Jellyfish as KIGO

Daruma dances in the deep sea - what a sight !

Red paper lanterns, or aka-chochin, are a familiar sight on the city streets of Japan, where they typically hang at the entrances to cheap pubs, capturing the attention of passersby. The ocean, however, is home to a different variety of red paper lantern — an unusual species of deep-sea jellyfish.

Officially named Pandea rubra, the red paper lantern medusa (aka-chochin kurage) was first discovered in the Bering Sea in 1913, but details about its distribution and life cycle have long remained a mystery. In recent years, the creature has caught the eye of researchers at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) armed with high-definition video cameras.

Inside the transparent hood is a deep red colored mantle that can crumple up or expand like a paper lantern, hence the name. JAMSTEC researcher
Dr. Dhugal Lindsay is credited with coming up with the name.

Photo and Text source : pinktentacle.com


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te no hira no kurage ni chokumen suru medama

upon my palm
the jellyfish comes face to face
with eyeballs

source : Humour in Haijin Essay
Dhugal Lindsay, haijinx summer 2001


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アカチョウチンクラゲ Akachochin jellyfish 赤提灯クラゲ

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Dhugal J. Lindsay's Haiku Universe


I saw Dhugal in the haiku TV lesson of NHK,
where he introduced this amazing animal.


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Akachochin and Daruma san


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kigo for all summer

kurage 水母 (くらげ / クラゲ) jellyfish, Qualle, Meduse
(lit. water mother)
kurage 海月（くらげ） lit. sea moon
Fam. Cubozoa and Scyphozoa

akakurage, aka kurage 赤水母（あかくらげ）red jellyfish
Chrysaora melanaster
. . . CLICK here for Photos !

Amakusa kurage 天草水母（あまくさくらげ）from Amakusa
Bizen kurage 備前水母（びぜんくらげ）from Bizen
Echizen kurage 越前水母（えちぜんくらげ）Echizen Jellyfish

andon kurage 行燈水母（あんどんくらげ）jellyfish like an andon lamp
Carybdea rastoni
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hikurage 火水母（ひくらげ）"fire jellyfish"
Tamoya bursaria
murasaki kurage 紫水母（むらさきくらげ）purple jellyfish

ibo kurage 疣水母（いぼくらげ）"jellyfish with warts"
ebi kurage 蝦水母（えびくらげ）"jellyfish like a prawn"
Netrostoma setouchianum
. . . CLICK here for Photos !

tako kurage 蛸水母（たこくれげ）"jellyfish like an ocotpus"
. . . CLICK here for Photos !


yuurei kurage 幽霊水母（ゆうれいくらげ）"jellyfish like a ghost"
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kigo for summer in Australia
moon jelly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_jelly


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kigo for early autumn

katsuo no eboshi 鰹の烏帽子 (かつおのえぼし)
denki kurage 電気くらげ（でんきくらげ） "electric jellyfish"
Portuguese man-of-war
Physalia physalis utriculus
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Portugiesische Galeere


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沈みゆく海月みづいろとなりて消ゆ　
shizumiyuku kurage mizu-iro to narite kiyu

sinking down
the jellyfish becomes blue
and disappears

Yamaguchi Seison 山口青邨


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Along the sea of Ariakekai during the summer months, fishermen go after the Red Jellyfish. It is often eaten sliced and raw as sashimi, with a bit of grated ginger and soy sauce, even as a kind of raw "soomen".

nama kurage 生クラゲ raw jelly fish
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Other types of jellyfish are usually salted and dried.
shio kurage, shiokurage 塩くらげ salted jelly fish

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. WASHOKU
The Ariake Sea (有明海, Ariake-kai)


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Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.

If you realize that you have enough,
you are truly rich.

