page_title: List of kigo
section_title: Animals
hierarchical_section_title: List of kigo / Summer: 6 May – 7 August / Animals
context_page_description: This is a list of kigo, which are words or phrases that are associated with a particular season in Japanese poetry. They provide an economy of expression that is especially valuable in the very short haiku, as well as the longer linked-verse forms renku and renga, to indicate the season referenced in the poem or stanza.
context_section_description: cicada (蝉 semi) – late summer – known for their cries
  lesser cuckoo (時鳥 hototogisu) – all summer – a bird in the cuckoo family noted for its song
  jellyfish (海月 kurage, lit. "sea moon")
  mosquito (蚊 ka)
  snake (蛇 hebi)
caption: The cicada (semi) is a common late summer kigo.
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