Beggar, beggars

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Beggar, begging

***** Location: Kenya, Japan
***** Season: Topic
***** Category: Humanity

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Explanation

Begging means asking people for money, food, shelter or other things, when one is not able to give anything instead. It is also referred to as sponging, spanging (short for "spare-changing") or (in American English) panhandling.

In larger cities, it is common to see beggars who ask for money, food, or other items. Typically, beggars often beg for spare change equipped with coffee cups, mugs, small boxes, hats, or other items into which monies can be placed and sometimes display signs with messages such as "Help me. I'm homeless."
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Bettler, Heimatloser


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chokoraa, chokora - "street boy" or "parking boy"

and "street children"
"street mothers"

These are the people (most often boys) living in the street, making an income from begging, collecting and selling rubbish for recycling, keeping an eye on parked cars, and also sniffing glue, eating whatever they can find, and stealing here and there. The government has a policy of bringing the street children into schools or training institutions, and they have become far fewer in the city centre of Nairobi in recent years. They do quite well if they are brought to a home and provided with education; their problem is that usually their parents cannot cope and abandon them to their own devices.

Isabelle Prondzynski

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a chokoraa waves
his candidate's portrait--
Hamza terminus

Andrew Otinga
September 2010



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"Kenya has become a country of ten millionaires
and ten million beggars."

- Kenyan politican J.M. Kariuki, assassinated in 1975
source : www.kenya-advisor.com


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Worldwide use


Canada

August 25 is the annual Day of the Homeless in Toronto.
It's promoted by The Good Neighbours’ Club.
World Homeless Day is on the 10/10 each year.

Day of the Homeless
a memorial service
for John Doe

Chen-ou Liu
Canada

Reference : World Homeless Day


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India


cold January night -
I think beggars are the only ones
without a caste


bitterly cold night -
I toss coins one by one
towards a beggar

duly ironed
dhobi casts the moon
again in the sky


with the bowl--
beggar collecting
spring happiness

Manu Kant
JOJ, 2012


quote
The Dhobi are a caste group found in Pakistan, India who specialize in washing clothes. The word Dhobi is derived from Hindi word dhona, which means to wash. They are found throughout North India, Gujarat, Maharashtra as well as the Punjab province of Pakistan, where they are known as Gazar. The Dhobi is likely to be of diverse origin, with those who ancestors took the occupation of washing clothes evolving over time into a distinct caste, bound by rules of endogamy. Most Dhobis follow the customs and traditions of the region they live, so for example those in North India speak Hindi, while those in Maharashtra speak Marathi.
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Japan

monogoi 物ごい / 物乞い beggar, begging

binboonin 貧乏人 Bimbo, "a poor person"

gokutsubushi 穀つぶし, 穀潰し, ごくつぶし a person without a job or income



hoomuresu ホームレス　homeless

. Poor Monk (dooshinboo 道心坊) .
konjiki, kojiki, kotsujiki 乞食 beggar, Bettelmönch


kojiki 乞食 beggar (an old word used by Issa)
tsuji no kojiki 辻の乞食 crossroads beggar


初霜や乞食の竈も一ながめ
hatsu shimo ya kojiki no kudo mo hito nagame

first frost--
the beggar stove's too
a sight for sore eyes


乞食も福大黒のつもり哉
konjiki mo fuku Daikoku no tsumori kana

even the beggar
hopes to get rich...
god of wealth singers

Daikoku is a god of wealth.
In Issa's time, the daikokumai were troupes of begging musicians who performed between the 11th day of First Month and the first day of Second Month.



穀つぶし桜の下にくらしけり
gokutsubushi sakura no shita ni kurashi keri

an idler--
under the cherry blossoms
I live


. Issa and Beggar Haiku
Tr. by David Lanoue, more than 50 haiku




月天心貧しき町を通りけり
tsuki tenshin mazushiki machi o toorikeri

the moon in the middle of the sky
passes over
a poor village

Yosa Buson 蕪村


by Yamaguchi Hitomi 山口瞳

tsukitenshin, a kigo for autumn.

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runpen ルンペン　"Lumpen", tramp, loafer, bum, hobo





ルンペンに今宵のベンチありやなし
runpen ni koyoi no benchi ari ya nashi

for the tramp
a bench tonight -
maybe yes, maybe not




ルンペンのうたげの空に星一つ
runpen no utage no sora ni hoshi hitotsu

at the banquet
of the tramps high in the sky
just one star


. ルンペン晩餐図
Shinohara Hosaku 篠原鳳作 　



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boro　ぼろ　tattered cloths, rags
boro ichi　ぼろ市 flea market
Any piece of an old robe could be re-used like patchwork to make another robe, then a piece of wiping cloth and finally back to earth to become manure. In the Edo period, not one thread was wasted.


うしろからぼろを笑ふよ梅の花
ushiro kara boro o warau yo ume no hana

behind me
laughter at my rags...
plum blossoms

Kobayashi Issa
Tr. David Lanoue


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boro utte sake koote samishiku mo aru ka

If I sell my rags
And buy some sake
Will there still be loneliness?

. 山頭火 Santoka and Sake


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Mongolia

Beggars in Mongolia
- Reference -


spring
while everything awakens
a beggar sleeps soundly

Sodkhuu Altanchuluun



. MONGOLIA SAIJIKI .


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Things found on the way



. Deity to bring poverty 貧乏神 binboogami, bimbogami
with Haiku by Kobayashi Issa
bimbô kami





Priest Daito as beggar

Kojiki Daitoozoo
乞食大燈像(こじきだいとうぞう)
白隠慧鶴筆 Painting by Hakuin

source : Tokyo National Museum







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. Shotoku Taishi and Daruma as a beggar
聖徳太子とだるま



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HAIKU

なめくじよお主いつからホームレス　
namekuji yo onushi itsu kara hoomuresu

dear slug !
since when are you
homeless?

Maeda Tomio 前田吐実男
source : rekishitanbou.com


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sudden rain--
the dwarf beggar limps
to the pavement

Caleb Mutua


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Patrick Wafula

even beggars
line up mangoes for sale--
Haile Selassie Avenue

source : Nairobi Haiku



ndizi for lunch --
a ragged beggar
asks me for a coin

source : Arusha Travel


ndizi is Swahili for banana


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drizzling --
a beggar tightly clings to
a mug of hot tea

~Simon Magak (Bamboocha)

source : Tea in Kenya


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festive month--
Christmas tones from the
blind beggar's flute

Caleb David Mutua, Kenya, 2009

Christmas Haiku


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the old beggar -
a pockmarked face
always smiling

Gabi Greve, 2005
My beggar friend in India



cold winter eve -
a homeless heads
for KFC's backdoor

Gabi Greve, Fast Food



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winter sunset --
the beggar's shadow
grows thinner

Melissa Spurr
Shiki Kukai October 2009


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first snow --
the homeless man's bed is
no longer here

The first snow fell in Brussels on 25 November, when I wrote this haiku. The homeless man, who had lived for more than a year in the sheltered corner of an office building, disappeared that day with his bed and his few other belongings, which he had always kept so tidily. He has still not returned, and I wonder, worry, what has become of him...

Isabelle Prondzynski
Happy Haiku, December 2010


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mango peels-
a chokoraa makes
a feast

Andrew Otinga
Januaray 2011



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Related words

***** WKD : Haiku with BEGGAR

begger
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