Showing posts with label flower. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flower. Show all posts

12/09/2007

Winter Walk

  
  




Start from here : winter violett



winter walk -
I still see flowers
on my way






01  autumn fields walk





so bright and orange -
late persimmons
to share with the crows



15 autumn colors





09 branch mountains





one last second -
susuki grass and
my roof


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and then the clouds
cover it all -
winter shadows !






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11/03/2007

chrysanthemum dew

  
  


07 dew on petals



chrysanthemum dew -
I sip a bit of
long life






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. . . Chrysanthemum Dew and Longevity




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Good Morning

  
  










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Billie Dee did the arrangements !
Here is my original photo and haiku.

Thank you, Billie !




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11/02/2007

violet chrysanthemum

  
  



01 morning chrysanthemum



good morning !
she nodds in the
autumn sunshine




02 detail





shadows
in the flower heart -
her outstreched arms




05 detail shadows






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01 redyellow chrysanthemums


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03 CLICK for enlargement !



04 some more



05 just one









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11/01/2007

October 31

  
  



04 asters morning



rather cold
asters reach toward
the morning sun



06 asters yellow



ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo


dew on the petals



07 dew on petals






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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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10/06/2007

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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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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9/18/2007

Persimmon leaf

  
  



柿落葉 気温はまだ 三十二

kaki ochiba kion wa mada sanjuu ni




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fallen persimmon leaf -
today's high is
thirty two






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There has been a bit of discussion on the FALLEN LEAVES as kigo for all winter.


Why are fallen leaves a kigo for winter in Japan?


This photo was taken in September. Thirty two 32℃ ... I am used to the European way of expressing it in centigrade. It is summer when the temperature goes over 30℃. Other parts of Japan were even hotter that day !



Global warming, climate changes and related haiku topics

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some comments

HI Gabi,
I really like this juxtaposition with the references to global warning and your photo.

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Ah dear Gabi,
global warming has changed everything and it is good that you are noting that. Bravo!

'At thirty two' makes me think that it is your age, not the temperature. Maybe 'of thirty two'? Or put the temperature first?

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Gabi,
global warming may have us all revising our saijiki.

Thanks for all you do.

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8/17/2007

roses

  
  








tiny roses
in late sunshine -
our great love







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7/08/2007

seven black dwarfs

  
  








snowwhite -
and the seven
black dwarfs













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June Bride and wedding

  
  



june bride -
not one spot
on her robe












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NEXT in my archives
- The Bride and the Butterfly


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Later in the day I learned about this:


Baghdad car bomb kills 17 at wedding

A car bomb ripped through guests at a wedding party in southern Baghdad on Thursday, killing 17 people and wounding the bride and groom.

The blast erupted outside a photographer's studio in Abu Tchir, a mainly Shiite district surrounded by restive Sunni suburbs and agricultural small holdings on the southern outskirts of the war-torn Iraqi capital.

More than two dozen people were injured, the officials said.
© www.afp.com/english/news/






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CLICK for original WIKIPEDIA LINK


June wedding, June Bride
kigo for the wet season in Guyana
kigo for mid-summer Europe and other regions

We got this tradition of June Wedding from England during the colonial period.
There is lots of special promotions for marriage during the month as against the other months.Our local Botanic Gardens in Georgetown is a place were many ceremonies are held and pictures taken.

june wedding
in the Gardens from earth
to heaven


kenneth daniels (GY)
WKD : South American Saijiki


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Malaysia

Days of marriage, wedding ceremony on both sides bride and bridegroom, with feast and blessing on a decorative stage where they seated together like statue/less movement. Relatives and close friends will be given a chance to sprinkle perfume, colored rice, flower petals towards the bride/groom for blessing for a prosperuos life to come.

These weddings usually happen during schools break/semester especially in June and December where family and relative could gather visiting the ceremonial occasion. The wedding could be planned at any time or day where necesity and financial availablly sound.
June and December will be best month for planning of gathering families.



