10/30/2007

Chianti GREVE

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cheers ...
to the best name
I could wish for



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A spiritual journey through the Greve in Chianti community is aimed at gaining greater knowledge of the development of religious art in a land strongly marked with a human presence and attention to the different forms of devotion that intimately penetrate all the social strata; not only priceless works of architecture, sculpture and art that are found in the most important worship buildings, but also numerous evidences of a relatively minor art that is traceable everwhere, from the isolated chapel in the forest, to the remote crosses on the top of the knolls and hills, to the votive tabernacles scattered along the road network.

Following a route on a quest to discover these works is of extreme interest and the variety of settlements would entail a longer account; we confine ourselves to suggesting two main routes, one across the valley of Greve, and the other along the ridge that separate it from the Valdarno (on the east) and from the valley of Pesa (val di Pesa) (on the west).

VAL DI GREVE / Greve Valley in Italy Toscana, Tuscany



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10/29/2007

autumn sunshine

  
  


03 butterfly



autumn sunshine -
flowers, a butterfly
and my lazy cat





05 butterfly OK






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Yesterday was the Autumn Haiku Marathon at NHK.
More than 5000 haiku offered within five hours. About 100 discussed during this time. Inahata Teiko and Kaneko Tohta at their best again !

Here is one lesson I learned, more to follow.


State the setting with a suitable kigo and show the actors only. No verb is used in this case.

For example:

withered fields -
father, son and
an old dog



Introducing NHK Haiku


Click HERE to look at the participants.
第35回 列島縦断俳句スペシャル-



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10/28/2007

Misty Morning

  
  



GokuRakuAn in the morning mist

03 GokuRakuAn Hermitage



Ancestors Graves

05 susuki grass



Susuki Grass Wilderness

06 susuki wilderness END






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10/27/2007

small life

  
  



04 one bud



in the jungle
down at the bottom -
small life




06 grashoppers



08 grashopper again



ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo



sheltering
so much small life -
graves of the ancestors


03 graves





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Here the photo of the spider lilies provides the KIGO for the composition.



Higanbana, the spider lilies for the ancestors


visiting graves, hakamairi, is another kigo for autumn, related to the O-Bon ceremonies.



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dewdrops and spiderwebs

  
  



02 susuki grass



misty morning -
almost forgot to
get the newspaper




03 grass and tree



dewdrops

05 raindrops up




golden rod


06 goldenrod



Spider Net

07 spidernet




08 mist



10 grass



ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo



spider net

12 spidernet susuki


this spider net
hanging in mid air -
just for me ?



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kigo for autumn

pampas grass, susuki 芒 (すすき) 薄
[Miscanthus sinensis]

flowering pampas grass, hana susuki 花芒 (はなすすき)


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autumn walk

  
  



red leaves



just one leaf
by the roadside -
where is the rest ?




red leaves shining



ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo



small red flowers



detail



ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo



06 yellow flowers






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LAST haiku

  
  



Aim at the sun and you may not reach it;
but your arrow will fly far higher
than if you had aimed at an object
on a level with yourself.


-- F. Hawes



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That is an interesting thought.

My Kyudo (Archery) Teacher would say:

Aim behind the target !
Shoot each arrow as if it was your last one !
Be here and now !



and the Kendo Teacher:

Batteling with five opponents,
use your force as if they were seven.




Can we apply this to Haiku? Here is my haiku sensei:


Write each haiku as if it was your last one !
There is no tomorrow to reach,
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Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is putting out the lamp
because the dawn has come.

Rabindranath Tagore


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. Death Poems (jisei 辞世) .


Death and dead persons .


Polishing Your Haiku



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TIKKIS from Finland

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That tree, just as
lonesome as I am --
lost all it's leaves


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The other man, just as
lonesome as I am
In this empty universe


(Kerouac)
(p. 181, the last haiku in his collection)

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Turn this way;
I also am lonely,
This evening of autumn


(Basho)


Tomorrow, I promise, I'm writing something else.


... TIKKIS at juhatik.blogspot.com/



just one leaf
by the roadside ...
where is the rest ?


... Gabi at juhatik



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... Loneliness, sadness, melancholy and other emotions
Sabishisa, kanashisa and more


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10/22/2007

Sea of clouds

  
  




01 unkai



sea of clouds -
just looking out
of my window



03 detail



autumn morning -
the splendid silence
of your smile




05 wide garden view





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10/20/2007

My Road to India

  
  



road to India -
hoping for sunshine
at the other side










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WORLD HAIKU FESTIVAL in INDIA 2008


. . . . INDIA SAIJIKI . . . .




