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Dear Haiku poets from the region,

please help with your positive support, info and contributions!

It is difficult to re-plant the Japanese kigo concept in areas that have different seasonal aspects and no kigo culture.

A standard or rather many standards for seasons in South America to be used for regional kigo colletions is still under construction. It depends on the regional haiku poets and what they choose to write their poetry about.
Please contribute your aspects of existing kigo or new kigo you suggest for your area to help deepen the worldwide understanding of haiku poets for regional diversity.

It is a difficult undertaking, taking into consideration the various climate zones of the continent. Therefore this saijiki will come in many regional parts.

Apart from trying to find regional kigo, we also suggest to collect and specify topics (keywords) for the areas where haiku poets have started writing Japanese-style short poetry.

Your input is most necessary and greatly appreciated!

Gabi Greve, Japan
World Kigo Database


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Adjustments for Northern and Southern Hemisphere

If there is not specifical mention, a calendar reference kigo in the World Kigo Database refers to the Northern Hemisphere as its place of origin.
For the Southern Hemisphere, add six months.
December and short night are kigo for summer in the Southern Hemisphere, for example.

For a calendar reference kigo originating in the Southern Hemisphere, add six months to get to its Northern counterpart.
These adjustments will not be mentioned specifically for each kigo in the database.

Calendar reference kigo
are for example the names of each month and then the many festivals of a specific date and the memorial days.
Japanese haiku poets up from the North of Hokkaido down to the South of Okinawa have no problem when using DECEMBER as a kigo, for example, since kigo are conventions for writing poetry.
Haiku poets from South America are especially invited to contribute their aspects of moods and poetic allusions for each month in their area. What is your december like? Please let us know!


Officially, we do not use the months to define a season within the WKD, but roughly according to the Northern Hemisphere, you can expect these seasons in addition to the wet and dry seasons in the Southern Hemisphere:

Spring -- September, October, November
Summer -- December, January, February
Autumn (Fall) -- March, April, May
Winter -- June, July, August


Near the aequator, we have mostly two seasons

wet seasons are from April to July and November to January
dry seasons are from August to November and February to March.


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Here are some short notes about the climate in South America, we might add more details as we go along.

Argentina
Wide climate variations from sub-tropical in the north of the country to sub-antartic in the South. Buenos Aires can be oppressively hot and humid December to March.

Brazil
There is a tropical rainy season in the Amazon basin area from April to July. In the rest of the country the dry season runs from May to October

Bolivia
Rain all year in the east of the country. Heavy rainfall from May to November in the high western plateau.

Chile
Winter rain fall in the southern coastal areas. On the pacific coast very dry weather in the desert.

Colombia


Guyana
Guyana has a subtropical climate with two wet seasons and two dry seasons. The wet seasons are from April to July and November to January while the dry seasons are from August to November and February to March.
Along the coastlands, each wet and dry period lasts about three months. (source : Kenneth Daniels, WKD Facebook)

Ecuador
The coast is hot with rainfall from December to May. The Dry season runs from June to October.

Paraguay
Can be hot, humid and oppressive from mid-December to March.

Peru
December to May is the wet season in mountain areas. Coastal areas hot and wet during December to May. June to November are cooler but on the coast expect high humidity but less rainfall.
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more reference:
Seasons in South America


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Countries

Brazil

Guyana

Peru

Uruguay


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External LINKS

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Haiku no michi

ANAKU Asociación Navarra de Haiku


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SPRING



Jacaranda tree


Resurrection Sunday, Easter


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SUMMER (and WET)

Roughly corresponding to the months of December, January, February and the wet season in some parts.


Near the aequator, we have mostly two seasons
wet seasons are from April to July and November to January
dry seasons are from August to November and February to March.



