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Ryokan sweeping fallen leaves



waiting for guests ...
I sweep the path again
and again







. Ryokan san and Tamashima Daruma 　


. Ryokan Memorial Day 　



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Sweeping the mental path, polishing the dustless mirror ... the daily zen activities ...


And with the autumn leaves now falling, sweeping is a real activity. Checking for the most beautiful to entertain the visitors, sweeping, bowing down, looking at autumn colors, sweeping a bit more.

When all is clean, turn around, just to see another leaf fallen on the path ...


Ryokan with his broom ... my good friend ! Click on the little photo above.

sweeping the leaves
with a broom like old Jittoku -
again and again

Fallen Leaves and Jittoku


Kanzan and Jittoku 寒山拾得

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Zen Patriarch Xiangyen Zhixian experiences enlightenment while sweeping

Kanō Motonobu 狩野元信 Kano Motonobu (1476–1559)
kyoogen kyakuchiku 香巌撃竹

Kyōgen Chikan 香嚴智閑
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. . hatsubooki 初箒（はつぼうき）first (use of the) broom .
hakizome 掃初 (はきぞめ) first cleaning
... fukihajime 拭始（ふきはじめ）beginning to clean
... hatsusooji 初掃除（はつそうじ）
kigo for the New Year


. WKD - Ryokan Memorial Day . 　

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. hooki 箒 / ほうき Hoki, broom, Besen .
hookishi 箒師 making brooms in Edo
hookiya 箒屋 vendor of brooms

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Nature is great 大自然　daishizen






namu amida
sunshine is my friend
drought is my friend


nature is great
rain is my friend
typhoon is my friend


namu amida
life is my friend
death is my friend







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Higanbana

higanbana - finally you show your beautiful face HIGANBANA flowers for the autumn equinox this year they are more than two weeks later than usual. The ricefields, where they present a beautiful red frame to the yellow fields, are already cut and brown.

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Spider Lilies, cluster amaryllis (higanbana, manjushage) KIGO



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Dragonfly teacup

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teabreak -
a dragonfly hovers
over my cup



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She seemed quite to enjoy her little "steam bath"!


Dragonfly, a KIGO



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Woodpeckers

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these rotten trees ...
the woodpecker family
works overtime



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Many trees are rotting away here in our woods around the house. Maybe the typhoon of two years ago is finally showing its results as the half-uprooted trees struggle to survive. Or the tons of chemicals in the fields around the wood ...


This morning their frentic knock knock knock woke us up rather early ...




My WOODPECKER haiku !


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Shaka with beard

秋深し　髭をはやしたる　石仏 meditation - even the Stone Buddha is growing a beard

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The Beard is ...
minomushi, "straw raincoat bug" a KIGO for haiku !



Maybe some remember him
with a KARL in his eye ... !

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Greetings, Gabi
I love this stone buddha. i remember that photo of it with the frog in its eye. and now to see the same buddha with a minomushi (bagworm) on its beard is so very funny. i'm so glad you shared your friend's wonderful humor :)
hugs, B.


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Mold

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mold on the tile ...
a spider walks out
of its hiding



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It is still very hot and quite humid, and the bathtiles cover with mold spots over night. This morning again, on a speck of mold, suddenly a small spider started to walk away from it. I had not noticed him/her in the gray spot at all ... perfect incognito !



MORE
Spiders in My Paradise 。。極楽の蜘蛛




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mushrooms

three little mushrooms - the way to heaven still so-o far drei kleine Pilze - der Weg zum Himmel noch soooo weit

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My local Shinto Shrine
一宮神社 Ichi no Miya Jinja


Mushrooms (kinoko) KIGO




Enjoy my SEPTEMBER 2007 haiku !



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roses and weeds

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lonely roses -
the bees and the butterflies
go for the weeds!


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Especially now in autumn, they seem to find all the small little flowers of my many weeds ...

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A really good haiku, Gabi.
:) Zhanna


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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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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
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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.")

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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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