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bright autumn sky -
the shadow of a hawk
in my hands
He was circling with his wife over my roof and garden, leisurely for more than half an hour. I could play with his slowly moving shadow ...
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That's lovely GABI
Here's my response. . .
winter sun –
its slow rise above
the hawk's grand swoop
Kala
The hokku from Triparshva Renku: The Hawk's Grand Swoop
First appeared in Simply Haiku - Summer 06
... ... ...
Linking the two of your hawks, Kala and Gabi's, incidentally, a sparrow hawk, not very adult, has taken shelter in our garden, it's not very common here. So my Haiku as below-
Tearing the living
flesh of lizard, Sparrow Hawk
sheltering in garden.
Warmly,
Aju M, WHCindia
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Hawk, a kigo for winter
Winter Birds
but today, it was my favorite .. ten takashi .. , the bright autumn sky
Autumn Sky
Aaa, and we had an earthquake this morning, one of the rare ones in Okayama prefecture.
!!! Earthquake !!!
. My Hawk in December 2011 .
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Snow in Shadow
 sunshine at least - snow in the shadow of a stone  |
Minus eight centigrade in the morning, with slight snow covering the whole world.
The water in the basin for handwashing still frozen. The basin is in fact a bowl for pounding rice.
I spend the whole morning watching the shadow-snow shrinking and shrinking, greatful for the warm sunshine but somehow touched by the powers of the dark side.
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7/29/2006
Snake Shadow
 hot afternoon - the shadow of a snake grows smaller  |
. World Kigo Database : Snake (hebi) .
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4/26/2006
Shadows
| six dots - a shadow racing under water  he walks on water - his shadow creates wobbles  ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo quiet pond - mountain and forest merge without ripples  |
Look at more photos from this tour to Yonago Flower Park
Water strider, water boatman, amenbo .. アメンボ、水馬 ... KIGO
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3/16/2006
Shadow of Seeds
 spring is a-comin' ! the shadow of seeds on a wall ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo a star of autumn left in the weeds - spring is a-comin' !  |
The atmosphere is indeed more like autumn.
Photos taken in March 2006, though ! :o)
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WKD - Horseheaded Kannon
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for hakuba, white Shinto horses, see below
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Horseheaded Kannon (Batoo Kannon)
馬頭観音 Bato Kannon
馬頭観世音
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The Horseheaded Kannon
Batou Kannon is not only said to protect dumb animals, particularly those who labor for mankind, but she extends her power to protecting their spirits and bringing them ease and a happier life than they experienced while on earth.
By neighing like a horse, the horseheaded deities ward off the bad demons. Batoo Kannon has been known in Japan since 7th century. He/She is especially honored by the horse breeders in Northern Japan. Nowadays you even find bicycles in front of the stone votive statues on waysides.
Read more about this Batoo Kannon at Mark Schumacher's pages.
Kannon Bosatsu is an important deity in the Buddhist pantheon.
bato kannon
. Eko-In, Ekō-in 回向院 Ryogoku, Tokyo .
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kubi uma 首馬 "horse head" toys
. Kubi ningyoo 首人形 head dolls INFO .
from various temples dedicated to Bato Kannon.
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on earthen clods
he talks of next year
shoveling manure
michele
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source : www.shimogamo-jinja.or.jp
A white horse in a Shinto ceremony at Shimogamo Shrine, Kyoto
Mikage Matsuri 御蔭祭 "honorable shadow festival"
. "honorable shadow festival" Miare shinji .
Horse-deities of Japan
White horse, hakuba 白馬 sacred horse at Shinto shrines
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As in all the oldest nations, we find in Japan, as its most ancient religion — Sun-worship. Nor are the Elements forgotten, as those are the abodes of all the "minor gods or spirits" — namely, the Powers or Forces of Nature. The Sun still receives deific honours; and its emblem has fully survived in the Sinto temples, called Maya, [Divine residence. Hence the name of the ecclesiastical metropolis Myako, the abode of the Spiritual Emperor] where no idols or images are to be found, save a bright mirror in the shape of a disc, before which are placed high metallic poles, with long and broad slips of paper attached to them, and mysterious inscriptions on these, traced in the Nai-den style, that peculiar sacerdotal written language used only for religious and mystical subjects.
Strange to think, the Japanese practise in reference to Sun-worship that curious ceremony so well known in India under the name of the aswamedha, or sacrifice of the horse. Anciently the horse was considered by every nation an emblem of the primeval and universal manifested being, who, when identified with the Sun, had the horse given him as his attendant.
