Afganistan

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Afganistan . . .
she sings a lullaby
for her dead baby



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Afgahanistan’s first female rapper

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winter olympics . . .
my TV broke down
just in time




We have a lot of hpye about
young "rebel" Kazuhiro Kokubo Kazuhiro,
the snowboarder.






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Halfpipe competitor Kazuhiro Kokubo was banned from attending a ceremony Wednesday to welcome Japan to the athletes Olympic village for being shabbily dressed at Narita airport in Japan before departing for Vancouver.

‘‘I know I made a mistake. I won’t let it affect the competition,’’ said Kokubo, who was spotted at the airport with a loosened tie and his shirt hanging out of the back of his trousers.

He also said he is unconcerned by the quality of opposition he will be up against in the men’s halfpipe in Vancouver and insists the Winter Olympics are nothing special.

‘‘I don’t feel any different. For me the Olympics is just another snowboarding event. It’s no big deal,’’ Kokubo said.
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sunobo スノボ / sunooboodo スノーボード snow board
haafupaipu ハーフパイプ half pipe

Kokubo senshu 国母選手

Kokubo Kazuhiro 国母和宏

orinpikku オリンピック


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KIGO about

. Olympics, Olympic Games 　



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WKD - Laozi and the Tao

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Laozi, Lao-tzu, Rooshi, Roshi【老子】
( pinyin: Lǎozi; Wade–Giles: Lao Tzu; also romanized as Lao Tse, Lao Tu, Lao-Tsu, Laotze, Laosi, Laocius,
and other variations; fl. 6th century BCE) was a philosopher of ancient China, best known as the author of the Tao Te Ching (often simply referred to as Laozi).His association with the Tào Té Chīng has led him to be traditionally considered the founder of philosophical Taoism (pronounced as "Daoism"). He is also revered as a deity in most religious forms of Taoist philosophy, which often refers to Laozi as Taishang Laojun, or "One of the Three Pure Ones".

Laozi is an honorific title. Lao (老) means "venerable" or "old", such as modern Mandarin laoshi (老师), "teacher". Zi (子),



According to Chinese traditions, Laozi lived in the 6th century BCE. Some historians contend that he actually lived in the 5th–4th century BCE, concurrent with the Hundred Schools of Thought and Warring States Period, while some others argue that Laozi is a synthesis of multiple historical figures or that he is a mythical figure.

A central figure in Chinese culture, both nobility and common people claim Laozi in their lineage. He was honored as an ancestor of the Tang imperial family, and was granted the title Táishāng xuānyuán huángdì, meaning "Supreme Mysterious and Primordial Emperor". Throughout history, Laozi's work has been embraced by various anti-authoritarian movements.

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There is a discussion at Haiku Foundation

- Beauty in Haiku -

Haiku need not dwell entirely on the dark or seemly, but just as too much salt spoils a meal, so does too much sugar.
As James W. Hackett has said in his guidelines for writing haiku,

“Lifefulness, not beauty,
is the real quality of haiku.”


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the haiku under discussion has been this one


鮟鱇の骨まで凍ててぶちきらる
ankoo no hone made itete buchi-kiraru

this angler fish
feeing chilled to the bone
is (finally) cut to pieces

Kato Shuson 加藤楸邨 Katoo Shuuson
(Tr. Gabi Greve)


The reasoning for my translation is HERE

. WASHOKU
Anglerfish, angler fish (ankoo) 　


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TAO




Hua Hu Ching : Verse Forty-One


Good and bad, self and others,
life and death:
Why affirm these concepts?
Why deny them?

To do either is to exercise the mind,
and the integral being knows that
the manipulations of the mind are dreams,
delusions, and shadows.

Hold one idea, and another competes with it.
Soon the two will be in conflict with a third,
and in time your life is
all chatter and contradiction.

Seek instead to keep your mind undivided.
Dissolve all ideas into the Tao.

Translated by Brian Walker
http://www.cheraglibrary.org/taoist/hua-hu-ching.htm


Hua Hu Ching
The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu
ISBN 9780060692452


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Give me wise men's words
And the Goddess of Mercy
What more could I need


Pulled by Kuan Yin's gentle hand
The voice of Lao Tzu calling

- Shared by Res John Burman -
Joys of Japan, 2012




source :　Tao and Zen, facebook


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白梅や老子無心の旅に住む
shira ume ya Rooshi mushin no tabi ni sumu

white plum blossoms —
Lao-Tzu dwells in a journey
of no-mind

. Kaneko Tohta 金子兜太 .

