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winter storm -
the shadow of my windwheel
turns faster
We are in the warm kitchen, with a spotlight outside to brighten our dinner table vista!
And tonight it was spectacular.
First the old badger waggled his way along his footpath on the hill.
Then gusts of wind worked their miracle on the shadows.
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12/14/2007
12/13/2007
Numbers in Haiku
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.. ONE .. TWO .. THREE ..
a winter day spent
studying basics
Numbers used in Haiku
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.. ONE .. TWO .. THREE ..
a winter day spent
studying basics
Numbers used in Haiku
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12/11/2007
Treasures
| 落葉道 宝の宝庫 なりにけり  fallen leaves and among them fallen treasures  |
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Fallen leaves (ochiba) ： KIGO
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12/09/2007
Winter Walk
 winter walk - I still see flowers on my way  so bright and orange - late persimmons to share with the crows   one last second - susuki grass and my roof  and then the clouds cover it all - winter shadows ! |
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Take the SLIDE SHOW, 21 photos !
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Fast Food
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I have this situation (seen on TV a few days ago about food wasted in fast food outlets of Japan ...)
cold winter eve -
a homeless heads
for KFC's backdoor
and just this morning we read in the Japan times about Mitsubishi taking over Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan:
Trading house Mitsubishi Corp. said Saturday that it successfully completed a friendly takeover of Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan Ltd., which owns more than 1,500 KFC and Pizza Hut restaurants around the country.
Mitsubishi said it plans to make the restaurant operator one of its subsidiaries.
Profit growth at KFC Japan has been sluggish because of intense competition in Japan's fast food market, rising material prices and hefty investments in systems operations.
© The Associated Press
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20071209a1.html
..... My inspirations is from HERE :
Haiku Information Board
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still air in winter--
Kentucky Fried Chicken smell
all the more pungent!
Larry Bole
Kigo Hotline, 2008
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colonel sanders -
haiku elvis
incognito
Susan Nelson Myers
source : my facebook friends
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O Kentucky cluck---
the bird with a snow white beard
makes dinner cozy
Patrick Duffey
source : my facebook friends
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. Homeless, fast food and Haiku
. WASHOKU - Japanese Food Culture .
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I have this situation (seen on TV a few days ago about food wasted in fast food outlets of Japan ...)
cold winter eve -
a homeless heads
for KFC's backdoor
and just this morning we read in the Japan times about Mitsubishi taking over Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan:
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Trading house Mitsubishi Corp. said Saturday that it successfully completed a friendly takeover of Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan Ltd., which owns more than 1,500 KFC and Pizza Hut restaurants around the country.
Mitsubishi said it plans to make the restaurant operator one of its subsidiaries.
Profit growth at KFC Japan has been sluggish because of intense competition in Japan's fast food market, rising material prices and hefty investments in systems operations.
© The Associated Press
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20071209a1.html
..... My inspirations is from HERE :
Haiku Information Board
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still air in winter--
Kentucky Fried Chicken smell
all the more pungent!
Larry Bole
Kigo Hotline, 2008
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colonel sanders -
haiku elvis
incognito
Susan Nelson Myers
source : my facebook friends
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O Kentucky cluck---
the bird with a snow white beard
makes dinner cozy
Patrick Duffey
source : my facebook friends
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. Homeless, fast food and Haiku
. WASHOKU - Japanese Food Culture .
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12/07/2007
Refreshing rain
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refreshing rain -
I count my blessings
as it falls
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We have not had a decent drop of rain in quite a while!
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refreshing rain -
I count my blessings
as it falls
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We have not had a decent drop of rain in quite a while!
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12/04/2007
sacred tree
 sacred gingko tree - a prayer falls with every leaf  the huge trunk with the sacred rope  sacred gingko tree - how many tears have you witnessed ? |
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As I was standing below this old, huge tree, camera poised upward, there was all of a sudden a strong sweep of wind and all these leaves kept dancing around me, rustling down with a thousand strange voices, each one saying its own prayer ...
a sacred moment and so unexpected
sacred gingko tree-
each leaf rustles a prayer
as it falls
this is maybe a bit too long ?
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Read about my visit to
Temple Tanjo-Ji, Okayama
The Sacred Gingko Tree of Saint Honin !
It is more than 800 years old.
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銀杏散る遠くに風の 音すれば
ichoo chiru tooku ni kaze no oto sureba
scattering gingko leaves
faint sound from the wind
far away
Tomiyasu Fusei (1885 - 1979)
Gingko biloba tree : KIGO Japan
TREES as topic for haiku !
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Aah, but a prayer always rises !
or
Leaves saying prayers?
Faith and prayer, expressed in haiku
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12/01/2007
Temple Tanjo-Ji
 autumn deepens - the unfettered beauty of this Amida temple  autumn deepens - the beauty of prayer in stone  DRAGON BRANCHES  Amida Buddha  |
LOOK
Temple Tanjo-Ji, ALBUM November 2007
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Temple Tanjo-Ji in my neighbourhood
Temple Tanjo-Ji in Okayama
Saint Honen was born here !
Saint Honen, born at this temple ..
by Gabi Greve
Joodo Paradise where we meet again ..
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***** pickled radish, takuanzuke 沢庵漬
kigo for all winter
..... Takuan was a famous Zen Priest, who invented this dish. It is very popular. Zen monks are supposed to eat their slices of Takuan radish without making any noise. There are usually two slices on the plate, used to carefully clear out the bolws afer eating and then munching the Takuan in silence.
If you want to know the secret of eating Takuan in silence, contact me :o) !
The Unfettered Mind. by Takuan Soho
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11/29/2007
suspended leaf
| like this leaf suspended in mid-air - namu amida butsu  一枚の落ち葉のごとし南無阿弥陀 南無阿弥陀仏 |
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南無阿弥陀仏
Namu Amida Butsu, the Amida Prayer
Click on the leaf !
