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Words with no explicit seasonal context used in haiku have been labeled in many ways：

keywords, non-seasonal topics, all-season topics,
miscellaneous haiku: zakku 雑句; zappai　雑俳
haiku without a season word : muki, mu-ki, muki no ku, muki haiku
無季, 無季の句, 無季俳句 ...
"free format haiku" as used by the Shiki Monthly Kukai
context-setting words, cultural keywords (like place names, personal names etc)

... problematic terms (these should NOT be used):
all season kigo, all year kigo (!), quite a contradiction in terms,
since KI 季 means season.
all season nature word
... "muki kigo" "no-season season word", "seasonless season word"
"muki-kigo" "non-season season word" (!) ...

nature words

A word of caution:
Words introduced in ALL YEAR or MISCELLANEOUS sections of a saijiki are not kigo, but all-year haiku topics.

Here is a discussion about the use of "all year haiku topics",
NOT "all year kigo", listed in "Haiku World" :
- - - non-seasonal topics by Bill Higginson

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Any word can become a topic for haiku, if used by a haiku poet.
They can be further classified by the seven categories of haiku.
The haiku kigo categories of
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contain cultural keywords


An allusion
is a reference to, or representation of, a place, event, literary work, myth, or work of art, either directly or by implication.

. Allusion and CULTURAL KEYWORDS 　

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Topics and Cultural Keywords - ABC List

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. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .

. Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 .

. Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 .


- - - - - Cultural Keywords and Topics related to
Shinto Shrines and Buddhist Temples
. Japan - Shrines and Temples .

- - - - - Cultural Keywords and Topics related to the Town of Edo
. - - - Welcome to Edo　江戸 ! .

- - - - - Personal Names used as Cultural Keywords
. Persons, Personen - ABC Main List .

- - - - - Cultural Keywords and Topics of worldwide saijiki
. WKD : Regional Kigo Lists and Saijiki .
from Alaska to Yemen

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non-seasonal topic
not to mix with

. kidai 季題 seasonal topic .
kisetsu no dai　季節の題

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If you combine a haiku topic with a kigo, you get one big step closer to a traditional Japanese haiku !

Without, your poem might read more like a Senryu, Zappai, others ... .

Many groups now accept "haiku without kigo" (muki haiku), so you have to check with your group, editor or haiku teacher for details of classifications and definitions.
We also have poetic categories like "short poetry in the Japanese style", "short lyrics", "free verse" and many more.

micropoetry
twaiku, twihaiku (twitter haiku, twitter poetry)
concise poetry

More adjectives for classifying "HAIKU" :

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The Season of 'No-Season' in Contemporary Haiku:
The Modern Haiku Association Muki-Kigo Saijiki
Richard Gilbert et al

In this paper, we would like to offer the reader an introductory look at the most unique of the five volumes, the 'no-season' or Muki Saijiki, which represents a great innovation in modern haiku.
Simply Haiku, Summer 2006


現代俳句歳時記 　無季
Gendai Haiku Saijiki / Muki
Modern Haiku Saijiki / "No Season"
..... meaning haiku without a season word or haiku without a seasonal reference



無季（天文,地理,人間,生活,文化,動植物）
http://www.7andy.jp/books/detail?accd=31376818

Detailed discussion about the terminology
"no-season season word" MUKI-KIGO
and MUKI-KIGO SAIJIKI


List of non-seasonal haiku words from the "Gendai Haiku Saijiki / Volume "No Season"
A very long and useful PDF file.


The Online Japanese Modern Haiku Database
現代俳句データベース lists
12684 haiku with a kigo and
150 without a kigo (a lot of them by Kaneko Tohta), as of March 2007.
These numbers speak for themselves, I think !
季語が「無季」の俳句
Modern Haiku Database

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Translating Haiku

Discussion Forum for Haiku Translations, by Gabi Greve

Kumarajiva, the Translator 　鳩摩羅什

. Copyright Policy .



