first butterfly

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computer crash ...
I wish I were
this butterfly








Just saw my first spring butterfly !



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messenger from dragon palace

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earthquake prediction ...
here comes a rare messenger
from the Dragon Palace





ryuuguu no tsukai 竜宮の使い slender oarfish
lit.

Messenger from the palace of the Sea Dragon God



. WASHOKU
Slender oarfish (Ryugu no tsukai)



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egret

this egret - out of a gray cloud into a gray cloud

and then slowly out of sight
over our roof on this rainy morning



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a little later, while walking up the road to get the newspaper



rainy morning -
three pheasants take off
from the withered field




KIGO
. egret in winter, fuyu sagi 冬鷺 (ふゆさぎ)
nokorisagi 残り鷺（のこりさぎ） 　



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Haiku helping

from the top shelf he tries to understand it all ... rainy winter day

Haiku kun on the shelf above the computer ...

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Cats in Paradise .. O-Tsu and Haiku-Kun お津と俳句くん

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Fox and Raven

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This morning I heared quite a racket outside the window. Looking out, I was really amazed at the sight in the early sunlight.

A small fox was there in the middle of the field, digging in the frozen ground to get something out.
Two rather large raven where hopping and crawing beside him, trying to get a hit at the prey. He barked at them, chased them a bit and kept digging eagerly.

He caught a rabbit, but the raven tried to steal it from him, pecking at his head and tail ... so he run a few meters but they came right after him, pecking and crowing like mad.

He took a few bites before one raven picked again at his tail. He ran away screaming, obviously in pain and left the rabbit lying on the ground.

One of the raven took it in his mouth, but could not fly away, so he dragged it into the opposite direction for a few more meters and took a good bite.

Then the next raven flew close, grabed the rest of the rabbit and flew off into a tree, starting his breakfast there.

The fox came back screaming in anger, following the smell of the pray on the ground and stood there where the raven had take off ... could not find the smell on the ground any more, shook his head in wonder and barked again in anger.

Then he took off slowly toward the forest
and was soon out of sight.






my neighbours
fighting for food again ...
cold morning sun




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The Fox and the Raven
Fable by Aesop



KIGO :

Crow, Raven (karasu)

Fox (kitsune)



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our cat is ill

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long cold night . . .
I play some Mozart
for my suffering cat



O-Tsu must have eaten some poison somewhere ... she came home around nine last night and started with terrible cramps and foam around her mouth ...
The cramps got worse, lasting about three minutes, every 30 minutes or so, she would stretch to almost double her length, then fold and bend to a tiny little ball, then tremble all over. Her breathing was fast and forceful, her pupils huge dark black circles ...

After a fit we would place her on the towel in a more comfortable position and watch her hard breath. Then the next fit distorted her small figure again ...

Around eight this morning, after a sleepless night, she had her last fit, then fell into a deep coma and we thought, well, this is it.

But after about one hour later, she opened her eyes again, this time here pupils were focused and she seemed a bit oriented and recognize us ... and then she becan to recover, sleeping most of the day.

Now (it is about six in the evening as I write this) she is still not oriented and whimpers a lot, but at least she has drunk some water and used her in-house toilet.

We hope she will recover more during this night.

Friday evening
Pray with us !


Saturday morning
Another night with watching over O-Tsu.
She is still afraid of all sounds and even her own shadow makes her shriek in fear and jump backwards. Finally she hides in a corner of the room and dozes off.

It was minus five degrees centigrade cold outside at night and we had to keep the house warm as best as we could.

This morning, at least she is oriented in the room and finds her place with the water, even jumps up on the table to drink.
This is going to be a slow process of recovering ...




Yakushi Nyorai Buddha of Healing



Saturday evening
What a day ! Cats are quite amazing.
O-Tsu spend most of the day sleeping (happily) in her bed, even licking her hair for a moment when she woke up.
Haiku-kun also finally relaxed (he had been quite upset with his mother's illness) and started snoring like usual.

We hope for a night to get some sleep!



Sunday morning
Sunshine !
A good night for all of us, and O-Tsu is now eating her food. She is still quite wobbely on her legs, but her sleep seems sound and her eyes are clear.
And her son Haiku kun has "talked" to her again, so it seems the cat family is fine again.



