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  • There are many names for what we call an island: holm, skerry, haru, islet, atoll.

    View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2005

  • There are many names for what we call an island: holm, skerry, haru, islet, atoll.

    Archive 2005-06-19 Michael Evans 2005

  • After Kummelskär come Musblötan, Käringskrevan and Bisaball, small inaccessible skerries where only fishermen and hunters can think of landing, and last in the series Klovharun, i.e. a haru (rocky island) that has split (cloven) in two.

    View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2005

  • After Kummelskär come Musblötan, Käringskrevan and Bisaball, small inaccessible skerries where only fishermen and hunters can think of landing, and last in the series Klovharun, i.e. a haru (rocky island) that has split (cloven) in two.

    Archive 2005-06-19 Michael Evans 2005

  • I lose control haru meku toki ni mada osanai hitomi wa shuumaku o osoreta

    thewhat Diary Entry thewhat 2006

  • Note the fine pun on haru in the haruka — hideyoshi makes it seem like haru as in pockets expanding, no?

    Poem of Toyotomi Hideyoshi 2005

  • Then it was over the sprawl of D.C., climbing haru.

    Running Blind Child, Lee 2000

  • He was tired of being the subject of discussion. 7/i o haru is perfectly fine, 'he said, using the Japanese term for sticking to one's position even after it had been proved wrong,' for sixteenth-century Tokugawa ronin or romanticized Yakuza but, in this complex present, I have found iji o haru used, more often than not, as a subterfuge to grab a handful of personal power. '

    The White Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1990

  • The Aino or Ainu of Japan are said to distinguish various kinds of millet as male and female respectively, and these kinds, taken together, are called “the divine husband and wife cereal” (Umurek haru kamui).

    Chapter 50. Eating the God. § 1. The Sacrament of First-Fruits 1922

  • The Aino or Ainu of Japan are said to distinguish various kinds of millet as male and female respectively, and these kinds, taken together, are called "the divine husband and wife cereal" (Umurek haru kamui).

    The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

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