sound of water

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summer evening -
the gentle dripping
from my well



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mukade

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pulling weeds ...
a centipede hides under
the stone Buddha



This Buddha is rather a small statue in a corner of my garden and when I lifted him up to clear away the weeds, there was a huge centipede there, grinning at me !



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The messenger (retainer) of the deity Bishamonten was thought of as a centipede!
Bishamon and the Centipede
Daruma Museum



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rainbow body

spring sunshine - the pure energy of this rainbow body

A rainbow body (Chinese: 虹光身 / 光蘊身; Cantonese: Hong Gworng Sun / Gworng Whun Sun; Tibetan language: Jalü or Jalus (Wylie 'ja' lus ) is a body not made of flesh, but consists of pure light.

Besides secret and unrevealed scriptures, the rainbow body is also mentioned in some Mahayana Sutras, for example, Mahayana Secret Sublime Sutra (大乘密嚴經, Taisho Tripitaka 0681, 0682) says:

They had therefore achieved the Wisdom Concentration, and acquired Mind-Created Bodies, which are adorned with mighty supernatural powers. Such bodies are free of any interspaces, bones, or substances, they are like the sun and the moon, like rainbows, electricity, finest gold, luminous pearls, Sphatikas, Pravadas, Hridaras, Campakas, Pavonine Flowers and Moons, and the images from mirrors.
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My friend send me this beautiful postcard from India.


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Medicine Buddha of Tibet

A very special Daruma from Tibet



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my storehouse burned down-
nothing obstructs my view now
of the bright moon


Masahide, 政秀 Zen poet








the thief left it behind:
the moon
at my window


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first bonfire -
a pregnant spider
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Today we opened the season with the first bonfire outside in the fireplace.


The season is just beginning ...

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Fresh tea and kigo

meditating on a rainy day ... new green tea

The sad truth after the earthquake on March 11, 2011

first tea harvest -
the geiger counter keeps ticking
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kigo for late spring

茶摘み chatsumi, picking tea leaves
茶摘歌 chatsumi uta, song of the tea pickers
chatsumime 茶摘女（ちゃつみめ）girls picking tea
In olden times, girls dressed in special kimono and headgear would go out to pick the tea leaves.
Click HERE to look at photos.
chatsumigasa 茶摘笠（ちゃつみがさ）straw hat of the tea pickers

chatsumikago 茶摘籠（ちゃつみかご）basket for the tea leaves
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te hajime 手始（てはじめ）first picking (of tea leaves)
ichibancha 一番茶（いちばんちゃ）first picked tea
nibancha 二番茶（にばんちゃ）second picked tea
sanbancha 三番茶（さんばんちゃ）third picked tea
yobancha 四番茶（よばんちゃ）fourth picked tea

chayama 茶山（ちゃやま）mountain with tea plants
chayamadoki 茶山時（ちゃやまどき）time to go in the mountain with tea plants (for picking)
chatsumidoki 茶摘時（ちゃつみどき）time for picking (plucking) tea


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more kigo for late spring

seicha 製茶 (せいちゃ ) processing tea leaves
..... chatsukuri, cha tsukuri 茶つくり（ちゃつくり）
chamomi 茶揉み（ちゃもみ）massaging tea leaves
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hoiroba 焙炉場（ほいろば）place for roasting tea leaves
hoiroshi 焙炉師（ほいろし）tea rosting master
cha no ha eri 茶の葉選り（ちゃのはえり）selecting tea leaves


kikicha 聞茶 (ききちゃ ) tasting tea ("listening to tea" )
..... kikicha 利茶（ききちゃ）
kagicha 嗅茶（かぎちゃ）smelling tea
..... kagicha 嚊茶（かぎちゃ）
cha no kokoromi 茶の試み（ちゃのこころみ）testing tea
after the tea leaves are processed, the first tea is tested in the company.


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新茶 shincha, new tea, fresh green tea
Tea Ceremony Saijiki
kigo for early summer


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Daruma san, 達磨さん、
the Indian Monk Bodhidaruma, founder of the Zen sect, practised Zazen for long hours.
When he got sleepy, he cut off his eyelids and threw them away.
Later he found a plant had grown out of them.
He collected the leaves and brewed the first tea
... says the legend.


