Thanks so much for introducing these new kigo and the season .

New Year’s Eve --
the lone lime tree is
lost in the fog

double kigo is no problem here, since you state the prominent season
clearly with the name of the day.

We have a list of Chistian celebrations in Japanese kigo, I think, we
can later add your list here too !
http://wkdkigodatabase03.blogspot.com/2010/02/christian-celebrations-winter.html

Thanks again, dear Isabelle san.
And enjoy your winter in Ireland.

Gabi
from a cold cold cold afternoon, snow just beginning to fall again ...
brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr


> Dear all,
>
> On this last day of 2010, may I wish everyone here a happy ending to
> the year and a bright beginning to 2011, and may the new year bring us
> all much joy and peace.
>
> I have been thinking about the twelve days of Christmas and the
> amazing complexity of the Christian faith which is demonstrated so
> visibly at this time of year. It is no coincidence that the feast days
> between Christmas Day and the Epiphany (6 January) are as they are;
> this was the planning of the church, all the way back to the earliest
> days in most cases.
>
> 26 December -- St Stephen, the earliest martyr of the church. A public
> holiday in many countries.
>
> 27 December -- St John the Evangelist, the great mystic among the four
> Gospel writers.
>
> 28 December -- Holy Innocents, the infants who were killed at the
> orders of Herod, in the expectation that Jesus would be among them.
>
> 31 December -- St Sylvester, the rather obscure patron saint of a day
> celebrated around the world as either Sylvester's Day or New Year's Eve.
>
> 1 January -- New Year's Day
>
> 6 January -- Epiphany, the day when we celebrate the arrival of the
> three kings bearing gifts for the Christ child of gold, frankicense
> and myrrh.
>
> Two of these have been written up as kigo :
>
> St Stephen's Day : http://europasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/07/stephens-day.html
>
> Epiphany :
http://europasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/08/three-kings-day-epiphany.html
>
> As well as new year's day, of course -- the biggest feast of the year
> in Japan.
>
> I wonder whether we shall have new haiku to add for any of these days
> this year?
>
>
> St Stephen’s Day mass --
> only a few have braved
> the cold roads
>
> The roads were icy and covered in snow, and there were only eight of
> us in church!
>
>
> I have this year, for the first time, written a haiku on Holy
> Innocents' Day :
>
> the sound of
> gunshots in the distance --
> Holy Innocents
>
> The Christmas holiday, in Ireland, is a time when those who like
> shooting wild animals (pheasants, hares, rabbits) for a festive meal,
> are out and about with their guns. On Holy Innocents' Day, while out
> walking, I was struck by the fact that, once again, innocents are
> being killed. Without this explanation though, and leaving the haiku
> to speak for itself, I am sure it is also apt in many countries where
> guns are beung used to shoot humans, and innocent members of our own
> human race are being killed or maimed.
>
>
> New Year’s Eve --
> the lone lime tree is
> lost in the fog
>
> A tree which I always enjoy on my rural walks -- today, it was hardly
> visible because of the fog. A bit like ourselves, at the turn of the
> year, not too good at looking back, and not too good at looking
> forward either...
>
> A double kigo, Gabi sensei... can it work all the same?
>
> And here is a haiku in anticipation of New Year's Day :
>
> clearfell --
> a forest waits for
> New Year’s Day
>
> The whole forest had been cut down (clearfelled), as the trees had
> matured and were big enough for timber. The woodland was left in chaos
> and will only be tidied up when the new young trees get planted, early
> in the new year when the snow and ice are gone. Even though the forest
> looks devastated, there is hope for the future.
>
>
> With all best wishes to you too,
>
> Isabelle.
>
> ------------------------------------