Cats in Paradise ..
O-Tsu and Haiku-Kun お津と俳句くん


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Feburary 24, 2010

This morning, Haiku kun was standing in front of his cat entrance outside, crying with pain and in utter confusion ...

Then he started with the cramps ... now he is in the cat cage in stupor, it is lunchtime by now, and he is very ill, biting his tongue and dripping blood from his moth.
Seems the same poison as O-Tsu.

Evening
Haiku had some bad cramps, then calmed down for the day and had a lick of food in the evening (now), so I hope to see him back on his feet tomorrow.




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first ice

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first ice -
a sparrow picks
at its reflection


The bird bath is covered with thin ice,
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hatsugoori 初氷 はつごおり first ice, first frozen water
kigo for mid-winter


. WKD
First Ice and more ICE kigo 　
Eis



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arrr arrrrr

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arrr . . arrrrr . . .
I start talking back
to the crows









They are here in large numbers,
heading for the last persimmons ...




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An interesting discussion :
What Is Your Response to Gendai Haiku?

The Haiku Foundation Blog



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Jellyfish as KIGO

Daruma dances in the deep sea - what a sight !

Red paper lanterns, or aka-chochin, are a familiar sight on the city streets of Japan, where they typically hang at the entrances to cheap pubs, capturing the attention of passersby. The ocean, however, is home to a different variety of red paper lantern — an unusual species of deep-sea jellyfish.

Officially named Pandea rubra, the red paper lantern medusa (aka-chochin kurage) was first discovered in the Bering Sea in 1913, but details about its distribution and life cycle have long remained a mystery. In recent years, the creature has caught the eye of researchers at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) armed with high-definition video cameras.

Inside the transparent hood is a deep red colored mantle that can crumple up or expand like a paper lantern, hence the name. JAMSTEC researcher
Dr. Dhugal Lindsay is credited with coming up with the name.

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te no hira no kurage ni chokumen suru medama

upon my palm
the jellyfish comes face to face
with eyeballs

source : Humour in Haijin Essay
Dhugal Lindsay, haijinx summer 2001


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アカチョウチンクラゲ Akachochin jellyfish 赤提灯クラゲ

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Dhugal J. Lindsay's Haiku Universe


I saw Dhugal in the haiku TV lesson of NHK,
where he introduced this amazing animal.


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Akachochin and Daruma san


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kigo for all summer

kurage 水母 (くらげ / クラゲ) jellyfish, Qualle, Meduse
(lit. water mother)
kurage 海月（くらげ） lit. sea moon
Fam. Cubozoa and Scyphozoa

akakurage, aka kurage 赤水母（あかくらげ）red jellyfish
Chrysaora melanaster
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Amakusa kurage 天草水母（あまくさくらげ）from Amakusa
Bizen kurage 備前水母（びぜんくらげ）from Bizen
Echizen kurage 越前水母（えちぜんくらげ）Echizen Jellyfish

andon kurage 行燈水母（あんどんくらげ）jellyfish like an andon lamp
Carybdea rastoni
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hikurage 火水母（ひくらげ）"fire jellyfish"
Tamoya bursaria
murasaki kurage 紫水母（むらさきくらげ）purple jellyfish

ibo kurage 疣水母（いぼくらげ）"jellyfish with warts"
ebi kurage 蝦水母（えびくらげ）"jellyfish like a prawn"
Netrostoma setouchianum
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tako kurage 蛸水母（たこくれげ）"jellyfish like an ocotpus"
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yuurei kurage 幽霊水母（ゆうれいくらげ）"jellyfish like a ghost"
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kigo for summer in Australia
moon jelly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_jelly


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kigo for early autumn

katsuo no eboshi 鰹の烏帽子 (かつおのえぼし)
denki kurage 電気くらげ（でんきくらげ） "electric jellyfish"
Portuguese man-of-war
Physalia physalis utriculus
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Portugiesische Galeere


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沈みゆく海月みづいろとなりて消ゆ　
shizumiyuku kurage mizu-iro to narite kiyu

sinking down
the jellyfish becomes blue
and disappears

Yamaguchi Seison 山口青邨


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Along the sea of Ariakekai during the summer months, fishermen go after the Red Jellyfish. It is often eaten sliced and raw as sashimi, with a bit of grated ginger and soy sauce, even as a kind of raw "soomen".

nama kurage 生クラゲ raw jelly fish
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Other types of jellyfish are usually salted and dried.
shio kurage, shiokurage 塩くらげ salted jelly fish

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. WASHOKU
The Ariake Sea (有明海, Ariake-kai)


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kotatsu life

taking a napin the warmth of today ... dreaming HAIKU

Winter in the Kotatsu　－ 猫のコタツ


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spider

pulling out weeds - I leave some for this pregnant spider stretching a legfor the beauty competition -my Lady Eulalia ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: after the storm - my pregnant spider still pregnant

two days later, after a rather rainy and stormy night,
she is there, hiding in the lavender.



