long long night

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this long long night -
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hoping for no clouds
in the sky
in the mind


There should be an eclipse visible in our region, from around sunset at 17:00 until 18:00. Let us hope the weather is fine and the full moon is visible!


Unfortunately, it was raining all day and most of the night.
We could only see a glimpse of the eclipse on TV, from Hokkaido.


Later in the night,
the full moon came out for a short while, immersing the lowly clouds in the valley with a whitish shimmer ...




. Winter solstice (tooji) .


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winter sunset

winter sunset - a little pink hope for tomorrow

. Sunset (nichibotsu, yuuhi, hi no iri)
KIGO


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Today the sunrise was also a very PINK one.


winter sunrise -
a little pink hope
for tomorrow



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I have always been delighted
at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try,
one more start,
with perhaps a bit of magic waiting
somewhere behind the morning.

J.B. Priestley



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my blessings Masamune Daruma

winter sunset - when I count my blessings I count you twice 達磨正宗 Daruma Masamune Old Sake with a bit of spice for cold days

With special red pepper from Hida
飛騨美濃伝統野菜・中津川市下野産の唐辛子
あじめコショウ Ajime Koshoo


An old label from Daruma Masamune





Valentine's Day -
let's have a drink
before we start !

Special Valentine offer 2012


Reference

Reference : 達磨正宗



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A speciel present to my husband
for our wedding anniversary on the
12th day of the 12th month.


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Daruma Masamune Koshu Aged Rice Wine : Sake



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winter sky -
a poet from Bali
scratches his head



winter sky -
a poet from Australia
turns fast backward




five rings -
he trains to jump
higher





kigo section : Winter Sky
free section : Ring
December 2010 Shiki Monthly Kukai



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winter sky -
this long pink line
behind an airplane


spectacular sunset, clear sky





so many things
I have not done yet -
winter sky -



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azuki arai

小豆洗い . 特別純米原酒 washing red beans - the river turns ricewine

photo : tokiyadiary.blog118.fc2.com



Inspired by the TV series about
Gegege no Nyobo, wife of Mizuki Shigeru
ゲゲゲの女房


. Mizuki Shigeru and GEGEGE (ゲゲゲの鬼太郎) . 　 　


I am studying his monsters related to food,
hopefully there will be more !



Azuki Arai

This little bean washer monster sits on a river bank and washes red beans in a basket. You can hear the sound of this, but usually not see him while he works.
You can even hear him hum a gentle song.


The TV scene when Shigeru met him and heared him ask of Mizuki to produce an encyclopedia of Japanese monsters was very moving !

水木しげる 妖怪図鑑
水木しげる妖怪大百科





This monster is well known in many parts of Japan, mostly in Kaii (Yamanashi), Shinano (Nagano) and Echigo (Niigata).
It often comes out to a farmhouse where the bride is preparing to go to her husband, and the family is too poor to cook auspicious rice with red beans. When the family checks the kitchen in the morning, there is a bunch of freshly washed red beans ready to be cooked.

In Tottori they say this is in fact a monkey, hanging around old farmhouses.





Some say it washes azuki beans, others say it rinses rice or chopsticks.
kometogi ba 米とぎ婆
hashi arai 箸洗い

It is also called

azuki togi 小豆とぎ, rinsing red beans
making a sound like ショキショキ "shoki shoki".

Sometimes his song sounds like
小豆とごうか、人取って食おうか ショキ、ショキ


Shall I rinse red beans?
or catch a human
and eat it?


Other names are

あずい洗い／小豆あらいど／小豆洗い婆／小豆こし／小豆ごしゃごしゃ／小豆さらさら／小豆すり／小豆そぎ／小豆そぎ婆／小豆とぎ／小豆とげ／小豆婆／小豆やら／米とぎ婆／コメカシ／洗濯狐／付け紐小僧／荒神様／山の神／赤小豆洗い／米とぎ婆さま／箸洗い /


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source : morioka_hisamoto

from Takehara Shunsensai 竹原春泉斎 『絵本百物語』
Woodblocks of the Edo Period


Once upon a time at a temle in the village of Takada, the priest cared for the young orphans of the village.

One boy was especially clever.
When the priest showed a box full of red beans and asked how much there were inside, he could immediately tell the number.

