3/17/2010
plum blossoms
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Plum Blossom Walk ... ALBUM
From the archives
. Plum Blossom Park, 2008
. Plum Blossom Park, 2006
old plum tree
plum pink, 2007
The plum blossom viewing (ume-mi, kan-bai 梅見、観梅) is more of an individualistic endeavor, different from the noisy, crowded cherry blossom parties.
. Plum (ume) the KIGO
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Translating BUSON
紅梅や入日の襲う松かしは
koobai ya irihi no osou matsu kashiwa
. Red plum blossoms (koobai) and Buson
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2/24/2010
plum
古梅咲く主が去年 し に ま し た
old plum tree in bossom ...
last year the old owner
died
This is the sad reality of rural Japan.
. PLUM (ume) as KIGO
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2/20/2010
first crocus
the sunshine feels much warmer today . . . first crocus |
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. Crocus, a kigo for early spring
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2/10/2010
first snowdrops
first snowdrops ...
how greatful I am
to have found you
YOU ... who could this be ?
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2/05/2010
a budda in every blossom
仏の座 hotoke no za - I see a Buddha in every blossom |
For Ogura Yuki, Painter
小倉遊亀 [1895~2000]
Ogura Yuki (1 March 1895 - 23 July 2000)
was a nihonga painter in Showa period Japan. Her maiden name was Mizoguchi Yuki. She was known for her bijinga, paintings of beautiful ladies.
She specialized in graceful family scenes, still life, and pictures of women. During the 1950s and 1960s, she painted many large portraits of friends and family members in the nude. Although Ogura never departed from the traditional framework of the Nihonga style, her figure paintings are often described by contemporary critics as "modern," both in style and content.
A very prolific artist, in 1976, she was selected to become a member of the Japan Art Academy (Nihon Geijitsu-in), and later become honorary chairperson of that organization. She was awarded the Order of Culture in 1980, and is one of only two women painters (the other being fellow Nihonga painter Uemura Shoen) to be so honored.
She married a Zen priest many years her elder and cared for him lovingly.
During this time she came to realize
that all things are Buddha,
the big and the small ones,
the flowers and the animals ... anything.
Her studio and home were located Kamakura, where she lived to the advanced age of 105.
© More in the WIKIPEDIA !
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Shoko Uemura Shokoo 上村松篁
Marking the 10th year since nihonga 日本画 (Japanese-style painting) artist Shoko Uemura's death, this exhibition showcases representative works from the painter's later years, and includes a series featuring cranes — one of the artist's favorite motifs.
Shoko was the son of the famous nihonga painter
Shoen Uemura 上村松園 (1875-1949),
and he followed in her artistic footsteps to create kacho-ga (birds-and-flower paintings). In 1948, he helped established Souzou Bijutsu (present-day Souga-kai), a group of like-minded artists dedicated to further promoting nihonga.
For more than 80 years, he was respected as one of the most well-known nihonga painters in Japan; till Nov. 27.
source : Japan Times, October 2011
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Shoen Uemura Shooen 上村松園
(1875-1949)
was the pseudonym of an important woman artist in Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japanese painting. Her real name was Uemura Tsune. Shōen was known primarily for her bijinga paintings of beautiful women in the nihonga style, although she also produced numerous works on historical themes and traditional subjects.
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the logo of google Japan of April 23
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KIGO
. Buddha's Seat (hotoke no za)
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12/06/2009
weeds and roses
winter preparations . . .
too many weeds
between my roses
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10/23/2009
smiling neighbours
autumn walk - my smiling neighbours at the roadside |
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Cosmos Flowers KIGO
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10/04/2009
Amida no namida
古杉や涙涙の南無阿弥陀 old cedar tree - namida namida no namu amida |
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namida means tears in English.
Namu Amida ... The Amida Prayer
This tree is more than 1000 years old!
It stands in the precincts of our temple
. 両山寺 Temple Ryoosan-Ji
old cedar tree -
with tears in my eyes
I pray to Amida
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Tear, tears (namida) Japan. Träne, Tränen
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10/02/2009
bushclover hagi
hagi by the lake - all the pastel colors of nature |
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Bush clover (hagi)
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9/25/2009
autumn sunshine
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WKD
Spider Lilies (higanbana)
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7/15/2009
Kannon Lily 2008 / 2009
My "Kannon Lily July 2009 " thunder and sunshine - my garden awaits both bud with raindrops - still waiting for a haiku to bud |
More Photos of 2009
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. . . My KANNON LILY ALBUM 2008
Read WHY I call this stargazer lily a KANNON !
