12/08/2010

little spider

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cleaning the gutters -
a little green spider
runs out of hiding









. SPIDER - a summer kigo  


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12/06/2010

winter sky

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winter sky -
a poet from Bali
scratches his head



winter sky -
a poet from Australia
turns fast backward




five rings -
he trains to jump
higher





kigo section : Winter Sky
free section : Ring
December 2010 Shiki Monthly Kukai



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winter sky -
this long pink line
behind an airplane


spectacular sunset, clear sky





so many things
I have not done yet -
winter sky -



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12/04/2010

azuki arai

  
  



小豆洗い . 特別純米原酒







washing red beans -
the river turns
ricewine










photo : tokiyadiary.blog118.fc2.com



Inspired by the TV series about
Gegege no Nyobo, wife of Mizuki Shigeru
ゲゲゲの女房


. Mizuki Shigeru and GEGEGE (ゲゲゲの鬼太郎) .    


I am studying his monsters related to food,
hopefully there will be more !



Azuki Arai

This little bean washer monster sits on a river bank and washes red beans in a basket. You can hear the sound of this, but usually not see him while he works.
You can even hear him hum a gentle song.


The TV scene when Shigeru met him and heared him ask of Mizuki to produce an encyclopedia of Japanese monsters was very moving !

水木しげる 妖怪図鑑
水木しげる妖怪大百科





This monster is well known in many parts of Japan, mostly in Kaii (Yamanashi), Shinano (Nagano) and Echigo (Niigata).
It often comes out to a farmhouse where the bride is preparing to go to her husband, and the family is too poor to cook auspicious rice with red beans. When the family checks the kitchen in the morning, there is a bunch of freshly washed red beans ready to be cooked.

In Tottori they say this is in fact a monkey, hanging around old farmhouses.





Some say it washes azuki beans, others say it rinses rice or chopsticks.
kometogi ba 米とぎ婆
hashi arai 箸洗い

It is also called

azuki togi 小豆とぎ, rinsing red beans
making a sound like ショキショキ "shoki shoki".

Sometimes his song sounds like
小豆とごうか、人取って食おうか ショキ、ショキ


Shall I rinse red beans?
or catch a human
and eat it?


Other names are

あずい洗い/小豆あらいど/小豆洗い婆/小豆こし/小豆ごしゃごしゃ/小豆さらさら/小豆すり/小豆そぎ/小豆そぎ婆/小豆とぎ/小豆とげ/小豆婆/小豆やら/米とぎ婆/コメカシ/洗濯狐/付け紐小僧/荒神様/山の神/赤小豆洗い/米とぎ婆さま/箸洗い /


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source : morioka_hisamoto

from Takehara Shunsensai 竹原春泉斎 『絵本百物語』
Woodblocks of the Edo Period


Once upon a time at a temle in the village of Takada, the priest cared for the young orphans of the village.

One boy was especially clever.
When the priest showed a box full of red beans and asked how much there were inside, he could immediately tell the number.

The priest was quite surprized and thought to make this boy follow in his priestly profession.
Another of his students, the vicious Enkai, got so envious he threw the intelligent kid to his death, into the well.

From this day on, every night, every night they heard his voice in the well, counting red beans.

Eventually, the vicious Enkai was brought to justice by the local authorities, and received the death penalty for his deed.

From that day on, the souls of the good and the bad student appeared every night, every night after sunset, counting red beans in the well,
or near the river bank.

Nobody wanted to take over this temple any more, and it was left without a priest, when the old monk died, maybe in 1689 ... ?


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And now to the present-day reality !



CLICK For original, Wikipedia


azukiarai 小豆洗い insect "washing red beans"
kigo for all autumn

. Chatatemushi, 茶立虫 "tea whisking insect"  
Graphopsocus cruciatus

konachatate 粉茶立(こなちゃたて)
kakurezatoo 隠座頭(かくれざとう)


A group of insects with more than 5000 subgroups, Stenopsocus aphidiformis
Psococerastis tokyoensis, Psocomorpha, Longivalvus nubilus, Psococerastis kurokiana, Amphigerontia sp., Psocodea, Psocoptera, Troctomorpha, Trogiomorpha etc.

Some species have wings, others do not.
The ones without wings are about 1 to 2 milimeters, with long legs. Some resemble small white ants, with a rather large head.

The winged species are about 3 to 7 milimeters, the wings can be much longer than the body.



washing red beans -
a monster turns
KIGO !

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. Japanese Legends - 伝説 民話 昔話 – ABC-List .

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Kagawa 香川県 / mamedanuki 豆狸

Azukiarai is an animal of the family of mamedanuki 豆狸 small Tanuki.
It lives near a well or small river and makes the noise of washing beans. Sometimes it plays tricks on humans.


source : tyz-yokai.blog.jp/archives...

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坂出市 Sakaide city

The sun was down and getting dark, a light wind in the air. Two sisters were crossing a bridge when they heard a strange sound of washing something from the river. Afraid they rushed back home. Mother told them:
"This was azuki arai あずき洗い the bean-washing monster. I have told you not to go over the bridge at night!"


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Nagano 長野県 / 狢 mujina

If people pass by, Azukiarai makes the sound of washing beans. People say it is a badger.
Children are afraid of this sound and do not pass here.
Some say it is itachi イタチ a weasel. When the animals are in heat, the male ones make a sound like washing beans.