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List of Season Words, from The SHIKI Haiku Salon


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. . . . SPRING
the complete SAIJIKI

. . . . SUMMER
the complete SAIJIKI

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the complete SAIJIKI

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the complete SAIJIKI

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KIGO CATEGORY : SEASON


. SEASON SAIJIKI
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. . . Deities of the Four Seasons


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KIGO CATEGORY : HEAVEN


. HEAVEN SAIJIKI
Introduction and ABC list 　



. HEAVEN in SPRING - SAIJIKI

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KIGO CATEGORY : EARTH


. EARTH SAIJIKI
Introduction and ABC list 　


. EARTH in Spring ... SAIJIKI

. EARTH in Summer ... SAIJIKI 　　

. EARTH in Autumn ... SAIJIKI 　

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KIGO CATEGORY : OBSERVANCE

Ceremonies and Festivals Saijiki
Buddhist, Shinto and other Japanese Events Saijiki


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KIGO CATEGORY : HUMANITY

Humanity and Daily Life ... kigo for all seasons


Memorial Days of Famous People, Celebrities .....
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KIGO CATEGORY : ANIMALS


. Animals in Spring ... SAIJIKI 　

. Animals in Summer ... SAIJIKI 　

. Animals in Autumn ... SAIJIKI 　

. Animals in Winter ... SAIJIKI 　

. Animals in the New Year ... SAIJIKI 　

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Bird Saijiki


Fish and Seafood Saijiki Saijiki


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KIGO CATEGORY : PLANTS

. Plants in Spring 　

. Plants in Summer

. Plants in Autumn

. Plants in Winter

. Plants in the New Year

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Vegetable Saijiki 野菜歳時記 Yasai Saijiki


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Placenames PLACE NAMES used in Haiku Japan and Worldwide
Ortsnamen, utamakura

Sweets Saijiki 和菓子歳時記 Wagashi Saijiki

Tea Ceremony Saijiki 茶道の歳時記　


WASHOKU ... Japanese Food Saijiki





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Sunset at Shiraishi Island, 2008


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Masaoka Shiki - from Bungo to Nihongo
(1867, October 14 - 1902, September 19)　


Selected Poems of Masaoka Shiki
Translated by Janine Beichman

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Centenary of the Death of Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902)
... Shiki expresses himself to us, in a simple and sincere voice, as though talking with the reader in private. By using the language of everyday life he raises it to a literary rank.
Masaoka Shiki’s literary carrier burst into literature when the majority of authors were copying limitlessly the European and American literature of the Meiji restoration period. His poetical style was the shasei, meaning “drawing from life”.
Using this informal, spoken language, he dared to denounce the importance of going back to the traditional roots of Japanese poetry, calling it a source in the process of defining modern Japanese modes of expression.
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Shiki lived in a time of great changes and reforms in Japan.
After the opening of the country to the "West", the Japanese had to deal with new ideas on every level.
One of them was the Japanese language itself.

The use of BUNGO 文語 had been common for written texts. It had a grammar and vocabulary of its own and made use of difficult Kanji characters.

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The Classical Japanese language
(文語 Bungo, literally "Literary language"),
also called "Old writing" (古文 Kobun), is the literary form of the Japanese language that was the standard until the early Shōwa period (1926–89).
It is based on Early Middle Japanese, the language as spoken during the Heian period (794–1185), but exhibits some later influences.
Its use started to decline during the late Meiji period (1868–1912) when novelists started writing their works in the spoken form.
Eventually,
the spoken style came into widespread use, including in major newspapers, but many official documents were still written in the old style. After the end of World War II because of the Surrender of Japan, most documents switched to the spoken style, although the classical style continues to be used in traditional genres, such as haiku and waka. Old laws are also left in the classical style unless fully revised.
..... Old character forms (旧字体 Kyūjitai)
變 → 変 (hen "strange")
體 → 体 (karada "body")
眞 → 真 (makoto "truth")
..... Historical kana usage (歴史的仮名遣 Rekishi-teki kana-zukai)
..... Geminate (促音 Sokuon) rule
In 1946, the simplified 当用漢字 Toyo Kanji were declared official.
..... and more details are here:
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Shiki was a strong advocate of the simpler form of every-day life of the Japanese language, so that anybody could write poetry or prose to express himself.
He wanted "the people" to write poems, not just an educated elite with an education in poetry, history and Chinese influence on Japanese writing.

He did not change the three conditions of a hokku
- 5 7 5
- one kireji (cut marker)
- one kigo (season word)

He advocated poetry meetings where people could write single, individual poems, not the first set of a renku linked verse.
And all they had to do was look around them and write about it (shasei at its simplest).

He advocated a change in the use of the language, and thus
re-named 発句　hokku to 俳句　haiku.

It reminds me of the modern translations of the Bible, which use a much different language than the first "translations".


俳句は季題を詠む詩である。
Haiku is poetry
that expresses itself through season words.