The priest was quite surprized and thought to make this boy follow in his priestly profession.
Another of his students, the vicious Enkai, got so envious he threw the intelligent kid to his death, into the well.

From this day on, every night, every night they heard his voice in the well, counting red beans.

Eventually, the vicious Enkai was brought to justice by the local authorities, and received the death penalty for his deed.

From that day on, the souls of the good and the bad student appeared every night, every night after sunset, counting red beans in the well,
or near the river bank.

Nobody wanted to take over this temple any more, and it was left without a priest, when the old monk died, maybe in 1689 ... ?


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And now to the present-day reality !






azukiarai 小豆洗い insect "washing red beans"
kigo for all autumn

. Chatatemushi, 茶立虫 "tea whisking insect" 　
Graphopsocus cruciatus

konachatate 粉茶立（こなちゃたて）
kakurezatoo 隠座頭（かくれざとう）


A group of insects with more than 5000 subgroups, Stenopsocus aphidiformis
Psococerastis tokyoensis, Psocomorpha, Longivalvus nubilus, Psococerastis kurokiana, Amphigerontia sp., Psocodea, Psocoptera, Troctomorpha, Trogiomorpha etc.

Some species have wings, others do not.
The ones without wings are about 1 to 2 milimeters, with long legs. Some resemble small white ants, with a rather large head.

The winged species are about 3 to 7 milimeters, the wings can be much longer than the body.



washing red beans -
a monster turns
KIGO !

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. Japanese Legends - 伝説　民話　昔話 – ABC-List .

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Kagawa 香川県 / mamedanuki 豆狸

Azukiarai is an animal of the family of mamedanuki 豆狸 small Tanuki.
It lives near a well or small river and makes the noise of washing beans. Sometimes it plays tricks on humans.


source : tyz-yokai.blog.jp/archives...

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坂出市 Sakaide city

The sun was down and getting dark, a light wind in the air. Two sisters were crossing a bridge when they heard a strange sound of washing something from the river. Afraid they rushed back home. Mother told them:
"This was azuki arai あずき洗い the bean-washing monster. I have told you not to go over the bridge at night!"


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Nagano 長野県 / 狢 mujina

If people pass by, Azukiarai makes the sound of washing beans. People say it is a badger.
Children are afraid of this sound and do not pass here.
Some say it is itachi イタチ a weasel. When the animals are in heat, the male ones make a sound like washing beans.


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. WASHOKU -Azuki 小豆 red beans 　

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sunset

autumn sunset - maybe there is a hell in heaven ?

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playing in the sky

Kanzan and Jittoku 寒山拾得 Kanzan: Where shall we go to play? To the mountains? To the river? Jittoku: Let us go right up to the sky ! Painting by 榊莫山　Sakaki Bakuzan ................................................................................. 遊べ世界の雲たちよ　！ Visit from Nakamura Sakuo : playing with the clouds It all started with a rainbow at Sakai . ................................................................................. The first sunset autumn sunset having played with clouds in terraced rice fields Sakuo ................................................................................. looking down the valley - only clouds and their shadows Gabi ................................................................................. zigzag clouds - a moment later they are gone ................................................................................. ................................................................................. playing with clouds - the mystery of colors and shapes ................................................................................. the last moment

. Visit of Sakuo san
PHOTO ALBUM
You can take the Slide Show for each side.




Unfortunately my camera produced a dark spot in some images.

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Thank you so much, Sakuo san, for visiting our paradise and our valley.


. everyday Issa
Nakamura Sakuo



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The inspriation comes from Tanuma Takeyoshi,
田沼武能, a friend of Sakuo san.

遊べ子供たち


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sudden cold spell -
waiting for a friend
at the station



The weather has suddenly changed, over night, so to say.
Rain and cold wind from Siberia pound this side of Japan, while typhoon 14 is brewing in the south.
Hokkaido is expecting the first snow of the season.


And we plan to have dinner outside . . . ? !



Well, it was too cold for anything outside.
And now, on the morning of 27, it was just five degrees centigrade ... brrr ... and we will be shivering through a cold day.

Our friend is sketching the landscape.

