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Monthly Archives: February 2010
FAILURE OF TRANSMISSION
It is interesting to note that the term haiku did not begin to catch on in the West until the middle of the 1900s. Prior to that time, when Americans or Europeans spoke of the brief Japanese verse form, they … Continue reading
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Tagged Amy Lowell, Basil Hall Chamberlain, Ezra Pound, haikai, haiku, Harold Henderson, hokku, Masaoka Shiki, Modern Haiku, R. H. Blyth
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ENDING THE CONFUSION ABOUT HOKKU, HAIKU, AND ZEN
Here – for convenience — I have combined several earlier articles explaining how Western haiku enthusiasts thoroughly confused hokku and haiku in the 20th century, completely misunderstanding not only hokku but its connection to “Zen,” and thoroughly misleading the public … Continue reading
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Tagged anachronism, Bashô, confusion, haikai, haiku, hokku, inaccuracy, Mahayana, misrepresentation, Modern Haiku, Onitsura, Shiki, zen
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WHAT THING HAS MY SOUL LEARNED?
Lately I have begun discussing little-known poems that one does not find in the modern college anthologies, poems that have virtues of one kind or another, however simple those virtues may be. Margaret Widdemer (1884-1978), once wrote a poem called … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Gustav Jung, conscious mind, dreams, Margaret Widdemer, Prescience, Rosemary, unconscious mind
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NOT HOKKU, JUST A BIT OF OINTMENT
Not hokku, not even great poetry, but it has something to teach us nonetheless. I came across it many decades ago, and am not even sure precisely where: Once little cares annoyed me- When life’s little cares were few; And … Continue reading
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FADED VIOLETS
Sono-jo — another female writer of hokku — wrote: Isogashi ya sumire wo tsumeba tsukuzuku shi Busy ya violets wo picking thoroughly So occupied – Absorbed in picking violets. Sometimes one becomes so absorbed … Continue reading
VIOLETS, HEART AND MIND
Today I see the robins are out, and violets have begun to bloom. In “organic” hokku, as we might call the modern system, we do not use specific season words to classify our hokku; instead we classify them by merely … Continue reading
PLAYING WITH WATER
Continuing with hokku of very early spring, we find this by Issa: Monzen ya tsue de tsukurishi yuki-ge-gawa gate-front ya stick with made snow-melt-river Like many hokku, this is written in the original (transliterated here) … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Gustav Jung, haikai, haiku, hiragana, hokku, Issa, kanji, katakana, melting snow, spring
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