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leap day -
the haiku frogs jump
to new heights
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leap day 閏日 uroobi, junjitsu (うるうび、じゅんじつ)
kigo for early spring
February 29
2012年2月29日
Schalttag, Schaltjahr
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A leap year (or intercalary year)
is a year containing one or more extra days (or, in the case of lunisolar calendars, an extra month) in order to keep the calendar year synchronised with the astronomical or seasonal year.
For example, in the Gregorian calendar, February would have 29 days in a leap year instead of the usual 28. Because seasons and astronomical events do not repeat at an exact number of full days, a calendar which had the same number of days in each year would, over time, drift with respect to the event it was supposed to track.
By occasionally inserting (or intercalating) an additional day or month into the year, the drift can be corrected. A year which is not a leap year is called a common year.
Leap Day
February 29 is a date that occurs only every four years, and is called leap day. This day is added to the calendar in leap years as a corrective measure, because the earth does not orbit around the sun in precisely 365.000 days.
A person born on February 29 may be called a "leapling" or "leaper". In common years they usually celebrate their birthdays on 28 February or 1 March.
Chinese calendar
The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, so a leap year has an extra month, often called an embolismic month after the Greek word for it. In the Chinese calendar the leap month is added according to a complicated rule, which ensures that month 11 is always the month that contains the northern winter solstice. The intercalary month takes the same number as the preceding month; for example, if it follows the second month (二月) then it is simply called "leap second month" (traditional Chinese: 閏二月).
Folk traditions
In the English speaking world, it is a tradition that women may propose marriage only on leap years. While it has been argued that the tradition was initiated by Saint Patrick or Brigid of Kildare in 5th century Ireland, it is dubious as the tradition has not been attested before the 19th century.
Supposedly, a 1288 law by Queen Margaret of Scotland (then age five and living in Norway), required that fines be levied if a marriage proposal was refused by the man; compensation ranged from a kiss to £1 to a silk gown, in order to soften the blow. Because men felt that put them at too great a risk, the tradition was in some places tightened to restricting female proposals to the modern leap day, 29 February, or to the medieval leap day, 24 February.
According to Felten: "A play from the turn of the 17th century, 'The Maydes Metamorphosis,' has it that 'this is leape year/women wear breeches.' A few hundred years later, breeches wouldn't do at all: Women looking to take advantage of their opportunity to pitch woo were expected to wear a scarlet petticoat -- fair warning, if you will."
In Denmark, the tradition is that women may propose on leap day 24 February and that refusal must be compensated with 12 pairs of gloves.
In Greece, it is believed that getting married in a leap year is bad luck for the couple[citation needed]. Thus, mainly in the middle of the past century, couples avoided setting a marriage date in a leap year.
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2008 - a LEAP year ...
The 2008 Year of the Frog Global campaign will achieve its goal of helping keep threatened amphibians afloat through the amazing and dedicated efforts of individuals, institutions and regional zoo associations from all around the planet.
http://www.amphibianark.org/YOTFnews.htm
WKD : Basho and his Frog
Hundred Frogs and The Sound of Water
(Mizu no Oto)
.. READ : one hundred frogs
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leap year --
working one day longer
for my pay
Isabelle Prondzynski, 2008
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2012 - a LEAP year ...
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Daruma jumps
to new hights -
this leap day
. Haiku and Daruma san .
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this leap day -
let's all jump
in the Haiku Pond
source : webclipart.about.com
leap year
an ol' frog
sleeps in
Don Baird
Leap Day... I wonder if Bashou knew?!
Dennis Chibi
leap year . . .
a last baby step
before march
Elaine Andre
leap year day . . .
an immigrant asks directions
to his childhood home
Sandip Sital Chauhan
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a rainbow leaps!
swatting yellow jackets
on Kern River
Jimmy ThePeach
Rainbow Trout - More in the WIKIPEDIA !
Kern River - More in the WIKIPEDIA !
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leap year ---
a Bronx Zoo tree kangaroo
doesn't know what all the fuss about
a rain storm---
makes a leap day feel
much longer
Fred Masarani
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Vieillir... mais pas trop vite
son anniversaire
tous les quatre ans.
Aging... but not too fast
her birthday
every four years.
Patrick Fetu
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Uniqlo UK sent out a special advertisement on Leap Day,
with what I take to be a haiku :
take a leap
into our lucky dip --
only today
~Uniqlo ad
And another haiku of mine, same day :
leap day --
walking down the stairs
with an extra bounce
~ Isabelle Prondzynski
May we all have an extra bounce in our step this leap year!
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this leap year -
one day older
than last year
the end of February
additional day for
salary
Gennady Nov
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I was inspired by the Leap Day Folk Traditions !
iThings -
the world grows
smaller each day
sunlight casts doubt...
will a warm february
leap into a cold march?
