Hatsuyuki

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hatsuyuki ya　 初雪や


first snow ...
two crow families fight
for a place in the sky



first snow
on red leaves ...
global warming




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A cold spell has gripped Japan, much too early for the season.
Daily high not above 5 degrees centigrade ...

and a cover of white on the red leaves and the yellow gingko !



And these crows are constantly "barking" in the sky, chasing each other, fighting for a space to stay in our valley

November 19, 2008


The cold spell continues, white morning again today, yesterday was a warm plus four centigrade ...
November 20, 2008



. WKD : first snow, hatsu yuki 初雪 .


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new start

a new start with my new cup of tea ... Daruma cofee

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WASHOKU : Japanese Food Culture


The German Food Book project is done with ...
gone with the wind and the recession ...



BLACK COFFEE WITH DARUMA


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orchids

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after my birthday ...
the orchids bend
backwards



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NOVEMBER 3
happy 60




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echizen kurage

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Echizen kurage ...
a monster tamed with
miso paste







Checking about Washoku ...
the Echizen kurage are huge jellyfish at the coast of Echizen, lately bringing much harm to the local fishernets because of their enormous numbers and sheer size ...


And yes ...
if you have lemons, make lemonade, so the locals made it ...
chopped finely and eaten with a mix of miso paste and salted plum paste.

Enjoy Japanese Food, Culture and Haiku !
http://washokufood.blogspot.com/2008/05/fukui.html




Echizen kurage 越前水母（えちぜんくらげ)
kigo for all summer
. WKD : Jellyfish (kurage) and related KIGO 　



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momijigari

counting momiji counting my blessings further up the mountains over the pass to Koshihata the smith's house CLICK for enlargement

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Best take the slide show in the photo album

Lake Okutsu

Koshihata Village



Temple Entsuji









. "hunting for red leaves" momijigari
紅葉狩 (もみじがり) .


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keeping alive

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keeping the body alive ...
what a burden for
the soul



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sea of clouds

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sea of clouds ...
mountain tops red
valley still green




This morning, the sea of clouds folds like a white blanket inbetween the red leaves in the early sunshine and the green bottom of the valley.



mountain tops red
sea of clouds ...
valley still green


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Do not expect perfection

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Don’t expect perfection and things to go
the way you want them to
when it comes to people, business,
your prospects, and your social life.

When things don’t go
according to your desires,
when the weather of life is foul,
be creative and consider
what may be the higher reasons
why this is happening and
why you must adjust.

Perhaps it’s to gain forbearance,
patience, inner strength, flexibility,
or the ability to withhold criticism
while serving as a loving model.

Michael Goddart




the weather of life
reaches you ...
your haiku life


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More of my
quotes with haiku


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Sacred Circle Mandalas

Sacred Circle Mandalas: AFTER THE STORM



after the rain ...
the last raindrop
still hangs on


Look at the PHOTO on the LINK given above.
GABI


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dream

autumn morning ... the four sleepers still in my dream

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四睡図 / 黙庵霊淵

Original
The Four Sleepers
attr. to Mokuan Reien, 14 C. Muromachi



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murmur of waves

autumn equinox ... the murmur of waves slowly changes

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namakokabe

autumn flowers ... the white walls of this old postal town ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: autumn colors ... soft jazz from an open window ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: closed doors ... a faint smell of miso soup

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LOOK
My visit to Katsuyama, Autumn 2008


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namakokabe　海鼠壁
Also written 生子壁
A traditional finish for *dozou-zukuri 土蔵造 and *ookabe-zukuri 大壁造 walls, devised to protect the vulnerable surface of the plaster from damage caused, in particular, by water. The wall surface is covered with rectangular flat tiles, *hiragawara 平瓦, held in position by nails, generally one at each corner of the tile, but sometimes passing through one more holes in the tile.

The interstices, meji 目地, between the tiles are then covered with fine plaster, *shikkui 漆喰, mounded up into a semicircular cross section, and modelled with great care to attain total regularity of form. It was from a resemblance perceived between the protective strips of plaster, designed to keep the water out, and the sea slug, namako 海鼠, that earned this wall-finishing technique its name.

The technique seems to have originated among the warrior elite and was first used in the early Edo period on the *nagaya 長屋 that surrounded warrior mansions, buke yashiki 武家屋敷. By the latter half of the Edo period, namakokabe were being widely used for vernacular houses, particularly on fireproof storehouses, *dozou 土蔵 and the walls of urban vernacular houses, *machiya 町家, and their outbuildings.

Geographically, it was most prominent in parts of western Japan, notably the San'in 山陰 and Sanyou 山陽 areas of western Honshuu 本州 and Shikoku 四国, and, from the 19c, further east, in the Izu 伊豆 peninsula. A considerable variety of design motifs were employed. In what are believed to have been the earliest types the tiles are simply set in straight horizontal rows with the joints of the different courses either aligned, (umanori meji 馬乗り目地) or staggered, (imomeji 芋目地). These did not shed water well, and soon deteriorated, so other patterns were tried, notably shihanbari 四半貼り, in which the tiles were hung diagonally, forming a lozenge or diamond-like pattern.

This pattern was the most efficient at shedding water and soon became the most common, though a range of still more decorative motifs were also developed, such as the *shippoumon 七宝文. When the nails were passed through holes in the tiles, circular blobs of plaster were used to cover their heads, thus creating another geometrical pattern.
source : JAANUS



. shakan, sakan 左官 plasterer, stucco master .
and shikkui　漆喰 lime plaster for the walls


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. WKD : namako 海鼠 sea cucumber, sea slug .
kigo for all winter


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frog on rose

watering plants ... my frog takes his shower on a red rose

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My Karl the Froggie 　　.. 蛙とカラー

..... Frog in Buddha's Eye 仏の目にカール君




Thank you, Terry, for the arrangement!



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kigo for roses in all seasons

. Rose (bara 薔薇) .




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lunch outside

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lunch outside ...
a little bee explores
my salted plum



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autumn deepens

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autumn deepens ...
a mosquitoe floats
in my bathtub



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This haiku has two kigo.

One is strong, autumn.
One is weak, mosquito for all summer, since we encounter this animal in other seasons too.
In that case the two kigo do not collide.


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Gabi,
I am always fearful of using two kigo in a haiku because I don't know how. It helps a little that you have characterized these as 'strong' and 'weak', and that 'mosquito' is the weak kigo because one can find these insects in other seasons. ???
Could you speak to this a little more?
L.


Answer
... this was part of the teaching of Hasekawa Kai sensei the other day on NHK. Other sensei often say the same.

One kigo is of course best, but since the situation sometimes calls for more than one, like my friend in the bathtub this morning, there is no harm done to be true to the situation.

If you follow my own link, there is a bit from Bill Higginson about the use of two kigo, along the same lines. He uses the word DOMINANT for the strong one.

To be on the safe side,
only use one kigo in your own haiku and
enjoy the ones with two by the master poets ...

is another piece of advise I often hear in Japan.

Gabi


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Mosquitoes are best in summer in Japan. Now, as autumn deepens, even they get weaker and once in a while I find one in my bathtub (this never happens in summer).
So they show me the cycle of life during the seasons and I use two kigo here, one for my moment in the bathtub and one for the flow of the seasons in the life of the animal.

They remind me that for all of us the end comes when the circle of our life energy is completed.


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