Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
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2/07/2008

light snow

  
  


light snow -
the enhanced beauty
of branch design






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2/04/2008

snow meditation

  
  



01 meditating buddha Sunday





snow snow snow -
my meditation
continues





Ohaga Nishi Tanada rice fields





02 wax forsythia snow







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With the Weather Forecast for the next 7 days ...



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Let it snow !


Just when my snow-phobia was getting the better of me, I found this lovely



© Let it snow !
Exhibition at Kaikodo


Check it out!


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Since some of you asked ...


TIBET : Thumo reskiang:
lamaic art of self-heating


David-Neel studied this art. She saw hermits who sat meditating outside, naked upon snowbanks night after night, with blizzards whirling around them; she saw students of the discipline pass tests by drying on their bodies icy sheets fresh-dipped from Himalayan lakes in midwinter. P. 133, she meditates in the thumo rite, not only to warm herself but to dry flint and tinder so she can light a fire.

Putting them under her dress, she sits and envisions flames rising, crackling around her, until it seems she can see them and she felt deliciously warm. When something made her start awake, she seemed to see the flames die down as if entering the ground, and opening her eyes she found her body burning, her face cherry red and her eyes bright, and the tinder and flint were dry and hot.
http://www.iras.ucalgary.ca/~volk/sylvia/Tib.htm

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1/29/2008

Camellia in Snow

  
  




03 camellia





03 camellia detail






04 Nagayamon entrance house





wax forsythia in snow


02 robai in snow






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1/28/2008

more icicles

  
  



02 icicles




long icicles -
the frogs frozen
in mid-air





03 icicles big





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1/25/2008

snow and icicles

  
  





03 one drop



midnight -
the icicles grow
steadily





01 foxes at night





ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo




06 early morning Buddha



early morning
meditation in snow
and sunshine







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Enjoy my snow !
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1/21/2008

snowed in

  
  



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snowed in -
the bamboo hangs its head
so low











10 bamboo hanging lower / END






visitors ...



09 visitors






The Terraced Rice Fields - Tanada


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More SNOW photos from today are in my ALBUM ! till Nr. 34



more of my SNOW haiku


the bamboo is maybe just a second before breaking ...
yuki-ore, a kigo



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12/31/2007

First Snow Roses

  
  



初雪や



07 seconds of sunshine




first snow !
the silence of my roses
deepens




09 detail






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Roses and Clouds, December 26 !!!



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12/25/2007

dishevelled

  
  




11 dry leaves




winter morning -
the dishevelled hair
of my neighbour







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She is about 65 and I meet her often on my morning walk up the hill to get the newspaper. Me in my checkered pajamas and her ... well, you see above a gentler version of it.




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10/17/2007

Withered branches

Lesson about the CUT, cause and effect


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枯れ枝や 朝日に光る白い苔
kareeda ya asahi ni hikaru shiroi koke



withered branches -
their white moss sparkles
in the morning sun




朝の日や枯れ枝に光る白い苔
asa no hi ya kareeda ni hikaru shiroi koke

morning sunshine -
white moss sparkles
on withered branches





NO CUTTING WORD ... NO Japanese Equivalent
just for the sake of this exercise, using an inversion of line 2 and 3 which I do not favour in my haiku.


morning sunshine
on withered branches
the white moss sparkles


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We had long planned to cut this old three, whith its few bare branches sticking into the sky. But this morning, I decided to let him stand there as long as he was given time by nature ...



........................... a bit of Haiku theory

According to Hasegawa Kai sensei, the working of the cut is to bring out the relation between cause and effect. Cause is the happening NOW. Effect (something lingering in my mind plus CUT ) pops up.
BUT
in a good haiku, say what is still remaining in your heart first (with a CUTTING word). Meaning, the result, the effect is stated first, then the cause, the reason for what triggered this now.


I saw the white sparkle first, then the sunshine came into mind.

The third example has no Japanese equivalent.
The English reader might read a pause after line one or two, or maybe pivot ... theories are many.


Still struggeling with the CUT.
The lesson is going on till April of 2009, so there will be more theory !

Kireji, the CUT in haiku !