"The horses of the Sun" are famous, and were deified in all the old religious systems, even in the youngest of the latter — the Mosaic, or Jewish creed. [And he (Josiah) took away the horses that the Kings of Judah had given to the Sun, at the entering of the House of the Lord. (2 Kings, xxiii. II)]
Every Sun-God has a horse (always white) associated with him. Sosiosh, born of a virgin, is expected to appear at the end of the days upon a white horse as Redeemer, says the book Bun Dehesh. Vishnu, or the "Kalanki Avatar", is to come upon a white horse; and St. John, in the Revelation (xix., 11, 14), sees the heavens opened and the "Faithful and True", or the coming Christian Messiah, seated on a white horse; and the "armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses". The white horse is the horse of the Sun; and Mithra, the old Medo-Arian Sun-God, reappears everywhere. [ “The Manicheans held that the Sun, who is Mithra, is Christ himself,” says St. Augustine (cap 8) who had belonged to that sect]
For the Sun is the fiery source of Spirit-power or Spirit of LIFE, while the chariot typifies the body, and the horse its animating principle. And thus in Japan Ten-Zio-Dai-Zen, "he who darts out his rays" is presented with its emblem, the horse, at its Temple on certain festive days. A number of sacred horses in pictures and horses cut out of paper with sacred inscriptions on them are hung on the walls.
source : www.theosophical.ca
At Saijo Inari Shrine, Okayama pref.
Photo Gabi Greve 2008
. hakuba 白馬と伝説 Legends about a white horse .
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At Kibune Shrine, Kyoto
貴船神社の馬
The ancient Japanese religion was heavily concerned with water, many of the oldest shrines were placed at important water sources, and this is the case with Kibune. Enshrined here are the God Kuraokami no kami and his wife the Goddess Mizuhonone no kami, both considered water gods. Once the capital was moved to Kyoto the Emperor would visit here for ceremonies connected with rain.
If rainfall was needed,
a black horse would be offered to the shrine,
if dry weather was needed, a white horse.
source : japanvisitor.blogspot.com
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jinme, shinme, shinba 神馬,
kamikoma 神駒(かみこま), 御神馬
horses offered to a shrine as vehicles for the gods
The White Horse at Miyajima 宮島白馬
Horse of the Gods at Miyajima 宮島の神馬
One of the seven wonders of Miyajima.
Horses offered to this shrine will turn to a white color within four or five years of living here.
It is sayed that Taira no Kiyomori, who had the shrine build, came visiting often because there was a beautiful woman with white skin living on the island.
© PHOTO : www.miyajima1.com
. Itsukushima Shrine and Kigo 厳島神社
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At Shrine Oasahiko Jinja in Awaji
Oasahiko no Okami 大麻比古の大神
Photo Gabi Greve, 2007
Oasahiko Shrine - Introduction
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White horse ema votive tablet of Hakone shrine
箱根神社
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Memyo Bosatsu 馬鳴菩薩（めみょうぼさつ）
"Neighing Horse Bosatsu"
"Neighing horse deity", menari myojin 馬鳴明神
馬に乗る女神の蚕玉神
Silkworm Goddess on a Horse
The Woman Who Married a Horse
Japanese SILK Deities
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batoo jizoo 馬頭地蔵 "horse-headed Jizo Bosatsu"
still looking for the details.
謎の「馬頭地蔵（ばとうじぞう）
- reference - xxx
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Horse-headed Fudo Myo-O. Bato Fudo Myo-O
不動明王馬頭独鈷杵 Batoo Fudoo Myoo Oo
On a Nepalese Vajra
- reference -
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The Horse in Japanese Haiku
Ema 絵馬 Votive Plaques, Votive Tablets, Prayer Boards
Lit. "Paintings of Horses"
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. hakubasai, hakuba sai 白馬祭（はくばさい）
Festival of the White Horse
oumesai, o ume sai 【白馬祭（おうめさい）】
ao-uma no matsuri 青馬祭 (あおうまのまつり)
aouma no sechi-e 青馬(あおうま)の節会(せちえ)
. . . . also called
hakuba sechi-e 白馬節会
nanuka no sechi-e 七日の節会 (なぬかのせちえ)
Seasonal Feast on the seventh day (of the New Year)
kigo for the New Year
If you see a white horse during the New Year celebrations, you will live a long life and ward off evil for the coming year and stay healthy. Therefore shrines with a white horse make a parade for all to see the animal. Some parades are quite famous and reach back to the Kamakura period. In Kashima, they parade seven white horses. If you pick up a small stone where the horses walked or have your hankerchief trodden on, this will bring your love to fulfillment.
On this day, white sweet ricewine (amazake) and porridge of seven herbs is also served.
There is a poem by Otomo Yakamochi 大伴家持 in the ManyoShu poetry collection, dating from 758:
水鳥の鴨の羽の色の青馬を
今日見る人はかぎりなしといふ
The people who viewed the white horse today
- the color of the wings of a white duck -
Will enjoy long life, it is said.
Tr. Taro Sakamoto
. hakuba 白馬と伝説 Legends about a white horse .
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The famous Painter Higashiyama Kai has a serious of "white horse" paintings,
"White Horse in a Forest" is the most famous.
. . . CLICK here for Photos !