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more
Spiders in my Paradise 。。極楽の蜘蛛



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visitors

contrasting views - a moving patternon the leaves

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These caterpillars are very aggressive and can ruin a tree in no time.
This year they are especially numerous in our woods.



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twitters

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so many twitters
of the invisible birds -
autumn afternoon



For a change, it was warm and sunny today.







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lone wanderer

autumn deepens - a lone wanderer crosses my porch

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spider

a dark spider in a dark night ... flash

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Spiders in Paradise 。。極楽の蜘蛛

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three pine tops

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three pine tops -
this raven chooses
the lowest



We have three pines side by side
and usually the birds sit in the highest top ...



If you were offered three jobs of differenc social ranking, which one would you choose ?




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crows crows crows

leaves half eaten yamataro at work . . . yamataro squashed on the wall

We have large flocks of crows these days, coming to feed on the yamataro-catarpillars which appear in thousands to feed on a special autumn weed.
The crows are leaving their "output" on the road and on my roof and everywhere ...


... the same food chain every year
... the same excitement evey year
... the same old haiku every year ...


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quote
a murder of crows

-This more poetic term for a flock of crows can be traced back at least to the 15th century, when it was recorded as a murther of crowes. Murther is a variant of Middle English murthre 'murder,' though the th sound had begun to be replaced with a d around 1300 C.E. There are several theories as to how this particular term came about, but all of them have to do with the supposed behavior of crows.

For instance, crows are scavengers and therefore often seen feeding on rotting bodies of various sorts. Survivors of wars have described how the battlefields were covered in black as crows (and ravens) came down to eat the dead. Another theory hearkens back to old folklore which told of groups of crows essentially holding court over members of their flock that had committed offenses. If they decide against the "defendant" crow, then the rest of the flock swoops down on it and kills it.

There are legends outside of the Germanic culture that relate to crows being judges over people as well, and how their appearance is an omen of death.
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A murder of crows
is a phrase employing a collective noun to refer to a group of crows.

A Murder of Crows may refer to:

A Murder of Crows (film), 1999 film
A Murder of Crows (album), 2003 studio album by Deadsoul Tribe
A Murder of Crows, a level in Myth II
The Murder of Crows, a level in Hitman: Blood Money
Sword of the Stars: A Murder of Crows, an expansion to the video game Sword of the Stars
©　More in the WIKIPEDIA !


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Caw, caw cuts the air
black fluttering in the trees
a murder of crows

Yutaka Kitajima, 2007

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butterfly loveletter

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a love letter folded in two
wings of a butterfly


a love letter
folded in two wings
of a butterfly



inspired from here:
二つ折りの恋文が、花の番地を探している
ルナール (Jules Renard (1864-1910)
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about BUTTERFLY haiku
The Haiku Foundation . Viral 7.1


WKD : BUTTERFLY ... a KIGO


. kesoobumi 懸想文 Kesobumi - love letter in Edo .





A butterfly is a love letter,
folded in two,
looking for a flower's address.

Jules Renard (1864-1910)


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late evening sun

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a butterfly
half in shadow -
late evening sun



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green frog

a green frog on a green leaf - that's it ! green frog mandala

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You may have met my friend and his extended family:
Karl the Froggie 　　


Karl and Karlina are amagaeru あまがえる green tree frogs.
They are only about 2 cm long and everywhere in our garden.
Hyla japonica


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comment from a friend
LOL
I love the two readings I got from this. The first - that it took the observer a moment to see the distinction of the frog from the leaf and L3 is the ah ha moment. LOL
The other is that the green frog on the green leaf is all that one can see and it is ALL green.
That's it! Nothing but green.
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