tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820047071744679108.post2698863930709862077..comments2023-05-23T03:54:17.181-07:00Comments on Introducing Haiku Poets and Topics . . . . . WKD: Tan TaigiGabi Grevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820047071744679108.post-72797003394620490302022-03-20T21:54:17.985-07:002022-03-20T21:54:17.985-07:00Comment by Naoxx Uexxx on facebook
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Tan Taigi ope...Comment by Naoxx Uexxx on facebook<br />.<br />Tan Taigi opened a School "不夜庵(Fuya-an)” at ”Shimabara” and taught Haikai and Waka to Oiran and Geiko. <br />Buson loved to visit Shimabara where he had a Geisha girl friend "Koito". <br />Buson wrote a preface to the 「太祇句選」Kusen of Tan Taigi. They were bosom friend. Kyoto Shimabara "Sumiya" .<br />.<br />Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820047071744679108.post-21804801886150900292019-08-10T18:01:09.741-07:002019-08-10T18:01:09.741-07:00comment by Larry Bole on faceboon
Blyth likes Ta...comment by Larry Bole on faceboon<br /><br /><br />Blyth likes Taigi. In "A History of Haiku: Volume One," Blyth devotes an entire chapter to Taigi. Blyth begins the chapter by saying, "Taigi ... can be thought of as the greatest haiku writer after the Great Four, Basho, Buson, Issa, and Shiki. In fact, if we read only his best verses, he may seem to be as good as they."<br /><br />Here are two of Taigi's haiku that, to me, display a sense of humor:<br /><br />amata ka no chi ni fukure iru zazen kana<br /><br />Myriad mosquitoes<br />Blown out with blood;<br />Zazen.<br />--Taigi, trans. Blyth<br /><br />fugu kuishi hito no negoto no nembutsu kana<br /><br />The man who ate swellfish<br />Says the nembutsu<br />In his sleep.<br />--Taigi, trans. Blyth<br /><br />In this chapter, Blyth translates 56 of Taigi's haiku. Blyth ends the chapter by saying:<br /><br />"The greatness of Taigi is connected with his realization that haiku is not religion, as with Basho; it is not art, as Buson thought; it is not Issa's consolation for the tragic irony of life; haiku is, or should be, life itself, no more, no less."<br />.Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820047071744679108.post-12903013696271364362018-08-11T01:17:46.859-07:002018-08-11T01:17:46.859-07:00Comment by Larry Bole on facebook
The following i...Comment by Larry Bole on facebook<br /><br />The following is excerpted from Cheryl Crowley's book, "Haikai Poet Yosa Buson and the Basho Revival" (Brill, 2007):<br /><br />"Taigi was a professional poet ('tenja') who had a great deal of experience and knowledge of haikai...<br /><br />"Tan Taigi was a complex and gifted character who followed an unconventional lifestyle---a wanderer for most of his life, he rarely stayed in the same place or stuck with the same haikai style for long. At the same time, however, he was a brilliant poet, and Buson admired him a great deal. For Buson, Taigi was a good example of someone who lived in a 'zoku' [ie. vulgar] environment yet transcended it with the very high caliber of the verse he wrote.<br /><br />"Taigi was a poet of formidable, if somewhat eccentric reputation. His tastes were eclectic; his verses appear in the collections of a wide variety of factions, and his own approach to haikai was as ambitions as Buson's. ... With the help of a brothel owner, Donshi, he set up a studio in Kyoto's Shimabara licensed district, Fuya-an, and supported himself with work as a 'tenja'. ...<br /><br />"Despite the fact that Taigi lived in the licensed district under the patronage of a brothel owner, his verse maintains a serene detachment from vulgarity and worldy concerns. This is what most impressed Buson, who was aiming for a similar kind of high-mindedness in his own verse."<br />.<br />Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820047071744679108.post-46606607416922267682018-01-08T15:30:00.135-08:002018-01-08T15:30:00.135-08:00na oriso to orite kure keri sono no ume
"Do...na oriso to orite kure keri sono no ume <br /><br />"Don't break it!" he says, <br />then breaks off and gives me <br />a branch of his plum. <br /><br />-- Taigi, trans. Harold Henderson<br /><br />.Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820047071744679108.post-31396973057276839322014-12-11T20:59:02.203-08:002014-12-11T20:59:02.203-08:00はつ雪や医師に酒出す奥座敷
hatsu yuki ya isha ni sake dasu okuz...はつ雪や医師に酒出す奥座敷<br />hatsu yuki ya isha ni sake dasu okuzashiki<br /><br />first snow !<br />we serve sake to the doctor<br />in the innermost room <br />.<br />more about the oku zashiki<br />.Gabi Greve - Darumapediahttp://edoflourishing.blogspot.jp/2014/12/zashiki-guest-room.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820047071744679108.post-42054131987826381232013-06-14T00:11:19.094-07:002013-06-14T00:11:19.094-07:00景清は地主祭にも七兵衛
Kagekiyo wa jishuumatsuri ni mo Shic...景清は地主祭にも七兵衛 <br />Kagekiyo wa jishuumatsuri ni mo Shichibyooe <br /><br />Kagekiyo<br />at the Jishu festival also is just<br />Shichibyoe <br /><br />Tan Taigi<br /><br />More about KagekiyoGabi Greve - WKDhttp://darumapedia-persons.blogspot.jp/2013/06/kagekiyo-taira-no-kagekiyo.htmlnoreply@blogger.com