Seasonal

 

Seasonal

 

ki

Seasons are kisetsu. A sense of the season is “kisetsu kan.” Four seasons are shiki.

Kigo is a season word mentioned or described in haiku (a Japanese short verse.)

We once posted baiu or tsuyu meaning the rainy season. Uki also means the rainy season.

The words baiu and tsuyu are more suitable for verses than uki because baiu and tsuyu imply not only the rainy season but also the season plums ripen.

Spring, summer, autumn, and winter are sometimes used to modify other words. Generally and colloquially, you can add “no” after the names of seasons – haruno, natsuno, akino and fuyuno. Formal expressions for them include today’s character – shunki, kaki, syūki, and tōki.

Last year, I wrote

The Winter Olympics is called Tōki Gorin or Tōki Orinpikku. The ki of Tōki is a season. Gorin means five rings.

Likewise, the Summer Olympic Games is Kaki Orinpikku.

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1. Draw the sweeping stroke on the top.
2. Draw the horizontal stroke.
3. Draw the vertical stroke crossing the previous stroke.
4. Draw the sweeping stroke from where the previous strokes cross.
5. Draw the other sweeping stroke to the lower right.
6. Draw the hook.
7. Draw the curve with an upward turn.
8. Draw the horizontal stroke crossing the previous stroke.