Masaoka Shiki 正岡子規

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A "Sketch from Life" was One of Shiki's Many Techniques
Masaoka Shiki: the Misunderstood Reformer, Critic and Poet
. Carmen Sterba, 2011 .

(1) to "pay more attention to lesser-known locales" rather than famous places,
(2) to walk and observe nature, but afterwards write at home,
(3) to focus on "material and theme in a way that will reveal [your] individuality,"
(4) to read other's haiku to be informed, and
(5) to know something of the history of tanka (originally called waka).

Ueda also suggests that Basho wrote about the "beauty of external nature" and Shiki wrote haiku based on "internal, psychological reality of what is truthful (makoto)."




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History of Magazines in Japan: 1867-1988
The first magazine of Japan was Seiyo-Zasshi, or Western Magazine, published in October 1867 by a scholar Shunzo Yanagawa. That was ten and some pages wood printed booklet, and six issues had been public until it closed in September 1869. Since then, the term Zasshi has been used for the translation of magazine.
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The efforts to make Japanese haiku accessible to more Japanese people
is going on.

. Local Japanese Kigo (chiboo kigo 地貌季語) .
Collecting regional kigo, sometimes even in dialect, from rural areas of Japan.
Natural phenomenon are included, and more interesting, the local festivals, food and other necessities of the daily life.
There are now quite a few regional Saijiki.

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The following poem came to my attention a few days ago.

. Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 (1715-1783) .

薬盗む女やは有おぼろ月
kusuri nusumu onna ya ha aru oborozuki

A woman has
stolen the elixir of life
the hazy moon
Tr. Allan Persinger


This is a poem that can not be understood without a detailed knowledge of things Chinese.
This is just the kind of poem that Shiki would have rejected.

The background of this story is here
. Lady Chang-O, The Moon Lady .
Jooga 嫦娥 Joga, Chang'e
Kooga 姮娥（こうが）Koga, Heng'e


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Here is a haiku by Shiki himself, when he was too ill to get up any more.
He could only look at his front garden.

"teizen　庭前"　Front　Garden

鶏頭の十四五本もありぬべし
keitoo no juushigohon mo arinubeshi

there must be
about fourteen or fifteen
cockscombs . . .
Tr. Gabi Greve



In a recent documentary about the life of Shiki, I saw the cockscombs in his garden, a flower he liked very much. When he could not move around any more, his sister, who cared for him lovingly, planted the flowers a bit closer to the veranda.
Later, when he had to be in bed all the time, she re-planted them again so that he could still see them when he uplifted his upper body, holding on to a crutch under his arm. Counting the blossoms was one of his daily joys in his sickbed.

When he became completely bedridden, she replanted many flowers, including the hechima gourds, directly on the veranda in pots, so he could see them while lying on his back in bed.
- Gabi Greve, January 2010 -


More translations and background of this poem in my blog:
. keitoo 鶏頭 (けいとう) Cockscomb .

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Rorschach Test


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Rorschach joys -
a frog jumps
into the ink pot


Rorschach joys -
kawazu tobikomu
sumi no ike

Gabi Greve

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The Rorschach test, also known as the Rorschach inkblot test, the Rorschach technique, or simply the inkblot test) is a psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both. Some psychologists use this test to examine a person's personality characteristics and emotional functioning. It has been employed to detect underlying thought disorder, especially in cases where patients are reluctant to describe their thinking processes openly.
The test is named after its creator, Swiss psychologist Hermann Rorschach.
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from the friends on facebook - for this image




i the faces of ghost warriors... backs of crabs!

Dennis Chibi



a headdress
for the Doge's masked ball -
Gaga Mardi Gras
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ecstasy . . .
as dervishes collide
in their dance

Elaine Andre




watching a splatter
of mud on the wall... each child
sees something else
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pidgeon dropings
on the windshield –
so many forms!

Tomislav Maretic




amid exploding rocks
trapeze artists

Abigail Friedman




two dancers coming together
in joy!

Susan Diridoni




The new millennium,
Pacman with an
attitude gnaws
through old memories.

James Karkoski




locker room
slam dunk in mirror
march madness

Charlie Smith




skull MRI
butterfly eggs readying
to hatch

Stella Pierides





moon viewing
through a telescope
evening rain

Michael Rehling




postcard from Oz
having a wonderful time
with flying monkeys

Jimmy ThePeach




angels
after a good deed -
chest bumb

Jerry Dreesen


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Rocking Horse

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rocking horse

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A rocking horse is a child's toy, usually shaped like a horse and mounted on rockers similar to a rocking chair.


