Okinawa folk music featured at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai.
japanese lovebirds
sing knotting verse to sanshin
— outdoor living room
Note: These are sometimes called “knotting” or “tying” songs and accompanied by a stringed “sanshin” (or two).
ryukyuan min’yo
08 Aug 2018 2 Comments
in haiku Tags: folk music, Japanese, lovebirds, sanshin, sing
tarashikomi style
14 May 2018 Leave a comment
in tanka Tags: art, ink, Japanese, monk, painting, persimmon, screen
Tweetspeak poets at the MET Japanese art exhibit…
gold fold-screen panel
graceful brushstrokes of mottled ink
lone tree jags bare sky
artful monk desires fuyu—
persimmon, red-orange ripe
*note: persimmon’s Latin name means “food of the gods”
by Sakai Hoitsu, 1816
peace in the pacific
23 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in tanka Tags: cemetery, Hawaii, Japanese, tombstone
protestant graveyard
japanese on hawaii
tombstone kanji marks
those who died before the war
given christian burial
photo taken at cemetery of Koolau Huiia Protestant Church, Kauai, HI
japanese spring (II)
24 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
in classical haiku Tags: Akebia, blooms, chocolate, Japanese, lavender
japanese spring (I)
24 Apr 2017 2 Comments
in classical haiku Tags: Andromeda, flowers, Japanese, spring
o-zooni, oh mochi
28 Jan 2015 6 Comments
in haiku Tags: Japanese, soup, vegetable, zooni
husband boils water
japanese vegetable soup
toasted rice cake floats
secret recipe
kale, cabbage, chrysanthemum
mystery supper
what’s in your zooni ?
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Zooni is a traditional new year’s soup often served with mochi (rice cake).
Recipes vary by region (and taste).
Haiku linked to Carpe Diem…
eye of the pheasant
21 Jan 2015 6 Comments
in haiku Tags: Japanese, long life, New Year, pheasant's eye
This beautiful bloom is Pheasant’s eye, fukujusō, or New Year’s Day Plant. It grows in many mountainous areas of Japan. It begins to show new leaves in February or March and flowers with small bright yellow blossoms of 10 to 20 petals with a strong glow. Since the flowering time fell in the New Year season according to the lunar calendar, it was used as a decoration for the New Year, and so… some farmers grow it especially to flower for the First of January…The name actually means : Plant of good fortune and long life, “prosperity grass” or “longevity grass”. (information from CDHK, see link below)
japanese new year
fukujusoo wishes you
good fortune, long life
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Linking to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai today…Happy New Year!
a poem in my pocket 
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