東山 魁夷【白馬】
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. Kunimuke matsuri 平国祭（くにむけまつり）Kunimuke Festival
with a sacred horse procession
. "Horse-headed Kannon of Kamioka"
上岡の馬頭観音 .
with a famous market for ema votive tablets of horses
Saitama, Kanto
. Koma 駒 horse folk toys from Japan
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Horseheaded Kannon (Batoo Kannon)
馬頭観音 Bato Kannon
馬頭観世音
 Horseheaded Kannon - please share my headache! too much sake ...  Temple Eifuku-Ji, Nr. 54 Shikoku My husband just brought a wagonload full of horse manure from a nearby farm to prepare the vegetable fields. And I helped, of course ... I will spare you the smell that goes with this haiku ... shoveling manure to the summer fields - Horseheaded Kannon |
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The Horseheaded Kannon
Batou Kannon is not only said to protect dumb animals, particularly those who labor for mankind, but she extends her power to protecting their spirits and bringing them ease and a happier life than they experienced while on earth.
By neighing like a horse, the horseheaded deities ward off the bad demons. Batoo Kannon has been known in Japan since 7th century. He/She is especially honored by the horse breeders in Northern Japan. Nowadays you even find bicycles in front of the stone votive statues on waysides.
Read more about this Batoo Kannon at Mark Schumacher's pages.
Kannon Bosatsu is an important deity in the Buddhist pantheon.
bato kannon
. Eko-In, Ekō-in 回向院 Ryogoku, Tokyo .
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kubi uma 首馬 "horse head" toys
. Kubi ningyoo 首人形 head dolls INFO .
from various temples dedicated to Bato Kannon.
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on earthen clods
he talks of next year
shoveling manure
michele
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source : www.shimogamo-jinja.or.jp
A white horse in a Shinto ceremony at Shimogamo Shrine, Kyoto
Mikage Matsuri 御蔭祭 "honorable shadow festival"
. "honorable shadow festival" Miare shinji .
Horse-deities of Japan
White horse, hakuba 白馬 sacred horse at Shinto shrines
quote
As in all the oldest nations, we find in Japan, as its most ancient religion — Sun-worship. Nor are the Elements forgotten, as those are the abodes of all the "minor gods or spirits" — namely, the Powers or Forces of Nature. The Sun still receives deific honours; and its emblem has fully survived in the Sinto temples, called Maya, [Divine residence. Hence the name of the ecclesiastical metropolis Myako, the abode of the Spiritual Emperor] where no idols or images are to be found, save a bright mirror in the shape of a disc, before which are placed high metallic poles, with long and broad slips of paper attached to them, and mysterious inscriptions on these, traced in the Nai-den style, that peculiar sacerdotal written language used only for religious and mystical subjects.
Strange to think, the Japanese practise in reference to Sun-worship that curious ceremony so well known in India under the name of the aswamedha, or sacrifice of the horse. Anciently the horse was considered by every nation an emblem of the primeval and universal manifested being, who, when identified with the Sun, had the horse given him as his attendant.
"The horses of the Sun" are famous, and were deified in all the old religious systems, even in the youngest of the latter — the Mosaic, or Jewish creed. [And he (Josiah) took away the horses that the Kings of Judah had given to the Sun, at the entering of the House of the Lord. (2 Kings, xxiii. II)]
Every Sun-God has a horse (always white) associated with him. Sosiosh, born of a virgin, is expected to appear at the end of the days upon a white horse as Redeemer, says the book Bun Dehesh. Vishnu, or the "Kalanki Avatar", is to come upon a white horse; and St. John, in the Revelation (xix., 11, 14), sees the heavens opened and the "Faithful and True", or the coming Christian Messiah, seated on a white horse; and the "armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses". The white horse is the horse of the Sun; and Mithra, the old Medo-Arian Sun-God, reappears everywhere. [ “The Manicheans held that the Sun, who is Mithra, is Christ himself,” says St. Augustine (cap 8) who had belonged to that sect]
For the Sun is the fiery source of Spirit-power or Spirit of LIFE, while the chariot typifies the body, and the horse its animating principle. And thus in Japan Ten-Zio-Dai-Zen, "he who darts out his rays" is presented with its emblem, the horse, at its Temple on certain festive days. A number of sacred horses in pictures and horses cut out of paper with sacred inscriptions on them are hung on the walls.
source : www.theosophical.ca
At Saijo Inari Shrine, Okayama pref.
Photo Gabi Greve 2008
. hakuba 白馬と伝説 Legends about a white horse .
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At Kibune Shrine, Kyoto
貴船神社の馬
The ancient Japanese religion was heavily concerned with water, many of the oldest shrines were placed at important water sources, and this is the case with Kibune. Enshrined here are the God Kuraokami no kami and his wife the Goddess Mizuhonone no kami, both considered water gods. Once the capital was moved to Kyoto the Emperor would visit here for ceremonies connected with rain.
If rainfall was needed,
a black horse would be offered to the shrine,
if dry weather was needed, a white horse.
source : japanvisitor.blogspot.com
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jinme, shinme, shinba 神馬,
kamikoma 神駒(かみこま), 御神馬
horses offered to a shrine as vehicles for the gods
The White Horse at Miyajima 宮島白馬
Horse of the Gods at Miyajima 宮島の神馬
One of the seven wonders of Miyajima.
Horses offered to this shrine will turn to a white color within four or five years of living here.
