1/01/2010

. . . Place Names of the World INTRO

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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 .  


. PLACE NAMES of the WORLD - LIST


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


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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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. PLACE NAMES of the WORLD - LIST   



. WKD - LIST of haiku topics and Keywords  

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