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samusa ni mo
hodo ga aru ya
juunigatsu
It was minus 6 centigrade this morning
and a daily high of .. well, just one degree centigrade
and one more day like this to come ...
very unusual for the season, to say the least ...
December 7 ...
the cold goes on
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12/06/2008
12/01/2008
Moon Venus Jupiter
   whow and behold ! a special performance in the sky |
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Jupiter, Venus, Moon are coming closer -
The waxing crescent moon and blazing planet Jupiter
Throughout November, Venus will be climbing upward toward Jupiter,
MORE information
My neighbour called twon nights ago to ask if I had seen the aliens which where aiming their spotlights at our valley!
The two planets where shining so strongly in our absolutely dark night sky ... it was quite amazing.
Today it is a bit lighter when I took the photos, but if you look carefully you can see all the three of them.
December 02
Tonight, the moon is above the two stars!
Quite a change from last night!
The smiley face in the sky is gone already.
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11/28/2008
kitsune
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bright daylight -
a fox peeks into my
living room
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I had just settled for a cup of tea when I saw some ears outside. Both cats were in the kitchen sleeping, so who could it be? Most probably a stray cat to chase away.
When I opened the door-window, a small fox was standing outside, looking at me in wonder just as I looked at him. He did not even run away, but seemed to ask "Care to feed me something?"
After quite a while he turned away, walked leisurely over to the staircase and to the upper part of our garden. With a final look back and giving me a kind nod he disappeared in the underbrush.
WHOW ... I sure hope to see this visitor again !
We have seen foxes around in the late evening and hear them in the nearby woods.
FOX ... a kigo for all winter
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Fotos and Haiku from Tom Maretic, thanks TOM!!
a young urban fox --
there is already friendship
in our meetings
fox's voice
in the night ... inspires
a new story
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bright daylight -
a fox peeks into my
living room
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I had just settled for a cup of tea when I saw some ears outside. Both cats were in the kitchen sleeping, so who could it be? Most probably a stray cat to chase away.
When I opened the door-window, a small fox was standing outside, looking at me in wonder just as I looked at him. He did not even run away, but seemed to ask "Care to feed me something?"
After quite a while he turned away, walked leisurely over to the staircase and to the upper part of our garden. With a final look back and giving me a kind nod he disappeared in the underbrush.
WHOW ... I sure hope to see this visitor again !
We have seen foxes around in the late evening and hear them in the nearby woods.
FOX ... a kigo for all winter
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Fotos and Haiku from Tom Maretic, thanks TOM!!
a young urban fox --
there is already friendship
in our meetings
fox's voice
in the night ... inspires
a new story
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11/24/2008
dreaming room
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間 - 間 - 間
dreaming room ...
a new buzzword
for the old MA
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as I sit in my dining room
wondering about the dreaming room
he calls from the living room
I do not approve of this word and do not consider it a translation of MA, but never mind.
For me, haiku is about reality and what I experience in the moment, not in a dream.
The word reminds me of the Australian aborigines "dream time, dreamtime", but that is a different matter alltogether, I find.
and one who can not keep his MA in Japanese culture is a
manuke 間抜け "one without a ma feeling"
a fool, an idiot, a blockhead, someone stupid . . .
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Assimilation of the Ma Aesthetic Better Equips Western Poets
to Write Haiku
by Denis M. Garrison
Amongst traditional Japanese aesthetic considerations applicable to the art of haiku writing, ma is arguably preeminent for poets working in another language, for whom much of the treasury of haiku allusions is not available. It is, of course, axiomatic that the better a poet assimilates the full panoply of traditional haiku aesthetics, the better equipped he or she will become; but for non-Japanese poets, ma has special value, I think.
What is ma?
Literally, ma is the sense of time and space, incorporating between, space, room, interval, pause, time, timing, passing, distanced, etc. More particularly, ma may be taken as the timing of space, as in the duration between two musical notes. Silence is valued as well as sound. It is said that the ma aesthetic is influential upon all varieties of Japanese art.
I am not an expert on Japanese traditional aesthetics, in general, nor in ma, specifically. It is not my intent to dissect nor analyze ma in its native context.
Read it all HERE
© Denis M. Garrison / Simply Haiku Winter 2008
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the MA ...
could we be silent about
something else?
the MA ...
are we silent about
different things?
I just had a moment of silence with my cat HAIKU and he seemed to ... well ...
January 23, 2009
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shichi go choo and Kabuki 七五調
quote
"There is nothing like a ma!"
What is ma? Well, that's not so easy to explain but without it Kabuki wouldn't be half so interesting as it is. Imagine, for example, this speech that everybody knows -
"To be or not to be?"
(Dramatic pause)
"That is the question."