East and west
Cross culture
Assimilation 


- Shared by Mokhtar Sah Malik -
Haiku Culture Magazine, 2013





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sun umbrellas --
two brides avoid
seeing each other


- Shared by Cristina-Monica Moldoveanu -
Joys of Japan, June 2012



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june bride ジューン‐ブライド


June Bride is a 1948 American comedy film
directed by Bretaigne Windust. Ranald MacDougall's screenplay, based on the unproduced play Feature for June by Eileen Tighe and Graeme Lorimer, was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Comedy. The film starred Bette Davis and Robert Montgomery. The Warner Bros. release marked the screen debut of Debbie Reynolds, although her appearance was uncredited.
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Wedding Textiles in Asia
Korean weddings are traditionally held at the bride’s family home, and includes a ceremony that involves the couple bowing to each other and sipping wine to seal their commitment. After, the couple will take part in another ceremony called pyebaek, in which the newlyweds bow toward the groom’s parents and offer symbolic gifts, such as jujubes or chestnuts (symbolizing children). At the end, the parents will toss the jujubes and chestnuts back at the bride. While traditionally this ceremony has been reserved for the parents of the groom, today couples are increasingly including the bride’s family as well.



In Korea, a marriage is such a special ceremony and celebration that common people could wear special attire for it that was exclusively worn in the palace, such as the ensemble worn by the woman above on the left. Garments like these were worn as everyday attire by a queen and as vestments by court ladies in the Joseon dynasty (1392-1910), but as wedding attire outside the palace. While some rented these suits from local administrators, some villages collectively owned outfits that villagers could share.

You can also find ceremonial clothing on view now in the galleries! In the Orientation Gallery, the three textiles on view from South Asia and Indonesia demonstrate the shawl-like textiles commonly used in those regions, in contrast to the robe silhouettes commonly used in China, Japan and Korea.

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source : pacificasiamuseum.wordpress.com


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The word "wedding" is a topic for haiku.

. wedding anniversary .


. Hanayome ningyoo 花嫁人形  bride dolls .
and wedding dolls



.The Takasago Legend 高砂伝説 .
Takasago Wedding Song in Japan
Happy couples day - fuufu no hi and more


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7/02/2007

Daylily and visitor

  
  







the daylily
and her hungry visitor -
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Daylily, daylilies (kanzoo)




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6/26/2007

sunflowers

  
  



let me
laugh with you -
sunflowers












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Check out a great place to be !
© Photo from Marion Acres
The Herbal Connection




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6/19/2007

rose buds

  
  






raindrops
on the rose buds -
a letter from home










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Comments from HH Members!

Very nice, Gabi. Your third line makes me think that the letter's arrival is as nurturing as the raindrops on the rose. I really like this.

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Roses are for remembrance and love _ your 3rd line is most appropriate!
Lovely poem!

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well done, enjoyed the moment.

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i enjoyed to read your haiku, Gabi! very nice!
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Nice one, Gabi . . . and always lovely to get a letter from home.

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What I like about it is the way it lets go of the first image.
We are often so focused on playing off of that first image, resonating with it, or paralleling in some way -- prescribing, if you will, some sort of unity. This haiku is totally unforced, unconstructed I guess you could say, but nevertheless, a unified whole.
I learned from this one. Thank you for posting it.

..... GABI says:

Guard well your spare moments.
They are like uncut diamonds.
Discard them and their value will never be known.
Improve them and they will become
the brightest gems in a useful life.


Ralph Waldo Emerson

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your spare moments
your treasure moments
your haiku moments


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Gabi,

I am aware that you practice shasei, because you linked to my short analysis of Joan Payne Kincaid's shasei in your blog http://haikutopics.blogspot.com/2006/07/shasei-sketch-from-nature.html

I've been meaning to thank you for that.

Anyway, even in shasei, take Joan's as an example, there is often an authorial "construction." I don't really have appropriate language to express this. I mean some sort of intervention or interpretation. The haijin has selected the elements with an eye towards, I don't know, cleverness maybe, or beauty sometimes -- towards INTENTIONAL resonance in either case

I often feel that I can't "get" a haiku on a given day; that I can not espy some interesting elements to connect, and so, have nothing to write.