It is sayed that Taira no Kiyomori, who had the shrine build, came visiting often because there was a beautiful woman with white skin living on the island.
© PHOTO : www.miyajima1.com
. Itsukushima Shrine and Kigo 厳島神社
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At Shrine Oasahiko Jinja in Awaji
Oasahiko no Okami 大麻比古の大神
Photo Gabi Greve, 2007
Oasahiko Shrine - Introduction
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White horse ema votive tablet of Hakone shrine
箱根神社
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Memyo Bosatsu 馬鳴菩薩（めみょうぼさつ）
"Neighing Horse Bosatsu"
"Neighing horse deity", menari myojin 馬鳴明神
馬に乗る女神の蚕玉神
Silkworm Goddess on a Horse
The Woman Who Married a Horse
Japanese SILK Deities
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batoo jizoo 馬頭地蔵 "horse-headed Jizo Bosatsu"
still looking for the details.
謎の「馬頭地蔵（ばとうじぞう）
- reference - xxx
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Horse-headed Fudo Myo-O. Bato Fudo Myo-O
不動明王馬頭独鈷杵 Batoo Fudoo Myoo Oo
On a Nepalese Vajra
- reference -
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The Horse in Japanese Haiku
Ema 絵馬 Votive Plaques, Votive Tablets, Prayer Boards
Lit. "Paintings of Horses"
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
. hakubasai, hakuba sai 白馬祭（はくばさい）
Festival of the White Horse
oumesai, o ume sai 【白馬祭（おうめさい）】
ao-uma no matsuri 青馬祭 (あおうまのまつり)
aouma no sechi-e 青馬(あおうま)の節会(せちえ)
. . . . also called
hakuba sechi-e 白馬節会
nanuka no sechi-e 七日の節会 (なぬかのせちえ)
Seasonal Feast on the seventh day (of the New Year)
kigo for the New Year
If you see a white horse during the New Year celebrations, you will live a long life and ward off evil for the coming year and stay healthy. Therefore shrines with a white horse make a parade for all to see the animal. Some parades are quite famous and reach back to the Kamakura period. In Kashima, they parade seven white horses. If you pick up a small stone where the horses walked or have your hankerchief trodden on, this will bring your love to fulfillment.
On this day, white sweet ricewine (amazake) and porridge of seven herbs is also served.
There is a poem by Otomo Yakamochi 大伴家持 in the ManyoShu poetry collection, dating from 758:
水鳥の鴨の羽の色の青馬を
今日見る人はかぎりなしといふ
The people who viewed the white horse today
- the color of the wings of a white duck -
Will enjoy long life, it is said.
Tr. Taro Sakamoto
. hakuba 白馬と伝説 Legends about a white horse .
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
The famous Painter Higashiyama Kai has a serious of "white horse" paintings,
"White Horse in a Forest" is the most famous.
. . . CLICK here for Photos !
東山 魁夷【白馬】
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. Kunimuke matsuri 平国祭（くにむけまつり）Kunimuke Festival
with a sacred horse procession
. "Horse-headed Kannon of Kamioka"
上岡の馬頭観音 .
with a famous market for ema votive tablets of horses
Saitama, Kanto
. Koma 駒 horse folk toys from Japan
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2/05/2005
Spiders in Paradise
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.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Spiders in Paradise
Spider is a kigo for summer.
Let me tell from my own experience living out here in the countryside, how I came to understand the Japanese kigo for ANTS and SPIDERS as summer. Living here in an old farmhouse is a lot like living in the Edo period, when most Japanese kigo where perceived.
Surely we have spiders all year round, but in summer, they are at their best. They are everywhere and every morning when I go out to get the newspaper I run into Aunt Eulalia, who has been putting up her net between the beams of the entrance doorway, again and again.
Her many sisters are hanging between the flowers luring mosquitoes, her hairy uncles, Mr. Crab and his tarantula friends, are coming down from the bamboo roof to partake of our food and life... In winter, they are seldom guests.
Meet some of my special friends, like Mr. Crab and Madame Eulalia.
My best friend, Lady Eulalia, the yellow one with the long legs, has choosen to wait for me. She uses to sit there in her net and run to shelter under a leaf when she sees me coming to water the flowers. My shadow on her net tells her its time to run.
watering flowers -
the spider's hammock
filled with diamonds
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. rain's over
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. the web of my spiders turned
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. strings of diamonds
Read some Zen musings about this topic.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/happyhaiku/message/183
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.. .. .. .. .. .. .. Three make a story
> under the stone
> who might that be
> in the shadow?
> neatly folded
> Madame Spider
> showing a leg
> nosy tomcat
> the stone takes
> a shower
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sharing my toothbrush
the huge spider
grinning
Thus beginneth another bright summer morning... :o)
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hanging on
amongst autum leaves
a pregnant spider
fest haengend
zwischen dem Herbstlaub
eine schwangere Spinne
.....................................Here are her babies
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.. .. .. a first spider
.. .. .. dangles in my view -
.. .. .. circles of life
March 31, 2005
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dark morning -
the fate of a spider
on my wall
! LOOK !
