Date Event
Sketchbook SHH Contest 4 ~ Autumn Kigo
Hello Sketchbook Haijin:
A note from Karina Klesko, Editor Announcing the
Sketchbook, SHH Contest 4! Please review the sample
submission at the bottom of this page prior to submitting
your work. Incomplete submissions will be returned to
the haijin.
For “Showcase Haiku Haijin”, SHH! I will scout out each
Sketchbook Issue for haiku to Showcase. These
haiku will be chosen by rigid standards.
-
the use of
kigo / no double kigo permitted
-
the citation
of kigo from a print or on-line saijiki
-
evocative
power
-
transformation by the use of suggestion/not stating or
telling
-
juxtaposition
-
the
feeling of wabi sabi
-
the use of
yugen
I have not set a limit to how many haiku will be selected
for the Showcase Haiku; that will be determined and vary
each issue depending upon the haiku submitted and / or
selected for the issue. While the Sketchbook
Haiku Thread is themed and the Kukai has a kigo, the Showcase will not be restricted to a
topic. However, each Showcase Haiku must have a kigo /
season word in the season of the publication it is being
submitting. This is only for Haiku, no other genres. Later
we will add Tanka as a separate showcase.
Haijin may send up to five haiku for each bi-monthly issue:
February, April, June, August, October, and December. Haiku
entered in the Showcase (SHH) must be
previously unpublished; they must not be work shopped; they
must not appear on any list, forum, group, blog, or in
print. In short, if the haiku has appeared on the
internet or in print we consider it to have been published.
The next
deadline is 20, August, 2012 for the July/August, 31, 2012
issue. Any autumn kigo
referenced in an on-line sijiki or a print sijiki may be
selected.
Send to:
SHH@poetrywriting.org
Subject line: SHH Contest 4 autumn kigo and your name
Deadline: 20 August 2012
Include a detailed Reference from which each of your summer kigo words
are chosen;
For Example:
1) Autumn Kigo: "River of Heaven"—ama-no-gawa:
Astronomy": The
Haiku Handbook. William J. Higginson, p. 277.
2) Autumn Kigo: "cricket
(koorogi, all autumn). See also
favorite named crickets, below":
Animals: in
The Five Hundred Essential
Japanese Season Words
Selected by
Kenkichi Yamamoto
Translated by
Kris Young Kondo and
William J. Higginson Edited
for Renku Home on-line:
http://www.2hweb.net/haikai/renku/500ESWd.html#AUTUMN
3) Autumn Kigo: "vineyards:
Sky and Elements":
The Yuki Teikei Haiku
Season Word List
(San Jose) on-line
www.youngleaves.org/season-word-list/
4)
Autumn Kigo: many listings-choose something specific and
include a web link: The World Kigo Database--on-line:
http://wkdkigodatabase03.blogspot.com/2010_05_01_archive.html
A Specific Example:
Autumn Kigo: shuushoku 秋色 (しゅうしょく)
autumn colors: kigo for all autumn in
The World Kigo Database--on-line:
http://wkdkigodatabase03.blogspot.com/2009/08/heaven-in-autumn-saijiki.html
5) The World Kigo Datebase also maintains a
list of regional Kigo. Other saijiki sources may also be
used (both print and online); just be specific; be sure to
include titles, pages, categories and web links.
Failure to include a specific kigo source will result in the
return of the submission to you.
The results of
Sketchbook SHH Contest 4 Autumn Kigo will be published in
the July / August 31, 2012 issue of Sketchbook.
This will be fun! I look forward to reading your
submissions!!
Thank you.
Karina Klesko, Sketchbook editor.
kk
Sample Submission ~ SHH4 Autumn Kigo
in these
dog days
a new coolness—
she visits friends
~Annonymous
Autumn Kigo: "new
coolness (shinryoo,
early autumn):
The Season" in
The Five Hundred
Essential Japanese Season Words
Selected by
Kenkichi Yamamoto
Translated by
Kris Young Kondo
and
William J. Higginson
Edited for Renku Home on-line:
http://www.2hweb.net/haikai/renku/500ESWd.html#AUTUMN
Features of
this submission:
1) the
seasonal haiku with kigo--new coolness
2) the kigo season--Autumn Kigo: this
changes from contest to contest
3) the specific kigo listed in the sajiki
with interpretations etc.--"new coolness (shinryoo,
early autumn)
4) the category: i.e. The Season; Animals;
Plants; etc.
5) the name of the source, authors, and page
6) the on-line link; if a book, publisher,
date, and page; see various example at the
top of this page
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