In Japanese poetry kigo, or seasonal words, are used a lot to avoid repeating the words summer, spring, winter and autumn in all the poems.

So, for example, instead of saying summer, you can say beach.

初めて知りました。教えてくれてありがとうございました。

Instead of saying winter, you can say snow.

There are thousands of this wordwords like this.

So I decided to create my own saijiki, with seasonal words based on all of North America territory.

頭がいいですよ。

I'm still working on it, and it's fun to ask myself, how would I say winter whithout saying it directly?

Of course! I would say cChristmas carols!

Well, for that particular purpose, you would need a seasonal word or kigo.

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So, for example, instead of saying summer, you canould say beach.

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Instead of saying winter, you canould say snow.

There are thousands of thisese words.

I love using them in mywhen I write poetry.

Either one works, this one is just more specific and is to my personal taste, especially when writing a formal, informative-style text.

So I decided to create my own saijiki, with seasonal words based on all of North America territory.

I'm still working on it, and it's fun to ask myself how would I say winter whithout saying it directly?

Well, for that you would need a "kigo" or seasonal word or kigo.

used quotation marks around kigo to keep consistency (you used quotation marks for "hanami" later in this entry)

In Japanese poetry kigo, or seasonal words, are used a lot to avoid repeating the words summer, spring, winter and autumn in all the poems.

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So, fFor example, instead of saying summer, you can say beach.

Instead of saying winter, you can say snow.

There are thousands of thisese words.

"words" is plural, therefore "these"

Japanese poets, especially haiku writers, usually carry with them a saijiki, which is a dictionary divided into all the seasons with thousands of seasonal words.

WHowever, where I live there's no "hanami" or cherry blossoms, however.

"however" is usually used at the beginning of the sentence

So I decided to create my own saijiki, with seasonal words based on all North America territoryies.

all - plural

I'm still working on it, and it's fun to ask myself how I would I say winter whithout saying it directly?.

Of course I would say cChristmas carols!

holiday - capitalize

There are thousands of thisese words.

WHowever, where I live there's no "hanami" or cherry blossoms, however.

So I decided to create my own saijiki, with seasonal words based on all of North America territory.

I'm still working on it, and it's fun to ask myself how would I say winter whitout saying it directly?

Of course I would say cChristmas carols!