Yoshino Yoshiko

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Yoshino Yoshiko 吉野義子

July 13. 1915 -

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吉野義子記念館
The purpose of this site
“Yoshiko Yoshino Memorial Museum”
is to contribute so that Yoshiko’s Haiku become much more popular in the world and to support one who is endeavoring to attain Yoshiko’s aim of Haiku.


This site was founded by Yoshiko Yoshino and is being developed by ones who continue to realize her wish. We wish that you would watch this site with warm heart and join to develop it as far as you could.

The 5th daughter between Naoyoshi Ogawa，father (linguist，friend of Masaoka Shiki's and winner of an award from the Japan Academy) and Kiku Ogawa，mother.
Entered Elementary School of Ehime Prefectural Normal School.Graduated from Ehime Prefectural Girls' School of Higher Education and entered the department of English literature of Doshisha Women's College.Quit college for marriage.
Enter the monthly Haiku magazine“HAMA" (the Beach)，1948.
Became am ember of the Coterie HAMA，Haiku magazine，1954.
Published the monthly Haiku magazine “HOSHI" (the Stars) in January，1979， which has continued to this day.
Published yet another monthly Haiku magazine “GINGA”(the Milky Way)，a nationwide extramural correspondence course for the rising generation.
source : hoshihaiku.web


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Budding Sakura:
Haiku of Yoshiko Yoshino
Lee Gurga (Editor), Jack Stamm (Translator)



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Xiu Ying Zheng on
Yoshiko Yoshino

Yoshiko Yoshino’s Haiku
Loving the Earth

Yoshiko Yoshino, born 1915, exemplifies an extraordinary woman figure in modern haiku. She possess great talents in haiku writing, which in a way is no surprise based on her background. Yoshino learned and was exposed to haiku since childhood. Her father was a friend of Shiki, a haiku master that modernized haiku writing. Mother Yoshiko is not only active as a poet but also works hard to advance the internationalization of haiku by conducting regular international haiku salons in Matsuyama. At these salons, Yoshino encourages haiku writers to write pieces in their own native tongue, and there are no (or very few) other haiku masters who are using this visionary approach.

Examining her haiku collections from the Tsuru book published by Deep North Press, I have observed that she places a great emphasis on elements of the nature in her haiku works. She indicated in the preface of Sakura that

“Haiku is a literary art equipped with antennas for loving messages, from the whole creation on earth—plains, mountains, rivers, lakes, and oceans, and plants and animals including human kind . . . If people in the entire world became Haiku-minded and nurture Mother Nature, then it might be possible to sustain and retain the life on our planet for the benefit of our offspring . . . Until the end of my life. I ledge myself to the love of all living creatures having similar DNA to mine and I hail them with awe and admiration through the medium of Haiku.”

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One hundred cranes
like a billowing wave
when they take off
Tsuru p111


Cranes beat the air
like water streaming
through the heavens
Tsuru p113


Mountain cedar treetops,
moon passing from tip to tip:
cherry blossom chill
Tsuru p36


The moon in heaven
the moon in the crater lake
shine on each other
Tsuru p73

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source : performance.millikin.edu


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紅葉の中に踏み入り口すわる
kooyoo no naka ni fumi-iri kuchi suwaru

stepping into
the scarlet leaves
for a kiss on the lips
Tr. Donegan & Ishibashi


Stepping into
crimson leaves--
to be kissed
Tr. Gurga's & Miyashita


. Lip, lips (kuchibiru) .

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like a ninja
a crow in the paddy
is always alone


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yuki no hiru Shino chawan ni nokorishi beni nuguu

noonday snow---
wiping lipstick
from a Shino tea bowl
Tr. Donegan & Ishibashi


. Shino pottery 志野焼 Shinoyaki .


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Japanese Reference

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Frida Kahlo

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Frida Kahlo de Rivera

(July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954)



Frida Kahlo de Rivera born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón) was a Mexican painter, born in Coyoacán and is perhaps best known for her self-portraits.

Kahlo's life began and ended in Mexico City, in her home known as the Blue House. She gave her birth date as July 7, 1910, but her birth certificate shows July 6, 1907. Kahlo had allegedly wanted the year of her birth to coincide with the year of the beginning of the Mexican revolution so that her life would begin with the birth of modern Mexico. At the age of six, Frida developed polio, which caused her right leg to appear much thinner than the other. It was to remain that way permanently. Her work has been celebrated in Mexico as emblematic of national and indigenous tradition, and by feminists for its uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form.

Mexican culture and Amerindian cultural tradition are important in her work, which has been sometimes characterized as Naïve art or folk art.Her work has also been described as "surrealist", and in 1938 André Breton, principal initiator of the surrealist movement, described Kahlo's art as a "ribbon around a bomb".

Kahlo had a volatile marriage with the famous Mexican artist Diego Rivera. She suffered lifelong health problems, many of which derived from a traffic accident during her years as a teenager. These issues are represented in her works, many of which are self-portraits of one sort or another. Kahlo suggested, "I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best."
She also stated, "I was born a bitch. I was born a painter."
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“Frida,” starring Selma Hayek, opened in 2002.



. Frida Kahlo .


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Haiku and Senryu



The definitive Unibrow

date night prep . . .
waxing crescent moon
waxing brow

Shared by Elaine Andre
Joys of Japan, February 2012


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dueling frida kahlo haikus

frida kahlo and haikus go together like manchego and quince paste, so, this was bound to happen. my friend julie submitted the first haiku with the appropriate picture -




I don't believe you
I will not look behind me
There is no monkey


O, unibrowed Frida
Your look is Spanish pain, yet
Your paintings rock on ...






Frida, oh good lord!
Thy brow has swallowed him whole.
Is this possible?!

source : marzinka.com/monkey


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