5/06/2007

My Cat

  
  






O-Tsu chan ...
I never want to be your
Takezoo Kun !






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O-Tsu was the beloved of Takezoo, who later changed his name to Miyamoto Musashi.
We got a baby cat in hope of a Takezoo, but well, life gave us O-Tsu instead. And she just loves her Papa san !

Our Cats in Paradise - O-Tsu and Haiku-kun


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5/05/2007

fragile life

  
  








just one puff
and you are gone -
fragile life of spring












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Red Leaves

  
  






red leaves
in my spring valley <>
happy kigo life







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Red autumn leaves, momiji もみじ  。KIGO


My Red leaves at Mt. Koya
May 1995




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5/03/2007

Tulip Petals

  
  



growing older -
a tulip petal
flaps in the storm












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Hermit

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enjoying narcissus,
plums and more ...
mountain hermit



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Hermits (sennin) and Haiku ... narcissus, plum and chrysanthemum and ...

My Home, Paradise Hermitage GokuRakuAn



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5/02/2007

Rain on Roof

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屋根に雨


spring rain -
the voices of ancestors
on my roof




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5/01/2007

Mountains smiling

  
  



山笑う 故郷あっての 景色なり








smiling mountains -
a landscape to remember
my homeland







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mountains smiling, yama warau 山笑う ... KIGO



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4/30/2007

Tanada Walking

  
  


TANADA 棚田 Rice Fields in Spring












ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo



rapeseed blossoms
the earth filled with
sunshine







ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo




collecting spring water
the future starts shaping
now








ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo








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a thousand old ponds -
a million frogs jumping -
a billion echoes


Now the fields are all full of water and the vallye reveberates !!



The Sound of Water, a discussion !

kawazu tobikomu ... one hundred frogs ... and more


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Rape blossoms (na no hana) . . . . . KIGO


Spring water (haru no mizu) . . . . . KIGO

It takes about a month until the spring water dripping out of the mountain has filled all the paddies in this huge valley. The distribution of water is one of the most difficult things and often cause of fighting among the neighbours ... In modern times, we have a huge pond, just in case the rain and mountain water is not enough to fill up until planting. But using the pumps to bring water from more than five kilometers away is expensive.
Being a farmer for terraced wet rice paddies is not easy. And thinking of the forefathers who started all of this, with no maschines and only human hands to work with ... These tanada seeme like the pyramids to me, just downward the valley!



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"Planting rice"
Ohno Bakufu (1888-1976)
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4/29/2007

30 years

  
  




thirty years

and not one day

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On April 28, 1977, we set foot to the earth of Japan at Narita Airport.
The stamp is still in the passport.


A friend had rented a preliminary home for us in Hayama, so the next morning we went to the beach and there, right in front on the other side of the bay, was Mt. Fuji in all its splendor, waving a welcome to us !


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4/28/2007

Terraced rice fields

  
  



TANADA 棚田 Terraced Rice Fields of my Valley







filled with water
waiting for the planters
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Here is your guide !



Terraced rice fields of my valley in Ohaga

Take a walk with me HERE !



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4/27/2007

Babies and Guns

  
  



children play
with anything ...
YOU give them guns



. L O O K ! .






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On the other hand, just yesterday I posted one about

Children as OUR teachers


ko ni aku to moosu hito ni wa hana mo nashi

blossoms are wasted
on anyone who's fed up
with children


Basho, trans. Robin D. Gill




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4/23/2007

Yellow

  
  







spring sunshine -
challenging my concept of
Y E L L O W











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. YELLOW and haiku .


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Stone Face

  
 


春めくや まだ見つからぬ 石の顔








signs of spring -
the face of a stone
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I am looking at it for a long time ...
He is definitely smiling, I feel.
Trying to figure out whom this face resembles.
Do you know anyone?




signs of spring, haru meku 春めく a kigo

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some comments

What an interesting concept, Gabi!
The face does have a sense of familiarity...

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Hi Gabi san

Hmmm... wondering about the "not" which I think you and or Etusko san warned me against using in HAIKU... what about:

signs of spring:
I find the garden stone face
under the soil

The original may be walking a thin timeline here as this is two moments... uncovering the face and trying to remember.

Maybe it was Akegarasu sensei who warned me... sometimes it is difficult for me to remember as I got good advice from you all.

as I re-read I thought

signs of spring:
from under the garden soil
a stone face emerges

well... this still needs work and I have no idea yet how to fit it to the Japanese

I hope I helped remove the knot of not... hee hee

Well, what do you feel? Chibi

... Hi Chibi san, thanks for your kind thoughts.

It must have been Akegarasu giving you advise ...

two moments or just one ... that is a thin line indeed ..

I see the face clearly on my stone, I just do not remember whom it resembles ...

maybe YOUR face ?

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Memory and perception are not always easily divided.
The fusion of the two may be the essence of the moment.


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4/22/2007

Sakurafubuki

  
  



下り上り 桜吹雪の 道ありて








walking down
and up again -
cherry blossoms scattering








. WKD : Cherry Blossoms (sakura 桜)  


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Cherry Blossom Album 2007


Just a few meters down from my home ...




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4/21/2007

and sensei

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kendo-ka and sensei
practice a thousand strikes -
black and blue

Hayato Tokugawa


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kyudoka and sensei -
practising a hundred shots
without bow and arrow


the last legacy of my old archery sensei was the best


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. . . . . ARCHERY and HAIKU




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