September 2006
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late autumn sun -
miss spider still dangles
in mid-air
October 2006
a dark spider
in a dark night ...
flash
September 2009
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stretching a leg
for the beauty competition -
my Lady Eulalia
Click on the photo to see the whole set
Lady Eulalia in November 2009
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Some spider haiku from friends.
cosmos --
suspended from sunbeams
a tiny spider
Look at him here at a haiga by Ashe
http://thegreenleaf.co.uk/HP/Duets/Olga/10cosmos.htm
© ORIGA Olga Hooper
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/happyhaiku/message/30
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war in Iraq -
a spider hides
in the cherry blossom
My SPIDER HAIKU
from 2007 onwards !!!!!
More about Spiders as kigo in Haiku is here:
Spiders ... (kumo, Japan)
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Spiders ... (kumo, Japan) Spider web, Cob web. Spinne
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.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Spiders in Paradise
Spider is a kigo for summer.
Let me tell from my own experience living out here in the countryside, how I came to understand the Japanese kigo for ANTS and SPIDERS as summer. Living here in an old farmhouse is a lot like living in the Edo period, when most Japanese kigo where perceived.
Surely we have spiders all year round, but in summer, they are at their best. They are everywhere and every morning when I go out to get the newspaper I run into Aunt Eulalia, who has been putting up her net between the beams of the entrance doorway, again and again.
Her many sisters are hanging between the flowers luring mosquitoes, her hairy uncles, Mr. Crab and his tarantula friends, are coming down from the bamboo roof to partake of our food and life... In winter, they are seldom guests.
Meet some of my special friends, like Mr. Crab and Madame Eulalia.
My best friend, Lady Eulalia, the yellow one with the long legs, has choosen to wait for me. She uses to sit there in her net and run to shelter under a leaf when she sees me coming to water the flowers. My shadow on her net tells her its time to run.
watering flowers -
the spider's hammock
filled with diamonds
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. rain's over
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. the web of my spiders turned
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. strings of diamonds
Read some Zen musings about this topic.
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.. .. .. .. .. .. .. Three make a story
> under the stone
> who might that be
> in the shadow?
> neatly folded
> Madame Spider
> showing a leg
> nosy tomcat
> the stone takes
> a shower
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sharing my toothbrush
the huge spider
grinning
Thus beginneth another bright summer morning... :o)
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hanging on
amongst autum leaves
a pregnant spider
fest haengend
zwischen dem Herbstlaub
eine schwangere Spinne
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.. .. .. a first spider
.. .. .. dangles in my view -
.. .. .. circles of life
March 31, 2005
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dark morning -
the fate of a spider
on my wall
! LOOK !
September 2006
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late autumn sun -
miss spider still dangles
in mid-air
October 2006
a dark spider
in a dark night ...
flash
September 2009
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stretching a leg
for the beauty competition -
my Lady Eulalia
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Lady Eulalia in November 2009
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Some spider haiku from friends.
cosmos --
suspended from sunbeams
a tiny spider
Look at him here at a haiga by Ashe
http://thegreenleaf.co.uk/HP/Duets/Olga/10cosmos.htm
© ORIGA Olga Hooper
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war in Iraq -
a spider hides
in the cherry blossom
My SPIDER HAIKU
from 2007 onwards !!!!!
More about Spiders as kigo in Haiku is here:
Spiders ... (kumo, Japan)
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Spiders ... (kumo, Japan) Spider web, Cob web. Spinne
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11/08/2011
hawk
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my mountain life -
the hawk sails slowly
in the morning mist
This year we have Mr. and Mrs. Hawk, sitting on the tree stumps near the mailbox, waiting for me to come up.
Then they take off and sail up and down the valley in all their splendor.
Sometimes we whistle to each other and they fly very low over my head!
I wrote about Mr. Hawk way back in 2006
bright autumn sky -
the shadow of a hawk
in my hands
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Translation as a waka by FB friens Esho
見あぐれば (Miagureba) Looking up,
タカがゆるりと (Taka ga yururi to) The hawk is slowly
空を舞う (Sora o mau) Sailing the sky
朝もやたちこむ (Asamoya tachikomu) Embraced by the morning mist
我が山居かな (Waga yama-i kana) Oh, my mountain life
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. WKD : Hawk (taka 鷹 たか) .
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my mountain life -
the hawk sails slowly
in the morning mist
This year we have Mr. and Mrs. Hawk, sitting on the tree stumps near the mailbox, waiting for me to come up.
Then they take off and sail up and down the valley in all their splendor.
Sometimes we whistle to each other and they fly very low over my head!
I wrote about Mr. Hawk way back in 2006
bright autumn sky -
the shadow of a hawk
in my hands
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Translation as a waka by FB friens Esho
見あぐれば (Miagureba) Looking up,
タカがゆるりと (Taka ga yururi to) The hawk is slowly
空を舞う (Sora o mau) Sailing the sky
朝もやたちこむ (Asamoya tachikomu) Embraced by the morning mist
我が山居かな (Waga yama-i kana) Oh, my mountain life
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. WKD : Hawk (taka 鷹 たか) .
