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Week 40: “Farmers Drain Fields”

September 30 - October 06 is the 40th week of 2024. In the northern hemisphere, we are now in meteorological and astronomical fall.  The Solar Term for this week is Autumn Equinox (Sept 22 - Oct. 08), and the micro-season for this week is “Farmers Drain Fields” (Oct 03 - Oct 07). Basho, Issa, Buson, and Reichhold wrote the poems selected for this week.

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Micro-Season: “The Rice Ripens”

We have entered the micro-season of “The Rice Ripens”. This is the third micro-season of the mini-season of Limit of Heat. As a way to celebrate this season, we will look at the taxonomy of the rice plant and how it is grown. Then we will read a variety of seasonal rice-themed haiku by Issa and Basho.

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