Tao Te Ching


Tao and Haiku



truely rich -
I write a haiku
every day




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kotatsu life

taking a napin the warmth of today ... dreaming HAIKU

Winter in the Kotatsu　－ 猫のコタツ


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Cats in Paradise .. O-Tsu and Haiku-Kun お津と俳句くん

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crazy cows

I spend my day with some crazy cows - ushibeni lipstick

source : garments-toys.html More Cows



. ushibeni 丑紅（うしべに） "bull lipstick" 　
kigo

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Simply Haiku Winter 2009

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Kigo, a Key to Japanese Culture:
An Interview with Gabi Greve, Japan

Robert D. Wilson, Interviewer


RW:
What led you, a medical doctor, and your husband to move from Europe to Japan, and to study and learn the Japanese language to a point where you now translate haiku by famous Japanese poets?


Read it all HERE :

. SIMPLY HAIKU
Winter 2009, vol 7 no 4 　


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Tao Te Ching 45

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Snail, tiny spiral in calcified membrane;
Inchworm, a hairpin dragon;
Bumblebee, blob of velvet black and yellow,
White butterfly, syncopated burst of gladness;
Naked bulbs, white pubic tentacles in crumbling soil;
Pears, children of earth and sun.

365 Tao
daily meditations
Deng Ming-Dao (author)


Tao Te Ching Verse 45
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?¬e_id=196776481638


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small things
the dao in
daily haiku


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Tao and my haiku

quotes and my haiku




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I M O
a thousand leaves falling
in a thousand EMM OOOH's




IMO ... in my opinion

IMHO ... in my humble opinion
(if you know even less on the subject you are commenting about )







LOL ... laughing out loud


Discussing the KIGO issues again and again ..

AHA

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a thousand and one
nights on a soft pillow ...
Arabian Dreams


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mop, m.o.p. my own opinion

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Momiji Daruma

autumn leaves - my Daruma san is everywhere

illustration from
. Zen no Tomo Magazine 禅の友 　
October 2009

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Daruma Memorial Day .. Daruma-ki, Japan 達磨忌
October 5



紅葉達磨　もみじだるま Momiji Daruma from red autumn leaves



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fog

above the fog - the brightness of your smile

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spider

pulling out weeds - I leave some for this pregnant spider stretching a legfor the beauty competition -my Lady Eulalia ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: after the storm - my pregnant spider still pregnant

two days later, after a rather rainy and stormy night,
she is there, hiding in the lavender.



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more
Spiders in my Paradise 。。極楽の蜘蛛



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moonlight

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moonlight and dark clouds -
these old fairy tales
keep haunting me



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Autumn Walk

chasing red spots in a green landscape . . . autumn walk . . My PHOTO ALBUM ...　CLICK　！

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. AUTUMN WALK
our rice paddies in Ohaga



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moonlight
on the temple roof -
and silence



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NHK Haikubiyori

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NHK 俳句日和




Haikubiyori ... a fine day for haiku

5 hours of haiku marathon at NHK !

From 11 in the morning till 4 in the afternoon.
A group of students in Tokyo also took part and one of the students was in the finals elected.


10月25日2009年
http://www.nhk.or.jp/bs-tankahaiku/

The participants were
Uda Kiyoko 宇多喜代子, the leader

The haiku judges :
Katayama Yumiko 片山由美子
Tsukushi Bansei 筑紫磐井
Mimura Junya 三村純也
Kai Michiko 櫂未知子
Oogawa Keishuu 小川軽舟

Hayashiya Kikuo 林家木久扇 a rakugo story teller and haiku poet himself, as guest judge


Kikuo san (he gave his former name, Kikuzo 木久蔵, to his son) is a regular member in my favorite program, he wears a yellow kimono and plays the "stupid one" (baka). He is now 70 years old and still going strong.

Shōten (笑点)
a Japanese TV comedy program, continuously broadcast on Sunday evenings on Nippon TV, Channel 4, since 15 May 1966. It is the second-longest running TV show in Japan. (almost like Mito Komon).



