January

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January

***** Location: Kenya
***** Season: Hot and dry season
***** Category: Season

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Explanation

For the worldwide use of January as a kigo
please read here:
WKD - January (ichigatsu)

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"January" or "February" as kigo is the hot dry season
-- the heat, the dryness, the beginning of the year, the beginning of the academic
year, the payment of school fees, the period after Christmas, the lack of money of that time of year, and much more.

Isabelle Prondzynski


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Worldwide use


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Things found on the way


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HAIKU

January noon
muezzin's call to prayer
rises and floats

That was in the city centre today -- a most beautiful call, which seemed to evaporate into the noontime heat and spread all over the city.

half moon and sun
both in january sky
its minarets

All day, I had been attracted by the half-moon, etched into the blue sky, while the sun too was shining. And when our bus this evening passed the lovely wedding-cake style mosque, just outside the city centre of Nairobi, its pretty onion-domed minarets stretching up from the earth seemed to match the sun and moon beaming down from the sky.

Isabelle Prondzynski
(Nairobi, Kenya)


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January dust--
more handkerchief hawkers
at the traffic jams

January--
increased mango hawkers
on the roadside

MORE from January 2012
January by Patrick Wafula


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