Comments on: On Seasons, or: On Poets Taking Over the Japanese Meteorological Service

By: 41 Things I Like About Japan | This Japanese Life. | 生命を外面九天です

41 Things I Like About Japan | This Japanese Life. | 生命を外面九天です — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:01:41 +0000

[…] has one season: Sleet. Sometimes the sleet stops, but that’s not really a season. Japan has seasons with miniature seasons introducing the main season. There is cherry blossom season and plum blossom […]

By: On Autumn in Japan | This Japanese Life. | 生命を外面九天です

On Autumn in Japan | This Japanese Life. | 生命を外面九天です — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:24:58 +0000

[...] do the haiku meteorologists have for us this season? As mentioned before, haiku is often written by way of the seijiki, a book containing lists of seasonal motifs. Now that [...]

By: On Writing About Rain in Japan | This Japanese Life. | 生命を外面九天です

On Writing About Rain in Japan | This Japanese Life. | 生命を外面九天です — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:13:03 +0000

[...] poetic purposes, the tsuyu is part of the summer season in the Haiku Handbook (saijiki), which dictates which terms belong in which poems about which season. Summer haiku have [...]

By: On Letting Go of a Tree Branch in Japan | This Japanese Life. | 生命を外面九天です

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:30:30 +0000

[...] Sakura season. The Japanese Poet’s Meteorological Association, of course, is right on schedule, with its updated list of weather phenomenon now officially [...]

By: The Winter Haiku Forecast | This Japanese Life. | 生命を外面九天です

The Winter Haiku Forecast | This Japanese Life. | 生命を外面九天です — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:32:33 +0000

[...] entering the official “late winter” season in the Japanese Poet’s Meteorological Service forecasts, according to the saijiki, the book that regulates the topics of seasonal haiku in Japan. Here is [...]

By: odorunara

odorunara — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:22:18 +0000

I’ve been translating a lot of haiku at work, and I really like this post. I feel like I’m such in the last season here, drinking the cherry tea I was saving for when the blossoms open into 梅雨 or scrambling for the last of the aka-zuiki at the market.