WKD - Nobo san Shiki

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he changes his name
like a career fish . . .
Nobo san



source
http://masuda-takahisa.at.webry.info/200902/article_19.html




Masaoka Tsunenori 正岡常規
Tokoronosuke 処之助 as a child

Noboru 升 as a school boy and student
this name was amicably shortened to
NOBO SAN のぼさん


He was fond of baseball as a student and made a joke of his name

nobooru 野球（のぼーる）"baseball"
野球 is usually read yakyuu and is the Japanese for the game of baseball.
booru is a Japanese way to pronounce BALL.




shiki 子規 Cuculus poliocephalus

He took the haiku name of SHIKI 子規 when he was editor of the haiku magazine HOTOTOGISU, because of tuberculosis, he would spit blood. The inside of the mouth of the cuckoo is so red that it looks like blood when the bird is singing. He started using this name when the tuberculosis hit him.

The word SHIKI can also mean
"The four seasons　四季"　in Japanese.


For a while, he used the name
Ochi Tokoronosuke 越智処之助（おち ところのすけ）



Nobo Guide
Haiku Mailing List
http://haiku.cc.ehime-u.ac.jp/~sumioka/htdocs/nobo-guide.html



On his sickbed, a friend taught him how to paint. This sharpened his eyes even more for SHASEI, to sketch from nature.
And this in turn sharpened his eye for haiku, to see the little things in life and report them in simple language ...
He encouraged people, so not only poets could write haiku, but anyone with a keen eye and a good vocabulary.


almost like TWITTER
he encourages folks to communicate ...
Nobo san


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SHIKI, Masaoka Shiki
正岡 子規（まさおか しき)
(1867, October 14 - 1902, September 19)

3 kigo for mid-autumn / September 19

Shiki ki 子規忌 memorial day of Shiki


hechima-ki 糸瓜忌 (へちまき) Sponge-gourd anniversary
This naming stems from the sponge-gourd (hechima), used as a medicineal plant against phlegm for tuberculosis. He used the word HECHIMA in many of his haiku.


Dassai Ki 獺祭忌（だっさいき）Dassai memorial day
Otter Festival Anniversary
He referred to himself as dassai, and published "Dassai Sho-oku Haiwa 獺祭書屋俳話" in Meiji 26 (1893).
"Haiku Talks from the Otter's Den"



Dassai is a name of the Otter Festival, also an ancient name of part of the prefecture Yamaguchi. Fishotters catch fish and place them on the riverside, almost as if they wanted to show them as offerings. This custom has been the subject of many old poems.

Masaoka saw himself as one who scattered his books around on the floor of his small room, just like the otter spreads out the fish he caught. His room was always cluttered and it was hard to walk around in it.
He kept notes and collected many words in small "encyclopedias" for himself as reference to improve his vocabulary and thus his poetry. Even when forced to lie down almost all the time, he had books scattered all around his pillow.

He even called his home
Hermitage of the Otter 獺祭魚庵 Dassaigyo An
and he was the" scatterer of books"
獺祭書屋主人 Dassai Sho-oku Shujin



The details about his work are here
. Masaoka Shiki 正岡子規
and Matsuyama City 松山



うち晴れし淋しさみずや獺祭忌
uchi hareshi sabishisa mizu ya Dassai ki


Kubota Mantaro 万太郎

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. kigo for early spring 　


kawauso uo o matsuru 獺魚を祭る (かわうそうおをまつる)
otter festival
oso no matsuri 獺の祭（おそのまつり）
..... dassai 獺祭（だっさい）
..... dassaigyo 獺祭魚（だっさいぎょ）


One of the 72 seasonal points of the lunar calendar.

shichijuuni koo 七十二候 72 seasonal points


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- Shared by Joys of Japan, September 2012 -



X-Ray Clinic
as I wait for my turn
I read Shiki poems

Sandip Sital Chauhan




on his lips
names for the colors of red ~
Shiki Day

Elaine Andre


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Memorial Days of Haiku Poets


. WASHOKU
Shusseuo, shusse uo 出世魚 "career fish"



One more from my archives, June 2010:

. "Twitter is like haiku,
It is so Japanese."
Rocky Eda, manager for Digital Garage


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