kigo
Sign in to savethumb|Cherry blossoms (sakura), often simply called blossoms () are a common spring kigo.
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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.
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