Wonderful Weeds

名も知らぬ　道端の友　雑草かな wonderful weeds - not knowing your name do I know less ?

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More of my WEED HAIKU

weeds are a non-seasonal topic for haiku


pulling my weeds -
what kind of a weed
is man ?


one single rose
between my weeds -
dream of enlightenment


typhoon tokage -
even the weeds
are fallen


pulling out weeds
one by one
old boyfriends remembered


problems -
weeds growing
in the summer sun


weeding
the never ending growth
of life


........................ With Photos to look at

Colors of Spring

Autumn Insects

After the storm ...

Star of Autumn

Frost on the Weeds

graves among weeds / Graeber zwischen Unkraut

Cat lurking behind weeds

Summer Sunrise

Pulling out weeds


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妻なしが草を咲かせて夕涼
tsuma nashi ga kusa o sakasete yuusuzumi

a wifeless man
makes his plants bloom...
evening cool

This ku was written in 1815.
The year before Issa had married with Kiku, Chrysanthemum,
after his long single life in Edo city.
Tr. David Lanoue


this man without wife
brings (only) the weeds to bloom -
evening cool
Tr. Gabi Greve

I have a garden in Japan similar to Issa's and if I do not take proper care, only sturdy weeds will grow, no flowers, no vegetables.
Still I enjoy the evening cool looking over my small weed-flowers so full of strenght and power in the hot Japanese summer.
My motto has become :
May all my weeds be wild flowers.

I guess Issa is poking fun at himself.


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taberu mono wa atte you mono mo atte zassoo no ame

I've something to eat
And something to make me drunk;
Rain in the weeds.

Santoka and Ricewine


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tsumi susumu kusa yori cho no agari keri

as I weed
and move forward, a butterfly
has flown up

Nao Kataoka (1885-1953)


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misty dawn ~
crazy old botanist seeking
new breeds of weeds

Narayanan Raghunathan


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古葎祭の風のとどく也
furu mugura matsuri no kaze no todoku nari

old weeds--
the festival's breeze
reaches them

Kobayashi Issa

Alastair points out that in "Zen tradition, 'weeds' and 'brambles' are often used metaphorically for delusion/ignorance, and so one might read this verse as the spiritual rightness, or insightful wisdom (from or 'as' the festival) in its beneficence penetrating one's troublesome (lowly, common) old ways ... and doing so gently as a breeze..."
R. H. Blyth translates the mugura in this haiku as "goose grass," which he describes as a "symbol of desolation" that contrasts with the noisy, lively festival; A History of Haiku (Tokyo: Hokuseido, 1964) 1.361. Following Maruyama Kazuhiko, I have decided to render mugura, "weeds"; Issa haiku shuu (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1990; rpt. 1993) 288, note 1537.

Tr. and Comment : David Lanoue

mugura small creepeing weeds in marshlands
also ウグラ ugura、モグラ mogura
fam. Rubioidea
yae mugura ヤエムグラ
Kriechpflanze

goose grass amerika yaemugura アメリカヤエムグラ(cleavers)


a different plant with a similar name

kana mugura かなむぐら; カナムグラ/ 金葎／葎草
Humulus japonicus
japanischer Hopfen


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. WKD : Cleavers 葎 mugura .
..... mogura もぐら
kana mugura 金葎（かなむぐら） 鉄葎 Humulus japonicus
yae mugura 八重葎（やえむぐら）Galium spurium
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貧乏草愛たき春に逢にけり
binboogusa medetaki haru ni ai ni keri

little wild daisies -
even for you now
there is spring

Kobayashi Issa




binboogusa, Erigeron philadelphicus,
a kind of small white chrysanthemum, also called
harejion ハルジオン .
Literally it means "weed of the poor".
Skevish, Philadelphia Daisy


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kigo for all winter

fuyugusa 冬草 (ふゆくさ)
weeds in winter, plants in winter
..... fuyu no kusa 冬の草（ふゆのくさ）
fuyuaogusa, fuyu aogusa 冬青草（ふゆあおくさ）green plants in winter
kansoo 寒草（かんそう） weeds and plants in the cold



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KENYA

kigo for the dry seasons


. Weeds in Kenya 　　


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