We had some splendid sky formations over the mountains and tanada rice fields ... and a splendid sunset pink storm clouds raging in straight from Siberia ...


next morning


sudden cold spell -
I need another thick
blanket




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. Clouds playing in the sky
PHOTO ALBUM 　



. Sakuo san visiting
Photo album - backwards 　






秋日暮れ棚田に雲と遊びたり


autumn sunset
having played with clouds
in terraced rice fields

Sakuo




Thank you so much for your visit, Sakuo san !

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autumn sunset -
the bamboo sways
in a gentle breeze


autumn sunset -
the cicadas shrill and
shrill and shrill



autumn sunset -
I run for another bottle
of cold beer





You just won't believe how hot it is tonight !
You have to run,
otherwise the beer gets warm before it reaches your mouth.



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達磨記 きょうの夕日もだるま色
Daruma ki kyoo no yuuhi mo Daruma iro

Daruma Anniversary!
The sunset tonight
In Daruma Colors.







MORE
Sunset, Sunrise, Kigo and Daruma san



Daruma Sunset だるま夕日 Daruma yuuhi


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early summer morning
I am
all the birds




autumn sunset
I am
all the colors




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Philosophy or not ?

Instead of regarding Heaven as great and admiring it,
Why not foster it as a thing and regulate it?

Instead of obeying Heaven and singing praise to it.
Why not control the Mandate of Heaven and use it?

Instead of looking on the seasons and waiting for them,
Why not respond to them and make use of them?

Instead of letting things multiply by themselves,
Why not exercise your ability to transform [and increase] them?

Instead of thinking about things as things,
Why not attend to them so you won't lose them?

Instead of admiring how things come into being,
Why not do something to bring them to a fun development?

Hsun Tzu, Han-Dynasty period

quote from
A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy
Wing-Tsit Chan
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963


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crocus

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cold sunset -
the crocus shuts
its blossoms



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They are out since two days, even if it gets minus four centigrade in the morning.



Crocus KIGO



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Buddha in Light

winter sunset - half of my Buddha still in the light

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winter sunset -
a little pink hope
for tomorrow
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http://haikuandhappiness.blogspot.jp/2010/12/winter-sunset.html


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snow sky snow moon

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snow -
there is blue in the sky
and there is gray




caught in the white of a snow moon
caught in the night of a snow moon


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Full Moon on January 10, 2009


not set
in her ways--
snow moon
George


If skies are clear Saturday, go out at sunset and look for the giant moon rising in the east. It will be the biggest and brightest one of 2009, sure to wow even seasoned observers.

the orbit is not a perfect circle. One portion is about 31,000 miles (50,000 km) closer to our planet than the farthest part, so the moon's apparent size in the sky changes. Saturday night (Jan. 10) the moon will be at perigee, the closest point to us on this orbit.

It will appear about 14 percent bigger in our sky and 30 percent brighter than some other full moons during 2009, according to NASA. (A similar setup occurred in December, making that month's full moon the largest of 2008.)
source : http://news.yahoo.com/s/spacce ...



snow moon
behind the old tree ...
what a sight !


Gabi Greve, Happy Haiku Forum



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winter solstice -
the dark
growing darker



winter solstice -
dark shadows growing
darker





and a little later, with respect to some haiku friends of America


winter solstice -
a dark shadow grows
darker


HH December 2008


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I Ching
Nr. 24 Fu - Return (The Turning Point)
Wendezeit

24. Fu - Return (The Turning Point)

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-- -- above K'un The Receptive, Earth
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The Judgement

Return. Success.
Going out and coming in without error.
Friends come without blame.
To and fro goes the way.
On the seventh day comes return.
It furthers one to have somewhere to go.


The Image

Thunder within the earth:
The image of the Turning Point.
Thus the kings of antiquity closed the passes
At the time of solstice.
Merchants and strangers did not go about,
And the ruler
Did not travel through the provinces.

The winter solstice has always been celebrated in China as the resting time of the year--a custom that survives in the time of rest observed at the new year.
In winter the life energy, symbolized by thunder, the Arousing, is still underground. Movement is just at its beginning; therefore it must be strengthened by rest so that it will not be dissipated by being used prematurely. This principle, i.e., of allowing energy that is renewing itself to be reinforced by rest, applies to all similar situations. The return of health after illness, the return of understanding after an estrangement: everything must be treated tenderly and with care at the beginning, so that the return may lead to a flowering.
source : 　www.cfcl.com


The idea of a turning point arises from the fact that after the dark lines have pushed all of the light lines upward and out of the hexagram, another light line enters the hexagram from below. The time of darkness is past. The winter solstice brings the victory of light. This hexagram is linked with the eleventh month, the month of the solstice (December-January).

