Akimoto Fujio

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Akimoto Fujio 秋元不死男

July 25. 1901年11月3日 - 1977年7月25日
1901-1977

His name was written like this
秋元 不二雄
FUJIO is a pun with "a man who does not die", an undying man.




His first haiku name was
東 京三（ひがし きょうぞう）Higashi Kyoozoo, Higashi Kyôzô

and 東京三は「京三東」（きょうさんとう）kyoosantoo (kyosanto)
(a pun with the name of the communist party of Japan, 共産党).

He was born in Yokohama. Since 1934, he joined the Shinkyo Haiku movement. Toward the end of WWII, he spent some time in prison.


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In the haiku book entitled Kobu (A Lump), he writes:
“During wartime, many people were inflicted with wounds. The wound I received, which was inflicted by the Haiku Persecution Incident, was merely ‘a lump.’
Even though it was but ‘a lump,’ I will never forget its pain”
(Akimoto, 62).
http://www.simplyhaiku.com/SHv5n4/features/Ito.html
『瘤』 kobu, a lump, second collection of his writings about prison, 1950



His haiku name later was also
秋元 地平線 Akimoto Chiheisen


He supervised a poetry journal called Hyokai　氷海.

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kigo for late summer

Memorial Day of Fujio

Fujio Ki 不死男忌 (ふじおき) Fujio Memorial Day
Kanro Ki 甘露忌（かんろき） Kanro Memorial Day
Manza Ki　万座忌（まんざき） Manza Memorial Day

Kanroshuu　甘露集 collection of his poems. 1977
Manza　万座 collection of his poems, for which he got the Iida Dakotsu prize. 1968


Memorial Days of Famous People
SAIJIKI



寸酌を"給油"呼びし不死男の忌　

refilling his cup of sake
he called it : "put gas in the car" ...
memorial day of Fujio

Takaha Shugyo 鷹羽　狩行(1930-)



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走馬灯廻らぬもあり不死男の忌　　
soomatoo mawaranu mo ari Fujio no Ki 　　

the lantern for the dead
sometimes does not turn ...
memorial day of Fujio

Horiuchi Ichiroo 堀内一郎


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北歐の船腹垂るる冬鴎　　　 　 　　　　
Fujio 不死男
　　　　



八方へ白さるすべり甘露の忌　　
happoo e shiro sarusuberi Kanro no Ki

on all sides
white crape myrtle ...
Kanro memorial Day
　　
Yamamoto Kazuo 山本一雄

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He wrote a lot of haiku using onomatopoetic devices.


. Onomatopoetic Words used in Haiku 　



鳥わたるこきこきこきと罐切れば
tori wataru kokikokikoki to kan kireba

birds migrating
sound "koki-koki-koki"
as I open a can

He opened a can, it was just after the war and his joy of getting food is expressed in this sound.
It could also be the sound of the birds flying over.


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ライターの火がポポポポと滝涸るる
raitaa no hi ga hohohoho to taki kooru

the flame of the lighter
goes ... "ho ho ho ho "
frozen waterfall


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wantan soup

へろへろとワンタンすするクリスマス
herohero to wantan susuru kurisumasu

I slurp wantan dumplings
with the sound "hero hero" -
Christmas


wantan soup, wanton soup, wonton soup


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He wrote some memorial haiku for other poets.

for poet Dazai Osamu 太宰治（１９０９～１９４８

太宰忌の流水落差音あきらか　　　



for haiku poet Shimada Seihoo 嶋田青峰（１８８２～１９４４）
(Shimada Seiho)

安房（あは）の海老生きて届きぬ青峰忌



for poet Tomita Moppo 富田木歩 (１８９７～１９２３)

木歩忌や三角州(ﾃﾞﾙﾀ）に通ふ大鴉



for haiku poet Iida Dakotsu 飯田蛇笏 (1885～1962)

蛇笏忌やどすんと落ちて峡（かひ）の柿　


source
http://ww2.enjoy.ne.jp/~rodin33/diary.html


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nemu no hana, silk tree, powder puff, Albizia julibrissin

万緑の一樹ねむの花末だ
manryoku no ichiju no nemu no hana urada

Written 1963 in Kisakata (Kisagata)


Interesting LINK to poets who wrote about Kisakata, including
Matsuo Basho
http://www10.plala.or.jp/tokuda_shusei/kisakata/kisakata.htm


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仰むいて沼はさびしき蓴かな　　
aomuite numa wa sabishiki nunawa kana

looking up,
the swamp is so lonely ...
water shileds
　　　　

Haiku about water shield, Brasenia schreberi, junsai


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More haiku by Fujio
(from the weblio pages http://www.weblio.jp/)


すみれ踏みしなやかに行く牛の足
ただ妻の支持のみ確か蟇低音
ねたきりのわがつかみたし銀河の尾
わが骨を見てゐる鷹と思ひけり
クリスマス地に来ちちはは舟をこぐ
悪評や垂れて冬着の前開き
運動会少女の腿の百聖し
寒や母地のアセチレン風に欷き
吸殻を炎天の影の手が拾ふ
橋に乗るかなしき道を道をしえ
向日葵の大声でたつ枯れて尚
幸ながら青年の尻菖蒲湯に
降る雪に胸飾られて捕へらる
獄を出て触れし枯木と聖き妻
三月やモナリザを売る石畳 Mona Lisa
子を殴ちしながき一瞬天の蝉
死の見ゆる日や山中に栗おとす
蛇消えて唐招提寺裏秋暗し Temple Toshodai-Ji
終戦日妻子入れむと風呂洗ふ
春惜しむ白鳥の如き溲瓶持ち
少年工学帽かむりクリスマス
厨房に貝が歩くよ雛祭
鳥わたるこきこきこきと罐切れば
売文や夜出て髭のあぶらむし
蝿生れ早や遁走の翅使ふ
氷菓互ひに中年の恋ほろにがき
苗代や一粁先に艦浮ぶ
富士爽やか妻と墓地買ふ誕生日 Mount Fuji
豊年や切手をのせて舌甘し
明日ありやあり外套のボロちぎる
隆々と一流木の焚火かな
冷されて牛の貫禄しづかなり


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Japanese Reference

"秋元不死男"


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Inahata Teiko

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Inahata Teiko 稲畑汀子
Teiko Inahata




I see her often in TV programs of various kinds.
Her kindness and energy is very impressive.

