 autumn downpoor - the new roof drums a new melody  |
| 秋祭り autumn festival - a streak of sunshine on the priest   |
| 撫子や nadeshiko ya  wild carnation - the fragile features of this old courtesan  |
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歌麿の幻の肉筆画「女達磨図」
喜多川歌麿（１７５３～１８０６年）
They found the original of this old courtesan/Daruma
painting by Kitagawa Utamaro !!
Oiran to Daruma 花魁と達磨
Daruma and the Courtesans (geisha)
Carnation, Nelke ... Wild Carnation (nadeshiko)
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| 獣道 kemonomichi  autumn of the badgers ... their narrow road to the deep forest  |
| sunrays cutting through the morning mist - spiders over graves  sunrays cutting through the morning mist - no place for JUX  |
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JUX, or JUXT, an abbreviation often used for juxtaposition, an ingredient for haiku, especially loved by my American friends ...
For my German ear, JUX is something else .. or maybe not ? ??
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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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 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.  |
| 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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 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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