Medicine Day

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medicine day -
the old cat nibbles
some weeds


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Medicine Day (kusuri no hi)... KIGO



And before I knew it, there was this treatment

... a sunray ...



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Sunray

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cold summer storm -
the sudden warmth
of a single sunray


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Trying to recover from a sudden feverish ailment, I went outside for some cool fresh air !
And just at that moment, this sunray caressed my aching cheek !
Now, it is raining again ...



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season walk

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四季の道　一歩一歩の　新しき walking the seasons each step, each step is new

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Fields, rice paddies (ta, hatake)


Rice plants (ine) Japan. A list of kigo.



四季のみち
江別の四季を詠んだ俳句




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Shades of green

early summer <> all these shades of green

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Japanese traditional colors

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spring palette --
highlights of birch bark
splash green foliage

Janice


young birches
swing green leaves
song of wind

Sakuo

Thank you, my friends !

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Confucius

Confucius - another long path to the old pond

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Confucius, a Chinese Scholar : Kooshi, Koshi, Koushi, Kōshi 孔子
孔夫子, Kung Tzu, Kung Fu Tzu, Kung Fu Zi, Kǒng fū zǐ





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WKD - Clover genge

only clover flowering by the pond - and yet

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Take a better look around the pond !



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Finding a clover with four leaves ... this is the ultimate good luck symbol !



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Chinese milk vetch, genge げんげ
Astragalus membranaceus / Astragalus sinicus
"Lotus weed", rengesoo 蓮華草（れんげそう）
..... gegebana 五形花（げげばな）
..... gengen げんげん
field full of milk vetch, gengeta げんげ田（げんげた）

This plant gives one of the most popular early honey variations in China and Japan. The fields in my area close to the bee farm are all pink in spring.



. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clover, a kigo for late spring



"horse manure" umagoyashi, uma goyashi, mokushuku
苜蓿 / うまごやし（もくしゅく）
Medicago polymorpha

Lucerne, alfalfa, murasaki umagoyashi 紫うまごやし（むらさきうまごやし）
Medicago sativa

kuroobaa クローバー clover, Klee
"white overgrowing weed", shiro tsumekusa しろつめくさ
"Dutch clover weed", oranda genge オランダげんげ



genge maku 紫雲英蒔く (げんげまく) sowing milk vetch (clover)
kigo for late autumn


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Milk-vetch honey, renge hachimitsu れんげはちみつ　蓮華蜂蜜
.............. rengemitsu　れんげみつ　蓮華蜜
(this is NOT Lotus Honey)
Honey

ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo

Compiled by Larry Bole

A couple of haiku by Seishi Yamaguchi, taken from "The Essence of Modern Haiku: 300 Poems by Seishi Yamaguchi," translated by Takashi Kodaira and Afred H. Marks:

sankaku o imazu genge no sankakuda

A triangular
milk-vetch field that doesn't mind
the triangular.

Composed 1971.

Seishi's comment:

It is a triangular field, beautiful because of the milk-vetch growing in it. Being a three-cornered field may seem to give it bad luck, but just as it was once a three-cornered rice field, it is now a three-cornered milk-vetch field.

gengeda no koodai kore ga Mino no kuni

Where the milk vetch fields
become broad plains, there you have
the land of Mino.

Composed 1972.

Seishi's comment:

Mino provincw is given over to fields of milk vetch. The milk-vetch fields 'are' Mino. As you go deep into the province, the milk-vetch fields get broader. Those broad milk-vetch fields are Mino.

Some info from within the vocabulary notes, from the book:

'田　-da' (or 'ta' when standing alone) usually refers to rice paddies/fields, but is also used in 'gengeda', "milk-vetch fields," because milk-vetch is often planted as a second crop in dry rice
paddies/fields.

Mino was the southern part of today's Gifu Prefecture.


It appears a stamp was issued by Japan "1997, November 28. Definitive Stamps. The Nature of Japan:　ニホンミツバチ"

"20¥ Nihon-mitsubachi (Japanese honey bee) and Rengeso (Chinese milk vetch)."
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~jollian/NIJapan.html


And here is someone's reminiscence, found at Kimono Flea Market Ichiroya:

When I was a child ( approx 35 years ago ), I used to go to school walking through the rice paddy. As many customers know, our staple food is rice. From ancient days, people breed rice, and when I was a child, there remained many rice paddy even in cities. In the winter, rice paddy don't have the rice and water, but when spring comes in the many paddy 'renge'(Chinese milk vetch) bloom.

Girls used to play with renge flowers. Yuka (she is from Nara--near the famous deer park)has nice memories of playing for hours in the renge field. Right by her house was a renge field so she spent hours there everyday--making garlands, lying down on the ground and sucking the sweet flower nectar. Unfortunately, renge field are not seen everywhere any more.
http://www.asokagakuen.jp/nakatajima/H12/spring/1/sp3-1.html
http://www.ichiroya.com/newsletter.htm

And finally, from Asahi Haikuist Network, March 1, 2004:

closely viewed
a wisp of spring haze
is milk vetch

-Kitazaki, Motoaki
(Chiba)
http://www.asahi.com/english/haiku/040301.html



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Amulets - o-mamori お守り



kuroobaa クローバー守り clover, four-leaves clover

to find a good partner in life (enmusubi　縁結び）





shiawase mamori しあわせ守り for your happiness luck

. Koofukuji 興福寺 Temple Kofuku-Ji Nara .
clover amulet for good luck クローバー

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. Aoshima Jinja 青島神社　Aoshima Shrine - Miyazaki .


. Amulets and Talismans from Japan .　

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Lilies by the pond

iris by the pond - one two three five six plop

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Terraced rice paddies of Ohaga
My Valley


Iris (ayame, Japan)
Iris called Kakitsubata



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Azalea

deep afternoon - the fascinating RED of another azalea

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My Azalea and Shaka



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My Cat

O-Tsu chan ... I never want to be your Takezoo Kun !

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O-Tsu was the beloved of Takezoo, who later changed his name to Miyamoto Musashi.
We got a baby cat in hope of a Takezoo, but well, life gave us O-Tsu instead. And she just loves her Papa san !

Our Cats in Paradise - O-Tsu and Haiku-kun


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fragile life

just one puff and you are gone - fragile life of spring

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Red Leaves

red leaves in my spring valley <> happy kigo life ...

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Red autumn leaves, momiji もみじ 　。KIGO


My Red leaves at Mt. Koya
May 1995



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Tulip Petals

growing older - a tulip petal flaps in the storm

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Hermit

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enjoying narcissus,
plums and more ...
mountain hermit


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Hermits (sennin) and Haiku ... narcissus, plum and chrysanthemum and ...

My Home, Paradise Hermitage GokuRakuAn



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Rain on Roof

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屋根に雨


spring rain -
the voices of ancestors
on my roof



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Mountains smiling

山笑う　故郷あっての　景色なり smiling mountains - a landscape to remember my homeland

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mountains smiling, yama warau 山笑う ... KIGO



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