How feel your season?
It is snowing today in Fukushima at first time in this year. It is snowing in Niigata and Yamagata, too. Yamagata city had 15cm of snow. Snow becomes too fast in the regular season.
It is too hot in this summer. There were some days over 35 degrees C. Is it effect of global warming? Nowadays, in Japan, the summer is too hot, and winter is too cold. I feel that climate is changing in Japan.
This picture is my feeling of seasons. Spring in this year was gone too fast. Do you remember the day of cherry blossom viewing in this year? I played cherry blossom viewing party on april 7. However, it was past some days for the major season of cherry blossom. And it became hot after cherry blossom. We had only short days in Spring.
I had an athletic festival in October at school when I was a boy. It was fine season in October. However, there were some day of over 35 degrees C in this October.
I feel decreasing fine days in Spring and Autumn. It become Summer as soon as after Winter. There were four seasons Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter in Japan. Now, we are losing a sense of the seasons.
The flower is honest. The summer flowers are blooming in October.
The words for seasons
There are words of seasons "Nijyu-Shi-Sekki" in Japan. The word means the season dividing twenty-four by a year.
- Solar term (Wikipedia)
Japanese has the words of rain over four hundred. Example, "Harusame" means the rain of early Spring. "Yudachi" means the rain of earlier in the evening. Japanese has many seasonal words. In Japan, ancient people had made rice over two thousand years. Agriculture, climate is very important. They needed the words of climate and seasons to do agriculture. They had produced many words of climate and seasons.
Some word of seasons difficult to translate to another language. I think the reason of difficult to translate is different culture and region.
I love these word. And I hope to continue a sense of seasons.