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Place Names of the World




Utamakura, place names used in Poetry

"Poetry Pillow words" utamakura　歌枕, refers to place names used in Japanese poetry, where a kind of code with a special meaning, mood, season or other reference to history is implied.
Just mentioning YOSHINO will give the reader all the background of the Cherry Blossoms and Yoshitsune.

. Utamakura, place names used in Poetry . 　



The regional saijiki of the WKD feature also a lot of place names.

Haiku Culture Magazine sharing since 2013
. Place Names of the World .


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Here I will introduce more haiku with place names of the world.

Please google for more info about the place names.

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Chappaquiddick Island, USA


Chappaquiddick
a water strider
crosses the pond

Kay Grimnes
source : The Heron's Nest June 2004


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Mallorca, Spain


hisui-iro Majorca to no natsu no umi

emerald colour...
the summer sea of
Mallorca

Ryuseki (Susumu) Takiguchi
source : WHR, January 2011



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Windsor, England


winzaa kojo no moyuru kan no ame

cold rain ...
the old castle on fire
at Windsor

Ryuseki (Susumu) Takiguchi
source : WHR, January 2011



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Haiku Culture Magazine sharing since 2013
. Place Names of the World .

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Afganistan

- Anatolia - Turkey

Aphrodisias, named after Aphrodite - small city in Caria, Turkey.

Appalachia - North America

Arlington cemetery - USA

Arusha : Tanzania

Asansol, India





Babel, tower of babel, windows of babel
language encoding

Bahrain, Baharain -Pearl Square February 2011

Bangalore. India

Bataan Beach. Philippines - Beach. also Bataan Day

Benares, Varanasi - India . the burning ghats

Berlin Wall. Germany

Big Sheep Creek -Wallowa County, Oregon USA

Birla Planetarium

Black Forest / Schwarzwald suburb of Adelaide, Australia

Black Sea

Blue Ridge Mountains

Bombay, Mumbai . India

Boracay Beach Philippines

Bridge, bridges
Worldwide and inJapan

Brooklyn Bridge
New York, USA

Budapest


Cagsawa ruins and Mount Mayon Philippines

Chappaquiddick Island

Chennai Town India

Chesapeake Bay . USA
Bay Area, a whole saijiki

Chinese Wall, Great Wall

Chittorgarh Fort (Rajasthan) India

Christchurch Cathedral New Zealand

Colorado

Crane Canyon Regional Park California


Dachau Day, Auschwitz Day, Bergen Belsen

Danube (die Donau)

Delhi, Old Delhi, New Delhi. India

Dochula Pass, Dolchu La Bhutan

Donsol Beach. Philppines

Dunhuang, Tonko Mogao Caves


East River New York

Egypt

Eiffel Tower, Tour Eiffel, Eiffelturm Paris, France

England and Ireland, Great Britain - LIST


Florida, USA

Fountains (funsui) in a Park - trevi fountain Rome



Ganges, the Holy River Ganga. India

Ghent Festivities, Ghent Festival, Gentse Feesten  Belgium

Giza Pryamid and Egypt

Golden Gate Bridge

Grand Canyon, USA

Greenland  Denmark




Harappa / India

Hell's Gate National Park . Kenya

Himalaya : India

Indian Ocean - Kenya

Ireland, various placenames


Kabul  Afghanistan

Keats House London

Kenya, Mount Kenya. Kenya

Kibera in Kenya

Kilimanjaro . Kenya

Kisii in Nyanza district  Kenya

Korea, Kankoku   Karakuni


Littleton, NH, USA

Llocos region . Philippines

London, England

Lucknow. India




- Machu Picchu - Peru

Magadi, Lake Magadi in the Rift Valley . Kenya

Makeling, Mount Makiling, Anna Makeling . Philippines

Mallorca island

Manila, Philippines

Masinga dam  Kenya

Mayaro beach  Trinidad and Tobago

Mexico, Mexico City

Michigan  USA

Mysore. India



Nairobi City . Capital of Kenya

Nairobi, Patanisho. Kenya

Nanking lice (Nankin mushi)

Niagara Falls


Pacific Rim

Pakistan

Paris (France). Paris Festival (Parisai)

Patagonia

Pecs  Hungary, World Haiku Festival 2010

Pompei (Ponpei) Italy

Prague and Prague spring

Pune, India. (Pona, Poona)  

Pyramids of Egypt




Rhode Island. USA

Rift Valley . Kenya

Royal Mile  Edingurgh, Scotland



Sambalpur, India

Shanghai  and Peking / Beijing - China

Shasta, Mount Shasta, California

Shivaji's forts. India

Siberia

Sleshmantak ban Forest   Nepal

Socotra Island  Yemen

Soweto Stage Market, Nairobi. Kenya



Taal Lake. Philippines

Taiwan, Formosa

Taj Mahal ... "the Taj" . India

TeMPLES of Japan

TeMPLES of India

Tet, Vietnam

Tibet

Titicaca, Lake Titicaca, South America

Toronto  Canada

Towns and Cities of India

Tundra Earth

Twin Falls Snake River, USA



Venetia, Italy Venedig



Waterloo Station, Thames

Webuye . Kenya

Windsor castle England



Yangming Mountain Taiwan

Yemen, Sanaa, Aden


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