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11/03/2006
Shadows of leaves
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................................................ What a Coincidence !
autumn deepens
the shadow of a leaf
on a leaf
soji
Mine was written in response to Ray Rasmussen's photo on Mitsuge Abe's Photo Haiku Gallery, you can see it here:
Photo Haiku Gallery
What is it they say, "Great minds run in the same track..."?
Yes, soji san, same track !
November 2006
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. Autumn Leaves (momiji) 紅葉
yellow leaves, colored leaves
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8/11/2006
On the Road
small mountain road -
the shadow of a hawk
leads my path
after the storm -
one stike of lightning crashes
in two rainbows
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5/31/2005
Simple Daily Happiness
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small things to be greatful for every day
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summer lunch -
the first bite of
freshly baked bread
> Aaaa, this time you better feel the smell too.
> And thanks go to Bernd, the breadmaker !
.......................... summer evening -
.......................... opening a bottle
.......................... of my favorite
June 2005
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a glass of champagne
and your sparkling eyes -
hot summer night
..
ein Glas Champagner
und dein glitzernder Blick -
Sommernacht
July 2005
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this grasshopper <>
aiming straight while I
tal .. . mpfff ... whakkk
Last night after closing the shutters I was bending down to cuddle Haiku kun and talk to him, when this grasshopper really took a good hit!
And it was not even roasted, as they are sometimes eaten here in Japan as a special delicacy!
batta, grasshopper/locust [large grasshoppers, often with a more brown than green appearance, family Acrididae (short-horned)] is a kigo for all autumn.
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> > a straight hit
> > on a bald head <>
> > swallow in passing
> > .
> > ein Volltreffer
> > auf die Glatze <>
> > Schwalbe im Durchflug
Haiga by Sakuo Nakamura
http://blog.livedoor.jp/sakuo3903/
A friend from Hawaii remarked it was a good thing cows do not fly!
flying cows
in the evening sky -
he must be drunk !
July 2005
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mata hitotsu
kabe ni ana ari
ten takashi
another crack
in the old farmhouse wall <>
bright autumn sky
Earthquake in Northern Japan, August 16, 2005
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> ... lunchtime -
> ... a dead cicada
> ... surrounded by ants
she was lying there on her wings, legs in the air, and a thousand little ants were crawling around and atop of her...
August 22, 2005
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alone -
my shadow dances
over the stones
September 17, 2005
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small things to be greatful for every day
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summer lunch -
the first bite of
freshly baked bread
> Aaaa, this time you better feel the smell too.
> And thanks go to Bernd, the breadmaker !
.......................... summer evening -
.......................... opening a bottle
.......................... of my favorite
June 2005
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a glass of champagne
and your sparkling eyes -
hot summer night
..
ein Glas Champagner
und dein glitzernder Blick -
Sommernacht
July 2005
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this grasshopper <>
aiming straight while I
tal .. . mpfff ... whakkk
Last night after closing the shutters I was bending down to cuddle Haiku kun and talk to him, when this grasshopper really took a good hit!
And it was not even roasted, as they are sometimes eaten here in Japan as a special delicacy!
batta, grasshopper/locust [large grasshoppers, often with a more brown than green appearance, family Acrididae (short-horned)] is a kigo for all autumn.
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> > a straight hit
> > on a bald head <>
> > swallow in passing
> > .
> > ein Volltreffer
> > auf die Glatze <>
> > Schwalbe im Durchflug
Haiga by Sakuo Nakamura
http://blog.livedoor.jp/sakuo3903/
A friend from Hawaii remarked it was a good thing cows do not fly!
flying cows
in the evening sky -
he must be drunk !
July 2005
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mata hitotsu
kabe ni ana ari
ten takashi
another crack
in the old farmhouse wall <>
bright autumn sky
Earthquake in Northern Japan, August 16, 2005
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> ... lunchtime -
> ... a dead cicada
> ... surrounded by ants
she was lying there on her wings, legs in the air, and a thousand little ants were crawling around and atop of her...
August 22, 2005
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alone -
my shadow dances
over the stones
September 17, 2005
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4/22/2005
Tulips
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.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Tulips in Spring 2005
tulip petals
hitting my cheek -
storm in the valley
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spring flowers -
colors competing
everywhere
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tulip petals
falling one by one -
a mother's death
For My Mother.
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yo no naka ya ... 世の中や
kage to hikari no ...影と光の
chuurippu ...チュウリップ
this fleeting world !
light and shadow
on the tulips
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deep inside
a mandala enfolding -
stars in the green sky
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.. Spring Flowers in my Garden, Album 2005 ..
© April 2005
SPRING in my Garden
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Tulip .. .. .. as a kigo
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.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Tulips in Spring 2005
tulip petals
hitting my cheek -
storm in the valley
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spring flowers -
colors competing
everywhere
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tulip petals
falling one by one -
a mother's death
For My Mother.
