kigo
Sign in to savethumb|Cherry blossoms (sakura), often simply called blossoms () are a common spring kigo.
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- History
- Significance
- Seasons
- Japanese seasons
- ''Saijiki'' and lists of kigo
- Outside Japan
- Kigo and haiku: an example
- Haiku without kigo
- See also
- Further reading
- Online
- Online lists of season words
- Notes
- References
thumb|Cherry blossoms (sakura), often simply called blossoms () are a common spring kigo.
A is a word or phrase associated with a particular season, used in traditional forms of Japanese poetry. Kigo are used in the collaborative linked-verse forms renga and renku, as well as in haiku, to indicate the season referred to in the stanza. They are valuable in providing economy of expression.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “kigo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.