The show features a group of six Japanese rakugo comedians wearing kimono of different striking colors, sitting in a row, where they compete to make the best jokes on three themes suggested by the host.
The person judged to be the most funny, gains more and more zabuton (Japanese cushions), until he may be sitting on a stack five, six, or more. Comedians whose jokes are judged to be not funny, or whose responses are not quick enough, may have one or more zabuton removed and end up sitting on the floor. The zabuton used are supposedly extra-heavy ones weighing four kg (9 pounds), so even a stack of ten or more will not topple. When one participant has 10 zabuton, he gets a prize (and usually material for another TV show ... )

The show is also famous for its happy theme music written by Nakamura Hachidai. This music has been continuously broadcast since 1969. The titles are written in edomoji, but were originally written to show an animated smiling face.
Hayashiya Kikuo



Here are the results from the program in April 2009
http://www.nhk.or.jp/bs-tankahaiku/result/haiku.html


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. NHK HAIKU ... NHK 俳句 My Introduction
NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)


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If you only have a hammer,
you tend to see every problem
as a nail.

Abraham Maslow


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出る釘（杭）は打たれる
deru kugi wa utareru
deru kui wa utareru

The nail that sticks out is hammered down

Reference



. kugi 釘 nail, Nagel .
An anthropological study.


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quote from new internationalist
issue 231 - May 1992

The nail that sticks out
Conformists belong, non-conformists and ethnic minorities get hammered in Japan.
John Charles and Peter Mallat unravel Japanese groupthink.

Who are the Japanese?
Anthropologically it is not at all clear: a conglomerate of Polynesian, Malay and mainland Asian elements, perhaps from Mongolia, who imposed themselves on the aboriginal Ainu and gradually drove them northwards. The precedence of the Ainu in the islands, like the thorny subject of Japanese army atrocities against the Chinese in the 1930s, is another point glossed over by the schoolbooks.

Culturally it is a different story. Japan has a notion of its own uniqueness that many Japanese are convinced an outsider could never fathom. The Japanese language ovefflows with words of status, words of self-abasement, words of guile and subterfuge - and many words that defy accurate translation. Words like Ciri and On translate as 'duty' or 'obligation', but the depth of their meaning is quite different. Within the tightly-ordered framework of Japanese groups - village, family, school, workplace - they weigh heavily indeed. Outside these groups they lose almost all meaning. Thus in Japan there is little goodwill for someone you don't know and little sense of a broader public interest. Peter Tasker, in his book Inside Japan, calls the Japanese the 'kindest, cruelest' people in the world. The face presented depends entirely on whether you are seen to be part of a group or outside it.


Hidden Identities
Many schoolchildren of Korean extraction can give you a harrowing description of hiding their backgrounds from their classmates at great psychological cost - only to be found out when presenting a different passport on a school trip. Their friends melted away before their eyes. In Osaka's Ikuno, ward where a quarter of the population is Korean, less than five per cent use their real names in business dealings. Kim Sung Il, a second-generation Korean, refused fingerprinting, was arrested and had his finger prints taken against his will. He recounts the story of a school teacher accused of some trifling infringement of the Registration Law who was taken from her classroom by a hundred police.

In fact, Japan has had a minority problem for centuries, ever since the Yamato peoples drove the Ainu to the inhospitable northern island of Hokkaido, where they largely remain. Like indigenous peoples everywhere, the Ainu have rediscovered their own identity, and are pressing for reform.


One problem has been the Koseki, or Community Registers. Japan is a society that pays elaborate courtesies to ancestors and their spirits. They are yet another group to which obligations are owed. The Japanese go out of their way to prevent any 'mixing of the blood' which they feel would pollute and dishonour their family tree. To preserve this purity of the lineage (Ie) extensive record-keeping is needed. Hence the social importance of Koseki, which details intimate family information.

Read the full article HERE
http://www.newint.org/issue231/nail.htm


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出る杭の如くつくしの摘まれけり
deru kui no gotoku tsukushi no tsumarekeri

like the nail
that sticks out we pick
horsetails

Kubota Noriko 久保田教子
Tr. Gabi Greve



Tsukushi 土筆（つくし）horsetail plant
kigo for mid-spring
It is considered a delicacy.


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