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tea is a topic in coffee land Yemen.
So I need some kigo to point out when I drink it.
Here we use a tea glass.


the tea glass
warms up farmers' hands -
mountain dew

Heike Gevi
Kigo Hotline


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Shincha (新茶, Shincha), literally "new tea", represents the first month's harvest of Sencha. Over three quarters of all tea produced in Japanese tea gardens is Sencha, a tea selected for its pleasant sharpness and fresh qualities complementing a leaf of high uniformity and rich emerald color. Today Sencha is steam treated before further processing with hot-air drying and finally pan-frying.

Regions: Most regions make a number of kinds of Sencha, which are named according to the kind of processing used. Needle leaf Sencha is processed in Shizuoka and in the Yame region of Fukuoka. In other areas, including Kyushu, the comma-shaped leaf form is processed.

Popularity: Available for a limited time during the first crop of tea it is popular in Japan and is available in only limited amounts outside of it.

Flavor/Aroma: The earliest season Shincha (first month's Sencha harvest) is available in April in the south of Japan, and prized for its high vitamin content, sweetness and superior flavor. The flavour is full, robust, grassy and vegetal with a resinous aroma and minimal astringency.
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菅笠を着て覗き見る茶摘かな
suge-gasa o kite nozoki miru chatsumi kana

Tea-leaf picking:
Trying on her reed kasa,
She gazes in the mirror.


Shikou (1664-1731)
Tr. Blyth


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sanmon o dereba nihon zo chatsumi uta

outside the temple gate
it's Japan again!
song of the tea leaf pickers

. Tagami Kikusha 田上菊舎 .
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妻亡くし一人の夜の新茶かな　　
tsuma nakushi hitori no yo no shincha kana

I lost my wife ...
alone at night I drink
new green tea
Tr. Gabi Greve

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oshiego kara shincha todoku Shizuoka san

from my student
new tea arrives ...
from famous Shizuoka
Tr. Gabi Greve

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Cross-cultural flowers ...

Green tea with milk and sugar ...
Stash Green Chai Spice

Indian Chai is enjoyed in cities and the smallest of villages, and is usually offered to every visitor to a home.
Chai is usually brewed very strong with lots of sugar and milk and often concentrated. Traditional Indian Chai combines rich black tea that is boiled in milk, and flavored with local spices such as sweet cinnamon, sharp clove, penetrating cardamom, and occasionally black peppercorns, pungent ginger and hot red chilies, and sweetened with sugar.
Chai can be both calming and stimulating, encouraging both conversation and relaxation. Stash Green Chai Spice lends a modern twist to the traditional Chai by blending Lung Ching or Dragonwell Chinese green tea with cinnamon, whole cloves, cardamom, ginger root and sarsaparilla. The result is a flavorful and spicy tea that goes well with milk and sugar and may be enjoyed any time of the day.
　© www.stashtea.com/
Thanks to Cat for introducing this beverage!


Read more in my Daruma Museum:
The Old Tea and Horses Road from Yunnan to Lhasa
茶馬古道（ちゃばこどう) Chaba Kodoo

"West Lake Dragon Well" 西湖龍井
Tea from China: Lung Ching, Long Jing


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Daruma Doll and Zazen
座禅のだるまさん


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More Daruma Dolls doing Zazen

These are clay dolls from Nakano.
中野土人形・座禅だるま




Photos from my friend Ishino.


Nakano clay dolls and Daruma

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persimmon leaves

柿若葉　kaki wakaba young persimmon leaves - the old man tries hard to regain his strength young persimmon leaves - the old tree tries hard to regain its strength

In Memory of my Father


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Young leaves (wakaba, Japan)



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summer lake

summer lakes - I look deep down for the words

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- 身に上 - mi no ue -


... my life ...
a sparrow balances
on a thin branch





わが命 小枝にとまる雀かな
waga inochi kozue ni tomaru suzume kana

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WKD - road michi

この道や行く人なしに秋の暮れ this road where no one travelles - autumn dusk Matsuo Basho

道 MICHI . Painting by Higashiyama Kaii
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For Higashiyama, painting was like a prayer. He felt the divine presence in nature and tried to capture it on canvas, just as a Buddhist sculptor feels the divine in a piece of wood and helps it to come alive in a statue.

