10/24/2009
Tingatinga
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Tingatinga painting style - Tanzania
Tingatinga -
a world of colors
exploding
Once there was a man called Edward S. Tingatinga.
He was born in the Namochelia village in Tunduru district in the South Tanzania.
During the 1960s he established an art form that became associated with Tanzania. Today, "Tingatinga" is the Tanzanian term for this form of art, known most intimately in Tanzania, Kenya, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Japan, Switzerland etc.
Boiled down to its core, Tingatinga art can be defined as painting on masonite using bicycle paint.
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But Tingatinga art lives on. Masonite boards painted with bicycle paint can still be found in well-stocked "curio shops", shopping centers and tourist shops in eastern and southern Africa, as well as in solidarity shops located throughout Western Europe. Export of Tingatinga paintings from Tanzania to Kenya's capital, Nairobi, and other tourist centers, seems to be lively.
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I saw this featured in on TV. The way a painter mixes only six colors to first brush a background and then, the simple strokes of animals, peoples and patterns, without any sketching, just like that
... whish whish ... in no time the painting is finished!
Tingatinga
Märchen und Bilder aus Tansania.
Dokumentation einer Sammlung der Vereinten Evangelischen Mission
Herausgegeben von Heidie Koch
source : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag
エドゥアルドサイディTingatingaアート
Tinga Tinga Art(ティンガ ティンガ アート)
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10/23/2009
shadows and silence
a long silence between your words - autumn deepens |
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green color code #767c6b "color of mountain doves"
山鳩色 (やまばといろ)
The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence.
The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence.
Silence gives us a new perspective.
Mother Teresa
autumn sunshine -
the sound of this shadow
on the wall
the sound of these
leaves on the temple wall -
autumn solitude
Thanks to Mother Teresa!
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A friend asked:
why not drop 'these' from L1 and move 'leaves" into it's place?
Well, here is my answer:
the sound of leaves
on the temple wall -
autumn solitude
the sound of these
leaves on the temple wall -
autumn solitude
Maybe you feel the difference yourself?
The sound of leaves, the sound of water ... quite a well used phrase in haiku ...
:o) ... maybe overused ...
Since it was not the sound of leaves (or rather maybe branches with leaves, for that matter) hitting the wall, but as is shown in the photo,
it was the sound of shadows, I want the reader to pause
these ... what ? simply leaves? only shadows? anything else ?
these leaves ... I can hear these leaves rustle in the wind, as the tree stands if front of the wall
leaves on the temple wall ... now they are only shadows, not the sound ...
So I choose the version I did.
HH
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smiling neighbours
autumn walk - my smiling neighbours at the roadside |
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Cosmos Flowers KIGO
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10/22/2009
autumn skywalk
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! Start my SKYWALK from HERE !
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My Walk through the Rice Paddies of Ohaga
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10/15/2009
monster soup
a little village
comes back to life -
monster soup
. WASHOKU
Monster Food 妖怪鍋 "monster soup"
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10/13/2009
visitors
contrasting views - a moving pattern |
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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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10/12/2009
twitters
so many twitters
of the invisible birds -
autumn afternoon
For a change, it was warm and sunny today.
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10/09/2009
lone wanderer
autumn deepens - a lone wanderer crosses my porch |
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10/07/2009
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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10/04/2009
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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10/02/2009
bushclover hagi
hagi by the lake - all the pastel colors of nature |
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Bush clover (hagi)
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9/25/2009
autumn sunshine
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WKD
Spider Lilies (higanbana)
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9/23/2009
Harvest Time
harvest time - he bends his head in prayer ................................................................................. |
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..... Harvest and its various kigo
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