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. Kigo Calendar - the 12 Months .

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May - gogatsu 五月





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. May Day メーデー .
Labor Day, Labour Day, International Day of the Worker

. Hiraizumi Fujiwara Festival 平泉藤原祭 .

. Walpurgis Night - Walpurgisnacht, Germany .


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. hachijuuhachiya 八十八夜
eighty-eighth day from the beginning of spring .



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. Constitution Memorial Day 憲法記念日 kenpo kinenbi .

. Opening the doors at Yoshino, Ominesan 大峰山戸開式 .


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. Greenery Day 緑の日 .



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. rikka 立夏 beginning of summer .
one of the 24 solar sections 二十四節気

. Tango no sekku 端午の節句 Tango festival for the Boys . .
Kodomo no Hi - Children's Day
End of Golden Week

. Uji Shrine Festival 宇治祭 .

. Medicine Day 薬の日 kusuri no hi .


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. Ceremony for Buddha's Mother 仏母会 .


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. Memorial Day for Katsushika Hokusai 北斎忌 .

. Bird Week バードウィーク until May 16 .


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. Kanda Shrine Festival 神田祭 Tokyo .


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. Izumo Shrine Festival 出雲大祭礼 .


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. Aoi matsuri 葵祭 Hollyhock Festival at Kamo Shrine.

. Kobe Festival 神戸まつり Kobe Matsuri .

. Wakanoura Festival 和歌浦祭 .


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. Teachers Day . Malaysia - Tun Abdul Razak


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. Nikko Toshogu Shrine Festival 日光東照宮祭 .


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. shooman 小満 "grain full" .
one of the 24 solar sections 二十四節気


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. Bulgarian Education and Culture, and Slavonic Literature Day .


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. Missing Children's Day .


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. Tora ga Ame 虎ケ雨 / 虎が雨 Tears of Lady Tora .
rain in the town of Oiso

. Memorial Day for Ariwara no Narihira 在原業平 .


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gomi 53　ゴミ 塵　dirt
gomi 530 no dirt around here / "0" means nothing.
goroawase. day to clean the environment.

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.................... last MONDAY

. Memorial Day - USA .
Formerly known as Decoration Day


.................... third SUNDAY

. Sanja Festival in Asakusa Tokyo 三社祭　 .


.................... third SUNDAY

. Barangay Fiesta - Philippines .


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. seibozuki 聖母月 month of the holy mother.
..... Maria no tsuki マリアの月（まりあのつき）month of Maria
The month of May.


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. WKD : May - a Haiku Month .


. goroawase, goro-awase　語呂合わせ　
wordplay with numbers and dates .


goroawase - days for May 今日は何の日? 5月の記念日
- source : hukumusume.com/366


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. WKD : World Days in May .

. Ceremonies, festivals, rituals - May .

. Memorial Days of Famous People - May .



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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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