APRIL calendar

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. Kigo Calendar - the 12 Months .

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April - shigatsu　四月




.................... 01 .................................................................................

. April Fool's Day, All Fools' Day 四月馬鹿 .


.................... 02 .................................................................................

. Memorial Day for Enomoto Kikaku 基角忌 .


.................... 05 .................................................................................

. seimei 清明 Clear and bright .
one of the 24 solar sections 二十四節気

. seimeisai 清明祭 Seimei festival. Okinawa .


.................... 07 .................................................................................

. Osaki Hosai Memorial Day 放哉忌 .


.................... 08 .................................................................................

. Buddha's Birthday Celebrations 仏生会 .
Buddha Purnima - India

. Memorial Day for Takahama Kyoshi 虚子忌 / Chinju Ki 椿寿忌.


.................... 09 .................................................................................

. Bataan Day or Day of Valor - Philippines .


.................... 10 .................................................................................

. Arbor Day (tree day) .


.................... 11 .................................................................................

. Cherry Blossom Festival at Yoshino 吉野花会式 .


.................... 13 .................................................................................

. Memorial Day of Ishikawa Takuboku 啄木忌 .



.................... 14 .................................................................................

. Sanno Festival 山王祭 .
Hiyoshi Shrine, Otsu 日吉神社

. Ambedkar Jayanti, Memorial Day - India .

.................... 15 .................................................................................

. Memorial Day for Umewaka Maru 梅若忌 .

. Africa Day .


.................... 17 .................................................................................

International Haiku Poetry Day
- The Haiku Foundation -



.................... 18 .................................................................................

. Memorial Day for Saint Honen Hoonen-ki (Honenki) 法然忌 .



.................... 20 .................................................................................

. kokuu, koku u 穀雨 grain rain .
one of the 24 solar sections 二十四節気


.................... 21 .................................................................................

. Memorial Day for Sen no Rikyu 利休忌 .

. Yasukuni Shrine festival 靖国祭 .


.................... 22 .................................................................................

. Earth Day アースデイ .


.................... 25 .................................................................................

. ceremony for Monju Bosatsu, Kofuku-Ji 興福寺文殊会 .

. World Malaria Day . 　

. Anzac Day - Australia .


.................... 28 .................................................................................

. Memorial Day for Saint Gensei 元政忌 .


.................... 29 .................................................................................

. Showa Day 昭和の日 .
Beginning of Golden Week 黄金週間 till May 5


.................... 30 .................................................................................

. Queen's Day - Holland .
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands



.................... second Sunday

. Eating large portions of rice in Nikko 日光強飯式 .
ritual at temple Rinno-Ji 輪王寺 in Nikko


.................... last Sunday

. Sekiten Sekiten 釈奠, Confucius Festival 孔子祭 .
Sekisai 釈菜



.................... All April .................................................................................


. National Poetry Month, USA .



. WKD : April - a Haiku Month .

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. WKD : World Days in April .

. Ceremonies, festivals, rituals - April .

. Memorial Days of Famous People - April .



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For the worldwide approach to kigo,
we must differentiate between the "Haiku Season" and the natural phenomenon and human activites occuring at a certain season at a certain place.

To complicate our endeavor, we also have to deal with the Asian Lunar Calendar and the 24 seasons (periods), which were applied in Japan before the introduction of the Western Calendar, when kigo were already used in Japanese poetry.

Study the details here, please:

. The Japanese Haiku Calendar.


. Seasons beginning .

. Seasons ending .


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