CAN "DANCE OF THE INSECTS" BE BULGARIAN "KIGO"?
Insects' dance:
it's no longer a Turkish march
not a Kazachok, but jazz.
- Dimitar Anakiev
"Insects' Dance" - today's Japan (old name "Yamato") grew out of the tribal conflicts of the tribes living in today's Japanese islands. In the distant past of Japan, the decisive battle for the creation of the Japanese nation was the victory of the Yama tribe from the main island of Honshu over the Kuma tribe living on the island of Kyushu. The members of the defeated Kuma tribe had to perform an "insects' dance" in the imperial court every year on the day of their defeat, in which they expressed their obedience to the emperor, i.e. The Кumas are common insects according to Yamato.
This dance throughout history acquires a standard choreography and becomes part of Japanese folklore, which is performed to this day, but no longer in the court, but in Kumamoto, on the island of Kyushu.
I think that in the Balkans we can also use this Japanese phrase as a local "kigo", typical of this area.
.PS. The greatest haiku poet from the island of Kyushu, an important author of the Japanese Gendai haiku, Hoshinaga Fumio (b. 1936), published in 2007. "Saijiki for Kyushu Island" with 50 phrases, taken from the language of the defeated Kuma tribe. Today, this language is fully assimilated into the language of the Yamato tribe (today's Japanese) and lives only in traces. With this dictionary, Hoshinaga Fumio wanted to save the language of his people from extinction. In this way, he put his haiku expression in the function of the political struggle for democratization of Japan.
PPS. What is now considered "Japanese saijiki" was compiled by Takahama Kyoshi in 1934. - in fact, it is nothing more than the imperial vocabulary of the region around today's Tokyo and does not respect the cultural and geographical differences of the Japanese islands, but is a means of centralizing the Japanese nation.
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