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KIGO – Its use in haiku About two or more kigo and more ...


Seasons and Categories Learn the Basics of World Kigo

Kigo and haiku topics in Kenya --
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Basic Theories of Japanese Haiku !Study writing Haiku !


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The Haiku Clubs of Kenya since 2006

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..... Japanese Culture Week in Nairobi! Teaching Haiku.
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THE KENYA SAIJIKI

Editor: Isabelle Prondzynski

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Ghana SAIJIKI 　



South American SAIJIKI



Trinidad and Tobago SAIJIKI


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Seasonal Words - List

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.................... List of Seasonal Words
from Kenya and other tropical areas

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In Kenya, we have the following haiku seasons:

.. .. .. hot dry season
.. .. .. long rains
.. .. .. cool dry season
.. .. .. short rains

Some of the rainy season kigo appear twice in the course of the year.

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.. .. .. .. .. Seasonal Items

hot and dry season
(roughly November to March, with January being the hottest month)

-- Buying textbooks
-- Buying school uniforms
-- Cassia blossom
-- Caterpillar, Hairy Caterpillar
-- Census
-- Christmas worldwide
-- Dust

-- Exam results
-- Form One entrants and monolisation
-- Frangipani, Plumeria
-- Goat Meat, also Goats in general
-- Jamhuri Day (12 December)
-- January
-- Maasai Cattle (Masai Cattle)
-- Maize, Green Maize
-- Mango (ripe fruit)
-- New Year worldwide
-- Paying school fees
-- peaches, ripe peaches
-- Plums, ripe plums, plum fruit
-- Start of new school year
... ... see also Start of Schoolyear, worldwide
-- sweating
-- Water shortage , drought
-- World AIDS Day

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long rains (roughly March to May)

-- Bombax blossom
-- First rainfall, imminent rain
-- bullfrogs Frog (kawazu, kaeru) worldwide
-- Easter
-- flooding
-- flying ants Ant (ari) worldwide
-- Gumboots
-- heavy raindrops
-- Ibis (Hadada)
-- Labour Day
-- Long Rains Haiku by Bahati Club
-- Long Rains
-- Mosquitoes in Kenya
-- Mud (Swahili : matope)
including: Brickmaking, Dry mud, Bukusu Initiation (Circumcision) 　
-- Palm Sunday
-- Power failure, blackout 　　　　
-- Puddle, puddles
-- Stepping stones, step-stone bridge 　
-- Umbrella

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cool and dry season
(roughly from June to September, with July being the coldest month)

-- Avocado pear (Kikuyu : Mûkorobîa)
-- Bukusu Initiation / Circumcision
-- Cold Dew (kanro) worldwide
-- Cold dry season, cool dry season 　　
-- Day of the African Child (16 June)　　
-- Dust
-- Frangipani, Plumeria 　　　　　　
-- freezing
-- Jiko (brazier)
-- Maasai Cattle (Masai Cattle)
-- Madaraka Day (1 June)
-- Maize, Green Maize
-- Martyrs’ Day Uganda
-- Nairobi Bomb Day (7 August)
-- Nairobi International Trade Fair (end of September)
-- no meetings (August)
-- Oranges (Swahili : Mchungwa)
-- Sesbania Tree (Sesbania sesban (L.) Merr.)
-- start of university year

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short rains (roughly October and November)

-- Aramanthus, vegetable
-- bullfrogs > Frog (kawazu, kaeru) worldwide
-- First rainfall, imminent rain
-- Ocotber rain
-- Flamboyant Tree (Swahili : Mjohoro)
-- Flooding in 2006
-- flying ants
-- Graduation Ceremony in Kenya
... ... see also Graduation (sotsugyoo) worldwide
-- Gumboots
-- Jacaranda blossom
-- heavy raindrops
-- Kenyatta Day
-- Messiah for the Hospice
-- Moi Day (10 October)
-- Mosquitoes in Kenya
-- Mud (Swahili : matope)
-- Nairobi Marathon
-- Power failure, blackout
-- Puddle, puddles

-- School exams KCSE / KCPE
------ Short Rains and more kigo about this season
-- Stepping stones, step-stone bridge

-- Tipu tree (Tipuana tipu)

-- Umbrella


.. .. .. Glossary of Kenyan Terms and more Haiku Topics

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............. Topics for which the season changes

-- Diwali (Devali, Divali)
-- Ramadan in Kenya
-- Ramadan ends (Idd ul Fitr)

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............. Non-seasonal Topics

Ageing ... Getting old in Kenya

Arusha Tanzania

Banana

Boma Homesteads

Buibui, to cover the head and face of a Muslim woman face veil

Bukusu Culture, Babukusu People

Camel, Dromedary, Kamel, Dromedar

Casuarina Tree

Chameleon

Demolitions in Patanisho, Nairobi

Flies, Fly, Housefly, Fruitfly

Fountain (in a park)

Hell's Gate National Park

Kale, kales, a cabbage (sukumawiki)

