Haiku:
Beat the seed
One nanoliter
Grain rain
Voice:
俳句:
種殴る 1ミリリットル 穀雨かな
Kana:
たねなぐる いちみりりっとる こくうかな
Roman:
Tane naguru Ichi miri rittoru Kokuu kana
Voice:
Kigo:
Spring (春) > April (4月) > Grain rain (穀雨)
Season:
Spring (春) > Late spring (晩春)
Meaning:
Kigo Kokuu (こくう 穀雨), or Grain rain, is one of the 24 solar terms (にじゅうよんせっき 二十四節気).
Kanji 穀 means "grain," "seed," or "food."
Kanji 雨 means "rain."
Therefore, kanji 穀雨 literally means "Grain rain."
Grain rain comes after clear bright (せいめい 清明) in the solar term system.
Grain rain is warm and soft, so people believe the rain promotes the growth of seeds. It is the signal to sow seeds in the soil bed.
For a haiku starter, it is a good practice to carefully observe a single living thing. Expand your ideas from the life record of an animal or the growth diary of a plant.
The next solar term after grain rain is summer stand. Summer stands straight to dominate the blue sky. The season goes on and the ecliptic longitude turns from 30 degrees to 45 degrees.
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