Gabi Greve

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Born in 1931, she learned haiku from her grandfather Takahama Kyoshi and father Takahama Toshio.

She edits the haiku magazine “Hototogisu” and selects haiku entries for the Asahi Newspaper. She is the president of the Japan Traditional Haiku Association, the director of the Kyoshi Memorial Museum and an adviser to Haiku International Association.
Her work in Japanese includes several haiku collections and books dealing with haiku.
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Japanese Reference


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Basic Conditions of Japanese Language Haiku
Inahata Teiko

It is very important that you feel free to write a haiku your way.
But there are certain basic conditions which you as a haiku poet are supposed to observe.

Read her instructions here:
Invitation to Haiku
©　Inahata Teiko


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NATURE AND OUR LIFE
--- Haiku Living Together with Nature ---
"Haiku in Twelve Months"

January February March April May June July
August September October November December




Books by Inahata Teiko


日本伝統俳句協会

INVITATION TO HAIKU


国際俳句交流協会



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December 2010

She was driving on her way back from Matsuyama to Tokyo.
Near Tsuyama, she got into a traffic jam and tried a different road ... but alas ...


to avoid a traffic jam
another traffic jam -
mountain road in winter


. juutai o sakeshi juutai fuyu yamaji 　
more haiku about traffic jams




百年の老舗を守り藍植うる
.hyakunen no shinise o mamori ai uuru .


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朧夜の町かどに聞く美濃仁輪加
oboro ya no machikado ni kiku Mino niwaka

on a hazy spring night
in all corners of Mino you hear
the festival songs

Mino matsuri 美濃祭 Mino festival


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芦屋市はわがまほろばよ燗熱く
Ashiya shi wa waga mahoroba kan atsuku

the town of Ashiya
is my land of bliss -
the sake flask is warm



For the NHK Haiku Okoku meeting in December she had invited the participants to the Kyoshi Memorial Museum in Ashiya.
She had ordered the caretakers not to sweep the leaves of the large keyaki zelkova tree and all could walk and enjoy the crunching sound of the yellow leaves on the ground.

mahoroba
refers to an old poem of the Kojiki, where the land of Yamato is called like this in a poem byMotoori Norinaga

大和は のまほろば たたなずく
あおかき山ごもれるやまとしうるわし

Yamato wa kuni no mahoroba tatanazuku
Aokaki-yama gomoreru Yamato shi uruwashi.

Yamato is
The highest part of the land;
The mountains are green partitions
Lying layer upon layer,
Nestled among the mountains,
How beautiful is Yamato !
Tr. Michael Marra

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Ashiya Kyoshi Memorial Museum of Literature
虚子記念文学館 . 兵庫県芦屋市
http://www.kyoshi.or.jp/e-index.htm

On display are handwritten poems on scrolls, paper strips and other media, plus letters, manuscripts and other paraphernalia recounting the author’s interactions with scholars and poets of the likes of Shiki Masaoka, Soseki Natsume and Hekigotou Kawahigashi.
In the library, visitors can read the Hototogisu journal of poetry that has continued from 1897 to today, Kyoshi’s writings, and books and journals on poetry.


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. WKD : Repetition used in haiku 　
samples by Inahata Teiko



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Tomiyasu Fusei

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Tomiyasu Fusei (Tomiyasu Fuusei )
富安 風生　(とみやす ふうせい)
His real name was Kenji 謙次.

1885 - 1979
明治18年(1885)4月16日生～昭和54年(1979)2月22日




Famous member of the Hototogisu Haiku Group, from Aichi prefecture. He later founded the "Haiku Association of Tokyo University", Toodai Haiku Kai 東大俳句会 with Mizuhara Shuoshi and Yamaguchi Seishi. They were all students of Takahama Kyoshi.

My own haiku sensei was a student of Fusei sensei.

Fuusei used to teach his haiku students:

People and animals and plants
only show their real face to a person
who looks at them with love and compassion.

人間でも動物でも植物でも、
本当に愛情を持って見つめる人にしか
本当の顔を見せないものだよ

Gabi Greve

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石槌も 南瓜の花も 大いなり
Ishizuchi mo nankin no hana mo ooi nari

The flower of a pumpkin
as well as Mt.Ishizuchi
is great in scale


Fusei Tomiyasu (1885 - 1979) was born in Aichi Prefecture as the fourth son to father "Saburo" and mother "Naka", in 1885. His real name was "Kenji". Naka's father had a Haiku pen name "Baigetsu 梅月 (plum moon)", so his literary talent was descended from his mother.

In May of 1937(Showa 12), he retired as the vice minister of communications after 27 years' service with the Ministry of Communicaions. In Jul. of 1937(Showa 12), he visited Matsuyama for the first time and arrived at Niihama, he composed this Haiku as his first impression of Ehime.