Predecessors of the rocking horse may be seen in the rocking cradle, the tilting seats used during the Middle Ages for jousting practice as well as the wheeled hobby horse. The toy in its current form did not appear before the 17th century, though some conflicting sources note medieval manuscripts including references to carved rocking horses, presumably of the toy kind.
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Schaukelpferd

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pasta strainer
impromptu cowboy hat –
spaghetti western

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a cold wind
dead child’s horse
rocks by itself

George Swede
In Swede’s haiku, the rocking horse isn’t as symbolic as it is a haunting reminder that the child that once played there is gone. The horse rocks from the cold wind (and the fact that the wind is cold has a particular haunting feeling attached to it, as well) because the child is no longer there to rock on the horse himself/herself.
http://performance.millikin.edu/haiku/research/SwedeDunphy.html


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early spring
the wind plays alone
on the rocking horse

Virginie Colline
http://www.inksweatandtears.co.uk/pages/?cat=10

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dusty attic—
the old rocking horse
without any eyes

Michael Dylan Welch.
https://sites.google.com/site/graceguts/haiku-and-senryu/traces-of-snow

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child's rocking horse
in the morning it was gone
hoofprints in dew damp grass

gennepher
http://hikoo.net/haiku/169787

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We whinny and neigh,
two rocking horses grazing
the pasture of porch

Adrian Rice
http://griffinpoetry.com/tag/haiku/

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on a rocking horse
my journey
thousand years from the south

Jacob Kobina
http://simplyhaiku.com/SHv7n4/haiku/a2.html

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lighthouse (toodai　灯台 / 燈台)

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Japan has a long shoreline with many capes and many lighthouses.

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A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and used as an aid to navigation for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.

Lighthouses mark dangerous coastlines, hazardous shoals, reefs, safe entries to harbors, and can also assist in aerial navigation. Once widely used, the number of operational lighthouses has declined due to the expense of maintenance and replacement by modern electronic navigational systems.
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Omaezaki Lighthouse (御前埼灯台, Omaezaki tōdai)
is a lighthouse located on a hill at the outermost extremity of Cape Omaezaki south of Omaezaki port, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

A lighthouse was built at Cape Omaezaki as early as 1635, when the Tokugawa Shogunate recognized the frequency of marine accidents on the rocks off the coast of Tōtōmi Province.



The Omaezaki Lighthouse was one of the 26 lighthouses to be built in Meiji period Japan by British engineer Richard Henry Brunton. Although not one of the eight lighthouses stipulated specifically by the provisions of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Amity and Commerce of 1858, construction was given priority by the Meiji government after a Japanese navy vessel grounded on the rocks off Cape Omaezaki on April 8, 1871. Construction began on May 26, 1872 and the lighthouse was completed on May 1, 1874 at a cost of 25,000 yen. The lighthouse is noteworthy as the first to use a Fresnel lens in Japan.
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source :　www.izumo-kankou.gr.jp
the famous lighthouse of Izumo, Hinomisaki　日御碕　

Look at a list of the famous lighthouses from Japan
source : lighthouse-japan.com


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燈台はひくく霧笛は峙てり
toodai wa hikuku muteki wa sobadateri

the lighthouse
is low, the fog horn reaches
up to heaven

. Takahama Kyoshi 高浜 虚子 .


. muteki 霧笛 fog horn .


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灯台を女神と仰ぐ葉月潮
toodai o megami to aogu hazukijio

I look up at the lighthouse
like a goddess -
tide at full moon

Nishino Atsuko 西野敦子

. hazukijio 葉月潮 tide of the eighth lunar month .
The tide at the full moon of autumn.


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残照に点る灯台神渡し
zanshoo ni tomoru toodai kami watashi

the lighthouse burns
in the evening glow -
strong wind in Izumo

Kutsuna Tamotsu 忽那保

.　kami watashi 神渡し "Gods are leaving" .
kami tatsu kaze 神立風（かみたつかぜ）
According to the old lunar calendar in Novemer, when the deities of Japan, who gathered in Izumo, take leave and go back to their local areas.
There is usually a strong wind in the Izumo area.


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灯台の壁砂こぼす土筆かな
toodai no kabesuna kobosu tsukushi kana

this horsetail
spills the sandwall
from the lighthouse . . .