Your haiku makes no attempt tat intentional resonance.. It "let's go" (again, suffering from lack of useful phrasing) of the first image entirely, instead of try to hinge upon it or play off of it. Personally, from where I am at in my development as a haijin, I just find that very instructive and I thank you for it.

I also enjoyed the quote from Emerson, by the way, and intend to pass it along to a friend who is having a bad day today.

..... GABI says:

Dear T.,

the difficult part is really to let go, the timing ...
After practising Japanese Archery, Kyuudoo for more than 30 years, I have come to value the exercise as a means of taiken 体験, physical experience, much more than the philosophical bubbles about it.

If you are not absolutely with the action, the bowstring will soon punish you, so to speak, with a bruise on the arm or broken spectacles or whatever ... ...
any intentions (will people like my haiku? will it go published here or there?) will hamper the natural flow ... so you have to experience the

aiming without aiming ...

I might try and put my thoughts about this

............ Japanese Archery and the Art of Haiku

one of these days, haha, if my arrow hits my haiku or vice versa ...

a bit of it is here
http://haikutopics.blogspot.com/2006/04/target-mato.html


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Thank you, Gabi, that was interesting.

For me, whether someone else will like and certainly not whether it will ever get published, truly never enters my mind. It's more "Is there something WORTHY here?" Either something remarkable or a way of showing it remarkably or perhaps, does some align with something else in a way that is, well, remarkable. See what I mean?

But I do appreciate your thoughts about the arrow, which I take to mean, the direction of one's consciousness.

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This is a perfect moment... captured so well, Gabi!

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I agree...one of those rare perfect moments captured perfectly --
in awe..... xxx applauds

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6/14/2007

Lilies in the rain

  
  







iris in the rain -
a bright star in the
flower heart






  
  







little spider -
trying to peek
in the flower heart ??





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Flower-Heart (hana gokoro) and haiku


more . SPIDERS in my Paradise !


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5/25/2007

Paulownia KIRI

  
  



桐の花 雨上がりの 霧に消え







mist merges
with heavy rainclouds -
paulownia flowers










after the storm -
paulownia blossoms
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桐の花 見上げて空の笑顔かな

paulownia buds -
and then looking up
to the smiling sky





kigo for early summer
paulownia flowers, kiri no hana 桐の花
..... hanakiri 花桐(はなきり)

The trees grow stright to a great hight, and the flowers are right in the four directions high up there. They convey a sense of straightness. In haiku, looking up at the flowers is often a theme.




aburagiri no hana 油桐の花 (あぶらぎりのはな)
flowers of Japanese tungoil tree
yamagiri 山桐(やまぎり)"mountain paulownia"
dokue、どくえ、inugiri ぬぎり
Aleurites cordata, Vernicia cordata


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Paulownia is a genus of between 6–17 species (depending on taxonomic authority) of plants in the monogeneric family Paulowniaceae, related to and sometimes included in the Scrophulariaceae. They are native to much of China (its name in Chinese is 泡桐/pao1 tong2), south to northern Laos and Vietnam, and long cultivated elsewhere in eastern Asia, notably in Japan and Korea. They are deciduous trees 10–25 m tall, with large leaves 15–40 cm across, arranged in opposite pairs on the stem.
The flowers are produced in early spring on panicles 10–30 cm long, with a tubular purple corolla resembling a foxglove flower.
The fruit is a dry capsule, containing thousands of minute seeds.

Paulownia is known in Japanese as kiri (桐), specifically referring to P. tomentosa; it is also known as the "princess tree". It was once customary to plant a Paulownia tree when a baby girl was born, and then to make it into a dresser as a wedding present when she gets married. It is the badge of the government of Japan (vis-à-vis the chrysanthemum being the Imperial Seal of Japan). It is one of the suits in hanafuda, associated with the month of December. Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia states:

The genus was named in honour of Queen Anna Pavlovna of The Netherlands (1795–1865), daughter of Tsar Paul I of Russia.

Paulownia wood is very light, fine-grained, soft, and warp-resistant and is used for chests, boxes, and clogs (geta). The wood is burned to make charcoal for sketching and powder for fireworks, the bark is made into a dye, and the leaves are used in vermicide preparations.

