Fudo Myo-O

checking the mirror - the wrinkles of Fudo Myo-O

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My special friend !
O-Fudo-Sama, Fudo Myo-O




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autumn wind

秋風に吹かれて笑う地蔵かな akikaze ni fukarete warau Jizoo kana his smiling face in the autumn wind - Little Jizoo blown by autumn wind he is simply smiling ... the little wayside god

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The first fresh breeze after a hot day, finally!
Autumn is here in my valley!
It is a feeling of joy and relief that the hot and humid summer is over,
but
on the other side, it is a reminder of harder times to come soon, winter looming ...

akikaze, wind of autumn, carries a lot of meaning ...



Wind in various KIGO !


Jizoo Bosatsu (Kshitigarbha) 地蔵菩薩 and haiku




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dreaming butterflies

dreaming to be reborn in paradise ... winter butterflies

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Chuang Tzu dreamed that he was a butterfly.
All day long, he floated on the breeze
Without a thought of who he was or where he was going.

When he awoke, Chuang Tzu became confused.

"Am I a Man”, he thought, "who dreamed that I was a butterfly?
Or am I butterfly, dreaming that I am a man?
Perhaps my whole waking life is but a moment in a butterfly's dream!.

This is a story of transformation."

Butterfly and Haiku


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Thanks to carol raisfeld for the inspiration !
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Winter butterfly, a KIGO


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Early Morning

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autumn morning -
a whiff of perfume from
last night's dream




morning fog -
a heron fades in
.... fades out



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On my way uphill to the mailbox, in splendid white invisibility ...

This heron, first his voice in the void, then the sound of wings, then a swish of body, sound of wings, voice in the void ..


How many haiku have been written about this cliché ? I wonder ..
And yet, when it happens, it is breathtaking !



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. Heron (aosagi) Egret (shirasagi) . 　　





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Sea of Clouds

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my sea of clouds -
so many friends left
in memories




for the friends of the Haiku Hut !


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another fine autumn morning at GokuRakuaAn.

Sea of Clouds 秋の雲海、2005　Autumn




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Globalization

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globalization -
he serves the sushi fish
on french bread


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I am talking about Japanese food here, not Haiku !


click the smiley, grin ...


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This kind of SUSHI is maybe my own invention.

Since my husband's diet is without rice in the evening, we started placing the delicious sushi fish cuts from the local store on french bread ... and well ... it tastes great. I love the red caviar (ikura) best!


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Gabi, to me sushi means fish, which makes the word "fish" redundant.
But I may be wrong. (I do prefer the rhythm without "fish.")

a friend

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Dear friend

here is Japan, they put a lot of things on sushi rice (rice cooked with vinegar, sumeshi 酢飯), maybe I can pick up the details up later ...

cucumbers or aubergines or other vegetable, sorts of omelette and egg stuff (they cook it with a bit of sugar, it is a wee bit sweet)

raw chicken or raw horse meet (yes!!) with lots of wasabi for the faint of heart ...

other types of seafood of any kind like mussles and shripms ... and so on.




We usually buy an item called .. cut fish pieces for sushi rice .. at a special fish store and put it on the french bread, my husband is on a diet, but we do without most of the other ingredients.

Enjoy Japanese food and Japanese culture and Haiku on the sideline !

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Thanks for the information, Gabi.
To New Yorkers "sushi" means pretty much a way of preparing raw fish.
But, then, to New Yorkers, "haiku" means a light or humorous verse arranged in three lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables, e. g., "Haikus for Jews," "Haikus for Gays," "Haiku U."


The Conclusion of this discussion:
Raw Fish: Sashimi and Sushi

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And, Gabi, American definitions of "haiku" are still another story.
Your friend

... ... agreed, agreed, my dear American friend!


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Incense

burning incense - the different smell of the last puff show me the secret of your smell - last puff of incense

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Incense, a topic for haiku !



Before you start worrying, the above poem is not a haiku (no kigo) and not a senryu (no irony or humour).
It is simply a zappai 雑俳 in my Japanese classification sceme.



KIGO HOTLINE
Incense, a topic for haiku ??? A discussion begins ...




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Haiku Hut

summer's end - a new beginning at Haiku Hut

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http://www.haikuhut.com/

http://www.michaelrehling.com/



I will dedicate this page to you, Mike san, it was inspired from comments in the HH!

END OF A SEASON and related KIGO !

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summer's end

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my summer's end
"you are going to need
a hearing aid"


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Haiku are best with a kigo, just one of them.

Season coming to an end many related kigo !



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Alzheimer

autumn with alzheimer - she breaks the bread .. ... .. carefully

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World Alzheimer's Day
September 21




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crows

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early morning -
the crows are discussing
ripe persimmons



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and they do that right on my rooftop!



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Furu Ike Ya

a hot pond - and then he jumps in, the naked human

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. my PHOTO ALBUM .


At a Hot Spring in Northern Japan, 20 years ago ...
It was destructed much later in an earthquake and has now been reconstructed, in a modern fashion ...



Some older Japanese reference



comment from a friend:
... your haiku demonstrates a good use of punctuation, something that's hard for me to know when to use in one.
Thanks.

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古池や蛙飛び込む水の音
furuike ya kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto

. mizu no oto 水の音 - discussion .



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Morning Fogg

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whiteout ... and then
the fogg dissolves
in pure sunshine




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The first view from my window was a pure white ... absolutely NOTHING to be seen !




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Cat on roof

summer's end - my cat still high on the hot tin roof

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She is trying to catch some of the crows which sit on the topmost gables.
This was the first time we saw her up there ... wondering about the way back down ... but she made it.




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Persimmon leaf

柿落葉　気温はまだ　三十二 kaki ochiba kion wa mada sanjuu ni 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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