Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts
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1/25/2011

QUOTES with HAIKU

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QUOTES with HAIKU

I have various threads under this heading, here are a few to explore



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If you are seeking creative ideas,
go out walking.
Angels whisper to us
when we go for walks.

Raymond Inman


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Creativity comes from the spiritual realm,
the collective consciousness.
And the mind is in a different realm
than the molecules of the brain.
The brain is a receiver, not a source.

Candace Pert


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my daily walk -
the empty heart
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12/26/2010

Happy Planet Index

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Happy Planet Index





A site that measures the well-being of people in the nations of the world while taking into account their environmental impact.

http://www.happyplanetindex.org/



The Happy Planet Index
reveals the ecological efficiency with which human well-being is delivered

The index combines environmental impact with human well-being to measure the environmental efficiency with which, country by country, people live long and happy lives. Learn about the ideas behind the HPI, how it is calculated, why we need it and what it can teach us.


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New Economics Foundadion nef

Economics as if people and the planet mattered.
nef is an independent think-and- do tank that inspires and demonstrates real economic well-being.

http://www.neweconomics.org/


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Bhutan - Gross National Happiness



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12/22/2010

a single breath

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There is a Zen story about
how a single breath can free us
from the confines of our intellectualizing
and unite us with all creation.

Tokusan was a brilliant scripture scholar who went
to study with Zen Master Ryutan.
One night as Tokusan was leaving to go home to bed after a long evening of discussion, he noticed that it was pitch black outside.
Zen master Ryutan lit a lantern and handed it to Tokusan.
Just as Tokusan reached for the lantern, Ryutan blew it out.

In that moment,
Tokusan experienced enlightenment and bowed in gratitude.

Tokusan realized that he was not dependent upon words and teachings to light the way for him. Even in times of darkness,
he could experience his essential nature directly
and be a lamp unto himself.


. — Ellen Birx in "Healing Zen"
Buddhist Wisdom on Compassion, Caring, and Caregiving —
for Yourself and Others







haiku -
a single breath
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12/18/2010

QUOTE : English Language

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"In our language there is no word
to say inferior or superiority or equality
because we are equal; it's a known fact.


But life has become very complicated
since the newcomers came here.
And how does your spirit react to it?.

It's painful.
You have to be strong to walk through the storm.
I know I'm a bridge between two worlds.
All I ask is for people to wash their feet
before they try to walk on me."

-- Alanis Obomsawin, ABENAKI


For native people who speak their language, English can be very confusing.
Many times you cannot express in English the true meaning of Indian words.
When we hear something in English we sometimes react or our spirit reacts.
Sometimes we need to use English words out of order to express our true meanings.

We need to be patient and pray.
Living in two worlds can be difficult.
Life is painful sometimes.
The pain of life is where the lessons are learned.

Creator, let me learn the lessons You have taught my people.

Elder's Meditation of the Day - December 13
http://www.whitebison.org/meditation/index.php





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11/15/2010

QUOTE finding hope

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When things are bad,
we take comfort in the thought
that they could always be worse.

And when they are,
we find hope in the thought
that things are so bad
they have to get better.

Malcolm S. Forbes







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11/12/2010

simplify

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The ability to simplify
means to eliminate the unnecessary
so that the necessary may speak.

Hans Hofmann



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9/03/2010

QUOTE : learn to bear

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Happy are they who learn to bear
what they cannot change.


Wohl dem Mensch, wenn er gelernt hat zu ertragen,
was er nicht ändern kann,
und preiszugeben mit Würde,
was er nicht retten kann.


Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller





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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
(10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805)
was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright.
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to bear
to live now
to write haiku




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8/20/2010

QUOTE : confidence and independence

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You have to have confidence in your own ability
to be able to go it alone,
to go against
what the rest of the culture is doing.



Eunice Baumann-Nelson, Ph.D., PENOBSCOT


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It is very nearly impossible ...
to become an educated person in a country
so distrustful of the independent mind.


James Baldwin



To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently,
and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service
that one man can do another.


Benjamin Jowett


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with confidence
with independence





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8/08/2010

QUOTE : Four Directions

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We have to have one mind for the Four Directions.
Until we reach that one mind, we cannot be filled with understanding . . .

The Creator will not answer until you have just one mind,
just like if you have one person.


The Elders have taught us to balance our lives
emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually.

If I am out of control emotionally, I get angry, doubtful or erratic, I am out of balance.

If I trigger bad mental pictures of my brothers and sisters, I am out of balance.