Pat Geyer
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snow dances with limbs
turning fouettes and jétés
this leap year
Kit Nagamura
a cold leap day
it snows in Tokyo
rarely long boots
Hideo Suzuki
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nearly leap day--
the class teacher complains
about salary payment
Eric Mwange
Leap Day --
and where was I now
four years ago?
Catherine Njeri
drunken driver --
a young man was killed
this leap day
Isabelle Prondzynski
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haiku - leaping begins
first city
to see the light
Benita Kape
the old man takes
his first walk in months -
leap day
Bill Kenney
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another day
covered in snow -
my leap day
every day
is haiku day -
this leap day
leap day trouble -
my server looses
the connection
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A leap second is a one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied
to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in order to keep its time of day
close to the mean solar time.
The next leap second will be inserted on
June 30, 2012 at 23:59:60 UTC.
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leap second --
my shadow becomes
longer
Chen-ou Liu, Canada
Note:
At the earliest moment in the morning, a team of scientists at the Paris Observatory added a leap second "to make up for a gradual slowdown in the Earth's rotation."
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WKD Reference: Calendar Systems of the World
. ichinichi saijiki 一日歳時記 One Day Saijiki .
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6/30/2012
3/26/2011
snow in Tohoku
snow in Tohoku - how many flakes carry traces of radiation ? |
. Japan - after the BIG earthquake .
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3/16/2011
snow
snow in my valley - what are my poor neighbours doing right now? |
The Super Earthquake March 11, 2011
東北地方太平洋沖地震
magnitude 9:0
. Tohoku region Pacific Ocean offshore earthquake .
My Diary
. Japan - after the BIG earthquake .
Temperatures are falling, we even had snow here in Western Japan.
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秋深き 隣は何を する人ぞ
aki fukaki tonari wa nani o suru hito zo
. Matsuo Basho about the neighbours .
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3/03/2011
spring snow
spring snow - just enough to sparkle |
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Enjoy 16 photos of this morning
and this was yesterday
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2/15/2011
shoveling snow
Start the walk from HERE
. my PHOTO ALBUM
. WKD : Snow (yuki 雪)
. THF : the kigo game
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2/14/2011
snow snow snow
yahoo weather forecast too much snow to shovel a path - cabin fever |
The snow clouds over Okayama prefecture, going to stay this way until tomorrow morning
IF
the weather forecast is right . . .
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2/11/2011
woodpecker
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light snow -
a woodpecker hammers
in the silence
. woodpecker, kitsutsuki 啄木鳥
basically a kigo for all autumn, but these days I hear him every morning when I open the window.
And today, in the silence of freshly fallen snow, the sound was most eerie in the valley !
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neve leggera -
il martello di un picchio
nel silenzio
Tr. by Moussia
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light snow -
a woodpecker hammers
in the silence
. woodpecker, kitsutsuki 啄木鳥
basically a kigo for all autumn, but these days I hear him every morning when I open the window.
And today, in the silence of freshly fallen snow, the sound was most eerie in the valley !
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neve leggera -
il martello di un picchio
nel silenzio
Tr. by Moussia
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1/30/2011
icicles and Kisagata
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cold sunshine -
the icicles refuse
to melt
rondo in my valley -
now snowfall
now sunshine
Morning minus seven centigrade
Mid-day minus three centigrade
next morning, Monday 31
minus nine -9℃
kylmä auringon paiste -
jääpuikot kieltäytyvät
sulamasta
My Icicle haiku in Finnish, translated by
Juhani Tikkanen
(facebook)
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and this is how America feels in the last few days, too much snow
Snow My Gosh
Snomageddon
Snowpocalypse
Snowtorious
Snowzilla
all snover again
Mega Snowstorm Pounds Moves East with Snow, Ice, Freezing Temperatures
A colossal winter storm dropping snow and ice from Texas to Maine has left two thirds of the nation facing downed power lines, shuttered highways and thousands of airport cancellations.
source : abcnews.go.com
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drinking at the lake
first it is sunny
then it rains
SU DONG-PO (1037-1101)
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象潟の欠をかぞへて鳴千鳥
kisagata no kake wo kazoete naku chidori
counting the remains
of Kisa Lagoon...
a singing plover
This haiku has the prescript: "Into the bowels of the earth." Kisa Lagoon (Kisagata) was ravaged by an earthquake in Sixth Month, 1804. The effect, according to Shinji Ogawa, was that the seabed was raised and the "beautiful scenery like a miniature archipelago suddenly became dry land."
Tr. and comment, David Lanoue
象潟や蛍まぶれの早苗舟
kisagata ya hotaru mabure no sanae fune
Kisagata lagoon -
fireflies sparkle
around the rice-planting boat
. Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 .
When I visited Kisakata in Akita, it was not a lagoon any more, an earthquake in 1804 had lifted the ground and many former islands where standing above the ground.
