10/09/2007

sleepless night

  
  








autumn downpoor -
the new roof drums
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10/08/2007

aki matsuri

  
  



秋祭り



autumn festival -
a streak of sunshine
on the priest



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Considering most of the day was rainy, the priest picked the right moment to read his prayers.



Autumn Festival (aki matsuri, Japan)



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10/06/2007

First Snow

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初雪のお知らせありて 冨士の山




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first snow
late on Mount Fuji ...
says the news





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It is 5 days later than a "normal" year and 1 day earlier than last season.


First Snow ... a KIGO


Fuji, Mt. Fuji, Fujiyama, Fujisan and haiku





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nadeshiko

  
  



撫子や nadeshiko ya








wild carnation -
the fragile features of
this old courtesan





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歌麿の幻の肉筆画「女達磨図」
喜多川歌麿(1753~1806年)
They found the original of this old courtesan/Daruma
painting by Kitagawa Utamaro !!



Oiran to Daruma 花魁と達磨 
Daruma and the Courtesans (geisha)



Carnation, Nelke ... Wild Carnation (nadeshiko)




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Badgers Narrow Road

  
  



獣道  kemonomichi








autumn of the badgers ...
their narrow road
to the deep forest











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Basho / Oku no Hosomichi ... 2007



kemonomichi, the footpath of wild animals in our area ... this year, the badgers crossed the road from the forest to the field below, and left their dirty footprints all over the asphalt too after a night of rain.




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sun rays

  
  





sunrays cutting
through the morning mist -
spiders over graves





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sunrays cutting
through the morning mist -
no place for JUX





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JUX, or JUXT, an abbreviation often used for juxtaposition, an ingredient for haiku, especially loved by my American friends ...

For my German ear, JUX is something else .. or maybe not ? ??



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10/05/2007

visitors

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Ryokan sweeping fallen leaves



waiting for guests ...
I sweep the path again

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. Ryokan san and Tamashima Daruma  


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Sweeping the mental path, polishing the dustless mirror ... the daily zen activities ...


And with the autumn leaves now falling, sweeping is a real activity. Checking for the most beautiful to entertain the visitors, sweeping, bowing down, looking at autumn colors, sweeping a bit more.

When all is clean, turn around, just to see another leaf fallen on the path ...


Ryokan with his broom ... my good friend ! Click on the little photo above.




sweeping the leaves
with a broom like old Jittoku -
again and again


Fallen Leaves and Jittoku


Kanzan and Jittoku 寒山拾得

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Zen Patriarch Xiangyen Zhixian experiences enlightenment while sweeping

Kanō Motonobu 狩野元信 Kano Motonobu (1476–1559)
kyoogen kyakuchiku 香巌撃竹

Kyōgen Chikan 香嚴智閑
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. . hatsubooki 初箒(はつぼうき)first (use of the) broom .
hakizome 掃初 (はきぞめ) first cleaning
... fukihajime 拭始(ふきはじめ)beginning to clean
... hatsusooji 初掃除(はつそうじ)
kigo for the New Year


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. hooki 箒 / ほうき Hoki, broom, Besen .
hookishi 箒師 making brooms in Edo
hookiya 箒屋 vendor of brooms

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Nature is great 大自然 daishizen


Amida Buddha



namu amida
sunshine is my friend
drought is my friend


nature is great
rain is my friend
typhoon is my friend


namu amida
life is my friend
death is my friend








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10/04/2007

Higanbana

  
  








higanbana -
finally you show
your beautiful face




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HIGANBANA
flowers for the autumn equinox

this year they are more than two weeks later than usual. The ricefields, where they present a beautiful red frame to the yellow fields, are already cut and brown.



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Spider Lilies, cluster amaryllis (higanbana, manjushage) KIGO



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Dragonfly teacup

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teabreak -
a dragonfly hovers
over my cup




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She seemed quite to enjoy her little "steam bath"!


Dragonfly, a KIGO



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Woodpeckers

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these rotten trees ...
the woodpecker family
works overtime



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Many trees are rotting away here in our woods around the house. Maybe the typhoon of two years ago is finally showing its results as the half-uprooted trees struggle to survive. Or the tons of chemicals in the fields around the wood ...


This morning their frentic knock knock knock woke us up rather early ...




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10/02/2007

Shaka with beard

  
  




秋深し 髭をはやしたる 石仏



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meditation -
even the Stone Buddha
is growing a beard




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The Beard is ...
minomushi, "straw raincoat bug" a KIGO for haiku !



Maybe some remember him
with a KARL in his eye ... !

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Greetings, Gabi
I love this stone buddha. i remember that photo of it with the frog in its eye. and now to see the same buddha with a minomushi (bagworm) on its beard is so very funny. i'm so glad you shared your friend's wonderful humor :)
hugs, B.


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Mold

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mold on the tile ...
a spider walks out
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It is still very hot and quite humid, and the bathtiles cover with mold spots over night. This morning again, on a speck of mold, suddenly a small spider started to walk away from it. I had not noticed him/her in the gray spot at all ... perfect incognito !



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10/01/2007

mushrooms

  
  










three little mushrooms -
the way to heaven
still so-o far













drei kleine Pilze -
der Weg zum Himmel
noch soooo weit









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My local Shinto Shrine
一宮神社 Ichi no Miya Jinja



Mushrooms (kinoko) KIGO




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roses and weeds

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lonely roses -
the bees and the butterflies
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Especially now in autumn, they seem to find all the small little flowers of my many weeds ...

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A really good haiku, Gabi.
:) Zhanna


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