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10/18/2007

autumn butterflies

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autumn butterflies -
a final dance from
light to shadow






光から陰へのダンス 秋の蝶



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It was amazing to see the two little yellow ones suddenly disappear, when a cloud covered the late autumn sun and the valley fell into deep darkness ... all of a sudden.

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................. DUTCH translation:


herfstvlinders -
een finale dans van
licht naar schaduw


Geert Verbeke


................. Scots translation:

hairst butteries -
a hinmaist jig frae
licht tae sheddae


John McDonald


................. Romanian translation:

fluturi in octombrie-
dansul final dintre
lumina si umbra


Vasile Moldovan


................. French Translation:

des papillons d'automne---
dans une dernière danse
la lumière devient ombre


Keith A. Simmonds



Thanks to all my friends from WonderHaikuWorlds for the translations !


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Some friends thought the use of FINAL was too much of a personification here, leading to the death of the butterflies ...

I used it to mean the final moment for myself,
when I could not see them any more, after watching them for about two minutes, they simply vanished in mid-air when the late sunshine stopped to fall on them and they were ... gone, invisible, it was final for me ...


If you extend the meaning of FINAL as seen of the life of the butterfly, this is a different way of interpretation
(I might have intended or not ;) ).


This is a scene I can only observe in late autumn sunshine and enjoy every year to the fullest !

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Issa and world fellows Display in Tokyo
Nakamura Sakuo Special Exhibition
February 2008



Butterflies (choochoo) KIGO

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10/17/2007

Withered branches

Lesson about the CUT, cause and effect


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枯れ枝や 朝日に光る白い苔
kareeda ya asahi ni hikaru shiroi koke



withered branches -
their white moss sparkles
in the morning sun




朝の日や枯れ枝に光る白い苔
asa no hi ya kareeda ni hikaru shiroi koke

morning sunshine -
white moss sparkles
on withered branches





NO CUTTING WORD ... NO Japanese Equivalent
just for the sake of this exercise, using an inversion of line 2 and 3 which I do not favour in my haiku.


morning sunshine
on withered branches
the white moss sparkles


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We had long planned to cut this old three, whith its few bare branches sticking into the sky. But this morning, I decided to let him stand there as long as he was given time by nature ...



........................... a bit of Haiku theory

According to Hasegawa Kai sensei, the working of the cut is to bring out the relation between cause and effect. Cause is the happening NOW. Effect (something lingering in my mind plus CUT ) pops up.
BUT
in a good haiku, say what is still remaining in your heart first (with a CUTTING word). Meaning, the result, the effect is stated first, then the cause, the reason for what triggered this now.


I saw the white sparkle first, then the sunshine came into mind.

The third example has no Japanese equivalent.
The English reader might read a pause after line one or two, or maybe pivot ... theories are many.


Still struggeling with the CUT.
The lesson is going on till April of 2009, so there will be more theory !

Kireji, the CUT in haiku !




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Matz Bee

  
  



a stuffed pond -
no space for the frog
to jump in



by Matz Bee






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Pondering about Matsuo Basho and many modern haiku !




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unkai

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雲海や一瞬だけの色使い


a second of pinky orange -
the sky above my
sea of clouds



just a second
of pink and orange -
this seas of clouds




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10/15/2007

Philosophy

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The self is not something that one finds.
It is something that one creates.


-- Thomas Szasz (1920-)
American Psychiatrist


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for haiku, it is often the other way round for me:

A haiku is not something that one creates.
It is something that one finds.


How about your haiku creation process ?

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Dear Gabi San,
Thanks you much for your continuous help to create.

With due honour to the American psychiatrist I may say that according Indian philosophy, our belief, the divine like the tao is already present in us and outside us. We have to contact it to find ourselves. A way of thinking it may be, as the modernist may say. but it is like is-ness, am-ness.

Now the next about Haiku as you invite, I have just penned these three lines-

Everything is there;
you have to put them in the
right place to create.

Warmly-
© Aju Mukhopadhyay, India, 2007


MORE
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autumn sunshine -
I find the right spot
to sit down




Nice Gabi San, yours too.
I have kept a copy of it- haiku out of philosophic discussion.
Warmly,
Aju Mukhopadhyay

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More thoughts on philosophical haiku as opposed to pure shasei haiku

After doing a little cursory research, it seems that the term 'philosophical', when applied to haiku, is a catch-all term for haiku which: have for subject matter an idea or concept; draw a moral; present or hint at a religious belief system; incorporate metaphysical elements; etc.