If I get too hungry, angry, lonely, or tired, I am out of balance physically.

If I don't pray and talk to the Creator daily, I am out of balance spiritually.

To be centered, I must be in balance.
The Creator talks to me in the quiet and still place.
So if I get angry, what I should do first is to pause
and get still so I can hear the guidance of the Grandfathers.




source : The White Bison
Daily Meditation


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7/13/2010

QUOTE : facing blank paper

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Facing blank paper
is an artist's terror.



When an artist creates, he or she is like a shaman. Inspiration comes as a gift. Those who follow Tao are the same. Their awareness is not something they have cleverly formulated, nor is it something that they possess.
Tao comes to them like a gift.
That is why the arts and Tao are so closely allied.
The act of receiving and expressing is the same.

Just as an artist dreads not being able to make art, so too does one who follows Tao dread not feeling Tao.

There are many times when we are called upon to be creative; an athlete on the field, a lecturer before an audience, a musician on stage, a cook at the stove, a parent with a child. How do we keep the channel open? Some people try by maintaining tidy and regular lives, others by being constantly active. We are all different, and there is no right or wrong. The only thing that counts is feeling Tao in your own life and maintaining that feeling as much of the time as possible. If you find those special things that are latent in you and learn to express them, then you will know Tao.

365 Tao Daily Meditations
Deng Ming-Dao (author)
ISBN 0-06-250223-9


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haiku is like a gift -
the act of receiving and expressing
is the same





haiku and ants



Can you find the five ants ?


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. . . two ants are here


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4/20/2010

QUOTE : slow down

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Slow down
and take the time to really see.
Take a moment
to see what is going on around you
right now, right where you are.
You may be missing something wonderful.


J. Michael Thomas








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3/26/2010

QUOTE : give birth

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You must give birth to your images.
They are the future waiting to be born...
Fear not the strangeness you feel.

The future must enter you
long before it happens.

Just wait for the birth,
for the hour of new clarity.


Rainier Maria Rilke
(4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926)

RILKE in the WIKIPEDIA !




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give birth to your haiku
when you experience it . . .
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3/24/2010

QUOTE : with love in my heart

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I will greet this day with love in my heart.

And how will I do this?
Henceforth will I look on all things with love
and I will be born again.

I will love the sun for it warms my bones;
yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit.

I will love the light for it shows me the way;
yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars.

I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart;
yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul.


I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due;
yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.


Og Mandino
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love in my heart
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2/18/2010

WKD - Laozi and the Tao

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Laozi, Lao-tzu, Rooshi, Roshi【老子】
( pinyin: Lǎozi; Wade–Giles: Lao Tzu; also romanized as Lao Tse, Lao Tu, Lao-Tsu, Laotze, Laosi, Laocius,
and other variations; fl. 6th century BCE) was a philosopher of ancient China, best known as the author of the Tao Te Ching (often simply referred to as Laozi).His association with the Tào Té Chīng has led him to be traditionally considered the founder of philosophical Taoism (pronounced as "Daoism"). He is also revered as a deity in most religious forms of Taoist philosophy, which often refers to Laozi as Taishang Laojun, or "One of the Three Pure Ones".

Laozi is an honorific title. Lao (老) means "venerable" or "old", such as modern Mandarin laoshi (老师), "teacher". Zi (子),



According to Chinese traditions, Laozi lived in the 6th century BCE. Some historians contend that he actually lived in the 5th–4th century BCE, concurrent with the Hundred Schools of Thought and Warring States Period, while some others argue that Laozi is a synthesis of multiple historical figures or that he is a mythical figure.

A central figure in Chinese culture, both nobility and common people claim Laozi in their lineage. He was honored as an ancestor of the Tang imperial family, and was granted the title Táishāng xuānyuán huángdì, meaning "Supreme Mysterious and Primordial Emperor". Throughout history, Laozi's work has been embraced by various anti-authoritarian movements.

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There is a discussion at Haiku Foundation

- Beauty in Haiku -

Haiku need not dwell entirely on the dark or seemly, but just as too much salt spoils a meal, so does too much sugar.
As James W. Hackett has said in his guidelines for writing haiku,

“Lifefulness, not beauty,
is the real quality of haiku.”


