Fences and hedges

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Fences and hedges

***** Location: Kenya
***** Season: Topic and see below
***** Category: Plant / Humanity

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Explanation


Fences and hedges are made by man to protect their property.

A fence or hedge is made from various materials,
some from shrubs and trees that can be kigo.


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Barbed wire fence


Barbed wire is horribly popular in Kenya, and it is often rusty, a veritable tetanus trap and very dangerous indeed. Particularly when used in school compounds, where it is abominably frequent.

Isabelle Prondzynski


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Cactus fence


TBA


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Kayaba fence
kayaba is the local version of kei apple.
Dovyalis caffra Warb.

Its yellow succulent fruits have a definite seasonality. Kei apple is abundant in Nairobi.

Kayaba is a plant that bears seeds and when they are planted close together the branches twin around themselves covering every space that is in between them hence at our home we use it as a fence since it has some thorns that scared away people who have differend motives especially at night.

sunny afternoon -
a coiled spider web sparkles
on a Kayaba fence

Siboko Yamame Winslause



Mukuru Kayaba is a district of Nairobi.


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The kei apple, Dovyalis caffra Warb. (syn. Aberia caffra Harv. & Sond.) is also known as umkokolo in Africa and this is abbreviated to umkolo in the Philippines. The generic name has been rendered Doryalis by many writers but botanists now agree that this form was not the original spelling.

The kei apple is native to the Kei River area of southwest Africa and abundant in the wild around the eastern Cape, Kaffraria and Natal. It is cultivated in the Transvaal. In 1838, it was introduced into England.

Generally, the plants bloom in spring and the fruits ripen from August to October. The thorns make harvesting difficult. The top may have to be thinned out in order to facilitate fruit-picking.

Morton, J. 1987.
In: Fruits of warm climates. Julia F. Morton, Miami, FL.
source : www.hort.purdue.edu



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Worldwide use

Japan

The main word is KAKI, read ..GAKI in compound words.
we also have

hei 塀, kakine 垣根, kakoi 囲い, saku さく

ishigaki　石垣　stone wall, stone fence
ikegaki 生け垣 "living fence", hedge


We have some kigo with fences and hedges:


kigo in spring

kaki tsukurou 垣繕う (かきつくろう) repairing the hedge
..... kaki teire 垣手入れ（かきていれ）

yukigaki toku 雪垣解く（ゆきがきとく）
taking down the snow guard hedges


konome gaki 木の芽垣（このめがき）
fence of budding trees


ukogigaki 五加垣（うこぎがき）hedge of aralia trees
the leaves can be picked and prepared for tea



kakidooshi 垣通 Glechoma hederacea subsp. grandis
a creeper plant of the mint family


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kigo in summer

bara no hanagaki 茨の花垣（ばらのはながき）
hedge of wild roses


kakoi bune 囲い船 (かこいぶね) fencing ships


unohana gaki 卯の花垣（うのはながき） hedge of deutzia blossoms


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kigo in autumn

shishigaki 鹿垣 (ししがき) fence against wild boars
and other animals


inagaki 稲垣（いながき）fence to protect the rice plants


mukuge gaki 木槿垣（むくげがき）
fence with the rose of Sharon


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kigo in winter



ishigaki ichigo 石垣苺（いしがきいちご）
strawberries grown on stone walls
They are grown in hot houses, to provide strawberries for the Japanese christmas cake.



kazegaki 風垣（かざがき） wind-protecting hedges
yukigaki 雪垣（ゆきがき）snow-protecting hedge


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topics

beech tree hedge

Robin-run-the-hedge / Galium aparine


. Katsuragaki かつらがき【桂垣】Katsura-Hedge
"takehoogaki" 竹穂垣, hoogaki 穂垣
made from the leaves of living bamboo.




nerihei　練り塀　mud and tile wall or fence, topped with tiles
Stone-wall("NERIHEI"), nerihei-wall, stonel-mud wall/fence

It helps protect the property from fire and is used in small fishing villages, especially in Iwaishima island in Yamaguchi.





紫陽花や練り塀長き国分寺
ajisai ya nerihei nagaki Kokubunji

hydrangeas -
the long stone-mud-wall
of temple Kokubunji

anonymous
source :　slownet

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. Temple fences and walls 　


. . Japanese Haiku with KAKINE hedge


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Things found on the way


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HAIKU


wire fence--
white quarry dust on the
rambling passion fruit

Caleb David Mutua
September 2010


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a photographer hides
behind a kayaba fence-
Kirima saga

Andrew Otinga


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Related words

***** WKD : Reference


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