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銀杏散る遠くに風の 音すれば
ichoo chiru tooku ni kaze no oto sureba

scattering gingko leaves
faint sound from the wind
far away




稗蒔や疲れたる眼にみどりなり
hie maki ya tsukaretaru me ni midori nari

millet plants -
pleasant greenery for
my tired eyes

Millet as kigo



吉備の野をここに絞りて山仕事　　　
Kibi no no o koko ni shiborite yama shigoto

the plains of Kibi -
it seems a good place for
work in the mountain forests

Mimasaka area and Haiku

Tr. Gabi Greve

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浪花おどり見つつはあれど旅疲れ
Naniwa odori mitsutsu wa aredo tabi tsukare

I keep watching
the Naniwa dance but
I am tired from the travel

Tr. Gabi Greve / Naniwa Odori


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hatsu fuji ya chazan no ue ni kakure nashi

On New Year's Day
Mt. Fuji presents a brilliant figure
above the tea hills.

Classic Haiku: A Master's Selection
Miura, Yuzuru



Hitohira no koyuki Momiji o tamuke kana




街の雨鶯餅がもう出たか
michi no ame uguisu mochi ga moo deta ka

rain on the road -
are the uguisu mochi
already on sale?


. WASHOKU
Uguisu Mochi - rice cakes in spring 　
lit. "bush warbler rice cakes", or "nightingale rice cakes".


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秋晴や宇治の大橋横たはり
akibare ya Uji no oohashi yokotahari

fine autumn weather -
the big bridge at Uji
spreads over the river

. Uji Festival 宇治祭

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国許の母が来てゐて二の替　　
Kabuki and Haiku


一位の　実含みて吐きて　旅遠し
Ichii (Yew Tree) and Haiku


この道をふみもまどはず鳴雪忌　　　
kono michi o fumi mo madowazu Meisetsu ki
Naito Meisetsu Memorial Day



まんまろき　月のあがりし 西瓜番
manmaroki tsuki no agarishi nankin ban


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風生先生矍鑠として電波の日
Fuusei sensei kakushuku shite denpa no hi

Master Fusei
is still so vigorous . . .
Radio Day

Kishi Fusanro (Fuusanroo) 岸風三樓 (1910 - 1982)

Radio Day and Haiku


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Compiled by Larry Bole:

Blyth is not especially favorable to Fusei. None of Fusei's haiku appears in Blyth's 4-vol. Haiku, and Blyth has this to say about Fusei in Vol. 2 of History of Haiku:

[Fusei] made haiku a kind [of] hobby for people to engage in, in other words his haiku was "popular" in both the good and bad sense. [p. 165]

The popularization of haiku by Fusei was undesirably inevitable... [p. 344]

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asagao no hanada no awaki inochi oshi

I love the rest of my life
Though it is transitory
Like a light azure morning glory.
trans. Yozuru Miura

(I think of a haiku by Hakyo as being a companion piece to the above haiku:

asagao-no kon-no kanata-no tsukishi kana

The morning-glory --
far beyond its dark blue,
months and days to come.
Hakyo, trans. Ueda)


Back to Fusei:

hana-kuzu ni kuchi aku koi ya natsu-mekite

To the falling shreds
of blossoms a carp opens its mouth:
summer has come.
trans. Ueda


gasorin no ma-akaki tenba haru no ame

At the gas station
a bright red Pegasus--
spring rain.
trans. Ueda

(I like the above haiku especially because it reminds me of seeing the red Pegasus signs at Mobil gas stations on the long driving vacations my father took our family on in my youth.)


ikkei no yuri no zenryoku ichirai ni

A lily stalk
concentrating all its might
into one flower bud.
trans. Ueda


chichi no goto mata haha no goto oo natsuki

Like a father
and also like a mother,
the huge summer tree.
trans. Ueda



Blyth did translate some of Fusei's haiku, and here is one:

te ni torite hanachishi hagi no eda nagashi

Taking it in the hand,
And letting it go,--
How long the branch of the lespedesa!
trans. Blyth



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Mizuhara Shūōshi (Shuuooshi, Shuuoushi)(1892-1981)

Takahama Kyoshi (1874 - 1959)

Yamaguchi Seishi （1901 - 1994）


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Arima Akito

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Arima Akito 有馬朗人（ありま あきと)

(September 13, 1930 - December 07, 2020)

Chairman, Japan Science Foundation
prominent nuclear theorist




The International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) is pleased to announce the election of Professor Akito Arima as President and Chair of the Board of Trustees. Professor Arima will take office on April 1st 2009

He was President of Tokyo University from 1989-1993 and President of The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) from 1993-1998. From 1998 to 1999 he was Minister of Education, Science, Sports and Culture and Minister of State for Science and Technology. Among his other current activities he plays an important role in supporting the public understanding of science as Chairman of the Japan Science Foundation. As Co-Chairman of the Board of Governors of the international graduate university, the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST-PC) that is now under construction, he continues to advance science worldwide.
source : www.alphagalileo.org


Akito Arima received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1953, his Master of Science degree in 1956 and his Doctor of Science in 1958 from the University of Tokyo.
Detailed Biography
http://www.jspsusa.org/FORUM1997/bio.arima.html




English Reference




He also signed the Matsuyama Haiku Declaration 1999

. . The Matsuyama Declaration, 1999


He is often on NKH National TV in the various Haiku programs.
He is teaching Haiku on NHK from 2011 for two years.




平凡社の11月新刊
『松尾芭蕉この一句』
監修は有馬朗人さんと宇多喜代子さん
Haiku by Matsuo Basho
Arima Akito and Uda Kiyoko


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Ginko – A Conversation with Dr. Akito Arima
Haiku Chronicles Episode 25: Ginko
Dr. Akito Arima joins us in a conversation on the subject of a ginko walk, writing haiku, and seeing the world with new eyes.