Nakatogawa Chuujin 中戸川朝人 Nakatogawa Chujin（1927～2011）

The cut marker KANA is at the end of line 3.

. tsukushi 土筆horsetail plant .
kigo for mid-spring


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灯台にのぼりて秋の海が見ゆ
toodai ni noborite aki no umi ga miyu

climbing up
to the lighthouse I see
the ocean in autumn

Imai Kyootaroo 今井杏太郎 Imai Kyotaro (1928 - 2012)



source :　ezomomonga3

autumn at Cape Chikyuu Misaki 地球岬, Hokkaido, Muroran town


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The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological model that describes the early development of the Universe.


According to the theory, the Big Bang occurred approximately 13.798 ± 0.037 billion years ago, which is thus considered the age of the universe. At this time, the Universe was in an extremely hot and dense state and began expanding rapidly. After the initial expansion, the Universe cooled sufficiently to allow energy to be converted into various subatomic particles, including protons, neutrons, and electrons.
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firecrackers—
a snap shot of
big-bang

- Shared by Pravat Kumar Padhy -
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The iPhone ( EYE-fohn)
is a line of smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. It runs Apple's iOS mobile operating system. The first generation iPhone was released on June 29, 2007;[16] the most recent iPhones, the seventh-generation iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S, were introduced on September 10, 2013.

The user interface is built around the device's multi-touch screen, including a virtual keyboard. The iPhone has Wi-Fi and cellular connectivity. An iPhone can shoot video (though this was not a standard feature until the iPhone 3GS), take photos, play music, send and receive email, browse the web, send texts, and receive visual voicemail. Other functions — video games, reference works, GPS navigation, social networking, etc. — can be enabled by downloading application programs (‘apps’); as of October 2013, the App Store offered more than 1 million apps by Apple and third parties.

The iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad run an operating system known as iOS (formerly iPhone OS). It is a variant of the same Darwin operating system core that is found in Mac OS X. Also included is the "Core Animation" software component from Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard. Together with the PowerVR hardware (and on the iPhone 3GS, OpenGL ES 2.0), it is responsible for the interface's motion graphics. The operating system takes up less than half a gigabyte.


The iPhone Home screen of iOS 7 shows most of the applications provided by Apple.

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アイフォーン【iPhone】

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New iPhone apps worth downloading:
Haiku Deck (iPad), Lift™, Shuffler.fm
Haiku Deck lets you create impressive-looking presentations directly on your iPad, and it’s completely free.
Who is it for?
Whether you’re pitching an idea, trying to spice-up a dull meeting, or simply sharing a story with friends, it’s clear that Haiku Deck caters for a lot of people and your presentation will really stand out. Use in-app purchases to gather more fonts and themes.
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her iPhone
back between her thighs
the traffic moves on

Greg Piko - Modern Haiku 2012


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Haiku Time: an iPhone Haiku Generator
by Scott Metz on January 3, 2010
A young programmer (and Yale student), Luke Bradford, has created a haiku generator application for the iPhone and iPod Touch, called Haiku Time.

Here are some haiku that Haiku Time has generated:

Snow by the meadow
Sighing gently with the stars
The voice of the clouds

Spring day on the shore
The night laughing to the sea
Tell me of the dawn

Rose in the sunlight
Writing love songs to the sky
Murmurs of the past



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- - - and an improved version


THF Haiku
By Luke Bradford

A collection of hundreds of beautiful poems from around the world, THF Haiku puts haiku at your fingertips so you can enjoy them anywhere. Search through the library by author, source, or content, or shake your phone for a random selection from the entire collection.



As Jim Kacian, founder of The Haiku Foundation, says:
"Live with these poems a little bit every day and you will find yourself entering a world of special noticing, heightened significance, and more natural relationships."
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Ephemera (singular: ephemeron)
is any transitory written or printed matter not meant to be retained or preserved. The word derives from the Greek, meaning things lasting no more than a day. Some collectible ephemera are advertising trade cards, airsickness bags, bookmarks, catalogues, greeting cards, letters, pamphlets, postcards, posters, prospectuses, defunct stock certificates or tickets, and zines.

Ephemera (ἐφήμερα)
is a noun, the plural neuter of ephemeron and ephemeros, Greek and New Latin for ἐπί – epi "on, for" and ἡμέρα – hemera "day" with the ancient sense extending to the mayfly and other short lived insects and flowers and for something which lasts a day or a short period of time.

