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.
© More in the WIKIPEDIA !



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!


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Tingatinga
Märchen und Bilder aus Tansania.
Dokumentation einer Sammlung der Vereinten Evangelischen Mission
Herausgegeben von Heidie Koch
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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

  
  





11 shadows of a tree






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




11 shadows of a tree


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




24 cosmos flowers







27 red on the fence





11 long flower fingers








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Cosmos Flowers KIGO



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10/22/2009

autumn skywalk

  
  



Start the skywalk from here



autumn sky -
my haiku blown
by the wind





14 treetops and clouds


16 clouds and treetops





18 clouds swirling





19 cloud patterns




21 clouds racing



22 trees and clouds





23 tree and cloud patterns





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racing clouds
over the rice paddies -
autumn comes fast



17 tandda and the sky










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My Walk through the Rice Paddies of Ohaga




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10/15/2009

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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10/13/2009

visitors

  
  


02 leaves with patterns






04 leaaves and caterpillars



contrasting views -
a moving pattern
on the leaves



05 munching 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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10/12/2009

twitters

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so many twitters
of the invisible birds -
autumn afternoon



For a change, it was warm and sunny today.




01 little pink blossoms



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10/09/2009

lone wanderer

  
  



01 Raupe caterpillar




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

  
  




07 wishfulfilling jewel





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





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. Wishfulfilling Jewel (nyoi hooju)
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Amida no namida

  
  




02 cedar tree tears



古杉や涙涙の南無阿弥陀


old cedar tree -
namida namida no
namu amida





03 more tears







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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 ...

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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



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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

  
  



21 branches reaching for mountains




hagi by the lake -
all the pastel colors
of nature





13 A   hagi over water






13 subdued colors of hagi





12 hagi over water bush clover







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Bush clover (hagi)
 



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9/25/2009

autumn sunshine

  
  


trying to catch
all of the sunshine
all at once



01 higanbana









12 higanbana and susuki grass







02 higanbana down the valley




03 sunshine in Ohaga




14 higanbana before stone wall END




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08 spider detail








slender fingers
reaching for the sunshine -
wayside treasures


10 autumn flowers








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WKD
Spider Lilies (higanbana)




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9/23/2009

Harvest Time

  
  




01 rice in sunshine








harvest time -
he bends his head
in prayer





03 ears of rice




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06 tanada in late sunshine








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..... Harvest and its various kigo  



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