In Kabuki that pause would be called a ma, and ma are tension filled moments applicable to acting movements, dance, or speech. The internal psychology of a moment is expressed by the actor, who holds the attention of the audience in a pregnant pause that creates tension and emphasis.
Similar to the above example, ma may be expressed in speeches as the tension between the lines of shichi-go-chô - the division into lines of seven and five syllables used in much Japanese poetry. Look at the following example: in order to make things clear I have divided this haiku poem by the playwright and critic, Kawajiri Seitan (川尻清潭) into syllables -
Yo-za-ku-ra-ya (5) Evening cherry blossoms
Ma-ta Su-ke-ro-ku no (7) And once again
Ke-n-ka-za-ta (5) Sukeroku fights
Here one could imagine a dramatic ma pause after Mata Sukeroku no, before completing the poem. Similarly, when the thief Benten Kozō abandons his disguise as a young girl and reveals his name, (Benten musume meo no shiranami - "Benten the Male, Female Bandit") he dramatically lengthens the last syllable of Kozō before speaking the final part of his name - Kikunosuke. An actor with a poor sense of ma might well leave too short a pause and so any feeling of suspense before the completion would be lost.
Although Western poetry does not use shichi-go-chô (partly because Western languages do not have the consonant-vowel parings which make up the Japanese language), dramatic pausing between the lines can sometimes be equally important but perhaps less stylised than in Kabuki.
In movement, mie stop-motion poses demonstrate the most exciting examples of ma. Probably deriving from the fearsome iconography and facial expressions seen on some Buddhist statuary, mie are powerful poses by male characters that serve to emphasize moments of great import or tension. As the action stops, the character assumes a dramatic pose, revolves his head back and to one side and then, snapping the head into position, crosses one eye over the other and glares at his opponent. Mie are usually accompanied by two clear beats of the tsuke wooden blocks. It is the dramatic pause before the winding up and final snap of the head, between the first beat of the block and the second, which is an example of a ma of action.
Mie are unique to Kabuki and there is certainly nothing like them in Western theatre. Dramatic pauses are, therefore, more naturalistic and we find such pauses in Kabuki too. Let's look at the following fantastic example of ma which I will always remember. It was from Nakamura Utaemon VI's performance of Masaoka from Meiboku Sendai Hagi. Masaoka moves to the hanamichi in order to watch Sakae Gozen depart. Having just watched her son being murdered, Masaoka is desperate to run to his body. Watching her leave, Utaemon held the pose with extraordinary tension until, Sakae now gone, he collapsed in anguish. A master actor holding the audience in his hands!
Although we may not have a specific name for them, ma pauses are very important not only to Western theatre but in music too. My son, Misha, who is not a musician, was watching a very famous American conductor, conducting Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring," one of the greatest and most influential works of the twentieth century. The final section, the "Sacrificial Dance," is clearly divided into sections by very dramatic pauses. Every one of those fantastic pauses was cut far too short by the conductor, and all the drama was lost as the music flowed along to greatly reduced effect.
"That conductor is useless!" said Misha, and, judging by this example of very bad ma, I really had to agree. In Japan - particularly in the field of Kabuki - one would say his "ma ga warui" - his "ma is bad," meaning he has no sense of timing.
source : Ronald Cavaye - kabuki-bito.jp
. Sukeroku 助六 - Hero of Edo .
どーも 間が悪い ma ga warui
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間 - 間 - 間
dreaming room ...
a new buzzword
for the old MA
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as I sit in my dining room
wondering about the dreaming room
he calls from the living room
I do not approve of this word and do not consider it a translation of MA, but never mind.
For me, haiku is about reality and what I experience in the moment, not in a dream.
The word reminds me of the Australian aborigines "dream time, dreamtime", but that is a different matter alltogether, I find.
and one who can not keep his MA in Japanese culture is a
manuke 間抜け "one without a ma feeling"
a fool, an idiot, a blockhead, someone stupid . . .
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Assimilation of the Ma Aesthetic Better Equips Western Poets
to Write Haiku
by Denis M. Garrison
Amongst traditional Japanese aesthetic considerations applicable to the art of haiku writing, ma is arguably preeminent for poets working in another language, for whom much of the treasury of haiku allusions is not available. It is, of course, axiomatic that the better a poet assimilates the full panoply of traditional haiku aesthetics, the better equipped he or she will become; but for non-Japanese poets, ma has special value, I think.
What is ma?
Literally, ma is the sense of time and space, incorporating between, space, room, interval, pause, time, timing, passing, distanced, etc. More particularly, ma may be taken as the timing of space, as in the duration between two musical notes. Silence is valued as well as sound. It is said that the ma aesthetic is influential upon all varieties of Japanese art.
