2/06/2012

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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Mimosa Day (Russia)

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2/03/2012

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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1/13/2012

Noah's Ark

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Noah's Ark

***** Location: Europe
***** Season: Topic
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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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12/01/2011

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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10/18/2011

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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WKD . Placenames of Ireland used in Haiku


Aran jumper

currach - Irish boat


Red deer, Cervus elaphus - Fia Rua

Riverdance

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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


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6/23/2011

Golowan Festival

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Golowan Festival

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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.



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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

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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


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Galowan
a shoal of seahorses
flicker by


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4/27/2011

Portugal

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Portugal
officially the Portuguese Republic
(Portuguese: República Portuguesa)
is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira are part of Portugal. The country is named after its second largest city, Porto, whose Latin name was Portus Cale.



The land within the borders of today's Portuguese Republic has been continuously settled since prehistoric times: occupied by Celts like the Gallaeci and the Lusitanians, integrated into the Roman Republic and later settled by Germanic peoples such as the Suebi, Swabians, Vandals and the Visigoths. In the 8th century most of the Iberian Peninsula was conquered by Moorish invaders professing Islam, which were later expelled by the Knights Templar under the Order of Christ. During the Christian Reconquista, Portugal established itself as an independent kingdom from León in 1139, claiming to be the oldest European nation-state.
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菜の花や西の遥かにぽるとがる
nanohana ya nishi no haruka ni Porutogaru

rapeseed blossoms -
far away to the West
there is Portugal


. Arima Akito 有馬朗人 .

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4/09/2011

Grigorescu Nicolae

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Nicolae Grigorescu

(May 15, 1838—July 21, 1907)

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One of the founders of modern Romanian painting.

In 1877 he was called to accompany the Romanian Army as a "frontline painter" in the Romanian War of Independence. During the battles at the Grivitsa Strongpoint and Oryahovo, he made drawings and sketches which later used in creating larger-scale works.

In 1889 his work was featured in the Universal Exhibition in Paris and at the Romanian Atheneum. Centerpiece exhibits took place at the Romanian Atheneum would follow in 1891, 1895, 1897, 1902, and 1905.

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Romanian village life
captured on canvas -
Nicolae Grigorescu


Alex Serban, Romania

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4/06/2011

Coanda Henri

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Henri Coanda

7 June 1886 – 25 November 1972

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Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer and builder of an experimental aircraft, the Coandă-1910 described by Coandă in the mid-1950s as the world's first jet, a controversial claim disputed by some and supported by others.
He invented a great number of devices, designed a "flying saucer" and discovered the Coandă effect of fluid dynamics.

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cold drops
embraces the fuselage in flight
Henri Coanda


Alex Serban, Romania


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3/10/2011

Kundera, Milan Kundera

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Milan Kundera

ミラン・クンデラ

Born 1 April 1929

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Milan Kundera is a Czech-born writer who has lived in exile in France since 1975. He is best known for his novels, including The Joke (1967), The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), all of which were banned by the Communist regimes of Czechoslovakia until the downfall of the regime in 1989.
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Haiku and Senryu


first day of spring
reading Milan Kundera
while mid-air

Chen-ou Liu
Canada

Note:
This poem is my FIRST Sci-Fi haiku, alluding to Milan Kundera's most famous philosophical novel entitled The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
The book is about "two men, two women, a dog and their lives in the Prague Spring of the Czechoslovak Communist period in 1968."





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summer dawn...
all that remains
of Prague Spring


Chen-ou Liu
Canada

Note:
On Aug. 20, 1968, the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations invaded zechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring" reform movement.


The Prague Spring
(Czech: Pražské jaro, Slovak: Pražská jar)
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