Because of the exhibition we see a lot of features about Higashiyama these days.


My details are HERE:
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"The way in which the elements of nature are singled out
for sensory consumption is remarkably similar to how a good haiku works."

A look at the spirituality of Kaii Higashiyama
C.B. LIDDELL in the Japan Times, May 2008


There are two primary ways in which art can give a sense of spirituality. One is by portraying religious iconography and spiritual concepts. The other is by fostering a meditative, transcendent feeling in the viewer.

As far as I understand it, the latter type of artistic spirituality, in Western culture, began with the 18th Century European philosophic concept of the Sublime, which in turn influenced the 19th Century American concept of Transcendentalism.

For a discussion of this:
http://www.groveart.com/grove-owned/art/spirituality_public.html

I like Higashiyama Kaii's "The Road" quite a bit, not only for its appeal to emotion, but also for its semi-abstract style. That road is a long, narrow rectangle that simultaneously goes into the landscape's distance, and stays on the plane of the painting's surface.

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kono michi ya yuku hito nashi ni aki no kure

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一本の道を微笑の金魚売　　
ippon no michi o mishoo no kingyo uri

a goldfish seller
with a smile
on this straight road

　　　　　　　　　
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spring mud -
the bumpy road ahead
for Japan

Gabi Greve, March 11, 2011

. Japan - after the BIG earthquake . 　

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The word road (michi), just like that, is a topic for haiku.
The same holds for

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muddy road
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on bends in the road,
the sound of rolling potatoes
from the trunk

- Shared by Tomislav Maretic -
Joys of Japan, 2012


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observance kigo for early autumn

bon michi 盆路 (ぼんみち) road for O-Bon
bonmichi zukuri 盆路作り（ぼんみちづくり）making a Bon-road
tsuitachi michi 朔日路（ついたちみち）road on the first day
shooryoomichi 精霊路（しょうりょうみち）road for the souls
michikari 路刈り（みちかり）cutting grass along the road
michinagi 路薙ぎ（みちなぎ） cleaning the road

In preparation for the arrival of the souls of the ancestors.
It used to be the first day of the seventh lunar month, now in August 1.
The roads along the graveyard are cleaned.




. Bon Festival, O-Bon, Obon お盆 .


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summer visitors ...
the mind cluttered
with trivia






Golden Week in Japan,
public holidays from April 29 to May 6 ...

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Do we need to make a special effort
to enjoy the beauty of the blue sky?
Do we have to practice to be able to enjoy it?

No, we just enjoy it.
Each second, each minute of our lives
can be like this.
Wherever we are, any time,
we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine,
the presence of each other,
even the sensation of our breathing.

We don't need to go to China to enjoy the blue sky.
We don't have to travel into the future
to enjoy our breathing.
We can be in touch with these things right now.

Thich Nhat Hanh







the blue sky
and a deep breath ...
just enjoy it



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quality for my day

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Sometimes during the day,
I consciously focus on some ordinary
object and allow myself a momentary "paying-attention."

This paying-attention gives meaning to my life.
I don't know who it was, but someone said
that careful attention paid to anything
is a window into the universe.

Pausing to think this way,
even for a brief moment, is very important.
It gives quality to my day.

Robert Fulghum







pausing
to write haiku ...
quality to my day


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Road to Izumo

Momiji in Spring: Red Dragon Branches dragon branches all in red ... another spring

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I invite you to join me on a trip along the
Old Road to Izumo ... Izumo Kaido

............... On the road to Mikamo

Keep going for the NEXT station of the road.

Enjoy the Cherry Blossoms of Mikamo and Shinjo Village
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Spring Festival

procession of the children procession of the 25 Bodhisattvas starts Bosatsu with a flute spring ceremony - he leads his Buddha by the hand

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Tanjo-Ji Neirkuyo 誕生時　練り供養

Procession of the 25 Bodhisattvas in honour of the parents of Saint Honen Shonin, who was born here.

The masks do not provide much vision for the wearer, so eack Bosatsu is trusting its leader on the way. It is a special honour to be choosen as one of the 25 each year.

The Amida Prayer 　Namu Amida Butsu was chanted the whole day via loudspeakers in the temple compound.



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. Temple Tanjo-Ji ant Saint Honen


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