Kamba People A funeral in Ukambani

Kanga, kangas, wrapping cloth

Khamsin wind Egypt, North Africa

Magadi, Lake Magadi in the Rift Valley

Maize (Swahili : Mahindi, American : Corn, South African : Mealies)

Mount Kenya and Kilimanjaro

Mourning

Newspaper vendor, newspaper boy

Night life

Peace (Swahili : Amani)

Pokot people West Pokot and Baringo Districts of Kenya

Rift Valley
..... Rift Valley Fever

Scorpion

Soweto Stage Market, Nairobi

Tea (Swahili : chai)

Tilapia fish


Weaver birds (Ploceidae family)

Webuye Town

Wood, firewood


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WKD: Trinidad and Tobago Saijiki


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.. .. .. .. .. National Holidays in Kenya

l Jan -- New Year's Day -- International New Year's Day Holiday
> -- WKD ... : New Year (shin-nen)

Varies -- Good Friday -- Christian holiday commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ
> -- WKD ... : Easter

Varies -- Easter Monday -- Christian holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ
> -- WKD ... : Easter

1 May -- Labour Day -- International Day of the Worker
> -- see also : Labour Day, USA

10 Oct -- Moi Day -- Established on the 10th day of the 10th month 10 years after the inauguration of President Daniel arap Moi as the second President of Kenya.

20 Oct -- Kenyatta Day -- This is to commemorate the arrest of Jomo Kenyatta and the declaration of the State of Emergency on 20 October 1952.

12 Dec -- Uhuru or Jamhuri Day -- This is to commemorate the day on which Kenya achieved its Independence, on 12 December 1963.
> -- Jamhuri Day

25 Dec -- Christmas Day -- Christian holiday celebrating the Birth of Jesus Christ.
> -- Bahati Haiku Club : Christmas
> -- WKD ... : Christmas

26 Dec -- Boxing Day -- celebrating St Stephen's Day and the second
day of the Christmas season.
> -- WKD ... St Stephen's Day


Varies -- Idd ul Fitr
The Muslim festival of Idd-ul-Fitr is also a public holiday and takes place on the sighting of the new moon at the end of Ramadhan. The exact date varies according to the position of the New Moon.

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.. .. .. .. .. .. Annual events in Kenya

Apart from big celebrations that are held on Madaraka, Kenyatta and Independence Days, Nairobi is also the venue for a number of large international and national sports matches. Nairobi further enhances its cosmopolitan image by hosting a number of annual shows and
festivals.

The Kenya Schools Music Festival is held in Nairobi in May/June and

The Agricultural Society of Kenya (A.S.K.) Show takes place at Jamhuri Park at the end of September or beginning of October. See Nairobi International Trade Fair

The long established and international Safari Rally begins and ends in Nairobi - drawing ever larger crowds.
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Introduction to the

Haiku Clubs of Nairobi


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More LINKs in the Kenya Saijiki

Getting to Know Kenya

Poetry and Literature of Kenya

Music of Kenya, by Douglas Paterson

Missionaries in Kenya

Wildlife in Kenya

Plants and Animals of Kenya, LIST by Allen & Nancy Chartier

Kakamega Forest Birds

Nature Kenya Organization


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African Haiku

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Introducing Haiku from Africa



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African Haiku by Fancy

African Haiku by Stephen Davies

African Haiku with Ted Goossen

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Haiku Africa: Haikus and Photographs
by Joel H. Goldstein (Author)

Bull Elephant walks
Isolated on the road
Alone with his thoughts


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Botswana Haiku

As one of the assignments for this course, students were asked to do a piece of creative writing using the characteristics (whether formal or not) of one of the texts that we discussed during the semester.

I looked around me
In the middle of the street
Suddenly I am lost.

by Jacob Nthoiwa

source : Botswana Haiku
University of Botswana English Department, 2003


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Kenya

Haiku from Kenya, Kenya Saijiki　ケニア歳時記


The Haiku Clubs of Nairobi

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South Africa

There are Jewish, Muslim and Hindu religious festivals celebrated here, although the Christian ones are the only that rate a national holiday right now.

Some of our national holidays are interesting in terms of kigo.
For instance, Heritage Day is celebrated on 24 September in the spring so there is a contrast between the forward-looking season and the backwards-looking celebration.
Another like Youth Day is 16 June, almost mid-winter and very appropriate perhaps to the tragedy of that day in 1976.

And then there is our fynbos ("feiner Busch") , a unique and indigenous family of plants. So diverse that I think some or other species of it are in flower at any one time of the year. So fynbos is something really South African but not really something that one can associate with a season as such.

Moira Richards, South Africa

Fynbos , South African Plant in our library

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Tingatinga painting style - Tanzania




Tingatinga -
a world of colors
exploding

Gabi Greve, October 2009


Once there was a man called Edward S. Tingatinga. He was born in the Namochelia village in Tunduru district in the South Tanzania.
During the 1960s he established an art form that became associated with Tanzania. Today, "Tingatinga" is the Tanzanian term for this form of art, known most intimately in Tanzania, Kenya, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Japan, Switzerland etc.
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