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Some other types of paulownia in Japan

aogiri アオギリ【青桐、梧桐】
akigiri アキギリ【秋桐】
aburagiri アブラギリ【油桐】
iigiri イイギリ【飯桐、椅】
harigiri ハリギリ【針桐】
higiri ヒギリ【緋桐】

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"autumn of the paulownia, dooshuu 桐秋(とうしゅう)

kigo for early autumn

Category : Season




kiri hitoha 桐一葉 (きりひとは) one paulownia leaf
..... hitoha, hito ha 一葉(ひとは)one leaf
..... ichiyo
hitoha otsu 一葉落つ(ひとはおつ)one leaf falls
hitoha no aki 一葉の秋(ひとはのあき)autumn of one leaf
kiri no aki 桐の秋(きりのあき)paulownia in autumn

(Some saijiki place this kigo in early winter).


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桐一葉落ちて天下の秋を知る
kiri hitoha ochite tenka no aki o shiru

one paulownia leaf
has fallen - now we know
the heavenly autumn is coming



Ichi yo ochite tenka-no aki-wo shiru
(With the fall of one we know that autumn as come to the country.
When one leaf has fallen, it is known that autumn is coming.
A single leaf flutters in the air and it's autumn.)

Katagiri Katsumoto 片桐且元 (1556 - 1615)
He was a retainer of Toyoyomi Hideyoshi.
He was driven in exile just before the Battle of Osaka, when he then wrote this haiku.

source : tenkomori.tv


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Basho writes to his friend Ransetsu:

さびしさを問てくれぬか桐一葉
sabishisa o toote kurenu ka kiri hitoha

A paulownia leaf has fallen :
Will you not come to me
In my loneliness?


Matsuo Basho
source : Emily Evans

Will you not call on me in my loneliness?
A paulownia leaf has fallen.


A paulownia leaf has fallen in my garden, and lonesomeness overwhelmes me.
Will you please come and see me, my dear friend?

Classic Haiku:
An Anthology of Poems by Basho and His Followers
source : books.google.co.jp


A paulonia leaf has fallen;
Will you not visit
My loneliness?

source : 王貞治さん


cette solitude
viendrais-tu la partager ?
feuille de paulownia

source : nekojita.free.fr




よるべをいつ一葉に虫の旅寝して
yorube o itsu hitoha ni mushi no tabine kana

. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .


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きり一葉二は三は四はせはしなや
kiri hito ha futa ha mi ha yo ha sewashina ya

one paulownia leaf
and two, three, four -
how busily bustling


Kobayashi Issa


sewashinai 忙しない


. Numbers used in Kigo .


Tr. and comment by Chris Drake

kiri hito ha futa ha mi ha yo ha sewashina ya

a paulownia leaf falls,
a second, a third, a fourth --
what's the big hurry?


This hokku is from the beginning of the 7th month (August, early September), the first month of lunar autumn. In it Issa plays on an ancient Chinese saying which became a kigo season phrase in Japanese.
In the ancient Chinese anthology of philosophical writings known as Huainanzi (139 BCE, in Japanese Enanji), the phrase "knowing autumn has come by seeing a single Paulownia leaf fall" is a metaphorical expression meaning "recognizing a big change is coming before it comes by noticing a tiny change."

This Daoist approach took on a more Buddhist tone when the phrase was read in translation in Japan, where it was mostly used to mean "seeing a paulownia leaf fall and recognizing that all flourishing things soon decay and die." As a kigo in haikai, the literal meaning of seeing a paulownia leaf flutter down is stressed, and the phrase indicates that lunar autumn has almost imperceptibly just begun.

Paulownia leaves are heavy and very large (often the size of a hand-held fan or larger), and they fall earlier than most leaves, so the phrase is literally an image of autumn just beginning. Thus Issa's diary for the 7th month of 1812 has several hokku about paulownia leaves falling at the very beginning of the month, when there are few other signs that autumn has already begun. However, Issa goes beyond the standard image and evokes a second large leaf falling, followed by a third, and then a fourth. The second line sounds like someone welcoming the leaves to the ground by singing a song out loud, and Issa's reaction to the small profusion of leaves is humorous, but at the same time there is a suggestion of the deeper meaning of the original saying: if a single paulownia leaf foretells big changes in the near future, then four leaves must mean that the changes will be really big -- and they may be coming very soon.


