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Showing posts with label France. Show all posts

7/14/2010

Paris Festival

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Paris Festival (Parisai)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Late Summer
***** Category: Observance


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Explanation

Pari sai, parisai パリ祭 (ぱりさい) Paris festival
..... Parii sai 晩夏 パリー祭(ぱりーさい)
..... Parisai 巴里祭(ぱりさい)


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Celebrated on July 14.
This is a national holiday in France.

People who like France come together in the Ginza (Tokyo) and other places to celebrate.
There are often events with French chansons and other music.


There was also a famous movie in Japan, called

Pari-Sai 巴里祭 (Bastille Day).


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The Storming of the Bastille
occurred in Paris on the 14th of July, 1789.
The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris.

In France, Le quatorze juillet (14 July)
is a public holiday, formally known as the Fête de la Fédération (Federation Holiday). It is usually called Bastille Day in English.
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巴里祭ピエロの黒き涙痕
Pari sai piero no kuroki namida ato

Paris Festival -
the black traces
of a clown's tears


Saito Yumiko 斉藤由美子


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A long list of haiku about 巴里祭
http://www.haisi.com/saijiki/parisai.htm


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Haiku about Paris




絵葉書の巴里の青空レモン切る 
ehagaki no Pari no aozora remon kiru

on a postcard
the blue sky of Paris -
I cut a lemon


Shimonyama Yoshiko 下山芳子


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a rain cloud
gently caress
the Eiffel Tower


Notre Dame -
in the cathedral
two grooms


Alex Serban
Kigo Hotline, August 2011


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tango in Paris
her silhouette in his sunglasses
Eiffel Tower

tango à Paris
sa silhouette dans ses lunettes de soleil
Tour Eiffel


shared by Irena Szewczyk



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July the Fourteenth---
the storming of the Bastille
by the French peasants


Fred Masarani, 2013


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***** WKD Reference

***** Tear, tears (namida) Japan. Träne, Tränen

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7/04/2010

Madame Curie

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Madame Curie Memorial Day (Kyurii ki)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Late Summer
***** Category: Observance


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memorial day of Madame Curie
Kyuri ki キュリー忌(きゅりーき)

Kyurii fujin sai キュリー夫人祭 (きゅりーふじんさい)
Festival of Madame Curie
Kyuurii ki キュウリー忌


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Fear Less, Know More

Nothing in life is to be feared,
it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more,
so that we may fear less.


Madame Marie Curie

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Marie Sklodowska Curie
(7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934)

was a physicist and chemist of Polish upbringing and subsequent French citizenship. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity and the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes —in physics and chemistry. She was also the first female professor at the University of Paris.
She married Pierre Curie.

Her achievements include the creation of a theory of radioactivity (a term she coined, techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two new elements, polonium and radium. Under her direction, the world's first studies were conducted into the treatment of neoplasms (cancers) using radioactive isotopes.
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キュウリー忌薊は棄教の花かとも 
Kyuurii ki azami wa kikyoo no hana ka tomo 


Maria Magudarena マリア マグダレナ
http://homepage2.nifty.com/cat-fish/9811himu.html



At the radium hot spring in Misasa, Tottori, there is a statue of Madame Curie

三朝温泉 「キュリー祭」
Curie Festival, usually held in August




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on the late-night movie
as I try to swallow oatmeal
"Madame Curie"


Anita Virgil
source : Simply Haiku, Autumn 2006





Madame Curie is a 1943 biographical film made by MGM.
It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sidney Franklin from a screenplay by Paul Osborn, Paul H. Rameau and Aldous Huxley (uncredited), adapted from the biography by Eve Curie.
Marie Sklodowska (Greer Garson) is a poor, idealistic student living in Paris and studying at the Sorbonne.
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with her life
she opens the door of physics
Curie memorial day


Nakamura Sakuo
Joys of Japan, August 2012



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***** . Misasa Tug-of-war (Misasa tsunahiki)  
At Misasa Onsen Hot Spring



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