Listen to the interview HERE :
source : vimeo.com

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光堂より一筋の雪解水
Hikaridoo yori hitosuji no yukige mizu


from the Golden Hall
one straight line of
melt water



Arima Akito 有馬朗人
Scientist and Haiku Poet
ISBN: 1-929820-01-1




. Hiraizumi and the Golden Hall 　


quote
Dr Akito Arima combines a certain traditional elegance, and the seasoned perspective of a world traveled professor and scientist. He maintains the depth and lightness of true haiku, yet fluently covers places and spaces, and as a family person at that. I love his spider webs, women's gloves, and use of the color white. (To mention just a little.) His poems subtly pose a powerful model for us all, with their delicate, confident cosmopolitanism:

cool morning—
a baby carriage
crossing the border
(Brazil)

I warmly welcome this fine collection into the world of American poetry."

Gary Snyder
Davis, California
http://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/translations/arimahaiku.html

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古事記読む八方に濃き春霞
kojiki yomu happoo ni koki harugasumi

reading the Kojiki -
in all directions there is
thick spring haze


. Kojiki 古事記 "Record of Ancient Matters"　 .

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かく生きてかく忘れられ雪達磨
kaku ikite kaku wasurerare yuki daruma

thus lived
thus being forgotten
the snowman

Arima Akito 有馬朗人
Tr. Emiko Miyashita


quote
Interview with Emiko Miyashita
by Robert Wilson

question:
You have studied haiku under Japanese haiku master, Dr. Akito Arima. What influence has he had on your writing? How has it affected your life as a poet?

answer:
I was taught by Dr. Arima that the form of haiku could contain only a limited number of words; thus it was fit to deal with beauty of the world we live in and that poets should let more complicated subjects be written in tanka or other forms of poetry. When I write haiku, I try to make it simple, precise, and pleasant (for the readers), because a haiku can only exist if it has a reader/someone to share it.

I write haiku in a haiku community, and therefore I cannot write haiku that is too selfish or has too much self-content. My haiku is for the readers and that includes myself as a reader, too. Dr. Arima, however, has many touching haiku about his pain, agony, and distress, and yet are sublimated into beautiful images.

In Japanese haiku, we have kigo, seasonal words, which are not only the selected words typical of seasons but also an accumulation of more than a millennium of our poetry.
By making use of this kigo, we can convey the feeling of pain and agony in a simple line.

hana nagaku iesu egakare samui kabe

with a long nose
a painting of Jesus--
the cold wall

Akito Arima


Read also an Interview with Robert Wilson
and more haiku from the Einstein book


Q) What do you look for when writing a haiku?

A) I try to capture the feelings of "The Fours":

in a year--the four seasons;
in a month--the four stages of
the waxing and waning of the moon;
in a day--morning, afternoon, evening, and night.


. . . READ MORE in our library
2003/2004 Simply Haiku


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夕暮のはかりに重き寒鮃
yuugure no hakari ni omoki kan-birame

it feels so heavy
the winter flounder on a scale
in the evening
Paraverse Gabi Greve


Flounders and Haiku



. Dolfin Haiku

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shoka ni aku yuubin kitte hodo no mado
初夏に開く郵便切手ほどの窓　

in early summer
I open a window the size
of a stamp


. Postal Stamps and Haiku


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時雨るるや象の字多き普賢経
shigururu ya zoo no ji ooki Fugen kyoo

cold sleet falling . . .
the word "elephant" is so often
in the Fugen Sutra


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haiku about the Eiffel Tower, Paris

. ayatori no efferutoo mo fuyu ni iru 　


. Portugal .


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”有馬朗人”


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December 08, 2020

Nuclear physicist, ex-minister Arima Akito dies Japanese nuclear physicist and former education minister Arima Akito has died. He was 90 years old.
Sources say Arima was found collapsed at his home in Tokyo on Monday and was later pronounced dead.
He was born in Osaka, western Japan. After graduating from the University of Tokyo, he became a professor and later served as president of the university.
On top of many awards he received in Japan for his achievement in nuclear physics, Arima was given France's highest order of merit, Legion of Honor. Arima became a member of the Upper House of the Diet in 1998, assuming the post of education minister and the head of the then-science and technology agency.
After his retirement from politics, he took up the post of president at private and public educational institutions.
In 2016, Arima served as the head of an education ministry panel to discuss the fast-breeder reactor Monju, which had a series of safety troubles.
- NHK news -


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Kusumoto Kenkichi

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Kusumoto Kenkichi
楠本憲吉 (くすもと けんきち )

1922‐1988



Born in Osaka on December 19, 1922, died on December 17, 1988.
His father owned a famous restaurant 灘万.
He studied at Keio University in Mita ward, Tokyo.

He studied haiku with Hino Sojo (Soojoo) 日野草城 （1901-1956）.

Published the magazine "No no Kai" 野の会.

He also wrote many essays and critiques.

Haiku editions
Inka Shokubutsu 隠花植物
Kokaku 孤客 (Lonely travelling)


Haiku no shiteiseki
by Kenkichi Kusumoto, 1979


Kusumoto Kenkichi no sekai
(Showa haiku bungaku arubamu)
by Yu Matono


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三田二丁目の秋ゆうぐれの赤電話
Mita nichoome no aki yuugure no aka denwa

Mita second district
in the autumn evening
a red telephone


Kenkichi wrote this in 1985.
He had lived close to the main gate of Keio University in Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo.
The public telephone was near the traffic crossing to the gate.



