ku form
nigaku- bitter
ide form
isoide
"雲がいそいでよい月にする kumo ga isoide yoi tsuki ni suru" - Santoka
"The clouds, Hurrying by, Making a good moon." - Santoka
taking a picture
you are at once
the family member
taking the picture
the person
who took this
picture
and you
taking in
the picture
"To read a haiku is to become its co-author, to place yourself inside its words until they reveal one of the proteus-shapes of your own life" - Seeing Through Words essay, Jane Hirshfield
After wondering how Basho would have been and settled for a movie called Le Voyage De Basho. You might find this movie slow, but I get the sense of the writing and the nature of the beauty more after watching this.
Journey to the West showed up in the feed. I had to watch it. Growing up we learnt Fa Hiuen tsang or Xuanzang was a Chinese traveler to India. But I didnt know it was for Buddhism. It was interesting to see how arduous the journey was and how he stuck to his purpose.
abare ka no tsuito furu i ni shinobikeri - Issa
"あばれ蚊のそれでも都そだち哉
abare ka no soredemo miyako sodachi kana
a pesky mosquito
though raised
in Kyoto" - Issa
Renga rules
In linking verses - "Basho used five words: nioi 匂い, “scent”; hibiki 響き, “echo”; utsuri 移り, “change” or “reflection”; kurai 位 “rank”; and omokage 面影, “mental image.”
tai and yu - essence and attribute
soku and shinku - close or distant verses, 1 and 2 connected through time and 2 and 3 connected through atmosphere
mon and ji - striking and plain verses
Looking at the composition
of a flower painting
with enough emphasis
on the buds too
Kache-o prints
can show how
even a single
leaf by a
flower
adds to the beauty
to set budding more - Keats