The landscape is most impressive, often compared to the islands of Matsushima.
象潟や 雨に西施が ねぶの花
kisakata ya ame ni seishi ga nebu no hana
Kisagata lagoon,
in the rain Xishi,s eyes are closed
blossoms of the silk tree
Tr. Massih
A flowering silk tree in the sleepy rain of Kisakata
Reminds me of Lady Seishi
In sorrowful lament
Tr. Nobuyuki Yuasa
Matsuo Basho
. Comments of Facebook
Matsuo Basho - Oku no Hosomichi
. Tsuruoka and Kisakata 鶴岡 と 象潟 (きさかた).
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cold sunshine -
the icicles refuse
to melt
rondo in my valley -
now snowfall
now sunshine
Morning minus seven centigrade
Mid-day minus three centigrade
next morning, Monday 31
minus nine -9℃
kylmä auringon paiste -
jääpuikot kieltäytyvät
sulamasta
My Icicle haiku in Finnish, translated by
Juhani Tikkanen
(facebook)
. . . . .
and this is how America feels in the last few days, too much snow
Snow My Gosh
Snomageddon
Snowpocalypse
Snowtorious
Snowzilla
all snover again
Mega Snowstorm Pounds Moves East with Snow, Ice, Freezing Temperatures
A colossal winter storm dropping snow and ice from Texas to Maine has left two thirds of the nation facing downed power lines, shuttered highways and thousands of airport cancellations.
source : abcnews.go.com
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drinking at the lake
first it is sunny
then it rains
SU DONG-PO (1037-1101)
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象潟の欠をかぞへて鳴千鳥
kisagata no kake wo kazoete naku chidori
counting the remains
of Kisa Lagoon...
a singing plover
This haiku has the prescript: "Into the bowels of the earth." Kisa Lagoon (Kisagata) was ravaged by an earthquake in Sixth Month, 1804. The effect, according to Shinji Ogawa, was that the seabed was raised and the "beautiful scenery like a miniature archipelago suddenly became dry land."
Tr. and comment, David Lanoue
象潟や蛍まぶれの早苗舟
kisagata ya hotaru mabure no sanae fune
Kisagata lagoon -
fireflies sparkle
around the rice-planting boat
. Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 .
When I visited Kisakata in Akita, it was not a lagoon any more, an earthquake in 1804 had lifted the ground and many former islands where standing above the ground.
The landscape is most impressive, often compared to the islands of Matsushima.
象潟や 雨に西施が ねぶの花
kisakata ya ame ni seishi ga nebu no hana
Kisagata lagoon,
in the rain Xishi,s eyes are closed
blossoms of the silk tree
Tr. Massih
A flowering silk tree in the sleepy rain of Kisakata
Reminds me of Lady Seishi
In sorrowful lament
Tr. Nobuyuki Yuasa
Matsuo Basho
. Comments of Facebook
Matsuo Basho - Oku no Hosomichi
. Tsuruoka and Kisakata 鶴岡 と 象潟 (きさかた).
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1/25/2011
snowflakes
sudden snowfall - the stone Buddha sits undisturbed ................................................................................. just one snowflake just one blossom winter sunshine |
winter dawn
the stone Buddha wears a kesa
of snow
Jenifer
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1/18/2011
snow on reeds
waking up to a load of snow - susuki bending low |
. Pampas grass (susuki, obana)
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1/16/2011
snow meditation
undisturbed by snow and cold - winter meditation |
My Stone Buddha on the left, in a snow cover.
Here is the plant during her short life in summer:
. Liliy to be born !
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1/15/2011
snowflakes in sunshine
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snowflakes in sunshine -
the dirt on my windows
shows clearly
Expecting a blizzard for tomorrow, seems to start now . . . brrrrr . . . temperatures dropping as I write . . .
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Next Morning, Sunday at Six
Minus 7 centigrate, snow keeps falling ...
blizzard -
the heavy weight
of snowflakes
. Daily Snow Record in my Valley in Ohaga
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Palm tree in snow
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snowflakes-
grandfather's eyes
shine
Alex Serban
Romania, January 2012
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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things,
but just look at what they can do
when they stick together.
Vesta M. Kelly
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snowflakes in sunshine -
the dirt on my windows
shows clearly
Expecting a blizzard for tomorrow, seems to start now . . . brrrrr . . . temperatures dropping as I write . . .
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Next Morning, Sunday at Six
Minus 7 centigrate, snow keeps falling ...
blizzard -
the heavy weight
of snowflakes
. Daily Snow Record in my Valley in Ohaga
. PHOTO ALBUM
Look at more SNOW photos
Palm tree in snow
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snowflakes-
grandfather's eyes
shine
Alex Serban
Romania, January 2012
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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things,
but just look at what they can do
when they stick together.
Vesta M. Kelly
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