Contributors

Kenneth Daniels (Guyana)


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Ant, ants, fire ants


Candle fly, firefly, fireflies

Christmas

Cleaning the house at the end of the year
painting the house at the end of the year
(usually done for Christmas in Guyana)


Father's Day


Jonestown


June Bride


Puddle, puddles



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sweat tops (sweater) are more noticable in our wet seasons

sweat top brand-
my master's words
embrace me

kenneth daniels (GY)



sweater, seetaa セーター
and other warm clothing as kigo in winter in Japan


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trench clearing

trench clearing is a yearly regular activity in my country especially in the City of Georgetown(Capital) in prepartion and even during the wet seasons as the city is on the coastland below sea level.Floods are usual due to clogged drains.


trench clearing again
the worker sure needs
a good bath

trench clearing
the stuff on the sidewalk
had blocked the flow

kenneth daniels (GY)


... Rain Gutters Cleaning 　North America. (eavestroughs)


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WINTER (and DRY)

Roughly corresponding to the months of June, July, August or the dry season in some areas.


Near the aequator, we have mostly two seasons
wet seasons are from April to July and November to January
dry seasons are from August to November and February to March.


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Emancipation Day, Freedom Day Guyana
(August 1)


Boi-Bumbá Festival Northern Brazil

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TOPICS for Haiku



Eid-ul-Adha : Festival of Sacrifice
Eid al-Adha annually falls on the 10th day of the month of Dhul Hijja of the lunar Islamic calendar.


. Patagonia .


Soccer, Futbol


. Titicaca, lake Titicaca 　



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External LINKS

Asociación de Haiku de Navarra, Mar Ordóñez Castro
Haiku no michi

ANAKU Asociación Navarra de Haiku


I Jornada Literaria: "El corazón del Haiku"

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Tito Andres Ramos
Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Tito composes his haiku in English and then translates into Spanish.

open grave
the mud sticks
to my boots

hojas muertas
bajo la nieve
luna de invierno


source : www.thehaikufoundation.org


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Umberto Senegal
founder and president of the Colombian Haiku Association
since the 1980s
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Pundarika: poesía zen (Pundarika: Zen Poems); Ventanas al nirvana (Windows to Nirvana) and Dejé las flores en el sueño (I Left the Flowers in a Dream).
source : http://www.thehaikufoundation.org / Periplum #11


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Brazil has five climatic regions:

equatorial, tropical, semi-arid, highland tropical and subtropical.

The south of Brazil is more temperate. Rainy seasons occur from January to April in the north, April to July in the northeast and November to March in the Rio/São Paulo area.
Read more about the climate:
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Saijiki for Northern Brazil

Northern Brazil is essentially equivalent to Amazonia (also called the Amazon River basin). The equador runs through it, with about one quarter of Amazonia in the northern hemisphere and three quarters in the southern. This influences the pattern of rains and droughts.

Throughout the southern part, with some spill over, the rains come in November and finish in June, with peak rainy season from January to April.

Then the dry season starts and peaks in July to September.

In the northern hemisphere the pattern is roughly the opposite. The main rivers flood and empty in consequence of the rains, especially in their headwaters, so different river's peak flood or low water might be good kigo.

Some plants flower in the dry season and fruit in the rainy season, some flower and fruit in the rainy season, and some in the dry season.

Rosa Clement

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Kigo in alphabetical order


Boi-Bumbá Bull Festival

Cat

Jacaranda tree

Mango Blossoms, Mango Fruit

March Rain


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If in Brazil, samba dancers reproduce the same steps from north to south during all seasons, these seasons have their differences from region to region. Even in the north, Brazil's Amazonian region, where nearly year-round rain and sun predominate, we may discover a period where flowers seem to be abundant everywhere.

Brazil's south clearly has all four seasons, but in the southwest, some seasons are abbreviated or occasionally lacking. On the other hand, when it's "summer" in Amazonia it's "winter" in São Paulo. Thus, our kigo may vary quite a lot and sometimes some of us have trouble choosing a season word. Goga and Teruko Oda published "Natureza - Berço do Haicai" (Nature - Cradle of Haiku, 1996), a book with a season word (kigo) list, which may be more useful for the southern part of Brazil, but the northern part needs to prepare its own list -- what seasons to include is a good question for a region with only a drier and a wetter season.

While in the south there is a great set of images for haiku, such as the lovely ipê trees which bloom in yellow and purple colors, Amazonia has its harpoons and nets, and wings cross the forest daily.

