User talk:Larus.r

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- Mailer Diablo 11:12, 15 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Muki haiku

むき muki (n) (haiku) lacking seasonal references,

Help! I need some suggestions for some "keywords" commonly used in Japanese muki haiku. I have plenty of info in my reference books on kigo commonly used in Japanese haiku, but nothing on what would be commonly used in muki haiku. I do have a nice selection of "All Year" keywords in Higginson's Haiku World, but there is nothing in the discussions that indicates how commonly they are used. That book has the examples that you gave (Pine tree (matsu) and House Sparrow (suzume)), plus things like crows, pigeons, horses, dogs, grass, seaweed (kaisō) under Plants and Animals; cloud, wind, river, lake, and wave under Heaven and Earth; tattoo, birthmark, birthday, illness, cooking, house cleaning, beggar, walking, games, poems, mail, and dream under Humanity; and divorce, love, flirt, kiss, war, and funeral under Customs & Religion (those are just a part of the list).

The one criteria that I can use is looking through the example haiku for ones written by someone in Japan. For those I have cloud (kumo), rock, umbilical cord (akanbō), meeting (kaigi), plant shop, red light (akashingō), and calf (young cow).

Just for fun, here's a haiku I wrote yesterday:

lingering heat...

the smoker outside the bar

gestures wildly

BlankVerse ∅

BTW: Thank you for your suggestions on helping improve the Kigo article. BlankVerse ∅ 17:31, 25 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Also: Just curious: Does your user name Larus have anything to do with the genus name for seagulls? BlankVerse ∅ 17:35, 25 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, there is no kigo of "muki", because muki has no keyword - they denied a sort of kigo which is thought to crystalize haiku. So I think you couldn't find "muki" words in your way - words which wouldn't be listed on saijiki = muki or zō, but they aren't keywords as kigo is so.

But if you would like, you could have a list of "zō" words.

You guess right ;-) My nick comes from genus Larus - L. ridibundus.--Larus.r 02:27, 26 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

My Bachelor Degree is in Biology. Between getting my BS and going to graduate school I spent three months on Santa Barbara Island off the coast of California working with a research group doing seabird censusing and studying seabird breeding behaviour. Most of my time on the island was spent squatting in a tiny bird blind watching Western Gulls mate. BlankVerse ∅ 10:51, 26 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

List of kigo

I have created a new List of kigo article which I hope can grow and eventually become a Featured list. One reason that I created the kigo list, is that for the kigo article itself, I am thinking of trimming the list of common Japanese kigo some (fewer plants, for example), but will probably add a few new kigo from the Humananity and Observances categories. BlankVerse ∅ 15:34, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your notice! --Larus.r 13:38, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

You're welcome. FYI: User:Aphaia has added some suggestions for the Kigo article at Talk:Kigo#Trimming. I've been temporarily sidetracked working on the new grunion article, but I hope to get back to both kigo articles this week. BlankVerse ∅ 14:01, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I Need your help on 'Move Tsushima Islands' Issue

Hi! You appear to be an QUALIFIED interested disinterested bystander... I'm just making the rounds to everyone that has made their mark on Tsushima Islands which lead me to Fg2, (thence to Kigo, then YOU! Congrats! Booby Prize, but I badly need some responisble People to help me mediate therein that are familiar with things Japanese... Sorry, but I infer that's still YOU!) in the last month trying to mediate this flaming revert war — I can use your help — Bring lots O water! (Better yet Beer) Frank

This is the message I've been dropping on anyone on the Talk or Article pages since 13 May, I'd appreciate it if you can familarize yourself on the small article and stand-by to jump in on Tuesday with some cogent watersprays from a logical firehose! Thanks for the trouble -- the issue is trivial, (Is proper name plural or singular, Forsooth!) save there seem to be at least two teens in a war going well over three hundred edits in this one month sampling interval, over 70 edits in the past three days.

I would appreciate a rational explaination (after you read my Comments in the subject dispute Talk:Tsushima Islands), of the arguement or arguments you consider vital and germane to the discusion and vote. Frankly, MOST all of you are being silly over nothing of particular importance, since both names can be redirected into the one used. I have left a comment concerning my contribution to the article, which contribution — seems to have triggered the current edit and revision wars. For that I apologize, but see the Comments on the vote. I am also taking the liberty of putting the vote section AFTER the Comments about same.
Still, I have just spent over four hours of valuable spare time, and would welcome your thoughts after you read and understand the distinction I put forth between a governments termonology as a governing body and a geographical reference like an archepelego, which it certainly is.
More to the point, I'd like to see your defense regarding your favorite POV of what I had to say viz a viz the mergest attitude of the senior editors and administrators that frequent the Wikipedia:VfD discussions. To my recollection, I don't recollect any of you hotheads in this dispute ever spending anytime thereon, possibly excepting Mel Etitis, but rarely even then.
In any event, I'm neutral here, and have asked that the article be kept EDIT FREE for the next three days by placing The Inuse template into it — I'd copyedited over two and half hours before I suspended that effort the other night because this shameful fued was going on — proper English grammer does depend, unfortunately, on whether one uses the plural or the singular. I saved that on my hard drive, but I don't need to wade through yet another 70 edits to finish the job. As it is, this matter will probably double the time it takes for such a simple job.
If you are local to Japan, some history of the canals or Sea-channel is certainly germane to the ongoing discussion, moreover, any cogent arguement you condsider being particularly telling needs to be clearly repeated in the current on going comments if you want them counted on in the vote.
I will make sure this message goes to each contributor to the article the past month, so you are not being singled out. Now is the time to take a deep breath, for rational concise summaries, not all the arguing that is so wearisome in 66 printed pages - half a novelette, I'd guess! It's certainly a lot to ask your fellow editors to wade through on a minor issue.
I will also personally be making sure that at least a dozen other Administrators I'm acquainted with take a look at the debate after the time below. I will in fact ask for twenty commitments, so be clear and respectful of our time!!!
Thankyou for your time, attention, and good professional behaviour. I'll check the Talk state again no sooner than Monday around Noon (UTC), And ask the uninvolved others to do the same. PLEASE BE CONCISE. 24.61.229.179 03:02, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

24.61.229.179 03:02, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Well that's my heads up, and appeal -- Hope you can help. I really don't have a dog in this fight! If you can alert a few others qualified on matters Japanese, by all means, please do so!

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