I am not an expert on Japanese traditional aesthetics, in general, nor in ma, specifically. It is not my intent to dissect nor analyze ma in its native context.
Read it all HERE
© Denis M. Garrison / Simply Haiku Winter 2008
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the MA ...
could we be silent about
something else?
the MA ...
are we silent about
different things?
I just had a moment of silence with my cat HAIKU and he seemed to ... well ...
January 23, 2009
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shichi go choo and Kabuki 七五調
quote
"There is nothing like a ma!"
What is ma? Well, that's not so easy to explain but without it Kabuki wouldn't be half so interesting as it is. Imagine, for example, this speech that everybody knows -
"To be or not to be?"
(Dramatic pause)
"That is the question."
In Kabuki that pause would be called a ma, and ma are tension filled moments applicable to acting movements, dance, or speech. The internal psychology of a moment is expressed by the actor, who holds the attention of the audience in a pregnant pause that creates tension and emphasis.
Similar to the above example, ma may be expressed in speeches as the tension between the lines of shichi-go-chô - the division into lines of seven and five syllables used in much Japanese poetry. Look at the following example: in order to make things clear I have divided this haiku poem by the playwright and critic, Kawajiri Seitan (川尻清潭) into syllables -
Yo-za-ku-ra-ya (5) Evening cherry blossoms
Ma-ta Su-ke-ro-ku no (7) And once again
Ke-n-ka-za-ta (5) Sukeroku fights
Here one could imagine a dramatic ma pause after Mata Sukeroku no, before completing the poem. Similarly, when the thief Benten Kozō abandons his disguise as a young girl and reveals his name, (Benten musume meo no shiranami - "Benten the Male, Female Bandit") he dramatically lengthens the last syllable of Kozō before speaking the final part of his name - Kikunosuke. An actor with a poor sense of ma might well leave too short a pause and so any feeling of suspense before the completion would be lost.
Although Western poetry does not use shichi-go-chô (partly because Western languages do not have the consonant-vowel parings which make up the Japanese language), dramatic pausing between the lines can sometimes be equally important but perhaps less stylised than in Kabuki.
In movement, mie stop-motion poses demonstrate the most exciting examples of ma. Probably deriving from the fearsome iconography and facial expressions seen on some Buddhist statuary, mie are powerful poses by male characters that serve to emphasize moments of great import or tension. As the action stops, the character assumes a dramatic pose, revolves his head back and to one side and then, snapping the head into position, crosses one eye over the other and glares at his opponent. Mie are usually accompanied by two clear beats of the tsuke wooden blocks. It is the dramatic pause before the winding up and final snap of the head, between the first beat of the block and the second, which is an example of a ma of action.
Mie are unique to Kabuki and there is certainly nothing like them in Western theatre. Dramatic pauses are, therefore, more naturalistic and we find such pauses in Kabuki too. Let's look at the following fantastic example of ma which I will always remember. It was from Nakamura Utaemon VI's performance of Masaoka from Meiboku Sendai Hagi. Masaoka moves to the hanamichi in order to watch Sakae Gozen depart. Having just watched her son being murdered, Masaoka is desperate to run to his body. Watching her leave, Utaemon held the pose with extraordinary tension until, Sakae now gone, he collapsed in anguish. A master actor holding the audience in his hands!
Although we may not have a specific name for them, ma pauses are very important not only to Western theatre but in music too. My son, Misha, who is not a musician, was watching a very famous American conductor, conducting Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring," one of the greatest and most influential works of the twentieth century. The final section, the "Sacrificial Dance," is clearly divided into sections by very dramatic pauses. Every one of those fantastic pauses was cut far too short by the conductor, and all the drama was lost as the music flowed along to greatly reduced effect.
"That conductor is useless!" said Misha, and, judging by this example of very bad ma, I really had to agree. In Japan - particularly in the field of Kabuki - one would say his "ma ga warui" - his "ma is bad," meaning he has no sense of timing.
source : Ronald Cavaye - kabuki-bito.jp
. Sukeroku 助六 - Hero of Edo .
どーも 間が悪い ma ga warui
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clouds
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after the rain -
clouds fight for space
in my narrow valley
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after the rain -
clouds fight for space
in my narrow valley
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11/20/2008
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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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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11/16/2008
orchids
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after my birthday ...
the orchids bend
backwards
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NOVEMBER 3
happy 60
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after my birthday ...
the orchids bend
backwards
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NOVEMBER 3
happy 60
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11/13/2008
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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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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11/12/2008
keeping alive
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keeping the body alive ...
what a burden for
the soul
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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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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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11/10/2008
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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quotes with haiku
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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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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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BLOGs from Friends
after the rain ...
the last raindrop
still hangs on
Look at the PHOTO on the LINK given above.
GABI
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10/28/2008
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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