monster soup

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a little village
comes back to life -
monster soup



. WASHOKU
Monster Food 妖怪鍋 "monster soup" 　






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visitors

contrasting views - a moving patternon the leaves

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These caterpillars are very aggressive and can ruin a tree in no time.
This year they are especially numerous in our woods.



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twitters

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so many twitters
of the invisible birds -
autumn afternoon



For a change, it was warm and sunny today.







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lone wanderer

autumn deepens - a lone wanderer crosses my porch

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Typhoon Nr. 18

glued to the TV - typhoon number 18 heading my way

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台風18号 / Typhoon Number 18

It was not as bad as expected in our parts of Japan.

Now, Thursday 8, the sun is shining, as the typhoon is heading from Nagano toward Sendai in Northern Japan.

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As Typhoon Melor makes landfall around the Kii Penninsula in western Japan, a total of 500 flights were cancelled between Wednesday and Thursday. Toyota Motor Corp shut down production in all of it's 12 Japanese plants because of the storm. Japan Energy Corp, the nation's sixth-biggest oil refiner, said it would halt overland oil shipments from its Mizushima refinery in western Japan during the night hours. Nansei Sekiyu KK's refinery in Okinawa said high seas were delaying some ships.

Winds have since slowed down considerably as Typhoon Melor interacts with cooler water and strong westerly winds on the north side. The latest satellite video shows this dramatic decrease in the storm's structure. What was once a powerful Super Typhoon with winds gusting to 196 mph, hits the coast as the equivalent to a Category 1 hurricane with winds around 86 mph. Rain may still exceed 10 inches along it's path, leading to widespread flooding. The good news is that this storm continues to weaken, and the forward speed should increase, limiting the time it impacts Japan.
This latest forecast leaves Tokyo on the strong side Melor when it makes landfall.
source : www.examiner.com/


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hands in prayer

so many hands folded in so many prayers - Buddha's jewel

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. Wishfulfilling Jewel (nyoi hooju)
Daruma Museum




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Amida no namida

古杉や涙涙の南無阿弥陀 old cedar tree - namida namida no namu amida

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namida means tears in English.


Namu Amida ... The Amida Prayer



This tree is more than 1000 years old!
It stands in the precincts of our temple

. 両山寺　Temple Ryoosan-Ji 　




old cedar tree -
with tears in my eyes
I pray to Amida



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Tear, tears (namida) Japan. Träne, Tränen


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Earth Pilgrims

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Earth Pilgrims


Earth Pilgrims, a series of documentary films about pilgrims, the pilgrim message,
and the pilgrim spirit ...



http://www.earthpilgrims.com/


アースピルグリム　。　地球巡礼者　


Echan Deravy エハン・デラヴィ
http://www.echan.jp/english.html


Satish Kumar
Wade Davis and others


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Yesterday I saw part of the DVD at the home of a friend, here in Ohaga.
The voice of Enoki Takaaki 榎木孝明 as narrator is very soothing.

http://www.officetaka.co.jp/



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earth pilgrims -
the long walk
toward home


earth pilgrims -
just one step
after another






so many hands
folded in so many prayers -
Buddha's Jewel



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Nozaki Pilgrimage, Japan

Pilgrimage(henro, junrei) Pilgrims. Japan and worldwide


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bushclover hagi

hagi by the lake - all the pastel colors of nature

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. WKD
Bush clover (hagi) 　



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autumn sunshine

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WKD
Spider Lilies (higanbana)



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Harvest Time

harvest time - he bends his head in prayer .................................................................................

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..... Harvest and its various kigo 　



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crows

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autumn equinox -
all the crows celebrating
with grave offerings



The sky was full of them, almost like THE BIRDS!
They move from grave to grave, eat the offerings and move on to the next.
All farm houses here have their own little ancestor graveyards, so there is plenty of food after the equinox offerings by the living.



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Grave (haka)

. Autumn Equinox (aki higan)



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spider

a dark spider in a dark night ... flash

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Spiders in Paradise 。。極楽の蜘蛛

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three pine tops

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three pine tops -
this raven chooses
the lowest



We have three pines side by side
and usually the birds sit in the highest top ...



If you were offered three jobs of differenc social ranking, which one would you choose ?




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crows crows crows

leaves half eaten yamataro at work . . . yamataro squashed on the wall

We have large flocks of crows these days, coming to feed on the yamataro-catarpillars which appear in thousands to feed on a special autumn weed.
The crows are leaving their "output" on the road and on my roof and everywhere ...


... the same food chain every year
... the same excitement evey year
... the same old haiku every year ...


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a murder of crows

-This more poetic term for a flock of crows can be traced back at least to the 15th century, when it was recorded as a murther of crowes. Murther is a variant of Middle English murthre 'murder,' though the th sound had begun to be replaced with a d around 1300 C.E. There are several theories as to how this particular term came about, but all of them have to do with the supposed behavior of crows.

For instance, crows are scavengers and therefore often seen feeding on rotting bodies of various sorts. Survivors of wars have described how the battlefields were covered in black as crows (and ravens) came down to eat the dead. Another theory hearkens back to old folklore which told of groups of crows essentially holding court over members of their flock that had committed offenses. If they decide against the "defendant" crow, then the rest of the flock swoops down on it and kills it.

There are legends outside of the Germanic culture that relate to crows being judges over people as well, and how their appearance is an omen of death.
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A murder of crows
is a phrase employing a collective noun to refer to a group of crows.

A Murder of Crows may refer to:

A Murder of Crows (film), 1999 film
A Murder of Crows (album), 2003 studio album by Deadsoul Tribe
A Murder of Crows, a level in Myth II
The Murder of Crows, a level in Hitman: Blood Money
Sword of the Stars: A Murder of Crows, an expansion to the video game Sword of the Stars
©　More in the WIKIPEDIA !


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Caw, caw cuts the air
black fluttering in the trees
a murder of crows

Yutaka Kitajima, 2007

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. Crow, Raven (karasu) KIGO 　



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