It must have been caught in some spiders net, but as you can see, it is clearly FREE !
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Persimmon Hiroshige
 persimmon tree - Hiroshige hangs in the branches    |
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. Hiroshige Ki 広重忌 Hiroshige Memorial Day .
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11/26/2007
in the distance
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early winter morning
somewhere in the distance
my husband still snores ...
Translation from Sakuo Nakamura
初冬朝
どこか遠くで
背のいびき
shotoo asa
dokoka tooku de
se no ibiki
Explanation of SE as Husband
Japanese
Thank you, Sakuo san!
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early winter morning
somewhere in the distance
my husband still snores ...
Translation from Sakuo Nakamura
初冬朝
どこか遠くで
背のいびき
shotoo asa
dokoka tooku de
se no ibiki
Explanation of SE as Husband
Japanese
Thank you, Sakuo san!
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11/25/2007
River Crossing
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女一人僧一人雪の渡し哉
onna hitori soo hitori yuki no watashi kana
one woman
one monk - river crossing
in the snow
Naitoo Meisetsu 内藤鳴雪
Tr. Gabi Greve
This reminds me of the Zen story
Monk carrying Woman across the River
Two traveling monks reached a river where they met a young woman. Wary of the current, she asked if they could carry her across. One of the monks hesitated, but the other quickly picked her up onto his shoulders, transported her across the water, and put her down on the other bank. She thanked him and departed.
As the monks continued on their way, the one was brooding and preoccupied. Unable to hold his silence, he spoke out.
"Brother, our spiritual training teaches us to avoid any contact with women, but you picked that one up on your shoulders and carried her!"
"Brother," the second monk replied,
"I set her down on the other side,
while you are still carrying her."
Zen Stories
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From a discussion about haiku
a friend remarked :
..... the 'form/ technique' are the banks
that allow the river to flow.
The river could be the poem/ the creation/ the spirit.
Gabi wrote
I like the image of a river, that whirls and swirls ...
but in the end, if it looses its "banks",
ends up in the ocean of "short form poetry".
And we exchanged some quotes:
Creativity is the art of taking a fresh look at old knowledge
John E. Arnold
No man ever steps in the same river twice,
for it's not the same river
and he's not the same man.
Heraclitus of Ephesus (c. 535 – c. 475 BCE)
. Joys of Japan - 2012 .
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女一人僧一人雪の渡し哉
onna hitori soo hitori yuki no watashi kana
one woman
one monk - river crossing
in the snow
Naitoo Meisetsu 内藤鳴雪
Tr. Gabi Greve
This reminds me of the Zen story
Monk carrying Woman across the River
Two traveling monks reached a river where they met a young woman. Wary of the current, she asked if they could carry her across. One of the monks hesitated, but the other quickly picked her up onto his shoulders, transported her across the water, and put her down on the other bank. She thanked him and departed.
As the monks continued on their way, the one was brooding and preoccupied. Unable to hold his silence, he spoke out.
"Brother, our spiritual training teaches us to avoid any contact with women, but you picked that one up on your shoulders and carried her!"
"Brother," the second monk replied,
"I set her down on the other side,
while you are still carrying her."
Zen Stories
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From a discussion about haiku
a friend remarked :
..... the 'form/ technique' are the banks
that allow the river to flow.
The river could be the poem/ the creation/ the spirit.
Gabi wrote
I like the image of a river, that whirls and swirls ...
but in the end, if it looses its "banks",
ends up in the ocean of "short form poetry".
And we exchanged some quotes:
Creativity is the art of taking a fresh look at old knowledge
John E. Arnold
No man ever steps in the same river twice,
for it's not the same river
and he's not the same man.
Heraclitus of Ephesus (c. 535 – c. 475 BCE)
. Joys of Japan - 2012 .
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. Koan and Haiku 公案と俳句 .
Read more of my Musings about ZEN and Haiku
Read my Haiku Archives
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11/21/2007
Day Moon
| day moon - the clock has stopped ticking  day moon - he looks for satori in the "wrong" direction |
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For a friend at the Zen Temple Sogen-Ji (Soogen-Ji 曹源寺) in Okayama.
Morning Dewdrops of the Mind
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satori, Japanese for what is usually translated as "enlightenment in Zen".
I find the word .. enlightenment .. too long here in the haiku, it disturbs the smooth reading for me, so I use the Japanese.
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I wondered if the quotes add anything, although it's occurring to me that maybe it's a way to point out that "wrong" is sometimes a matter of perception...
Gabi
indeed, "right" and "wrong" ... they should be in quotation marks at any time ! to make us humans stop and remember who made these decisions ... grin ...
Is the sunshine right or wrong ?
Is the moonshine right or wrong ?
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ZEN and HAIKU
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Nature Echoes Haiku Series
Robert Wilson and Vaughn Seward
cold winter wind
passing through
the day moon
etsuko yanagibori
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day moon --
a passing eagle blocks
my observation
Caxton Okoth, Nairobi
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11/20/2007
autumn walk
| 大垪和や 棚田の夕日 ココにある  My Home Ohaga ! sunset in the rice terraces all here |
Look at my OHAGA Sunset !
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11/19/2007
spider sunbeams
| aki fukashi 秋深し  autumn deepens - my spider still weaves sunbeams  |
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I have been observing HIM for quite a few weeks now, hanging in mid-air down from the roof. It must be a HIM, withstanding some rather strong gales and the first frost this morning ...
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Spiders ... (kumo, Japan) Spider web, Cob web. Spinne
Autumn deepens (aki fukashi) Japan.
Basho's famous haiku translations
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