's Das Kapital

Manu Kant
Joys of Japan, February 2012


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Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens

(7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870)



Charles John Huffam Dickens

English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic novels and characters.

Many of his writings were originally published serially, in monthly instalments, a format of publication which Dickens himself helped popularise. Unlike other authors who completed novels before serialisation, Dickens often created the episodes as they were being serialised. The practice lent his stories a particular rhythm, punctuated by cliffhangers to keep the public looking forward to the next instalment.The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they have never gone out of print.

Dickens's work has been highly praised for its realism, comedy, mastery of prose, unique personalities and concern for social reform, by writers such as Leo Tolstoy, George Orwell and G. K. Chesterton; though others, such as Henry James and Virginia Woolf, have criticised it for melodrama, sentimentality and implausibility.

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google logo in February 7, 2012

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Prince Charles leads tributes
on Charles Dickens' 200th birthday

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Duchess of Cornwall and many of the writer's descendants joined Prince Charles for a service at Westminster Abbey, with the heir to the throne describing the Oliver Twist creator as 'one of the greatest writers of the English language'.

Actor Ralph Fiennes, who is set to star in an adaptation of Great Expectations, read an extract from classic novel Bleak House before the congregation laid a wreath at Poets' Corner where Dickens was buried in 1870.
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Haiku and Senryu


Charles Dickens
in a bookstore window...
homeless youth's gaze

Chen-ou Liu
Canada


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Charles Dickens' birthday
few have great expectations
in these hard times

Armando H. Corbelle (Catbird 55)


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Russia

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Russia
(Russian: Россия, tr. Rossiya; , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation
(Russian: Российская Федерация, tr. Rossiyskaya Federatsiya; ), is a country in northern Eurasia.
It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects.
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Russian on-line HAIKU magazine "Ulitka"

The on-line magazine ULITKA (the SNAIL),
published both in Russian and in English, is dedicated to the entire variety of haikai genres, predominantly to the haiku poetry. The main objective of the magazine is to familiarize its readers with the selected works of the Russian-speaking poets, as well as with the works of the most interesting authors writing in other languages.
We also plan to publish reviews, essays, critical and research articles on subjects related to haikai.



Интернет-журнал УЛИТКА, выходящий на русском и английском языках, ориентирован на современное многообразие жанров искусства хайкай, и прежде всего на поэзию хайку. Основная цель издания - знакомить читателя с творчеством русскоязычных поэтов, а также с произведениями наиболее интересных авторов, пишущих на других языках.
Редакция планирует также публиковать обзорные, критические, теоретические статьи и эссе на темы хайкай.

...................... Editors of ULITKA

Dmitry Kudrya Владислав Васильев
Alexander Kudryashov
Natalia Levy
Natalia Sedenkova
Vladislav Vassiliev
Elina Vitomskaya

January 2006
http://www.ulitka.haiku-do.com/

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Хайкумена Рунета
http://haiku-do.com/

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Russian Haiku
by Eugene Wasserstrom
Russian haiku resists definitions.
Like primordial soup it defies geography and structure. Bound only by its language and the Internet it finds ways to mix Russian literary tradition with Japanese style and Western logic. Not unlike many who are taken by this poetry, the Russian haiku community has yet to establish a boundary between haiku and senryu, between real and imagined, between self and the world. Everything, good or bad, is possible in this virtual thought environment that sometimes reminds me of Solaris, the planet-mind from the Stanislaw Lem science fiction novel.

From early translations of Japanese classics and occasional publications in secondary literary magazines Russian haiku sprang on the Internet, appearing first on Alexei Andreev's http://www.haiku.ru. His article "What is haiku?" still serves as a reference point for many Russian haijin.
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KANKODORI - Haikai and Sumi-e by Origa
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Buddhist Temple 'Datsan Gunzechoinei'
in St.Petersburg, Russia



'The Buddha's Temple on the Neva Banks'.
Exhibition
Andrei Marhotin
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cold snap in Europe -
watching Born in USSR
on a Russian channel


origami airplane--
post-Soviet Russia
light years away


with ex-Soviet friends -
for a second
we re-create the Soviet Union


talking after ages--
my ex-Soviet girl talks
of rich-poor divide


with my ex-Soviet girl--
her increasing use of the words
rich & poor




Lenin pin-
all that is left of the Soviet past
as far as I go





watching The Sum Of All Fears
Russia even now
not more than a Hollywood flick



Good Friday--
Stalin notebooks cause a furor
in Russia

Manu Kant
Joys of Japan, 2012



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***** Shrovetide - Maslenitsa