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. Tao, Dao and Haiku .
Chinese origin of Japanese kigo


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egret

this egret - out of a gray cloud into a gray cloud

and then slowly out of sight
over our roof on this rainy morning



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a little later, while walking up the road to get the newspaper



rainy morning -
three pheasants take off
from the withered field




KIGO
. egret in winter, fuyu sagi 冬鷺 (ふゆさぎ)
nokorisagi 残り鷺（のこりさぎ） 　



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first snowdrops

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first snowdrops ...
how greatful I am
to have found you






YOU ... who could this be ?



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Haiku helping

from the top shelf he tries to understand it all ... rainy winter day

Haiku kun on the shelf above the computer ...

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

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blizzard

blizzard - the old farmhouse moans and groans

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. blizzard, fubuki 吹雪 snowstorm



. Blizzard in my area


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a budda in every blossom

仏の座 hotoke no za - I see a Buddha in every blossom

For Ogura Yuki, Painter
小倉遊亀 ［1895～2000］


Ogura Yuki (1 March 1895 - 23 July 2000)
was a nihonga painter in Showa period Japan. Her maiden name was Mizoguchi Yuki. She was known for her bijinga, paintings of beautiful ladies.

She specialized in graceful family scenes, still life, and pictures of women. During the 1950s and 1960s, she painted many large portraits of friends and family members in the nude. Although Ogura never departed from the traditional framework of the Nihonga style, her figure paintings are often described by contemporary critics as "modern," both in style and content.

A very prolific artist, in 1976, she was selected to become a member of the Japan Art Academy (Nihon Geijitsu-in), and later become honorary chairperson of that organization. She was awarded the Order of Culture in 1980, and is one of only two women painters (the other being fellow Nihonga painter Uemura Shoen) to be so honored.

She married a Zen priest many years her elder and cared for him lovingly.

During this time she came to realize

that all things are Buddha,
the big and the small ones,
the flowers and the animals ... anything.

Her studio and home were located Kamakura, where she lived to the advanced age of 105.
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Shoko Uemura Shokoo 上村松篁

Marking the 10th year since nihonga 日本画 (Japanese-style painting) artist Shoko Uemura's death, this exhibition showcases representative works from the painter's later years, and includes a series featuring cranes — one of the artist's favorite motifs.


Shoko was the son of the famous nihonga painter
Shoen Uemura 上村松園 (1875-1949),
and he followed in her artistic footsteps to create kacho-ga (birds-and-flower paintings). In 1948, he helped established Souzou Bijutsu (present-day Souga-kai), a group of like-minded artists dedicated to further promoting nihonga.
For more than 80 years, he was respected as one of the most well-known nihonga painters in Japan; till Nov. 27.
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Shoen Uemura Shooen 上村松園
(1875-1949)
was the pseudonym of an important woman artist in Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japanese painting. Her real name was Uemura Tsune. Shōen was known primarily for her bijinga paintings of beautiful women in the nihonga style, although she also produced numerous works on historical themes and traditional subjects.
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the logo of google Japan of April 23

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KIGO
. Buddha's Seat (hotoke no za)



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spring sunshine . . .
and all these wrinkles
when he smiles



a new haiku season begins
February 4th : Risshun 立春 Spring begins



Feburary is the coldest winter month in most parts of Japan, but as a convention for writing haiku, spring begins according to the Asian Lunar Calendar !


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snow sunshine

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snowflakes dance
in early monring sunshine -
a child is born


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Darume Eyes

spring exams - the fiery eyes of Daruma

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Daruma to pass the spring examination

He comes with three different sorts of eyes and games for the kids.

. CURRY from GLICO グリコカレー / glico カレー職人


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Me-ire - Painting Eyes for Daruma　達磨の目入れ
Daruma and his EYES



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snow

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雪の降る午後に紅茶や山暮らし
yuki no furu gogo ni koocha ya yamagurashi


it snows
in the afternoon with a cup of black tea . . .
my mountain life






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Snow (yuki)
Many kigo related to snow.



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Two Wolves

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One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson
about a battle that goes on inside of all of us.
He said, "My son, the battle is between two wolves.

One is Negative.
It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.

The other is Positive.
It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."

The grandson thought about it for a minute
and then asked his grandfather:
"But grandfather which wolf wins?"





The old Cherokee simply replied,
"The one you feed."



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feeding two wolves
or feeding just one ...
your haiku life


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Hachiman

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八幡の思い出ありて季語の旅

so many memories
of Hachiman Shrines ...
my kigo trip


I lived close to Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine in Kamakura.

Today I collected some KIGO about these shrines in Japan.

. Hachiman Shrines and their festivals 　



Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū (鶴岡八幡宮)
Iwashimizu Hachiman-gū (石清水八幡宮)



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living now

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生きる力　与えてくれる　寒の月


the power
to live right now ...
moon in the cold



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kan no tsuki .. moon in the cold

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