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歳月や今川焼きに幼児の香
saigetsu ya Imagawa-yaki ni yooji no ka

Le temps passe vite !
Le fumet de "Imagawayaki"
Me rappelle mon enfance.
source : 俳句と季語の仏訳練習



time passes fast -
the fragrance of Imagawa waffles
remind me of my childhood

. WASHOKU
kind of waffles filled with sweat bean paste 　



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　花舗の灯果舗の灯殊にレモンの艷めく灯

　　鴨遊ぶ地畔孤客でおしゃれで僕で

　　夫人が撞く鐘の音存分に吸う緑雨

　　汝の甘えに似て雪柳陽になだれ

　　見よ東海の岬に彳てばひそかに春

　　スリットがこぼす脚線香港初夏

　　句碑も冷ゆるかわが渾身の句彫みつ

source : haijiten/haiku

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楠本憲吉


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Usuda Aro

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Usuda Aro 臼田亜浪
Aro Usuda, Usuda Aroo 臼田亜浪（うすだあろう）
Arô Usuda (1879 - 1951)
Born Feburary 1 in Komuro, Nagano 長野小諸
Died November 11 .
His grave is at the temple 中野宝仙寺



His real name was
臼田卯一郎 Usuda Uichiroo
His Haiku Name was also Itto 一兎（いっと）(one rabbit)
He graduated from Hosei University 法政大学（ほうせいだいがく） .
He met Takahama Kyoshi and studied haiku with him.

He edited the haiku magazine
shakunage 石楠（しゃくなげ) Rhododendron

His motto was
一句一章.

His student was Ono Rinka 大野林火.

His publications

『亜浪句鈔（くしょう）』（1925）
『旅人』（1937）
『白道』（1946）


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郭公や何処までゆかば人に逢はむ
kakkoo ya doko made yukeba hito ni au

this cuckoo . . .
how far do I have to walk
until I meet somebody


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死ぬものは死にゆく躑躅燃えてをり
shinu mono wa shi ni yuku tsutsuji moete ori

all mortal beings
have to die - azaleas
in full bloom


. shi ni yuku ... mortality and haiku



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白れむに夕日の金の滴れり
hakuremu ni yuuhi no kin no shitatareri

on white magnolias
gold of the setting sun
is dripping

mokuren (木蓮) magnolia
hakuren 白蓮 white lotus


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虫干しの山家の牛に鳴かれけり
mushi-boshi no yamaga no ushi ni nakarekeri

drying out the bugs
in the mountanin lodge
the cows keep mooing

mushi-boshi (drying the bugs)
doyoo-boshi (drying during the dog-days)



Das Lueftchen im Sommer
wurde mir vom Rind der Berghuette gemuht.
(uebersetzt: KIMIZUKA Rie)


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ふるさとは山路がかりに秋の暮
furusato wa yamaji ga kari ni aki no kure

in my home land
as I walk along a mountain path . . .
end of autumn

or

twilight on an autumn day


. furusato ふるさと Home village, home town, home land 　　


He was born in the mountainous region of Shinshu (Nagano). This haiku shows hid deep feelings for this area.


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source : www.haikuspirit.org

Into the shrieking north wind
a hawk flies
aiming for Mount Fuji


On the tip of a branch
hangs the setting sun
- autumn wind


Growing dark as usual
from the depth of a snowstorm
a huge solar disk



FROM: JAPANESE HAIKU 2001
Published and edited by the
MODERN HAIKU ASSOCIATION (GENDAI HAIKU KYOKAI)
Translations by Eric Selland, Philip Zitowitz and Martin Lucas


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流れ消ゆ雲かよ野路の閑古鳥

ゆく雲の心を誘ふ暮の春

墓起す一念草をむしるなり

氷挽く音こきこきと杉間かな

鵯のそれきり鳴かず雪の暮

臼田亜浪



曙や比叡の霞の街へのび
浅間ゆ富士へ春暁の流れ雲
するが野や大きな富士が麦の上
木曽路ゆく我れも旅人散る木の葉

and many many more
http://suien.ne.jp/0001/aro/kansyo.htm


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Tsukushi Bansei

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Tsukushi Bansei 筑紫磐井

(1950, January 14 - )





His real name is 國谷実.

A literary critic from Kyoto. His trademark are dark sunglasses.

He has also translated Japanese haiku into English.

. Translations by Bansei




Haiku Collection by Bansei
筑紫磐井集





『野干』　東京四季出版、1989年

『婆伽梵（ばかぼん）』　弘栄堂書店、1992年

『花鳥諷詠』（『筑紫磐井集』所収）


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俳諧はほとんどことばすこし虚子
haikai wa hotondo kotoba sukoshi Kyoshi

haikai is
mostly about words
a bit about Kyoshi


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Kobayashi Issa

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Kobayashi Issa


Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶)
(June 15, 1763 - January 5, 1828)

"A cup of tea"




a Japanese poet, and Buddhist priest, known for his haiku poems and his journals. He is regarded as one of the four haiku masters in Japan, along with Bashō, Buson and Shiki.

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. Kobayashi Issa in Edo - 江戸 .

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kigo for late winter

Issa Ki 一茶忌 Issa Memorial Day
January 5

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David Lanoue and ALL about Issa !


everyday Issa
Haiga by Nakamura Sakuo


Comments and translations by
. - Chris Drake - .
Translating Haiku Forum


Dew on the Grass: the life and poetry of Kobayashi Issa
by Ueda Makoto

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arabonpu 荒凡夫

Kaneko Tohta calls Issa an "ara bonpu" a "wild normal man", a normal man who lived freely with the earth and on the earth.

