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A saijiki (歳時記 "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

of similar or related words, and some examples of haiku that include that kigo.[1]

A kiyose

(Japanese: 季寄せ) is similar, but does not contain sample poems. Modern saijiki and kiyose aredivided into the four seasons and New Year, with some containing a further section for seasonless

(muki 季) 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 References4 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 February–5 MaySummer: 6 May–7 August

Autumn: 8 August–6 November

Winter: 7 November–3 February

In categorising kigo, a saijiki or kiyose divides each season into early, middle, and late periods, as

follows:[2]

Early spring: 4 February–5 March

Mid-spring: 6 March–4 April

Late spring: 5 April–5 May

Early summer: 6 May–5 June

Mid-summer: 6 June–6 July

Late summer: 7 July–7 August

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Early autumn: 8 August–7 September

Mid-autumn: 8 September–7 October

Late autumn: 8 October–6 November

Early winter: 7 November–6 December

Mid-winter: 7 December–4 January

Late winter: 5 January–3 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 InitiativeWorld Kigo Database (http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/), worldwide saijiki

Japanese

Masaoka Shiki, ed. Kiyose. 1930 (Japanese: 正岡子規編『季寄せ』（三省堂、1930）)

Kyoshi Takahama, ed. A New Saijiki , 1934 (Japanese: 高浜虚子編『新歳時記』（三省堂、

1934）)

Teiko Inahata, ed. The New Hototogisu Saijiki , 1996 (Japanese: 稲畑汀子編『ホトトギス新歳

時記』（三省堂、1996）＆ CD版（1998）)

References

^ Gill, Robin D. The Fifth Season—Poems 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

1.

^ Higginson, William J. Kiyose (Seasonword Guide), From Here Press, 2005, p.242.

External links

Le Saijiki en français (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

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