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Comments from friends:
This is a beauty Gabi!!
A masterpiece, no doubt!
K.
This one is not the day lily,
kanzoo day lily is here
http://wkdkigodatabase03.blogspot.com/2007/06/daylily-kanzoo.html
The flowers last a bit longer than one day.
This year was NO rain or storm during her time of flowering, so she was especially beautiful .
The smell welcomed me every morning when opening the door !
And she had many little beetles visiting during daytime.
GABI
It is of course a Stargazer.
As I had written some years ago about "my friend"
"To me, she looks live an eleven-headed Kannon Bosatsu."
The daililies really blossom only one day, whereas my KANNON keeps a few "heads" for a few days (I am still hoping to catch her with 11 heads ...).
. . . My Kannon Lily 2004
GABI
I also live
from day to day
lily
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my Kannon-Lily -
raindrops sparkling
in the night
. Lily, yuri 百合 (ゆり) and KIGO
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7/14/2009
potluck
the star mandala of a little cactus - roadside potluck |
Take a walk with me
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7/08/2009
WKD - lavender
more rain - lavender leans on the stone Buddha |
. Deep in lavender
my lavender in 2007
. Buddha and lavender - June 2012 .
. Bumblebee in my lavender
2010
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rabendaa ラベンダー lavender
Lavandula augustifolia
kigo for summer
Lavender is not listed in the big saijiki, but it is generally accepted as a kigo for summer.
http://www.a.zaq.jp/haiku/70/70_008.htm
http://www.ibukinet.jp/kigo/kigo07.html
The Lavenders
Lavandula are a genus of 39 species of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, native to the Mediterranean region south to tropical Africa and to the southeast regions of India.
Because the cultivated forms are planted in gardens world-wide, they are occasionally found growing wild, as garden escapees, well beyond their natural range.
Lavender flowers yield abundant nectar which yields a high-quality honey for beekeepers.
Chefs in and around Provence, France, have been incorporating this herb into their cuisine for centuries, either alone or as an ingredient of herbes de Provence. Lavender lends a floral, slightly sweet, and elegant flavour to most dishes, and pairs beautifully with various sheep's and goat's cheeses.
English lavender, Lavandula angustifolia, yields an essential oil with sweet overtones, and can be used in balms, salves, perfumes, cosmetics, and topical applications
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夢ひとつ叶ひし今朝のラベンダー
yume hitotsu kanaishi kesa no rabendaa
one dream at least
came true - the lavender
of this morning
Tashiro Toshi 田代登志
Tr. Gabi Greve
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tension headache
different bees work
the lavender bush
Alan Summers
1. Six Years of Simply Haiku: Retrospective Selections 2003-2008,
(Eleven Themes) Selected by Richard Gilbert Spring 2009, vol 7 no 1
2. The Haiku Calendar 2004 Snapshots Press ISBN 1-903543-07-X
3. Simply Haiku: September 2003, Vol. 1, No. 3
kigo hotline
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WASHOKU
The taste of lavender in Japanese food
Lavendel
murasaki 紫 ... the color of lavender in haiku
My Lavender
July 2008
. My Lavender in 2010
waiting for the morning sun
My Stone Buddha
with more haiku
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My Garden in the Rain
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early morning
pink clouds
of lavender
Gennady Nov
just before dawn
there's nothing else -
incense of lavender
Hideo Suzuki
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hortensia
more rain -
the hortensia droops her head
deeper
mehr Regen -
die Hortensie hängt ihren Kopf
tiefer
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6/01/2009
flower mandala
hana mandala - your orange brightens the green |
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. . . My MANDALA haiku
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5/03/2009
paulownia blossoms
a haiku suspended in the sky - paulownia blossoms powlonia buds - a promise of kindness and sweetness |
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Take a walk with me !
Summer begins in the terraced rice fields
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4/22/2009
pink blossoms
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Fotoalbum with many more
. . . Spring blossoms in my garde
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