counting shadows

clear water of autumn - counting shadows counting fish

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Join me on a slide show of Lake Okutsu .
(36 photos)
Slide Show, take your time to enjoy!



Water clears (mizu sumu) Water in Autumn (aki no mizu)


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Gabi
the first haiku in particular is just wonderful!
I couldn't resist sharing it with my esperantist friends:


aŭtuna lumo klara
nombranta ombrojn
nombranta fiŝojn

tr. Darlington

Hajko en Esperanto

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different faces

autumn walk ... each leaf shows a different face

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autumn quilt

autumn colors - I remember mother's favorite quilt ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo

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. Autumn Leaves (momiji, kooyoo 紅葉)
yellow leaves, colored leaves


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chrysanthemum dew

chrysanthemum dew - I sip a bit of long life

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. . . Chrysanthemum Dew and Longevity




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deck chair

Sunshine the whole day, but the days are getting shorter. In the early evening a cold wind takes over. We have to be early for our daily valley watch. And sometimes we have this pleasant surprise at the bottom ... autumn evening - the lingering warmth of this old deck chair

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CLICK for Sanyo Shinbun Newspaper Article.

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A friend has commented:

Nice one, Gabi.
Do you need the dash?

Good question, indeed I do.

Coming from a traditional Japanese haiku background, I am used to a kireji, a cut marker, which is visible in Japanese and a cherished ingredient in traditional haiku.
Right now, NHK is featuring a session of 24 lessons within two years about the CUT and the CUT MARKERS!


You might read more about it here
http://haikutopics.blogspot.com/2006/06/kireji.html

I try to keep the three requirements for a traditional Japanese haiku

5-7-5 (make this short long short in English)
one season word (kigo) and
one cut marker.

kire 　切　means CUT
kireji 　切字　means CUT MARKER



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moss kigo

山寺の　苔に隠れし　祈り哉 mountain temple - a prayer overgrown with moss

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Comments from friends:

hi gabi
i like the image you portray here, quite serene

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I like the ku and the associations, Gabi. ... 'overgrown' is good and literal in context of your photo, where the 'prayer' is most likely written rather than spoken or thought.

...'overtaken by moss' would be an alternative that would add a humorous note ..but perhaps only to those who share my sense of humour.

My goodness...someone has gone and crocheted a little hot pink beanie for that statue and popped a baby's bib on it, too! What an odd contrast.

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i like this haiku (and the photo) very much!

the haiku tells in a very interesting way about time (the present, the past, about lifetime, about history...)

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Hi, Gabi San, I loved the photo and the haiku -- "a prayer overgrown with moss", no matter how objective here, is also a great metaphor. "Overgrown" is not past tense, but passive (the moss does the action, not the prayer) and there's nothing wrong in using it.

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Gabi, nothing to say about your fine haiku, except "Well done."

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Delightful, Gabi!
I enjoyed the haiku, the photo, the info and the conversation...
an interesting thread!

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Gorgeous haiku, Gabi -
I really like how instructional you are with your haiku. I learn much by reading the links you provide - keep it up! Again, wonderful, visual haiku.

AHA


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MOSS as KIGO



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Good Morning

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Billie Dee did the arrangements !
Here is my original photo and haiku.

Thank you, Billie !




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violet chrysanthemum

good morning ! she nodds in the autumn sunshine shadows in the flower heart - her outstreched arms

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October 31

rather cold asters reach toward the morning sun ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo dew on the petals

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Chianti GREVE

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cheers ...
to the best name
I could wish for






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A spiritual journey through the Greve in Chianti community is aimed at gaining greater knowledge of the development of religious art in a land strongly marked with a human presence and attention to the different forms of devotion that intimately penetrate all the social strata; not only priceless works of architecture, sculpture and art that are found in the most important worship buildings, but also numerous evidences of a relatively minor art that is traceable everwhere, from the isolated chapel in the forest, to the remote crosses on the top of the knolls and hills, to the votive tabernacles scattered along the road network.

Following a route on a quest to discover these works is of extreme interest and the variety of settlements would entail a longer account; we confine ourselves to suggesting two main routes, one across the valley of Greve, and the other along the ridge that separate it from the Valdarno (on the east) and from the valley of Pesa (val di Pesa) (on the west).

VAL DI GREVE / Greve Valley in Italy Toscana, Tuscany



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autumn sunshine

autumn sunshine - flowers, a butterfly and my lazy cat

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Yesterday was the Autumn Haiku Marathon at NHK.
More than 5000 haiku offered within five hours. About 100 discussed during this time. Inahata Teiko and Kaneko Tohta at their best again !

Here is one lesson I learned, more to follow.


State the setting with a suitable kigo and show the actors only. No verb is used in this case.

For example:

withered fields -
father, son and
an old dog



Introducing NHK Haiku


Click HERE to look at the participants.
第35回 列島縦断俳句スペシャル-



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Misty Morning

GokuRakuAn in the morning mist Ancestors Graves Susuki Grass Wilderness

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small life

in the jungle down at the bottom - small life ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo sheltering so much small life - graves of the ancestors

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Here the photo of the spider lilies provides the KIGO for the composition.



Higanbana, the spider lilies for the ancestors


visiting graves, hakamairi, is another kigo for autumn, related to the O-Bon ceremonies.



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dewdrops and spiderwebs

misty morning - almost forgot to get the newspaper dewdrops golden rod Spider Net ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo spider net this spider net hanging in mid air - just for me ?

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kigo for autumn

pampas grass, susuki 芒 (すすき) 薄
[Miscanthus sinensis]

flowering pampas grass, hana susuki 花芒 (はなすすき)


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autumn walk

just one leaf by the roadside - where is the rest ? ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo

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