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A saijiki ( "year time chronicle") is a list of kigo (seasonal terms) used in haiku and related forms of poetry. An entry in a saijiki usually includes a description of the kigo itself, as well as a list [1] of similar or related words, and some examples of haiku that include that kigo. A kiyose (Japanese: ) is similar, but does not contain sample poems. Modern saijiki and kiyose are divided into the four seasons and New Year, with some containing a further section for seasonless (muki ) topics. Each seasonal section is further divided into a standard set of categories, each containing a list of relevant kigo. The most common categories are: The Season The Heavens The Earth Humanity Observances Animals Plants

Contents
1 Japanese seasons 2 Examples of saijiki and kiyose 2.1 English 2.2 Japanese 3 References 4 External links 5 See also

Japanese seasons
In the Japanese calendar, seasons traditionally followed the lunisolar calendar with the solstices and equinoxes at the middle of a season. The traditional Japanese seasons are: Spring: 4 February5 May Summer: 6 May7 August Autumn: 8 August6 November Winter: 7 November3 February In categorising kigo, a saijiki or kiyose divides each season into early, middle, and late periods, as [2] follows: Early spring: 4 February5 March Mid-spring: 6 March4 April Late spring: 5 April5 May Early summer: 6 May5 June Mid-summer: 6 June6 July Late summer: 7 July7 August

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Early autumn: 8 August7 September Mid-autumn: 8 September7 October Late autumn: 8 October6 November Early winter: 7 November6 December Mid-winter: 7 December4 January Late winter: 5 January3 February

Examples of saijiki and kiyose

English
The Five Hundred Essential Japanese Season Words (http://www.2hweb.net/haikai/renku /500ESWd.html), selected by Kenkichi Yamamoto, on Renku Home William J. Higginson, ed. Haiku world: an international poetry almanac. Kodansha, 1996. ISBN 978-4-7700-2090-1 The Japanese Haiku Topical Dictionary (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/haiku/saijiki/) at the University of Virginia Japanese Text Initiative World Kigo Database (http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/), worldwide saijiki

Japanese
Masaoka Shiki, ed. Kiyose. 1930 (Japanese: 1930) Kyoshi Takahama, ed. A New Saijiki, 1934 (Japanese: 1934) Teiko Inahata, ed. The New Hototogisu Saijiki, 1996 (Japanese: 1996 CD1998)

References
1. ^ Gill, Robin D. The Fifth SeasonPoems to Re-Create the World: In Praise of Olde Haiku: New Year Ku; Books 1 & 2, Paraverse Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-9742618-9-8, p.18 2. ^ Higginson, William J. Kiyose (Seasonword Guide), From Here Press, 2005, p.24

External links
Le Saijiki en franais (http://www.abt247.com/logos/saijiki/) by Seegan Mabesoone (French)

See also
Haiku in English List of Kigo Renga, an older form of poetry employing kigo Renku, the poetic form from which haiku derived, also using kigo Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saijiki&oldid=546189345" Categories: Japanese poetry Haikai forms Japanese literary terms This page was last modified on 22 March 2013 at 04:48. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional

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