kigo
Collating all the odds n ends on kigo and seasonal reference here. Just as they're come across whilst trying to sort out all my scattered notes and what have you, as time goes by. . . .
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"Magnetoception (or magnetoreception) is the ability to detect a magnetic field to perceive direction, altitude or location. This sense plays a role in the navigational abilities of several animal species and has been postulated as a method for animals to develop regional maps." Wikipedia
NOTE: This 'magnetoception' ties in to our orientation in space and its extension onto the horizons which surround us in all directions. This is the root of calanders and, for haiku purposes, kigo and seasonal references (there is a diifference).
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"In the beginning was the chaos of blind instinct. Then calanders of magic harmony. Thus is born proto-kigo. Time. Kigo becomes literary. Time. Kigo becomes decadent. Time. Seasonal reference starts from scratch. . . ." zoka & ma & et al
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"The point of seasonal reference (kigo) in traditional Japanese haiku (and its, often sad, Japanned mimics in the West,) is not simply to relate the seer to nature, as it endlessly cycles, but also to tie in local cultural/economic responses (and their memories) to the ever changing natural scenes also depicted by haiku ('hai', amusing, 'ku', small poem)." Commandment : 2 / also
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haiku passwords
are you a search engine
kigo, little seedling?
'Kigo is the heart beat and essence of haiku. The Japanese cultural memory is one entwined with Zen Buddhism, Daoism, Shinto, and the ancient shamanic animism handed down by the indigenous Ainu, the original inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago.' - Robert D Wilson
Mythic consciousness, Robert, Japanese mythic consciousness meets western scientific realism - two wings.This is why we say: "In the floating post-Christendom world, only seasonal reference is typically possible, not search engine kigo. We lost that for this." — jp
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ONGOING. . . .
jp
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18-10-11