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yo no naka ya ... 世の中や
kage to hikari no ...影と光の
chuurippu ...チュウリップ
this fleeting world !
light and shadow
on the tulips
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deep inside
a mandala enfolding -
stars in the green sky
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© April 2005
SPRING in my Garden
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10/01/2012
WKD - Hand Hands
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WKD - Haiku about Hands
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The Haiku Foundation
Per Diem for October: Hands-On
Haiku about Hands
“We are a species heavily dependent on our eyes, especially for connection with others and world around us. But our hands also connect, and that connection often reaches the heart. Right now my beloved mother-in-law, who doesn’t see well, is dying, and when you approach her, she reaches out her thin hand to connect.
These haiku about hands touch emotion. ... "
source : www.thehaikufoundation.org
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. The Hands of Daruma .
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Some thoughts shared by Naotaka Uematsu (FB)
senju-kannon 千手観音 Kannon with one thousand arms / hands
But the reading for this one is 千手 "sen-te"
and here is juubako 重箱 tiered lacquer ware boxes
But 先手is sen-te.
and futate 二手（nite, futate, nishu).
Two hands are 「両手 morote, ryoote, and we don't say "nite".
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. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .
. te ni toraba kien namida zo atsuki aki no shimo .
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手を打てば木魂に明くる夏の月
te o uteba kodama ni akuru natsu no tsuki
clapping hands,
and dawnlight in the echo:
summer moon
Tr. Barnhill
I clap my hands
and with the echoes, the day begins to dawn –
the summer moon.
Tr. Ueda
Summer moon –
clapping hands,
I herald dawn.
Tr. Stryk
as I clap my hands
with the echoes,
it begins to dawn
Tr. ?Columbia University
I clap my hands
dawning in the echo
the summer moon
Tr. Joshua Newman
when I clap my hands
they echo with
the summer dawn's moon
Tr. Addiss
when I clap my hands
it seems brighter from the echo
this summer moon
Tr. Gabi Greve
手を打つと、その音が遠く響き渡り、彼方にかかる夏の半月の中に消えてゆくようである。その月の色を見やると、今しも夜は、しらじらと明けてくるところだ.
source : t-hideki2
This is the moon on day 23 of the lunar month.
It is just before dawn and Basho claps his hands twice in prayer. It seems the moon is answering his prayer and it gets lighter.
二十三夜の月は、もう夜明け前。柏手打って月の出を讃美すれば、其の木魂が響き終える頃には朝が来てしまう。
source : itoyo/basho
Before he wrote this haiku about clapping his hands,
Basho had another version:
Memorial Stone at Kusatsu Hot Spring, Shirane Shrine
草津温泉 白根神社
Lively Echo of Wooden Sandals in the Summer Night.
This stone had been erected in 1842, in memory of 150 ago, when Basho wrote this hokku.
source : kusatsu/kusatsuonsen
夏の夜や谺に明くる下駄の音 (different kanji for kodama)
夏の夜や木魂に明る下駄の音
natsu no yo ya kodama ni akuru geta no oto
summer evening —
dawnlight in the echoes
of the clogs
Tr. Barnhill
. . . . .
It is customary to greet the sun deity every morning with two claps of the hand and a bow.
. 天照大神と大日如来 Amaterasu and Dainichi .
At a Shinto shrine it is custom to bow twice,
clap your hands twice and bow once more to greet the deity in residence.
. Kodama, the Tree Spirit .
. Geta, Wooden Sandals, Clogs, 下駄 .
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shiwade 皺手 wrinkled hand,
hand of an old person
梅折て皺手にかこつ薫りかな
ume orite shiwade ni kakotsu kaori kana
breaking a plum branch
I fret about my wrinkled hands
in the fragrance . . .
Tr. Gabi Greve
The cut marker KANA is at the end of line 3.
. Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 in Edo .
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むれる蠅皺手に何の味がある
mureru hae shiwade ni nanno aji ga aru
swarming flies
how do my hand's wrinkles
taste?
Tr. David Lanoue
. Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 in Edo .
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- some of my HAND haiku -
Albrecht Duerer, Praying Hands
smacking a child -
the sound of one hand
clapping
a mosquito
aiming noisily -
the sound of one hand
As long as the sun rises
And your heart beats,
Tao is at hand.
bright autumn sky -
the shadow of a hawk
on my hands
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carless Sunday -
kids skate on the road holding
hands of each other
Isabelle Prondzynski
MORE
- HAND haiku - kigo hotline
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morning preps --
I sneeze on my hands
time after time
Dennis Wright
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- HAND haiku - Kenya Saijiki
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dew on the grasses
cools my hands -
early morning gardening
Hideo Suzuki
Steering the tractor
With my knees ~ my hands warming
Over the exhaust pipe
Res John Burman
the nights are long ...
the warmth of helping hands
longer
Willie Bongky
the sun spots
on her hands --
autumn leaves
Stella Pierides
. . . . .
rain all day -
my hands folded
in prayer
sunrise -
my old neighbour
folds his hands
Morgenrot -
mein greiser Nachbar
faltet die Hände
Gabi Greve
Gandhara Buddha -
his hand is watching
over us
Gabi Greve
Gandhara Buddha
Hanging around my neck
His wisdom in my heart
Res John Burman
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- Shared at Joys of Japan - facebook -
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The Haiku Foundation
Per Diem for October: Hands-On
Haiku about Hands
“We are a species heavily dependent on our eyes, especially for connection with others and world around us. But our hands also connect, and that connection often reaches the heart. Right now my beloved mother-in-law, who doesn’t see well, is dying, and when you approach her, she reaches out her thin hand to connect.
