tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669788.post111415353527179637..comments2023-05-13T06:01:19.762-07:00Comments on (01) Haiku and Happiness: Saigyo Hoshi Cherry BlossomsGabi Grevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669788.post-64687132544716962102019-10-08T20:46:33.998-07:002019-10-08T20:46:33.998-07:00Kotaki Kaido 小滝街道 Kotaki Highway
A waki kaido sid...<b> Kotaki Kaido 小滝街道 Kotaki Highway </b><br />A waki kaido side road from the Yonezawa Kaido, Yamagata prefecture.<br />Already walked by Saigyo !<br />.<br />https://edoflourishing.blogspot.com/2019/09/yonezawa-kotaki-kaido-highways.html<br />.Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669788.post-9612966219062943892014-10-24T22:07:03.373-07:002014-10-24T22:07:03.373-07:00Shikoku Henro
Nr. 72 - 我拝師山 Gabaijizan 延命院 Enmei-...Shikoku Henro<br /><br />Nr. 72 - 我拝師山 Gabaijizan 延命院 Enmei-In 曼荼羅寺 Mandara-Ji<br /><br />香川県善通寺市吉原町1380-1 / 1380-1 Yoshiwarachō, Zentsūji-shi, Kagawa<br />.<br />- quote<br /><br />Statler records that the poet/priest Saigyo stayed here, and wrote this poem after finding a pilgrim's hat hanging on a pine--perhaps this one--in the yard:<br /><br />Long-living pine,<br />Of you I ask: everlasting<br />Mourning for me and<br />Cover for my corpse; here is no<br />Human to think of me when I am gone.<br />.Gabi Greve - Darumapediahttp://gokurakuparadies.blogspot.jp/2014/10/shikoku-henro-temple-list.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669788.post-58694767785946477872013-10-16T21:36:28.189-07:002013-10-16T21:36:28.189-07:00Fujimi Saigyoo
富士見西行 Priest Saigyo gazing at Moun...Fujimi Saigyoo <br />富士見西行 Priest Saigyo gazing at Mount FujiGabi Greve - Busonhttp://wkdkigodatabase03.blogspot.jp/2007/08/mount-fuji.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669788.post-77825231801254665052013-07-19T14:17:07.124-07:002013-07-19T14:17:07.124-07:00Kobayashi Issa
花じゃもの我もけふから廿九
hana ja mono ware mo...Kobayashi Issa<br /><br />花じゃもの我もけふから廿九<br />hana ja mono ware mo kyou kara nijuukyuu<br /><br />because of blossoms<br />I, too, from today hope for<br />twenty-nine years<br /><br />This hokku was written in the 3rd month (April) of 1813, when Issa is fifty-one, so he is hoping to live until he's eighty. Two months earlier he received half of his father's house and land, though he is spending most of his time on the road visiting students in various towns near his hometown, so on one level Issa is probably hoping to live many more years so he can make a new life and start a family in his hometown. However, there is almost surely a more specific reason why Issa wishes for exactly twenty-nine more years of life. This reason is indicated by "because of" and is clearly stated by "I, too," a phrase that seems to refer to the Buddha, who was said in East Asia to have died and experienced parinirvana or "complete" nirvana at the age of eighty on the 15th of the 2nd lunar month -- at a time, in Japan, when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom and beginning to fall. Among scattering cherry petals, temples around Japan carry out important memorial services on this day. Issa therefore wishes to die at eighty at the time the cherry blossoms are beginning to fall so he can feel closer to the Buddha, whom he loves and deeply respects. Issa isn't simply expressing the wish to see many more cherry-blossom seasons. He wants to live longer for the sake of eventually dying together with the Buddha under the blossoms at the same age as the Buddha. In actuality, of course, Issa died at age sixty-five after his house burned down and he was forced to move into his barn during the coldest part of winter.<br /><br />Tr. and comment by Chris Drake<br />MOREGabi Greve - Issahttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/translatinghaiku/message/4415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669788.post-3303989564219885442008-03-12T13:46:00.000-07:002008-03-12T13:46:00.000-07:00Lovely pictures, Gabi.It suddenly strikes me how m...Lovely pictures, Gabi.<BR/><BR/>It suddenly strikes me how many of the masters 'suffered' from loneliness and bore this burden by focusing on the beauty of their natural surroundings.<BR/><BR/>gathering dusk<BR/>outside my window<BR/>the cherry tree<BR/><BR/>spring morning<BR/>the cherry tree branches<BR/>heavy with birds<BR/><BR/>EllaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669788.post-1115307862231365802005-05-05T08:44:00.000-07:002005-05-05T08:44:00.000-07:00Thank you for your lovely site. I walked through ...Thank you for your lovely site. I walked through falling cherry blossoms a few days ago at a Zen retreat at Grailville in Ohio, USA.<BR/><BR/>large round snowdrops<BR/>on the yewAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669788.post-1114300546020610442005-04-23T16:55:00.000-07:002005-04-23T16:55:00.000-07:00800 sun trips --still the blossoms fallon his foot...800 sun trips --<BR/>still the blossoms fall<BR/>on his footprints<BR/><BR/>Laryalee, Canada<BR/><BR/>..........................<BR/><BR/>Thank you so much, Lary.Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669788.post-1114161492975225212005-04-22T02:18:00.000-07:002005-04-22T02:18:00.000-07:00new cherry blossoms with the branches streched out...new cherry blossoms <BR/>with the branches streched out <BR/>mother chants sutras<BR/><BR/>GEERTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com