Larry Bole has more HERE !

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10/13/2007

earthworm

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nothing new -
a listless earthworm
in slow motion








ミミズ鳴く 日々の暮らしもさりげなく




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Dear Gabi San,
Seeing your earthworm just now, I have just penned a haiku for you to add another flavour.


If we do our work
silently like an earthworm
the earth will be blessed.



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EARTHWORM, mimizu ミミズ 蚯蚓 みみず
ミミズ鳴く, mimizu naku, a kigo



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10/10/2007

ten takashi

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high autumn sky -
a late mosquito
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Clear Autumn Sky (ten takashi, Japan)
... high autumn sky, spacious sky


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10/09/2007

sleepless night

  
  








autumn downpoor -
the new roof drums
a new melody











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10/08/2007

aki matsuri

  
  



秋祭り



autumn festival -
a streak of sunshine
on the priest



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Considering most of the day was rainy, the priest picked the right moment to read his prayers.



Autumn Festival (aki matsuri, Japan)



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10/06/2007

First Snow

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初雪のお知らせありて 冨士の山




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first snow
late on Mount Fuji ...
says the news





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It is 5 days later than a "normal" year and 1 day earlier than last season.


First Snow ... a KIGO


Fuji, Mt. Fuji, Fujiyama, Fujisan and haiku





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nadeshiko

  
  



撫子や nadeshiko ya








wild carnation -
the fragile features of
this old courtesan





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歌麿の幻の肉筆画「女達磨図」
喜多川歌麿(1753~1806年)
They found the original of this old courtesan/Daruma
painting by Kitagawa Utamaro !!



Oiran to Daruma 花魁と達磨 
Daruma and the Courtesans (geisha)



Carnation, Nelke ... Wild Carnation (nadeshiko)




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Badgers Narrow Road

  
  



獣道  kemonomichi








autumn of the badgers ...
their narrow road
to the deep forest











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Basho / Oku no Hosomichi ... 2007



kemonomichi, the footpath of wild animals in our area ... this year, the badgers crossed the road from the forest to the field below, and left their dirty footprints all over the asphalt too after a night of rain.




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sun rays

  
  





sunrays cutting
through the morning mist -
spiders over graves





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sunrays cutting
through the morning mist -
no place for JUX





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JUX, or JUXT, an abbreviation often used for juxtaposition, an ingredient for haiku, especially loved by my American friends ...

For my German ear, JUX is something else .. or maybe not ? ??



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10/05/2007

visitors

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Ryokan sweeping fallen leaves



waiting for guests ...
I sweep the path again

and again







. Ryokan san and Tamashima Daruma  


. Ryokan Memorial Day  



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Sweeping the mental path, polishing the dustless mirror ... the daily zen activities ...


And with the autumn leaves now falling, sweeping is a real activity. Checking for the most beautiful to entertain the visitors, sweeping, bowing down, looking at autumn colors, sweeping a bit more.

When all is clean, turn around, just to see another leaf fallen on the path ...


Ryokan with his broom ... my good friend ! Click on the little photo above.




sweeping the leaves
with a broom like old Jittoku -
again and again


Fallen Leaves and Jittoku


Kanzan and Jittoku 寒山拾得

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Zen Patriarch Xiangyen Zhixian experiences enlightenment while sweeping

Kanō Motonobu 狩野元信 Kano Motonobu (1476–1559)
kyoogen kyakuchiku 香巌撃竹

Kyōgen Chikan 香嚴智閑
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. . hatsubooki 初箒(はつぼうき)first (use of the) broom .
hakizome 掃初 (はきぞめ) first cleaning
... fukihajime 拭始(ふきはじめ)beginning to clean
... hatsusooji 初掃除(はつそうじ)
kigo for the New Year


. WKD - Ryokan Memorial Day .  

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. hooki 箒 / ほうき Hoki, broom, Besen .
hookishi 箒師 making brooms in Edo
hookiya 箒屋 vendor of brooms

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Nature is great 大自然 daishizen


Amida Buddha



namu amida
sunshine is my friend
drought is my friend


nature is great
rain is my friend
typhoon is my friend


namu amida
life is my friend
death is my friend








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10/04/2007

Higanbana

  
  








higanbana -
finally you show
your beautiful face




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HIGANBANA
flowers for the autumn equinox

this year they are more than two weeks later than usual. The ricefields, where they present a beautiful red frame to the yellow fields, are already cut and brown.



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Spider Lilies, cluster amaryllis (higanbana, manjushage) KIGO



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