These haiku about hands touch emotion. ... "
source : www.thehaikufoundation.org
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. The Hands of Daruma .
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Some thoughts shared by Naotaka Uematsu (FB)
senju-kannon 千手観音 Kannon with one thousand arms / hands
But the reading for this one is 千手 "sen-te"
and here is juubako 重箱 tiered lacquer ware boxes
But 先手is sen-te.
and futate 二手（nite, futate, nishu).
Two hands are 「両手 morote, ryoote, and we don't say "nite".
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. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .
. te ni toraba kien namida zo atsuki aki no shimo .
. . . . .
手を打てば木魂に明くる夏の月
te o uteba kodama ni akuru natsu no tsuki
clapping hands,
and dawnlight in the echo:
summer moon
Tr. Barnhill
I clap my hands
and with the echoes, the day begins to dawn –
the summer moon.
Tr. Ueda
Summer moon –
clapping hands,
I herald dawn.
Tr. Stryk
as I clap my hands
with the echoes,
it begins to dawn
Tr. ?Columbia University
I clap my hands
dawning in the echo
the summer moon
Tr. Joshua Newman
when I clap my hands
they echo with
the summer dawn's moon
Tr. Addiss
when I clap my hands
it seems brighter from the echo
this summer moon
Tr. Gabi Greve
手を打つと、その音が遠く響き渡り、彼方にかかる夏の半月の中に消えてゆくようである。その月の色を見やると、今しも夜は、しらじらと明けてくるところだ.
source : t-hideki2
This is the moon on day 23 of the lunar month.
It is just before dawn and Basho claps his hands twice in prayer. It seems the moon is answering his prayer and it gets lighter.
二十三夜の月は、もう夜明け前。柏手打って月の出を讃美すれば、其の木魂が響き終える頃には朝が来てしまう。
source : itoyo/basho
Before he wrote this haiku about clapping his hands,
Basho had another version:
Memorial Stone at Kusatsu Hot Spring, Shirane Shrine
草津温泉 白根神社
Lively Echo of Wooden Sandals in the Summer Night.
This stone had been erected in 1842, in memory of 150 ago, when Basho wrote this hokku.
source : kusatsu/kusatsuonsen
夏の夜や谺に明くる下駄の音 (different kanji for kodama)
夏の夜や木魂に明る下駄の音
natsu no yo ya kodama ni akuru geta no oto
summer evening —
dawnlight in the echoes
of the clogs
Tr. Barnhill
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It is customary to greet the sun deity every morning with two claps of the hand and a bow.
. 天照大神と大日如来 Amaterasu and Dainichi .
At a Shinto shrine it is custom to bow twice,
clap your hands twice and bow once more to greet the deity in residence.
. Kodama, the Tree Spirit .
. Geta, Wooden Sandals, Clogs, 下駄 .
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shiwade 皺手 wrinkled hand,
hand of an old person
梅折て皺手にかこつ薫りかな
ume orite shiwade ni kakotsu kaori kana
breaking a plum branch
I fret about my wrinkled hands
in the fragrance . . .
Tr. Gabi Greve
The cut marker KANA is at the end of line 3.
. Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 in Edo .
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むれる蠅皺手に何の味がある
mureru hae shiwade ni nanno aji ga aru
swarming flies
how do my hand's wrinkles
taste?
Tr. David Lanoue
. Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 in Edo .
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- some of my HAND haiku -
Albrecht Duerer, Praying Hands
smacking a child -
the sound of one hand
clapping
a mosquito
aiming noisily -
the sound of one hand
As long as the sun rises
And your heart beats,
Tao is at hand.
bright autumn sky -
the shadow of a hawk
on my hands
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carless Sunday -
kids skate on the road holding
hands of each other
Isabelle Prondzynski
MORE
- HAND haiku - kigo hotline
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morning preps --
I sneeze on my hands
time after time
Dennis Wright
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- HAND haiku - Kenya Saijiki
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dew on the grasses
cools my hands -
early morning gardening
Hideo Suzuki
Steering the tractor
With my knees ~ my hands warming
Over the exhaust pipe
Res John Burman
the nights are long ...
the warmth of helping hands
longer
Willie Bongky
the sun spots
on her hands --
autumn leaves
Stella Pierides
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rain all day -
my hands folded
in prayer
sunrise -
my old neighbour
folds his hands
Morgenrot -
mein greiser Nachbar
faltet die Hände
Gabi Greve
Gandhara Buddha -
his hand is watching
over us
Gabi Greve
Gandhara Buddha
Hanging around my neck
His wisdom in my heart
Res John Burman
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- Shared at Joys of Japan - facebook -
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