Japanese New Year happiness all around. The amount of money given depends on the age of the child but is usually the same if there is more than one child so that no one feels slighted. It is not uncommon for amounts greater than ¥5,000 (approximately US$50) to be given. The New Year traditions are also a part of Japanese poetry, including haiku (poems with 17 syllables, in three lines of five, seven and five) and renga (linked poetry). All of the traditions above would be appropriate to include in haiku as "kigo" (season words). There are also haiku that celebrate many of
Haiku Mill became the Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company division of Alexander & Baldwin with one remaining mill at Puunene. The Haikū area later became a pineapple plantation. The former cannery at 810 Haiku Road is now a shopping center called the Haiku Marketplace. Only the walls of the mill were left standing when it was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hawaii on February 6, 1986 as site 86000189. It is state historic site 50-046-1622.. The mill is located at 250 Haiku Road, . Haiku Mill The Haikū Sugar Mill was a processing factory for sugarcane from