***** White Night Polar Circle

***** Women's Day International Women's Day,
Mimosa Day (Russia)

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Ion Luca Caragiale

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Ion Luca Caragiale



7 June 1886 – 25 November 1972
Haimanale, județul Prahova, Țara Românească, astăzi I. L. Caragiale, județul Dâmbovița, România – d. 9 iunie 1912, Berlin) a fost un dramaturg, nuvelist, pamfletar, poet, scriitor, director de teatru, comentator politic și ziarist român, de origine greacă. Este considerat a fi cel mai mare dramaturg român și unul dintre cei mai importanți scriitori români.
A fost ales membru post-mortem al Academiei Române.


commonly referred to as I. L. Caragiale;
February 13 , 1852 – July 9, 1912
was a Wallachian-born Romanian playwright, short story writer, poet, theater manager, political commentator and journalist. He is considered one of the greatest Romanian playwrights and writers, a leading representative of local humor, and a main representative of Junimea, an influential literary society with which he parted during the second half of his life.

Caragiale's work, spanning four decades, covers the ground between Neoclassicism, Realism, and Naturalism, building on an original synthesis of foreign and local influences. His plays constituted an important venue for criticism of late 19th-century Romanian society, while in later works of fiction Caragiale adopted the fantasy genre or turned to historical fiction.
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Mr. Goe
by I. L. Caragiale (1852-1912)

So that he could finally be promoted at the end of this school year, grandma, mommy and aunty Mitsa promised to take the young Goe to Bucharest on the King’s anniversary, the 10th of May.



Little do we care if the three dames decide to leave their comfortable spot to come to the capital just to please their son and nephew. It suffices to say that in the early morning, on the central station’s platform in the town of X, the dames, all dressed-up, along with the young Goe, are impatiently waiting for the fast train that is supposed to take them to Bucharest. It is true that once one has decided to assist to such an important national celebration, one must make an early start. The train that they are going to get reaches the north station at ten to eight a.m. Mr. Goe is impatient and he argues in a commanding voice:

read the end HERE
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Caragiale-
write a telegram
to Mister Goe

Alex Serban, Romania


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Noah's Ark

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Noah's Ark

***** Location: Europe
***** Season: Topic
***** Category: Humanity

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Noah's Ark
(Hebrew: תיבת נח‎, Teyvat Noaḥ in Classical Hebrew)
is a vessel appearing in the Book of Genesis (chapters 6–9) and the Quran (surahs Hud and Al-Mu’minoon). These narratives describe the construction of a large, seagoing ark by the Patriarch Noah at God's command to save himself, his family, and the world's animals from the worldwide deluge of the Great Flood.



In the narrative of the ark, God sees the wickedness of man and is grieved by his creation, resolving to send a great flood to cleanse the Earth. However, God chooses a man named Noah and "counted it righteous to him" to live and preserve mankind through Noah's family.
God then proceeds to give Noah detailed instructions on how to build the ark. When Noah and the animals are safe on board, God sends the Flood, which rises until all the mountains are covered and all life on Earth is destroyed. At the height of the flood, the ark rests on mountaintops, before the waters recede and dry land reappears.

Noah, his family, and the animals leave the ark to repopulate the Earth. God places a symbolic rainbow in the sky and makes a covenant with Noah and all living things, by which he vows to never again send a flood to destroy the Earth.

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Die Arche Noah


noa no hakobune ノアの箱舟


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Noah's ark
animal house
party time

Ben Gieske : poemhunter


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吹雪かれてノアの方舟めく客車
fubuki karete noa no hakobune meku kyakusha

snow blizzard stops
a passenger train looking like
Noah’s Ark

Tayu Misaki 田湯岬
Tr. Fay Aoyagi


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Christa Wolf

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Christa Wolf

(* 18. März 1929 in Landsberg an der Warthe
als Christa Ihlenfeld;
† 1. Dezember 2011 in Berlin)



deutsche Schriftstellerin.

Christa Wolf wurde 1929 als Tochter des Kaufmanns Otto Ihlenfeld in Landsberg an der Warthe, heute Gorzów Wielkopolski, Polen, geboren. Sie besuchte dort bis kurz vor Kriegsende die Schule. Nach der Flucht vor den anrückenden sowjetischen Truppen fand die Familie 1945 vorerst in Mecklenburg eine neue Heimat. Wolf arbeitete als Schreibhilfe beim Bürgermeister des Dorfes Gammelin bei Schwerin. Sie beendete die Oberschule 1949 mit dem Abitur in Bad Frankenhausen und trat im selben Jahr in die SED ein, deren Mitglied sie bis zu ihrem Austritt im Juni 1989 blieb. Von 1949 bis 1953 studierte sie Germanistik in Jena und Leipzig, unter anderem bei Hans Mayer.

