daikon radish

大根を干す古農家ここにあり daikon o hosu furu nooka koko ni ari drying radishes at the old farmhouse - thus is my valley ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo Our Valley in a sudden sunbeam

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Less and less folk bother to dry the radishes themselves, since it is so much easier to buy them at the local store ...



Look at my short windy walk ALBUM.




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icecold morning -
the wonderous warmth
of Mozart melodies


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winter storm

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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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.. ONE .. TWO .. THREE ..
a winter day spent
studying basics



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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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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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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



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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
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O Kentucky cluck---
the bird with a snow white beard
makes dinner cozy

Patrick Duffey
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refreshing rain -
I count my blessings
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We have not had a decent drop of rain in quite a while!



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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



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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



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Aah, but a prayer always rises !
or
Leaves saying prayers?

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Temple Tanjo-Ji

autumn deepens - the unfettered beauty of this Amida temple autumn deepens - the beauty of prayer in stone DRAGON BRANCHES Amida Buddha

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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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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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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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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."

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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)


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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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cold winter wind
passing through
the day moon

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day moon --
a passing eagle blocks
my observation

Caxton Okoth, Nairobi


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