Issa may well be thinking of Buddhism and the Pure land here as well. Four leaves falling instead of one is a very clear reminder that all things constantly and often unexpectedly change and that death and life are inseparable. Four falling leaves, then, might give Issa a sudden gut feeling of how near the Pure Land is. In fact, placed a few hokku earlier in Issa's diary are these two hokku:

nembutsu ni byoo no tsukishi hitoha kana

a single leaf
falls to the rhythm
of Buddha-name chanting



kiri hitoha totemo no koto ni saihoo e

a paulownia leaf
gives itself utterly
toward the west


In the first hokku, a leaf uncannily leaves life and falls as if in harmony with someone chanting Amida's name, and in the second hokku, Issa seems certain that leaves can go to the Pure Land in the west just as fully as humans can. In this second hokku Issa seems to regard the leaf as a teacher and comrade who is demonstrating to him how to be brave and resolute and all-trusting in Amida as it leaves its limb.

With these last two hokku in mind, its seems possible that in the very first hokku above about the four leaves falling Issa may also be referring to the sound of "four" (shi), which is the same as the sound of the word for "death" (shi).
The fact that the two words are homonyms has made the number four a taboo word in certain ritual contexts in Japanese, although Issa joyously uses it, perhaps because it reminds him of the Pure Land. Issa's advice in the last line to the leaves to slow down seems to be both a humorous expression of friendship and sympathy with the leaves and a realistic recognition that time never stops. Issa is probably addressing himself as well and telling himself to relax and follow the rhythm of time created by his own relationship with Amida.



The discussion continues here:

見一葉落,而知歲之將暮
knowing the end of the year approaches its very end by seeing a leaf fall

. Translating Issa .

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涼しさのたらぬ所へ一葉哉
suzushisa no taranu tokoro e hito ha kana

into a place
lacking coolness
a paulownia leaf

Tr. Chris Drake

The date of this early autumn hokku is unknown, though the time of the hokku is probably late August or early September. It's in a collection of hokku Issa sent to the Edo poet Seibi, who returned them with his evaluations, so it was probably written between 1812 and 1816.
The first fallen paulownia leaf of the season was regarded as very significant, since traditionally it was believed to mark the clear, undeniable beginning of autumn and the end of summer-like early autumn days. The hokku seems to be about a village or town or a part of one which still seems to be in late summer. It's warm there, and it "lacks" the coolness of true autumn. As if to remind the people here that time is actually passing, a single large, roughly heart-shaped paulownia leaf now lies on the ground.
The phrase "knowing autumn has come from a single fallen leaf" goes back to ancient China (see the 11/7/2012 post), and the first fallen paulownia leaf often has somber or even ominous overtones in Japanese literature. In this hokku the paulownia leaf seems to be an image suggesting time itself and inevitable change and decline, abstractions which have suddenly become all too visible and poignant through the appearance of the leaf. Perhaps Issa is also suggesting that no matter where paulownia leaves fall the weather always feels unrealistically warm and the people there are always trying to live in an illusory timeless bubble, since that is the human condition. Amida Buddha may well be in the background of this hokku.

Chris Drake

. Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 in Edo .

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kigo for early autumn

kiri no mi 桐の実 (きりのみ) paulownia nut
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kigo for late autumn


aburagiri no mi 油桐の実 (あぶらぎりのみ)nut of the Aleurites cordata
..... toyu no mi 桐油の実(とゆのみ)
Aleurites cordata. Tungbaum
It is used to make oil.


iigiri no mi 飯桐の実 (いいぎりのみ ) nut of the Iigiri
Idesia polycarpa
..... nantengiri 南天桐(なんてんぎり)


tobera no mi 海桐の実 (とべらのみ) nut of the
Pittosporum tobira



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powlonia buds -
a promise of kindness
and sweetness




paulownia blossoms
Gabi Greve, Spring 2009




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paulownia patterns kiri

paulownia patterns
Gabi Greve, August 2010


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