By extension, video ephemera and audio ephemera refer to transitory audiovisual matter not intended to be retained or preserved.
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summer evening
marriage dances
ephemera

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ephemera -
clouds come and go
and come

Gabi Greve
October 2013, waiting for a typhoon.

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***** . hiomushi　蜉蝣 Ephemera, kageroo, kagerō, .
Ephemera with a spot, mon kageroo 紋蜉蝣
This is a fly that lives only a few hours after it appears from its three years under water as a larvae.


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. acupuncture 針　hari, haritate .

Aesop fables, Greece - (Fox and sour grapes)

. ageya 揚屋 brothel .

. ajiro 網代 (あじろ) wickerwork fishtraps .



. akindo 商人 merchants in Edo .

Acupuncture - Akupunktur  and moxabustion

. akuta 芥 / アクタ, gomi ゴミ garbage, dirt .


Alzheimer, memory loss, senility, dementia ...

. ama 海女 woman divers and 海士 fishermen .

. ama 尼　Buddhist Nun, amadera 尼寺 nunnery .

Amulets and Talismans in haiku (o-mamori, fuda)

. an 庵 thatched hut - yado 宿 my humble abode .

. andon 行灯 lanterns in the home .

. aozashi 青挿 (あおざし, 青ざし) "fresh wheat sweets" .


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Aristocrat, aristocrats (kuge)

aruki-gami - God of Wandering

asameshi - breakfast
Aum, A-Un, Om, Ohm  alpha and omega

. aware 哀れ Basho feels the pathos of things .


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Bamboo, including Asian Art


. Bantaroo 番太郎　flood warden in Edo.

. Barnabas Gospel, Turkey .



Beard (hige)

. Bechamel, béchamel sauce .


Beggar, begging, Bettler, tramp, hobo (lumpen)

Bell, temple bell (kane). Bronze Bell (dootaku)

. betsu zashiki　別座敷 detached sitting room .


Bible (baiburu)

Bicycle (jitensha)

. Big Bang of the Universe .

Bird droppings (tori no fun)

Birth (o-san, umu)

Birthday (tanjoobi)

. biwa 琵琶 lute Biwako 琵琶行 a Chinese poem .


Blindness, blind people

. Bloodroot flowers, Sanguinaria canadensis .


Blue, the color of sky and water

. Blues - Nuit bleue (Blue night) music .



Body (karada) and body parts

Bonsai, small pots of trees and plants

Book, reading (hon o yomu)

. bon 盆 tray, dinner tray .

Boredom, to be bored (taikutsu)

botamochi - rice cakes with bean paste

Box, auspicious box (chigibako)

Box, stationary box (bunko, tebunko)

Bread (pan)

Breakfast (asagohan, asameshi)

Bridge (hashi)

. broom　箒 hooki .


Buddha, Great Buddha. Daibutsu and Hotoke


Buddhist and Shinto Ceremonies

Buildings tall and famous, skyscrapers matenroo

. bunko 文庫 library *.

Bunraku and Joruri, puppet theater

. . butsudan 佛壇 or 仏壇 Buddhist family altar . .


. byoobu 屏風 folding screen - gin byoobu 銀屏風 silver folding screen .



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Café de Flore, Paris, France

Candle (roosoku)

Car (kuruma)

Carpenter (daiku, tooryoo)

Cartoons about haiku

. Cassoulet - slow-cooked casserole . France



. cha 茶　tea, green tea - Tee with Basho .

. chabudai ちゃぶ台 / 卓袱台 table for tatami rooms .

. chaya 茶屋 tea house, tea stall by the roadside .

chawan - tea bowl or rice bowl


Chicken (niwatori)

chigaidana, chigai-dana　違い棚 staggered shelves

. chigo 稚児　children temple acolytes *.

Child, children (kodomo). Kind, Kinder

Chindonya street band

Chinese Medicine (kanpo, kampo)

Chiyogami - colored printed paper

Chopsticks hashi

Chuugen, o-chuugen, chugen

Clay dishes - kawarake

Clock (tokei) and Time (jikan). Uhr und Zeit

Clouds (kumo) . Sea of Clouds (unkai)



Coffee, Tea, Iced Coffee (koohi)

Colors of Traditional Japan. Introduction

. Comet Panstars .


Computer and Haiku

Cosplay, costume play

Cotton wrapper cloth (furoshiki)

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