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Anfang der 1990er Jahre wurde bekannt, dass Wolf von 1959 bis 1962 als „IM Margarete“ beim Ministerium für Staatssicherheit der DDR geführt worden war. Sie hatte drei Berichte verfasst, die allerdings ein ausschließlich positives Bild der betroffenen Personen zeichneten. Entsprechend beklagte die Stasi in internen Aufzeichnungen von 1962 Wolfs „Zurückhaltung“ in der Zusammenarbeit und begann nunmehr, die Autorin selbst umfangreich zu überwachen – ein Zustand, der bis zum Ende der DDR anhielt. Auf die Frage, warum sie trotzdem in der DDR geblieben sei, antwortete sie, dass ihre Leser sie dort gebraucht hätten.

... Im Jahr 1951 heiratete sie den Schriftsteller Gerhard Wolf. Ein Jahr später wurde ihre erste Tochter Annette geboren, vier Jahre danach die zweite Tochter.

Christa Wolf starb am 1. Dezember 2011 nach schwerer Krankheit, wie ihr Verlag Suhrkamp mitteilte.
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Haiku and Senryu

slanted moonlight
on The Quest for Christa T. ...
wailing siren


Chen-ou Liu
Canada

Note:
Christa Wolf was one of Germany's most influential postwar writers,ﾂ and her works have chronicled life in the former East Germany. She built her literary reputation with Divided Heaven, and The Quest for Christa T. successfully explored the tension between the harsh demands of society and the unquenchable desire of the protagonist for individuality.



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Ireland SAIJIKI

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This saijiki is under construction.
Please help with your info and contributions!

Gabi Greve




Ireland
is the third-largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islets. To the east of Ireland, separated by the Irish Sea, is the island of Great Britain. Politically, the sovereign country of Ireland (described as the Republic of Ireland) covers five-sixths of the island, with Northern Ireland (part of the United Kingdom) covering the remainder in the north-east.
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And for some fun, an external LINK to the "seasons" or Ireland
This is the new guide to the Irish seasons. All other references to 'Spring', 'Autumn' etc are now obsolete and we will be moving forward with this new EU model.
Cold wet season, summers, warmer wet season (tourist season)...
New season guide issued by the Irish Gubbermint.
18 September 2009


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... ... ... SPRING

Ash Wednesday

Brigid's Day (Ireland) St. Brigid

Daffodil, Narcissus and Jonquils

Gorse, Ginster furze

Hazel catkins

Honeysuckle - Féithleann Lonicera periclymenum

Mothering Sunday, Laetare

Mummers

Passionflowers

Patrick's Day (Ireland) St. Patrick's Day


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... ... ... SUMMER

Ant, Ants

Cemetery Sunday Ireland (Roman Catholic parishes)

Cornflower

Cotoneaster

Gooseberry

Meadowsweet

Redcurrants

Tarweed

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... ... ... AUTUMN

All Saints’ Day

All Souls’ Day

Bog grasses

Cormorant

Harvest Thanksgiving (Christian communities) Harvest Festival

River mist

Rubber plant

Samhain Festival

Sceach (in Hiberno-English: whitehorn bush)
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Thistle in autumn


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... ... ... WINTER

Hot Whiskey (Toddy, Irish Coffee)

January Sales

Stephen’s Day

Storm, Gale

Winter Solstice, Newgrange

Yule (winter solstice)

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... ... ... Non-seasonal TOPICS


WKD . Placenames of Ireland used in Haiku


Aran jumper

currach - Irish boat


Red deer, Cervus elaphus - Fia Rua

Riverdance

turf, cutting turf and sleán spade


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................................................... General Information


Gilles Fabre, Haiku Ireland

HAIKU IRELAND has been established by a group of haiku poets based in Ireland who share the same aims and accept the operating rules.
Membership is open to any persons who share our aims.