After a time of decay comes the turning point. The powerful light that has been banished returns. There is movement, but it is not brought about by force. The upper trigram K'un is characterized by devotion; thus the movement is natural, arising spontaneously. For this reason the transformation of the old becomes easy.
The old is discarded and the new is introduced. Both measures accord with the time; therefore no harm results.
Societies of people sharing the same views are formed. But since these groups come together in full public knowledge and are in harmony with the time, all selfish separatist tendencies are excluded, and no mistake is made.
The idea of RETURN is based on the course of nature. The movement is cyclic, and the course completes itself. Therefore it is not necessary to hasten anything artificially. Everything comes of itself at the appointed time. This is the meaning of heaven and earth.

All movements are accomplished in six stages, and the seventh brings return. Thus the winter solstice, with which the decline of the year begins, comes in the seventh month after the summer solstice; so too sunrise comes in the seventh double hour after sunset. Therefore seven is the number of the young light, and it arises when six, the number of the great darkness, is increased by one. In this way the state of rest gives place to movement.


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Nine at the beginning means:
Return from a short distance.
No need for remorse.
Great good fortune.

Slight digressions from the good cannot be avoided, but one must turn back in time, before going too far. This is especially important in the development of character; every faintly evil thought must be put aside immediately, before it goes too far and takes root in the mind. Then there is no cause for remorse, and all goes well.


Six in the second place means:
Quiet return. Good fortune.

Return always calls for a decision and is an act of self-mastery. It is made easier if a man is in good company. If he can bring himself to put aside pride and follow the example of good men, good fortune results.


Six in the third place means:
Repeated return. Danger. No blame.

There are people of a certain inner instability who feel a constant urge to reverse themselves. There is danger in continually deserting the good because of uncontrolled desires, then turning back to it again because of a better resolution. However, since this does not lead to habituation in evil, a general inclination to overcome the defect is not wholly excluded/


Six in the fourth place means:
Walking in the midst of others,
One returns alone.

A man is in a society composed of inferior people, but is connected spiritually with a strong and good friend, and this makes him turn back alone. Although nothing is said of reward and punishment, this return is certainly favorable, for such a resolve to choose the good brings its own reward.


Six in the fifth place means:
Noblehearted return. No remorse.

When the time for return has come, a man should not take shelter in trivial excuses, but should look within and examine himself. And if he has done something wrong he should make a noblehearted resolve to confess his fault. No one will regret having taken this road.


Six at the top means:
Missing the return. Misfortune.
Misfortune from within and without.
If armies are set marching in this way,
One will in the end suffer a great defeat,
Disastrous for the ruler of the country.
For ten years
It will not be possible to attack again.

If a man misses the right time for return, he meets with misfortune. The misfortune has its inner cause in a wrong attitude toward the world. The misfortune coming upon him for without results from this wrong attitude.
What is pictured here is blind obstinacy and the judgment that is visited upon it.
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American haiku poets questioning
the use of "simple statement kigo"

so my ansewer


are you happy
with your first line !?
this longest night


and D. replied

solstice night --
the longest line is
in the middle

HH December 2008


Wow, this one is so fresh, and something we can all relate to.
A few words that say a volume.

R.W.


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winter sunshine -
the shadows on my Buddha
grow older




this was yesterday

winter sunshine -
the slow growth of a stone's
shadow

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I think most of you remember
my old stone Buddha sitting there in meditation





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Discussion

A shadow growing older strikes me as conceptual, rather than perceptual.
B.


As I watch my Buddha I get older
and the shadow shares my fate with me ...
I am one with the shadow
Gabi



shadows change over time, am to noon, shorter and shorter, noon to sunset, longer.
winter to summer ever shorter, summer to winter ever longer
both perceptual as well as conceptual

I.K.


I like your ku as it is now. As you mentioned, a lengthening shadow isn't necessarily a kigo. Heck, my shadow lengthens and shortens all times of the year... though I prefer the taller one! LOL I have three stone monks in my backyard garden.... and I went just now to check their shadows... you indeed have a shasei here and one that is distilled in a wonderful way!
M.