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. WASHOKU -Azuki 小豆 red beans  

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12/03/2010

wicki leaks - yahoo leaks

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wicki leaks -
now we have
YAHOO leaks



Someone is automatically copying the correspondence
of a private mailing list to a BLOG



Here is mine, copied

. . . on BLOGGER


This is the BLOG in question:

http://communicationability.blogspot.com/



Can anyone help to stop this?




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The leaking could be stopped
by expelling the culpirt from the forum.

But the BLOG is still there / as of December 09.


December 15 - the BLOG is now gone!
But the cached version is still available.

Profile of the owner :

Overcome Breast Cancer
http://www.blogger.com/profile/14091441249835432022



Thanks to whoever helped with this.


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drop by drop
the frost melts
from my roof



Nights are getting colder !



. FROST in my Valley   


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11/29/2010

keri ga tsuku

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けりがつく 俳句にやはり KERIがつく

keri ga tsuku
haiku ni yahari
KERI ga tsuku



From the word KERI used in waka and haiku as a final amplifier, this expression has taken root in the everyday language, to signify someting is final, has come to an end and found its solution.

For something ambiguous, the expression is

tamamushi iro 玉虫色 - to shimmer in all colors
like a jewel beetle

玉虫色の決着








. tamamushi 玉虫 / 金花虫 (たまむし) jewel beetle

kigo for late summer





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11/28/2010

forget and google

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the more I forget
the more I google -
winter solitude








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Dear Gabi san,

This gave me a great smile -- thank you!

Sadly, the reverse is also true :

the more I google
the more I forget -
autumn leaves

Isabelle.


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11/26/2010

Thanksgiving

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Thanksgiving -
so many bubbles
in the bowl





. Thanksgiving in USA   





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11/24/2010

red mask

  
  



autumn deepens -
my dreams take shape
with the shades of RED














Origami mask by Kawai Toshiaki



MORE

. Masks of Fudo Myo-O お面不動明王  



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Introducing 河合豊彰 Kawai Toshiaki
Craftsman for Origami, published many books


Daruma 達磨

From a whole series of folded Buddha statues










http://origamist.blog24.fc2.com/blog-date-200806.html




. More Photos of his Origami Art !


source : 河合豊彰 . amazon com


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11/20/2010

autumn butterfly

  
  




02 autumn butterfly



autumn butterfly -
the weatherforecast says
SNOW






06 the fly









. WALK WITH ME
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One orange falling leaf
Floats against the autumn breeze
Monarch butterfly.

--

Monarch butterfly
Floating in the autumn breeze
No, a falling leaf


butterflypsyche
Happy Haiku Forum



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more frost

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severe frost -
the gentle humming
of my stove




09 shining frost


The unusually cold mornings continue ... and it is only November.



03 family graves in mist




sunrays -
my life in the middle
of nowhere


17 mist on the way down END


Autumn Grace -
what a day
to be born



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. First Frost on November 11  



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11/19/2010

sunset

  
  




101118 sunset 001 till 015




autumn sunset -
maybe there is a hell
in heaven ?




101118 sunset 008






101118 sunset 014









. FOLLOW the SUNSET .. from here !  



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my haiku about SKY


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11/18/2010

shining autumn

  
  



graves in the morning sun


04 graves in morning sun





02 gingko up



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06 morning black and color




balck and color
as the sunshine deepens
in diamonds




07 sunshine diamond



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paulownia tree



12 paulownia bells





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gingko and red momiji


16 yellow red blue autumn



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14 autumn scene and sky




17 shimmering susuki




20 Ohaga autumn morning END







18 shimmering autumn


susuki pampas grass








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Season of the Sea of Clouds 2010

unkai - 雲海  - unkai


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November 17, 2010


sea of clouds -
my life in the middle
of nowhere

Below, all gone in white mist, on the horizon a few mountain tops with yellow and orange trees, above the sky covered in gray clouds but then
a sudden burst of pink spotlight, just one !

Next the whole cloudy sky turning pink.
Then the white valley mist suddeny lifting high up, as if pushed by a magic wind blower.


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October 15, 2010


early morning -
an extra pink line
on the horizon



above the unkai sea of clouds, there is an extra pink line ...
autumn is coming fast now



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11/15/2010

autumn dusk

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autumn dusk -
the shadows in my valley
deepen



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aki fukaki haijin wa nani o kaku hito zo

autumn deepens -
I wonder what my haiku friends
are writing right now

Gabi
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aki fukaki tonari wa nani o suru hito zo
Basho


and about Basho, we know
http://wkdkigodatabase03.blogspot.com/2007/11/autumn-deepens-aki-fukashi.html



Basho lived in a place where the space to the neighbuor was just one thin wall and he could hear everything from next-door (next-wall, so to say). But beyond the thin wall, Basho could also hear the deepening autumn as his neighbour, so to day, in space.


autumn deepens
and I wonder,
what is my neighbour doing?

Tr. Gabi Greve, inspired by Hasegawa Kai

. aha .


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autumn dusk -
so many haiku
in the saijiki


. Autumn dusk (aki no kure)  


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Friends are trying to understand
allusion, honkadori, parody, plagiat . . .

. Honkadori, the art of quoting haiku


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