“荒凡夫”の魅力にあふれ

生涯２万句（芭蕉は１０００句）を作った一茶の魅力は自らいう「荒凡夫」にあると。
「荒凡夫」とは庶民ながら自由気ままに生きる人。
「一茶はふつうの人間であり、俗物でもあったが、生きもの感覚を失わなかった所に偉さがある」とする。

一茶の句では、「雀の子そこのけゝ御馬が通る」や「やれ打つな蝿が手を摺り足をする」が筆者は好きなのだが、「前者はできのいい句とはいえないが、素朴で生き物へのいたわりがある。後者は慈悲心を持ての解釈はまちがいで、慈悲心そのものが表れた句」と金子さんは説く。

金子さんのイチ押しは「梟（ふくろう）も面癖直せ春の雨」
fukuroo mo tsuraguse naose haru no ame。
妻からいわれて作ったとの趣向だが、「実際は妻へのいたわりの句」というのが金子さんの解釈。もう１句は「花けしのふはつくやうな前歯哉」。一茶４９歳のときの作で、歯のぐらつきをけしの花にたとえたのが秀逸であると。

source : www.zakzak.co.jp / 長野祐二


梟も面癖直せ春の雨
fukuroo mo tsuraguse naose haru no ame

you too, owl,
change your facial expression -
rain in spring

One can hear the wife of the author talking ...

Kaneko Tohta explains,
Issa wrote this haiku because his wife nagged him to cheer up, but it is in fact an expression of his love for the wife.
He sees Issa as an arabonpu 荒凡夫 , a wild but normal man, who lived freely with the earth and on the earth.



花ちるや末代無智の凡夫衆
hana chiru ya matsudai muchi no bonpu shuu

cherry blossoms scatter--
the ignorant masses
of these latter days

Laymen (bonbu) are "without wisdom" (muchi). They watch the cherry blossoms falling from branches without perceiving, in the scene, the Buddhist lesson of transience: that they, too, are temporary beings. Nothing abides.
Though matsudai can mean "eternity," in Pure Land Buddhism it can allude more specifically to this "latter age" of corruption.
Tr. David Lanoue


Pure Land Buddhism 浄土仏教
a broad branch of Mahāyāna Buddhism and currently one of the most popular traditions of Buddhism in East Asia. Pure Land is a branch of Buddhism focused on Amitābha Buddha.
In Japanese Buddhism,
Pure Land practice exists independently as four sects: Jōdo-shū　浄土宗, Jōdo Shinshū, Yūzū-nembutsu-shū and Ji-shū. Strong institutional boundaries exist between sects which serve to clearly separate these Pure Land schools from the Japanese Zen schools. One notable exception to this is found in the Ōbaku Zen school, which was founded in Japan during the 17th century by the Chinese Buddhist monk Yinyuan Longqi (J. Ingen Ryuki).
The Ōbaku Zen school retains many Chinese features such as mindfulness of Amitābha Buddha (Amida) through recitation, and recitation of the Pure Land sūtras.
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The artistic quality and appeal of haiku
In 1970, I was very interested in the wandering poets Santoka and Issa.
Although Issa is not usually considered a wandering poet, I was especially drawn to him. Even now I like him more than Basho, Buson, and Shiki. When I tried to see what drew me to him, I found an indescribable accessibility in his poetry.
I do not want to use the term "mass appeal," but his haiku are so easy to understand.
- source : Kaneko Tohta 金子兜太


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Issa Yukari-no Sato Museum

The isolated house, where Kobayashi Issa (a poet), used to visit, has been restored and built at this place. Issa's character is introduced by using cartoon pictures and miniature dolls. The original book of one of his three great works, Chichi-no Shuen Nikki, and other valuable materials are displayed.
5161-1 Oaza Takai, Takayama-mura
source : www.book-navi.com/hokusa


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Saimyo-Ji Temple in Shikoku and Issa 最明寺


Japanese Culture via Haiku
Kobayashi Issa

My own collection of Issa Haiku.


Nakano Clay Doll



The Family Fukuro-ya in Nakano has been very kind to Issa and sponsored him in his old age. They have an Issa Memorial Museum.

When he visited Nakano, Issa wrote the following haiku

ぶらり来て　親子の如し　雪の宿
burari kite oyako no gotoshi yuki no yado

I just came by
and was treated like family -
a home in the snow





© Photos and Information from Nakamura Sakuo


ふくろや美術館の . "一茶と土びな展"
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Issa in Karuizawa 軽井沢

Arukigami, the God of Wandering 歩行神
Sozorogami そぞろ神 of Matsuo Basho

. Issa Oshoo and Daruma Oshoo 一休和尚
Priest Ikkyu, lying down drunk 一休和尚酔臥図
(Painting by Hanabusa Itchoo)

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子のぶんを母いただくや嘉定喰ひ
ko no bun o haha itadaku ya kajoo gui

the portion of the child
is eaten by the mother . . .
eating on Kajo-Day


. Issa and his children 　


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Ishida Hakyo

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Ishida Hakyo (Ishida Hakyoo
石田波郷（いしだ はきょう)
1913-1969 1913年3月18日 - 1969年11月21日
Hagyo Ishida, Hakyoh Ishida, Ishida Hakyou
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He was born the second son to father "Sogoro 惣五郎", mother "Yuh ユウ" at the 980, Nishi-Habu section, Habu Village, Onsen County 温泉郡垣生村, Ehime Prefecture. His real name was "Tetsuo 哲夫". In 1921(Taisho 11), he entered Matsuyama Junior Highschool and began to compose Haiku on the recommendation of his classmate "Shozo Nakatomi 中富正三" (A movie actor: Ryutaro Ohtomo 大友柳太郎) in his forth year of the school, an d adopted "Niryo 二良" and "Sanmin 山眠" as his Haiku pen name. By the way, Ohtomo's pen name was "Joen 如煙" and "Yuyu 悠々".