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autumn sunset

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Shiraishi Sunset September 2008
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From 01 to 70.



Benten Island Album






白石島　遍路　Shiraishi Island Henro Pilgrimage 2006



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sunrise . . .
listening to the smell
of onions

robert d. wilson

I make use of yugen and ma.
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Hi Robert,

been pondering your onions and the notion of "yuugen" ...


Here is my bit on "listening to incense"

The smell of incense can be very subtle and faint, so the act of concentrated smelling it is called "listening to incense" (monkoo, bunkoo 聞香 , koo o kiku 香を聞く ) in Japanese.
Here "LISTENING" means to use all senses to appreciate one thing in its full potential and with all your attention.

Here the verb "KIKU (LISTENING)" in Japanese means to use all senses to appreciate one thing in its full potential and with all your attention. KIKU is maybe the change of the verb 利く, as in "tasting ricewine, kikizake 利き酒", meaning "appreciating" something.


Here is one explanation for this expression.

In the Buddha's world everything is fragrant like incense, including the words of Buddha. Fragrance and incense are synonymous, and Buddha's words of teaching are incense. Therefore Bodhisattvas listen to Buddha's words in the form of incense, instead of smelling them.

quoted from my
. Incense and Haiku .



Greetings from early morning Japan,

where I am "listening" to my sea of clouds bumping into the mountains without a sound ...

GABI

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My husband did this last night, cutting a load for the pickles cooking

sunset . . .
crying to the smell
of onions

GABI

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autumn walk

大垪和や　棚田の夕日　ココにある My Home Ohaga ! sunset in the rice terraces all here

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autumn sunset

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autumn sunset - reflections in a broken bicycle mirror autumn sunset - a late butterfly hurries from flower to flower (Dedicated to an OLD friend, who is still chasing the girls ...)

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Firts version:

autumn sunset -
reflections in a broken
mirror


A friend suggested these first two lines

sunset
in a broken mirror


but this states something different from what I was trying to show the reader.


the general scene and mood is
............................. autumn sunset -

(I hope you can see the cut at the end of the line 1.) but then we have

reflections (of something xyz not stated ) in a broken
mirror


xyz could be ... my wrinkled face
(I make this up, it was not what I saw )


In my experience, XYZ was a raven hanging upside down over the almost ripe yellow rice fields. Someone must have broken a bicycle mirror or something by the roadside ...


That would be too much to tell in the haiku.
I wanted the reader to find out for him/herself what can be reflected in a broken mirror in his own life situation on an autumn evening ...


Still, I make it "bicycle mirror" to give you a lead ...

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More comments

nice moment to capture here ... i find the lines a little well used ..
I do like the moment you are reaching for

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Gabi, the first one is nice, but I LOVE your second one.

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Your second version is very nice haiku , Gabi san
I agree ,,, the "bicycle" added clarity and depth to the poem...

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autumn sunset -
reflections in a broken
bicycle mirror

maybe state simply:

pieces of mirror
reflect upside down --
a crow above ripe rice

Gabi san, I tried to put it all into that tight HAIKU sack...

pieces of mirror (imply a broken mirror)
reflect upside down -- (general characteristics of a reflection)
a crow above ripe rice (what you actually saw... ripening rice is too long so I fudged a little time with the kigo "ripe rice")


I see this from your explanation, but, the HAIKU may need or needs a tweak... probably less is more?

I left off "bicycle" as this is speculation... but that's just my take.

Also:

rippening rice -- (kigo)
a raven's image
in pieces of mirror

rippening rice --
an upside down raven
in a piece of mirror

Well... I could tweak more... but why have all the fun... LOVE this scene, Gabi san, reminds me of walking with Etsuko san at Gakurakuan along the country roadside in the afternoon... or was that morning?

keigu

.. Whow, Chibi san, you have been brainstorming !

I guess my story leads toward a haibun, to explain it all properly ... and then continues with the dead wild boar piglings (how do you call them in English? uribo) they hang them upside down too, one on each corner of the paddy, to hope the smell will scare other boars off from stealing the rice ... that is rural japan, before the advent of electric fencing ... and even with it, right here ...

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very interesting how you wrote the word longer!

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