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| For this month, breaking the Mandala series,
I introduce to you a haiku by Ms. Carolyn Hall ( California,
US ). I found it at
WORLD HAIKU COMPETITION The R. H. Blyth Award in
World Haiku Review , and it is one of the Seven Honorable
Mentions. November is the month that many hawks can be seen above the hills over the Golden Gate Bridge, just like this haiku. The phrase Indian Summer has been used for more than 300 years in North America (it began in the eastern U.S.) for calm, mild weather around October/November. Here in San Francisco, it's cold in August and warmer in September/November; then it cools down and again some warm cozy days come back on November. So I have felt that November fits well with Indian Summer. But seeing mails in October, I realized Sweden had snow already, and leaves were falling in western Europe, and knew they also have similar phrases in each language as well as Japanese, also. So I made a table to compare the similar phrases (mostly based on each culture) below, while EL expresses the phrase as the common concept. If you know more expressions in other languages, please let me know to share with everyone. Also I wondered why they called it 'Indian' summer, but nobody really knew. Carolyn, the author of the haiku searched this web site for me about why. Several reasons can be considered, but no one can prove it because it's from very long ago. Traditional languages each have historical and cultural influences, which are what makes them interesting. Universal usage of EL can't have that kind of mystery; it always has to be understandable. |
今月はマンダラシリーズを中断してCarolyn Hall さん（California, US）の俳句です。
World Haiku Reviewの中の
WORLD HAIKU COMPETITION The R. H. Blyth Award
のページのSeven Honorable Mentionsからみつけました。Carolynさんの許しを得て、ご紹介します。 日本でいうところの小春日和、１０－１１月に訪れる静かで温かなときを、北米ではインデアン・サマーといいます。私の住むサンフランシスコは海からの天然クーラーが効いて夏寒いので、９－１０月に袖なしをやっと着られたりします。だからインデアン・サマーの穏やかな心地よさは、私の場合１１月を主にイメージします。１１月は、鷹の活躍シーズンでもあり、そんな日にゴールデンゲイト橋の対岸の丘に登ると、まったくこの俳句そのままの光景が見られます。それで、おもわずこの句を取り上げたくなりました。 ところで、インデアン・サマーという語、辞書によると1770-80/1794などに初出とありますが、なぜインディアンなのかしらといろいろ調べました。でもどうやらミステリーなようです。（ 参考) 地域の文化が基になったいいまわしですので、地球語では、共通概念として表現し、当然地球語表現はつまらなくなります。けれど、各地の同じような概念をつなぐことはできます。 ついでに、いろんな地域の同義語をメール友の協力を得て下に集めてみました。比較してみてください。 |
Original Haiku (by Carolyn Hall ): 
out/away from clothes/cover (外),
{
nature,
time} season (季節)}: summer 夏
: circle (円)
: (the grammatical notation for conjunction) and (接続符「と」)
preposition mark,
work); by
{
}('bird' by the total shape),
(violent)}: bird of prey; the symbol for 'hawk' is not ready yet, and the symbol for wider meaning is used. 猛禽;「鷹」を指す文字はまだなので、鷹も含むこれを使いました。和訳では日本で一般的なトビにしました。
: the grammatical notation to form a d-verb meaning that 'the subject' become(s) in the situation shown by the following character or phrase; or (the subject) do(does) the following action. d-動詞符
(piled),
(lines)}: crossed, situation crossed over each other 交差
(in the pictograph){
(spreading energy),
|
language |
phrase/ideom for
小春日和の類似語 |
its direct meaning/back ground直接の意味 |
|
British |
St. Luke's summer/ St. Martin's summer |
perhaps because of the blessing and mercy feeling of the weather 恵み深い意味で、聖人の名の夏 |
|
French |
ete m de la Saint Martin
|
the same as St. Martin's summer 同上 |
|
Belgium French Flemish |
ete indian( with accents on 'ete') |
the same as Indian summer 米語から借用 na: after, zomer: summer 後の夏 |
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German |
altweibersommer |
old-lady-summer 老婦人の夏 |
|
Italian |
estate di S. Martino/indiano
|
estate: summer 英語に同じ |
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Spanish |
veranillo de San Martin
|
veranillo: late/untimely summer 時期はずれの遅い夏 |
|
Russian |
Babye Leto
( [ babje ljeta ] in IPA
) *Grigoriy ( another visual language, Langust ) |
Women (married peasant) Summer 働き女の夏 (because of comfortable rest for peasant women after gathering crops 収獲で多忙の後の静けさだから) |
| Swedish |
Brittsommar |
the summer of Birgitta (a female name)女聖人の夏:
usually around October 7th:
Birgitta's day |
|
Japanese |
ko-haru-biyori 小春日和 |
small-spring-weather (Japanese summer is usually very humid and uncomfortably hot, and indian summer in Japan is more like spring weather, and short. ) |