In 1930(Showa 5), he visited Kokyo Ikazaki 五十崎古郷 (a disciple of Shuoshi Mizuhara) lived in Yodo Village and was given pen name "Hakyo 波郷" by Kokyo.

In 1934(Showa 9), he took part in the edition of Haiku Magazine "Ashibi あしび)", left Meiji University he had entered that year, and devoted himself to compose Haiku following Mantaro Kubota. In Sept. of 1937 (Showa 12), he started Haiku Magazine "Tsuru 鶴" and became the president of it.

He died at the age of 56, in 1969 (Showa 44).
... www.lib.ehime-u.ac.jp/


kigo for ealry winter

Hakyoo Ki 波郷忌 (はきょうき) Hakyo Memorial Day
Nintoo Ki 忍冬忌（にんとうき）Nindooki, "Honeysuckle Memorial Day2
Fuukaku Ki 風鶴忌（ふうかくき）
Shakumyoo Ki 惜命忌（しゃくみょうき）

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Ishida Hakyo
by Inoue Hiromi

He was called "Human Exploration School" along with Kato Shuson and Nakamura Kusatao. Their haiku had been an impact to Japanese modern haiku.

Below is a part of the essay about Hakyo written by Yagi Kametaro. ( He was the president of Matsuyama University and had been friends with Harold G. Henderson. He died in 1986.)

Hakyo Yagi Kametaro

Hakyo was born March 18, 1913, the second son of a farm family named Ishida who lived in the village of Habu, now part of the city of Matsuyama.

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Much of Hakyo's grounding in the principles of haiku seems to have come from Kokyo. Kokyo also introduced Hakyo to Mizuhara Shuoshi, who was then and still is publishing the monthly "Asebi", one of the best of the nationally-circulated haiku magazines. Hakyo's talent and diligence earned him a reputation, and soon he was made an associate on Asebi's staff. This took him to Tokyo, where he entered the literature department of Meiji University in order to deepen his knowledge of haiku and its traditions.

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ln 1943 he was drafted into the army and sent to northern China. On the front he contracted lung disease and was invalided home. For the rest of his life he suffered from that illness. ln 1948, when his condition was most critical, he had several chest operations and narrowly escaped death. ln l950 he published "shaku-myo" (A life deplored), 502 haiku he had composed as prayers during his four years of painful hospitalization when death seemed always
imminent.

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A few years ago a haiku stone in his memory was erected on the grounds of the primary school he attended. The haiku carved on the stone, from his collection "Tsuru(crane)", exemplifies his style and his views on haiku.

Aki iku-tose
Ishizuchi o mizu
haha o mizu


"Aki", autumn; "iku", how many; "tose", years, "Ishizuchi", at about 6500 feet (1981 meters) is the highest peak in Ehime Prefecture. A deity is enshrined at its peak and it is considered a sacred mountain, held in great affection by those who live within sight of it, as Hakyo did. "Mizu" is the negative of "miru", to see; "haha", mother.
My tentative translation:

For many an autumn,
(I) haven't seen lshizuchi,
(I) haven't seen mother.

Written when he was hospitalized, far from home, this haiku bares his longing to see lshizuchi and his mother, who was too frail to travel to his bedside. This is a haiku that is humanly beautiful.

This humanistic attitude is intrinsic in his view of haiku. Hakyo's haiku are invariably human, life-bound and life involving. Basho's primary principle was that the haiku should be based on sincerity, the sincerity that gives pith and moment to the objective approach. Shiki emphasized the importance of "Shasei", sketching from life. Objectivity in haiku has been advocated so strongly that such terms as "directness of expression" or "grasp things as they are" have
become cliches. Herein lies danger. A sheer objective truth as in natural science does not make a haiku; it is just the opposite of what is essential.

Shiki's theory od "Shasei" is by no means based on such non-human objectivity; on the contrary, what he stressed was the objectivity attained by the consummation of our subjective self. One
can say the same thing about Basho's sincerity. "Thing as it is'' has diverse stages of comprehension, from the low and vulgar to the high and sublime. Only the latter stage will serve to make a good haiku.

The haiku has two aspects, objective and subjective. Hakyo, in collaboration with Nakamura Kusatao and others, launched a new movement by standing up for humanism in haiku. However, what he intended was not to negate tradition but simply to emphasize one element of the fundamental principle set forth by the old masters, including Shiki.

Because a single haiku cannot give an understanding of Hakyo's aims, here is another, one that the author was pleased with. He wrote: " This is a haiku in which I can take mental shelter."

Izumi e no michi okure yuku yasukesa yo

"lzumi", a spring; "e", to; "no", a possessive particle, here a connective; "michi", a path, a way, or a road; "okure", to be behind, to be late; "yasukesa", ease, peace of mind, restfulness; "yo" is a
particle of emphasis.
A translation:


Along the path to the spring
how restful it is
to walk behind others

A Japanese haikuist will recognize that this haiku refers to a summer scene, because "izumi", a spring, is a season-word for summer. It was written in 1952 on an excursion to Karuizawa, a favorite summer resort for Tokyo people. Hakyo went there, with the Asebi group to spend a few days at the cool summer villa of Hoshiguchi Seimin, one of the members. Because of his chronic lung illness, Hakyo had difficulty breathing and could not walk as fast as the others. He did not try to catch up with them, but deliberately lagged behind, enjoying his slow, restful pace.