HAIKU IRELAND organises regular haiku events such as ginko, workshops, haiku readings and other events relating to haiku. Please see the notice board for information about upcoming events.

http://www.haikuireland.org/


Thanks to webmaster Gilles Fabre, the "Haiku Spirit" begun by Jim Norton and Sean O'Connor lives in a new form.
The site includes contributions in French and English.
http://haikuspirit.org/

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Irish Haiku Society

The Irish Haiku Society is an association of haiku poets. The Irish Haiku Society organises haiku meetings, readings, book-launches, workshops, ginko and other haiku-related events.

The following haiku poets are currently on the Board of the Irish Haiku Society:
Patrick Deeley, Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Siofra O'Donovan, Martin Vaughan.

HAIKU WORKSHOPS
held in the Irish Writers' Centre, December 2006

Irish Haiku Society, January 2007

Shamrock Haiku Journal
http://www.freewebs.com/shamrockhaiku

Read more details HERE.
December 2006

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The "Double Rainbow" Haiku Workshop

This workshop, led by leading Irish haiku poet Maeve O’Sullivan with input from guest haiku-ists Kim Richardson and John W. Sexton is a chance for those who are drawn to the haiku form to deepen that interest.
http://www.anamcararetreat.com/workshops.html#index

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Inspiration from the people of Ireland …

United by peace
Protestants, Catholics, claim
Green, White and Orange!

© 2002 Manes Pierre
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new leaf buds -
mummers dance and play
house to house

Elaine Andre

MUMMERS - a vanishing custom held each St Stephens day in rural parts of Ireland where local musicians visited each family in the area and spent an hour or two playing music before moving to the next family.
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recession
must we again leave
on those big ships

- Shared by John Byrne -
Haiku Culture Magazine, 2013




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***** Europa Saijiki, Saijiki of Europe


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Golowan Festival

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Golowan Festival

***** Location: England
***** Season: Mid-Summer
***** Category: Observance

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Explanation

Golowan (sometimes also Goluan or Gol-Jowan)
is the Cornish language word for the Midsummer celebrations in Cornwall, UK: widespread prior to the late 19th century and most popular in the Penwith area and in particular Penzance and Newlyn. The celebrations were conducted
from the 23rd of June (St John's Eve)
to the 28th of June (St Peter's Eve)
each year, St Peter's Eve being the more popular in Cornish fishing communities.



The celebrations were centred around the lighting of bonfires and fireworks and the performance of associated rituals. The midsummer bonfire ceremonies (Tansys Golowan in Cornish) were revived at St Ives in 1929 by the Old Cornwall Society and since then spread to other societies across Cornwall, as far as Kit Hill near Callington. Since 1991 the Golowan festival in Penzance has revived many of these ancient customs and has grown to become a major arts and culture festival: its central event 'Mazey Day' now attracts tens of thousands of people to the Penzance area in late June.

1 The historic festival
1.1 Penzance
1.2 St Peter's Eve
1.3 St Just
2 Similar festivals
3 Modern Golowan celebrations
3.1 Penglaz the Penzance 'Obby 'Oss
3.2 Old Cornwall Society

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Midsummer’s Day is the church feast of St John The Baptist, an important day in Penzance’s calendar as St John is the town’s Patron Saint – the ancient name ‘Pen Sans’ meaning ‘Holy Head’ refers to him, and images of the head of St John can be spotted on buildings throughout Penzance.



source : www.golowan.org


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Worldwide use

Japan

observance kigo for mid-summer

sei Yohanne sai 聖ヨハネ祭 (せいよはねさい)
Feast of Saint John
..... senja sei Yohanne sai 洗者聖ヨハネ祭（せんじゃせいよはねさい）
Feast of Saint John the Baptist
..... senja sei Yohanne tanjoobi 洗者聖ヨハネ誕生日（せんじゃせいよはねたんじょうび）
birthdy of Saint John, the Baptist

der Heilige Johannes der Täufer

. Christian Celebrations in Japanese Kigo .


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HAIKU



Blue Horses stampede
Through Penzance’s crowded streets
Festival time again



My blue horses
Leaving hoof prints of friendship
Cornwall to Japan

The main street of Penzance, Cornwall, during the "Mazey Day Parade" which is part of the annual Golowan Festival!
Lots of Schools and Associations build floats to push/carry through the streets. There are also marching bands and dancers in the parade.

Shared by Res John Burman
Joys of Japan, February 2012



Golowan Festival -
your blue horses
on my white sceen

Gabi Greve


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Galowan
a shoal of seahorses
flicker by

Susan Shand



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***** . Festivals - SAIJIKI .

***** . Sanziana, Yellow Bedstraw (Galium verum) .
Midsummer Rituals in Romania



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