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10/05/2007

visitors

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Ryokan sweeping fallen leaves



waiting for guests ...
I sweep the path again

and again







. Ryokan san and Tamashima Daruma  


. Ryokan Memorial Day  



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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


. WKD - Ryokan Memorial Day .  

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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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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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10/01/2007

roses and weeds

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lonely roses -
the bees and the butterflies
go for the weeds!



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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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9/11/2007

autumn sunset

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autumn sunset -
reflections in a broken
bicycle mirror




autumn sunset -
a late butterfly hurries
from flower to flower



(Dedicated to an OLD friend,
who is still chasing the girls ...)







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Firts version:

autumn sunset -
reflections in a broken
mirror


A friend suggested these first two lines

sunset
in a broken mirror


but this states something different from what I was trying to show the reader.


the general scene and mood is
............................. autumn sunset -

(I hope you can see the cut at the end of the line 1.) but then we have

reflections (of something xyz not stated ) in a broken
mirror


xyz could be ... my wrinkled face
(I make this up, it was not what I saw )


In my experience, XYZ was a raven hanging upside down over the almost ripe yellow rice fields. Someone must have broken a bicycle mirror or something by the roadside ...


That would be too much to tell in the haiku.
I wanted the reader to find out for him/herself what can be reflected in a broken mirror in his own life situation on an autumn evening ...


Still, I make it "bicycle mirror" to give you a lead ...

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More comments

nice moment to capture here ... i find the lines a little well used ..
I do like the moment you are reaching for

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Gabi, the first one is nice, but I LOVE your second one.

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Your second version is very nice haiku , Gabi san
I agree ,,, the "bicycle" added clarity and depth to the poem...

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autumn sunset -
reflections in a broken
bicycle mirror

maybe state simply:

pieces of mirror
reflect upside down --
a crow above ripe rice

Gabi san, I tried to put it all into that tight HAIKU sack...

pieces of mirror (imply a broken mirror)
reflect upside down -- (general characteristics of a reflection)
a crow above ripe rice (what you actually saw... ripening rice is too long so I fudged a little time with the kigo "ripe rice")


I see this from your explanation, but, the HAIKU may need or needs a tweak... probably less is more?

I left off "bicycle" as this is speculation... but that's just my take.

Also:

rippening rice -- (kigo)
a raven's image
in pieces of mirror

rippening rice --
an upside down raven
in a piece of mirror

Well... I could tweak more... but why have all the fun... LOVE this scene, Gabi san, reminds me of walking with Etsuko san at Gakurakuan along the country roadside in the afternoon... or was that morning?

keigu

.. Whow, Chibi san, you have been brainstorming !

I guess my story leads toward a haibun, to explain it all properly ... and then continues with the dead wild boar piglings (how do you call them in English? uribo) they hang them upside down too, one on each corner of the paddy, to hope the smell will scare other boars off from stealing the rice ... that is rural japan, before the advent of electric fencing ... and even with it, right here ...

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very interesting how you wrote the word longer!

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8/29/2007

Spidernet

  
  










looking up -
a first sign of autumn
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Spiders in Paradise 。。極楽の蜘蛛


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7/30/2007

Moonshine

  
  







almost full
the moon hangs on a cloud
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7/22/2007

rainy days

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雨の日々 茸食べつくす 蝸牛


long rainy days -
the snails munch faster than
the mushrooms grow


long rainy season -
the mushrooms grow faster than
the snails can munch




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Rainy Season (tsuyu)


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7/17/2007

living in clouds

  
  



living in clouds -
if it was here to die,
t'was here to be most happy













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Othello, Act Two, Scene One



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7/02/2007

Daylily and visitor

  
  







the daylily
and her hungry visitor -
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Daylily, daylilies (kanzoo)




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6/05/2007

Summer day

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summer morning -
another weed blossoming
by the roadside



summer lunch -
a beetle dives
into the curry pot



summer eve -
a badger nodds
its "good night"


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The badgers always trodd along when we have dinner outside. They stop, watch us for a while and then start nodding their heads before they move on ...


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6/04/2007

Beetles

  
  



blackberry flowers -
the biggest beetle
chases its rivals









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More bees and butterflies are here
My Summer Flowers





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