The haiku suggests that in life, too, one need not hurry, need not try to get ahead of others, that in a state of resignation one can find the joy of a tranquil mind. This haiku is from Shun-ran (Spring Storm), the second volume of his collected works.

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Ink drawing on paper

Susumu Takiguchi - 2004

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石田波郷の俳句

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六月の女すわれる荒莚
rokugatsu no onna suwareru ara mushiro

a woman in june
sits on a worn-out
reed mat

He wrote this haiku just after the war, when this young woman sat there on an old mat, in the middle of all destruction, yet still emanating the feeling of the energy of the lush greenery of June.

This meaning would be lost if the haiku had a cut after line one, like
rokugatsu YA.

Floor mats and Haiku


Green June, war ruins...
a woman sits
on a worn-outreed mat.

Tr. Zhanna Rader


the month of June
a woman sits on worn-out
tatami

Tr. Chibi


............................................Donald Keene about this haiku

Hakyoo's poems written at the end of the war and during the hard years afterward perfectly captured his impressions and emotions. The poems are particularly affecting in their evocations of the wretched lives led in the burned-out ruins of Tokyo.

In March 1946 Hakyoo put up a shack for himself and his family where they lived in poverty.
A poem written in that year was explained in these terms by Hakyoo:

"A bombed-out site. The scene is a shack someone has thrown up. There are no proper walls or ceiling. The only touch of decoration bespeaking the presence of a woman is a water plantain stuck in an empty can at one corner."

rokugatsu no onna suwareru aramushiro

It's June
And a woman is sitting
On a coarse straw mat.

The haiku effectively contrasts the beauty of the woman with the meanness of the surroundings.
[End of Keene's discussion]

Keene gives as his source:
Oono Rinka. "Kindai Haiku no Kanshoo to Hihyoo."
Meiji Shoin. 1967. (p. 391)

Read the full discussion of this important haiku translation project
Ishida Hakyo : woman in June
Translating Haiku Forum, November 2007


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雁やのこるものみな美しき
karigane ya nokoru mono mina utsukushiki

a flock of wild geese -
the things I leave behind
are all so beautiful

He wrote this when his son had just been borne and he had to go to war, maybe not coming back alive.
He lost two children when they were very young. His son Ishida Shuudai 石田修大 wrote about the memories of the family.


. Emotions in Kigo and Haiku .

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百方に餓鬼うづくまる除夜の鐘
hyappoo ni gaki uzukumaru joya no kane

temple bells at New Year's Eve -
hungry ghosts are squatting
in all directions

Hungry Ghosts and Haiku



風雲の少しく遊ぶ冬至かな
fuu-un no sukoshiku asobu tooji kana

wind and clouds
playing just a little -
winter soltice

Winter solstice (tooji)

(All translations above by Gabi Greve)

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shimo-bashira haiku wa kire-ji hibiki keri

Columns of frost--
how the cutting words of haiku
reverberate


©　Tr. Tsukushi Bansei / Shiki Workshop


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雀らも　海かけて飛べ　吹流し

Sparrows fly over the sea
Being blow off now while the streamer
Is fluttering in the wind"


Hakyo Ishida composed this Haiku touched by the birth of his first son.
He would wished his son for the free will to fly up into the air with all one's might.



This Haiku stone monument was located at the side of the gymnasium of Kakio Junior High School in his country home.
The characters on this monument were the enlargement of his own handwriting and carved on the natural stone.
This monument was built in 1980 (Showa 55).
Habu Junior High School 垣生中学校

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Dans le jardin aux fleurs
Je vois que l'on puise de l'eau
Avant mon opération
Tr. www.haikuspirit.org


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yaban kazları
bana hatırlattıkları
güzelliklerden
Çeviri : Turgay Uçeren


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. Hongō 本郷 Hongo district, "original hometown" . - Bunkyo

Hongoo, Hongo, the student's quarter in Tokyo
本郷（ほんごう）は東京都文京区
The University of Tokyo (東京大学, Tōkyō daigaku, abbreviated as Todai (東大, Tōdai), is a major research university located in Tokyo, Japan. The University has 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom are foreign. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano.
©　More in the WIKIPEDIA !



夜桜やうらわかき月本郷に
yozakura ya urawakaki tsuki Hongoo ni

night cherry blossoms .
a young moon over
the student's quarter

www6.ocn.ne.jp / Ishida Hakyo /
More haiku of Hakyo



source : Eve Kushner in Kanji Curiosity

Cherry blossoms at dusk.
A crescent moon
over the youthful Hongō.


霜解くる町角ばかり駒場町
shimo dokuru machikado bakari Komaba machi

snow melts
in all the street corners
of Komaba city

. Komaba 駒場 "Horse place" district .
- - - - - University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus HP

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source : Eve Kushner in Kanji Curiosity

雪の峰且つ褐色の木蔽う
yuki no mine katsu kasshoku no ki o oofu

White peaks...
the snow covers
brown trees

Translation by Alberto Sanz
Translating Haiku Forum


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妻在らず盗むに似たる椿餅
tsuma arazu nusumi ni nitaru tsubakimochi

my wife is not home -
like a thief I eat this
camellia sweet

. Camellia mochi sweets and haiku


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いつも来る綿虫のころ深大寺
itsumo kuru watamushi no koro Jindai-Ji

I always come here
when the cotton flies are out ...
temple Jindai-Ji

Ishida Hakyoo, Ishida Hakyo 石田波郷 (1913-69)
His grave is in the precincts of this temple.

. Temple Jindai-Ji 深大寺 　



綿虫やそこは屍の出でゆく門　　
watamushi ya soko ni kabane no ideyuku mon　

cotton flies -
the corpses are leaving
at this gate

Dead Bodies and Haiku


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