AUGUST calendar

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. Kigo Calendar - the 12 Months .

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August - hachigatsu　八月　





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. Hassaku 八朔 (はっさく) Hassaku day .
first day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar

. Sansa Bon-odori dance in Morioka さんさ踊り . 　　

. Emancipation Day - Trinidad and Tobago .


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

. moxabustion on August second　後の二日灸 .

. Memorial Day for Uejima Onitsura 上島鬼貫 .


.................... 03 .................................................................................

. Akita Lantern Festival 秋田かんとう祭 .

. Day of Honey 蜂蜜の日 hachi mitsu .


.................... 04 .................................................................................

. Kitano Tenmangu Shrine Festival 北野天満宮 Kyoto .


.................... 06 .................................................................................

. Hiroshima-ki 広島忌 Hiroshima Memorial Day .

haro 八六の日　86 Hallo Day
goroawase. ha(chi) ro(ku)


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

. Mitarashi Purification Ritual at Shimogamo 御手洗会 .

. Nairobi Bomb Day, Kenya 1998 .


. Referendum Day, Kenya August 2010 .


. Rabindranath Tagore Memorial Day, India .


.................... 07/08 .................................................................................

. autumn begins 立秋 risshuu .


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

. Memorial day for Yanagita Kunio 柳田國男 .


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

. Nagasaki-ki 長崎忌 Nagasaki Memorial Day.

. Memorial Day for Tan Taigi 炭太祇 .


.................... 12 .................................................................................

. Perseid Meteor Showers .


.................... 13 - 15 .................................................................................

. O-bon お盆 Obon Ancestor Festival.



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

. hachigatsu juugonichi 八月十五日 August 15 .

. shuusen kinenbi 終戦記念日 End of War Day .

. Mishima Shrine Festival 三島祭 .


. Independence Day, India 1947 .

. Feast of the Assumption 被昇天祭 .


.................... 16 .................................................................................

. Kyoto Gozan Okuribi 京都五山送り火
fire for seeing off the souls after O-Bon .

. Elvis Presley (1935 – 1977) .


.................... 19 .................................................................................

. Haiku Day 俳句の日 HA-I-KU, Haiku no Hi .



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

. Senior Citizen's Day, India .



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

. The Immaculate Heart of Mary 聖母聖心祭 .


.................... 23 .................................................................................

. Shosho 処暑 Limit of heat .
one of the 24 solar sections 二十四節気

. Memorial Day for Saint Ippen 一遍上人 .
Yugyoo-Ki 遊行忌　”Memorial Day of the Travelling Saint”


.................... 24 .................................................................................

. Jizobon, Jizo Bon 地蔵盆 .


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

. Memorial Day for Oota Dookan 太田道灌 .
Ota Dokan, first builder of Edo Castle



.................... 26 .................................................................................

. kyuu Tanabata 旧七夕　Star Festival .
according to the lunar calendar
in some places on August 7.



.................... 31 .................................................................................

. Memorial Day for Maruyama Okyo 円山 応挙 .





. WKD : August - a Haiku Month .


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. WKD : World Days in August .


. Ceremonies, festivals, rituals - August .

. Memorial Days of Famous People - August .


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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.

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