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the haiku under discussion has been this one


鮟鱇の骨まで凍ててぶちきらる
ankoo no hone made itete buchi-kiraru

this angler fish
feeing chilled to the bone
is (finally) cut to pieces


Kato Shuson 加藤楸邨 Katoo Shuuson
(Tr. Gabi Greve)


The reasoning for my translation is HERE

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TAO




Hua Hu Ching : Verse Forty-One


Good and bad, self and others,
life and death:
Why affirm these concepts?
Why deny them?

To do either is to exercise the mind,
and the integral being knows that
the manipulations of the mind are dreams,
delusions, and shadows.

Hold one idea, and another competes with it.
Soon the two will be in conflict with a third,
and in time your life is
all chatter and contradiction.

Seek instead to keep your mind undivided.
Dissolve all ideas into the Tao.


Translated by Brian Walker
http://www.cheraglibrary.org/taoist/hua-hu-ching.htm


Hua Hu Ching
The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu
ISBN 9780060692452


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Give me wise men's words
And the Goddess of Mercy
What more could I need


Pulled by Kuan Yin's gentle hand
The voice of Lao Tzu calling


- Shared by Res John Burman -
Joys of Japan, 2012




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白梅や老子無心の旅に住む
shira ume ya Rooshi mushin no tabi ni sumu

white plum blossoms —
Lao-Tzu dwells in a journey
of no-mind


. Kaneko Tohta 金子兜太 .

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. Tao, Dao and Haiku .
Chinese origin of Japanese kigo


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1/29/2010

Two Wolves

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One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson
about a battle that goes on inside of all of us.
He said, "My son, the battle is between two wolves.

One is Negative.
It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.

The other is Positive.
It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."

The grandson thought about it for a minute
and then asked his grandfather:
"But grandfather which wolf wins?"





The old Cherokee simply replied,
"The one you feed."




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1/08/2010

Jakushitsu Genko

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LIVING IN THE MOUNTAINS

Neither seeking fame
nor grieving my poverty
I hide deep in the mountain
far from wordly dust.



Year ending
cold sky
who will befriend me?

Plum blossom on a new branch
wrapped in moonlight


寂室元光 Jakushitsu Genko (1290 - 1367)
Tr. Arthur Braverman





He was a Japanese Rinzai master, poet, flute player, and first abbot of Eigen-ji 永源寺, constructed solely for him to teach Zen. His poetry is considered to be among the finest of Zen poetry. He traveled to China and studied Ch'an with masters of the Linji school from 1320 to 1326, then returned to Japan and lived for many years as a hermit. It was only toward the end of his life that he decided to teach Zen to others.
source : wikipedia


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Eigen-ji 永源寺
Mountain Name: Zuisekizan 瑞石山
41 Eigenjitakano-cho, Higashiohmi-shi, Shiga-ken, 527-0212

Eigen-ji was founded in 1361 by the lord of the omi domain, Sasaki Ujiyori 佐々木氏頼 (1326–1370), with the ascetic Zen master Jakushitsu Genko 寂室元光 (1290–1367) serving as the founding abbot. Jakushitsu practiced Zen widely in Japan under a number of masters, notably Yakuo Tokken 約翁徳儉 (1244–1320) of Kennin-ji and Yishan Yining 一山一寧 (J., Issan Ichinei; 1247–1317) of Nanzen-ji, before traveling in 1320 to China.

There he trained under the famous master Zhongfeng Mingben 中峰明本 (J., Chuho Myohon; 1263–1323), then visted a number of masters on pilgrimage before returning to Japan in 1326. In Japan he continued his ascetic, wandering lifestyle until invited by Sasaki to take up residence at Eigen-ji. Jakushitsu is renowned not only as an accomplished Zen master but also as one of the best of the Zen poets. He has been honored with a number of posthumous titles, including Enno Zenji 圓應禪師, by Emperor Go-Kogon 後光嚴 in 1369, and Shoto Kokushi 正燈國師 in 1928.

During the disturbances of the Onin War (1467–77) many of the most eminent monks of the Kyoto Five Mountain monasteries moved to Eigen-ji seeking safer and more tranquil surroundings, and it was said at the time that “culture is now centered in omi.” A series of fires during wars in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries reduced Eigen-ji to ashes. In 1643 the Zen master Isshi Bunshu 一絲文守 (1608–1646) became abbot at the request of Emperor Go-Mizunoo 後水尾 (r. 1611–1629), and worked to restore the temple; he is honored as the second founder.

Eigen-ji has been head temple of the Eigen-ji branch of Rinzai Zen since the Meiji Period(1868-1912), with over 120 affiliated temples and a training monastery (sodo 僧堂) for monks.
It is famed for the beauty of it autumn scenery.

