2024-08-06 20:15:00
2024/08/07 05:15 Weather News
According to the calendar, “Autumn” is defined as from the first day of Beginning of Autumn to the day before Beginning of Winter (November 7 this year).
The weather has been extremely hot in recent years, and many people may be thinking, “It doesn’t feel like autumn at all.”
However, the first day of autumn is also when you can feel the signs and symptoms of autumn. Let’s see what season it is.
Why is “watermelon” written as “watermelon”?
The Chinese character for watermelon is “水瓜”. Why is watermelon written as “watermelon”?
Is it called “watermelon” because it was introduced to Japan from China, which is located in the west of Japan?
Well, what a shame. This is a loss.
The reason why watermelon is written as “watermelon” is because it is a melon introduced to China from a more western region than China.
Watermelon is native to Africa. Watermelon was introduced to China by the Uighurs in western China, and later to Japan (some say during the Muromachi period).
In fact, “watermelon” is the seasonal word for autumn. This may come as a surprise, but it seems like it’s early fall.
Watermelon is rich in water and perfect for providing good hydration. It is also recommended to prevent heatstroke.
“New Coolness” The feeling of early autumn
In haiku, “suzukaze” and “chill” are the seasonal words for summer, and “shinryo” is the seasonal word for autumn.
“Ryoukaze” and “Ryoushi” refer to the slight coolness that can be felt in hot weather, while “Shinryo” means the new coolness of early autumn.
For example, you could write: “The weather has been cool these days, and the breeze in the morning and evening has signs of autumn. How have you been lately?”
~Hiraashi no Ura of New Cold White~
This is a haiku written by the haiku poet Yoshisa Kawabata, who studied under Takahama Kyoshi.
My white palms and soles. I’m guessing you’re comparing it to areas that get sunburned in the summer. This is probably a poem he wrote when he was feeling the new cool weather.
What is “Yaberu”?
Yabuiri is a day when servants take leave from their masters and return to their parents’ homes around the New Year and Obon holidays.
The most popular theory as to why it is said to “go into the bush” is that it “returns to the grass”.
Simply put, “Yabuiri” is the seasonal word for the New Year, and when referring to Yabuiri during Obon, it is called “Ato no Yabuiri” or “Autumn Yabuiri”.
It was a happy day for the young servants and their parents to go into the bush.
There is such a passage in Yuzo Yamamoto’s novel “The Stone on the Road”. In this scene, mother Oren anxiously waits for her only son to go hunting for Obon in the bush.
“My mom was alone while I waited for the cooked red beans to arrive.”
It might be a little off, but I think someone’s haiku said this. Oren got up extra early that morning and heated up the red beans she had bought earlier. “
In Yabuiri you can clearly feel the mother’s affection for her child.
The sadness felt in Kana Kana of “Higurashi”
The Higurashi cicada is a chestnut-brown cicada about 5 centimeters long with green and black markings. It is found in trees such as cedar, cypress, beech, and beech.
The name Higurashi comes from the sound it makes at dusk.
~Day life and sudden bright lake light~
This is a haiku by the haiku poet Kobayashi Issa at the end of the Edo period.
“Higurashi” refers to the Japanese cicada, and “Umi” refers to Lake Nojiri in northern Nagano Prefecture.
“When the lake suddenly brightened, the black-crowned night heron began to sing.” When Issa wrote this poem, he had a refreshing feeling in his heart.
This year, the first day of autumn is August 21st. As Mountain Day (August 11th) passes, so does Obon, and as we enter the end of August, some areas will begin to feel like autumn.
Even though the weather is hot right now, it might be a good idea to get into the fall atmosphere once in a while and enjoy the passage of time.
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Supervisor/Yamashita Keiko
writer. There are many books that explore the beauty of the Japanese language and the individual words in the Japanese calendar, such as “The Seventy-Two Seasons Notebook” (Seibidoshuppan) and “The Seventy-Two Seasons of Japanese Beauty” (PHP Institute).
Reference materials, etc.
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