Haiku in the Country of Samba
... ... ... ... Rosa Clement, Amazonas, BR

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Haiku In Amazonas
(Reedited in 15/01/2006)
Rosa Clement

In 2000, the idea to create an haiku association was taking shape and finally a small group, which includes some of the above poets, launched the Sumaúma Haiku Association.
Thus, on the 5th of July 2000, the poet Anibal Beça gave a talk at the monthly "Quarta Literária" (Literary Wednesday), held at Valer Bookstore.

http://www.sumauma.net/articles/haiku-amazonas.html


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CAQUI : The Journal of Haiku in Brazil

Caqui [ka'kI] is the Portuguese spelling for kaki, the Japanese persimmon, a delicate and delicious fruit, perfectly acclimatized to Brazil, in spite of the deep environmental differences between the two countries.

Like kaki, haiku (whose Portuguese spelling, for historical reasons, is haicai [haI 'kaI] ) was brought to Brazil once upon a time, and since then has been growing in popularity. Today, so many poets write haicai/haiku in Portuguese, in order to testimony the perfect acclimatization of that Japanese small poetic form to Brazil.
http://www.kakinet.com/caqui/english.shtml


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Uruguay (official full name in Spanish: República Oriental del Uruguay; pron. IPA: , Eastern Republic of Uruguay) is a country located in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to 3.46 million people, of which 1.7 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area.

It is bordered by Brazil to the north, by Argentina across the bank of both the Uruguay River to the west and the estuary of Río de la Plata to the southwest, and the South Atlantic Ocean to the southeast. It is the second smallest independent country in South America, larger only than Suriname and the French overseas department of French Guiana.

Montevideo was founded by the Spanish in the early 18th century as a military stronghold. Uruguay won its independence in 1828 following a three-way struggle between Spain, Argentina and Brazil. It is a constitutional democracy, where the president fulfills the roles of both head of state and head of government.

The economy is largely based on agriculture (making up 10% of GDP and the most substantial export) and the state sector, and relies heavily on world trade. Consequently, it is affected by any change in global prices. However, Uruguay's economy is on the whole more stable than in its surrounding states, and it maintains a solid reputation with investors.

Climate
The climate in Uruguay is temperate: it has warm summers and cold winters.
The predominantly gently undulating landscape is also somewhat vulnerable to rapid changes from weather fronts. It receives the periodic influence of the polar air in winter, and tropical air from Brazil in summer. Without mountains in zone that act as a barrier, the air masses freely move by the territory, causing abrupt weather changes.

The coolest month is June, while the warmest is January. The rainfall is equally distributed throughout the year, but tends to be a bit more frequent in the autumn months. There can be frequent thunderstorms in the summer. Snow is not very common.
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Carlos Fleitas
©　Millikin University / by Mahrya Fulfer

Carlos Fleitas was born in Uruguay, South America and still resides there in Montevideo, which is Uruguay's capital city. He writes haiku, prose, and essays in both Spanish and English.
This 51 year old writer, has a wife and a daughter that live with him. He attended school at Stella Maris College (Christian Brothers)-School and High School and obtained a University Degree in Psychology. from "Instituto de FilosofÌa Ciencias y Letras.” He is married and has one daughter.

Viento de Verano
Junto pètalos de rosa
y los dejo ir


In my way home
grapes ripen in the fields
a sip of wine


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quoted from
Musicality in Haiku
Written in Spanish: a Platonism?

Rhyme

The use of rhyme is one of the major ways of bringing musicality to a haiku. The two standards are consonant and assonant rhyme. Consonant rhyme in Spanish happens when the last accented vowel of the verse, and all vowels and consonants that may follow it, are the same in all the rhymed words.

La playa sola
mecidas por las olas
las caracolas...

This fine haiku, written by Malena Imas (Uruguay, South America) is a clear example of consonant rhyme. The musicality here is brought, not only by means of the use of the consonance, but also as its rhyme merges with the content of the haiku; that is, the waves of the sea with its natural rhythm, and the landscape of a seashore in which the conches are gently rocked, as if it where a lullaby...

Internal rhyme (rima interior): the use of a word in the interior of a verse that rhymes with an other word of the verse.

en este camino
solo el monono trino
del teru-teru


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