Smoke (kemuri)

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Smoke (kemuri)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Non-seasonal Topic
***** Category: Humanity

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Explanation



kemuri　煙　(けむり) smoke
yukemrui　湯煙　steam

In Japanese haiku, smoke can be from a fire, often from burning the fallen leaves in autumn and winter.
It can also be from tobacco or pipe smoking.


The word may also indicate a kind of mist in the air, keburi　けぶり, see the following kigo.

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. sendan no kemuri 栴檀の煙（せんだんのけむり）
smoke from chinaberry wood 　
Incense burned during the celebration of Buddha entering Nirvana,
Nirvana Ceremony (Nehan-E 涅槃会)



. kabi kemuri 黴煙（かびけむり）"smoke of mildew" 　



. yukikemuri, yuki kemuri 雪煙（ゆきけむり）
snow like smoke 　


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Worldwide use


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Things found on the way


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HAIKU


夕けぶり鳩吹人にかかりけり
yuu keburi hato fuku hito ni kakari keri

evening smoke--
on the man playing pigeon flute
it hangs

Kobayashi Issa
Tr. David Lanoue

. hatobue, the pidgeon flute ... now a toy



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smoke:
the season words
of tree rings

George Hawkins
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smoke ...
the lost dreams
of tree rings

Gabi Greve
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smoke of tree rings
two missing
for the Olympics

Emile Molhuysen
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Smoke has gone
But charcoal
Still shows tree rings

Berg
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smoke
burning dry leaves
a hot day

Minal Sarosh
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source : Happy Haiku Forum 2008


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military boots -
brick house in the night
the air full of smoke

flames enlighten the square
sausages are getting sold


Walter o. Mathois
WKD : War and Peace Haiku


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Indian summer --
settling to smoke and drink
on the doorstep

Isabelle Prondzynski

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小春日や　お茶のけむりを眺めをり
koharubi ya ocha no kemuri o nagame-ori

indian summer -
watching the steam rise
from hot green tea

Etsuko Yanagibori



WKD : Indian Summer


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low water
marsh mud smell mingles
with wood smoke


palls of smoke
lugging water to
the fire line


bob, Happy Haiku Forum


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March morning--
thin smoke from the candle wick
billows in the breeze

caleb wothes, Happy Haiku Forum


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壺焼の貝の角より出る煙
tsuboyaki no kai no tsuno yori deru kemuri

steam comes out
of the horns of the conch
as it is grilled

Yorimitsu Yooko 依光陽子 (1964 - )

. WASHOKU
Tsuboyaki 壷焼 (つぼやき) turban shell fried in the conch 　



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Related words

***** Fire (kaji)



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