Kawasaki Tenko

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Kawasaki Tenko

川崎展宏 かわさきてんこう Kawasaki Tenkoo
Born 1927 in Hiroshima
His name was Nobuhiro 展宏（のぶひろ).
Tenko Kawasaki

He studied haiku with Kato Shuson 加藤楸邨 and published many haiku collections.
In 1982, Kannon 観音


＜万屋に秋は来にけり棒束子＞
＜梅雨の雀つゆのすずめと鳴きにけり＞
＜八月の吐息の残る西の空＞
＜八月を送る水葬のやうに＞
＜「大和」よりヨモツヒラサカスミレサク＞

＜天の川水車は水をあげてこぼす＞
＜一葉忌とはこんなにも暖かな＞
＜胸の幅いつぱいに出て春の月＞
＜あらぬ方へ手毬のそれし地球かな＞

source : yanma.in


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花はみな菩薩鬼百合小鬼百合　
hana wa mina bosatsu oniyuri ko-oniyuri

the flowers are all
Bodhisattvas -
tiger lilies, small tiger lilies


The Japanese word for "tiger lily" is ONI yuri, lily of a demon/devil, which gives a strong contrast to the Bodhisattva.
Here we can feel that all things are basically the same in the Buddha world, the flowers, the demons, men ... all things.




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Pushing and shoving
voices of the cherry blossoms
cross the ocean

source:
http://www.worldhaiku.net/criticism/natsuishi1.html
Tr. Ban'ya Natsuishi


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Hot sake
Shared by men
Who sat out the vendetta.

The men referred to here are obviously ronin from Ako, but the poem also reminds me of the sort of pathos felt by Japanese company workers today.

source : Shinobu Hashimoto, Asahi Shimbun
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200812220046.html


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枇杷の実の青々として半僧坊
biwa no mi no aoao to shite Hanzooboo

the loquat fruit
are so green
at Hanzobo sanctuary
Tr. Gabi Greve


半僧坊 Hanzobo Hall - Hamamatsu
. Hookooji、Hōkō-ji 方広寺 Temple Hoko-Ji .



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