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Memorial stone with a haiku by Matsuo Basho

in the temple compound





こんにゃくのさしみもすこし 梅の花
konnyaku no sashimi mo sukoshi ume no hana



just a few
slices of konnyaku -
and some plum blossoms


Matsuo Basho


Basho was very fond of this kind of vegetarian food.
The temple Eigenji is famous for its konnyaku dishes.

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12/19/2009

QUOTE dance with daffodils

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Margaret Prescott Montague


I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed - and gazed - but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.


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The fact that we can't see the beauty in something doesn't suggest that it's not there.
Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully enough or with a broad enough perspective to see it.

Richard Carlson




looking for beauty
looking for something
looking for haiku



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11/20/2009

QUOTE : true richness

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Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.

If you realize that you have enough,
you are truly rich.


Tao Te Ching


Tao and Haiku



truely rich -
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11/14/2009

Tao Te Ching 45

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Snail, tiny spiral in calcified membrane;
Inchworm, a hairpin dragon;
Bumblebee, blob of velvet black and yellow,
White butterfly, syncopated burst of gladness;
Naked bulbs, white pubic tentacles in crumbling soil;
Pears, children of earth and sun.


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Tao Te Ching Verse 45
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the dao in
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10/24/2009

QUOTE : NAIL

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If you only have a hammer,
you tend to see every problem
as a nail.


Abraham Maslow


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出る釘(杭)は打たれる
deru kugi wa utareru
deru kui wa utareru

The nail that sticks out is hammered down


Reference



. kugi 釘 nail, Nagel .
An anthropological study.


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quote from new internationalist
issue 231 - May 1992


The nail that sticks out
Conformists belong, non-conformists and ethnic minorities get hammered in Japan.
John Charles and Peter Mallat unravel Japanese groupthink.

Who are the Japanese?
Anthropologically it is not at all clear: a conglomerate of Polynesian, Malay and mainland Asian elements, perhaps from Mongolia, who imposed themselves on the aboriginal Ainu and gradually drove them northwards. The precedence of the Ainu in the islands, like the thorny subject of Japanese army atrocities against the Chinese in the 1930s, is another point glossed over by the schoolbooks.

Culturally it is a different story. Japan has a notion of its own uniqueness that many Japanese are convinced an outsider could never fathom. The Japanese language ovefflows with words of status, words of self-abasement, words of guile and subterfuge - and many words that defy accurate translation. Words like Ciri and On translate as 'duty' or 'obligation', but the depth of their meaning is quite different. Within the tightly-ordered framework of Japanese groups - village, family, school, workplace - they weigh heavily indeed. Outside these groups they lose almost all meaning. Thus in Japan there is little goodwill for someone you don't know and little sense of a broader public interest. Peter Tasker, in his book Inside Japan, calls the Japanese the 'kindest, cruelest' people in the world. The face presented depends entirely on whether you are seen to be part of a group or outside it.


Hidden Identities
Many schoolchildren of Korean extraction can give you a harrowing description of hiding their backgrounds from their classmates at great psychological cost - only to be found out when presenting a different passport on a school trip. Their friends melted away before their eyes. In Osaka's Ikuno, ward where a quarter of the population is Korean, less than five per cent use their real names in business dealings. Kim Sung Il, a second-generation Korean, refused fingerprinting, was arrested and had his finger prints taken against his will. He recounts the story of a school teacher accused of some trifling infringement of the Registration Law who was taken from her classroom by a hundred police.

In fact, Japan has had a minority problem for centuries, ever since the Yamato peoples drove the Ainu to the inhospitable northern island of Hokkaido, where they largely remain. Like indigenous peoples everywhere, the Ainu have rediscovered their own identity, and are pressing for reform.


One problem has been the Koseki, or Community Registers. Japan is a society that pays elaborate courtesies to ancestors and their spirits. They are yet another group to which obligations are owed. The Japanese go out of their way to prevent any 'mixing of the blood' which they feel would pollute and dishonour their family tree. To preserve this purity of the lineage (Ie) extensive record-keeping is needed. Hence the social importance of Koseki, which details intimate family information.

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出る杭の如くつくしの摘まれけり
deru kui no gotoku tsukushi no tsumarekeri

like the nail
that sticks out we pick
horsetails


Kubota Noriko 久保田教子
Tr. Gabi Greve



Tsukushi 土筆(つくし)horsetail plant
kigo for mid-spring
It is considered a delicacy.


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