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Feb.19.2012
I enjoyed my first haiku meet at Pacific Asia Museum yesterday. Thank you、 Deborah and Kathabela for inviting me. At the meeting, one haiku made me giggle. I received his permission to blog about his haiku. Here it is.
In the winter fog
a cuckoo cries...
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Feb.16.2012
Achoo! I love the way it spells the sound we make. More than that, I love the sound itself on a page. Last few days, Rebb and I have been discussing about howl, poems, and onomatopoeia. I think it is ripe time for me to blog about it and memorize how to spell...
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Feb.10.2012
howl in Japanese is hoeru
the origin must be the same
make o shape howling
come down
stay there I’ll come up
be there or be square
the earless moon remains o
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Feb.05.2012
open blinds
red camellia bows
morning sun
I usually write here first and go to FB to show my link, but this time, I wrote on my FB wall and Haiku Tid-Bids and copy it here because I enjoy exchanges of ideas and comparative anything.
I'm not a haiku poet, but my father was....
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Jan.30.2012
These chopsticks are called Hibashi. Hi means fire, and bashi, chopsticks. Hashi (chopsticks) changes to bashi when it comes after hi. I look up my dictionary, and it says a pair of tongs, but I googled tongs and see different shapes. Hibashi is used to handle hot bincho...
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Jan.25.2012
Japanese boxwood, tsuge. These chopsticks are very thin and used for picking up sweets.
Two sets of thin bamboo chopsticks, lacquered. I think the dark spots were made by burning. The bottom tip of those chopsticks are very sharp, so when I store them, I wrap the...
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Jan.24.2012
Japanese cedar. These chopsticks are used for a meal during ochaji.
I found this site reasonable for those readers not familiar with Ocha or Ochaji. http://japanese-tea-ceremony.net/
We can use both sides.
The left is...
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Jan.24.2012
Carved and lacquered in red.
These are ordinary Japanese chopsticks for daily use. But maybe because I've been in the U.S. for a long time, for daily use, I prefer cheap bamboo chopsticks friends have given me in bunch.
Japanese boxwood called tsuge, lacquered...
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Jan.13.2012
Through email, a friend of mine wrote that the weather in Japan has been very cold and dry for a month, and he has lost one of his goldfish in the beginning of the month. Since then, he has added some medicine and heater for the fish, and the rest of them have been recovering...
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Jan.13.2012
Friday afternoon, I listen to an American haiku and say to a poet friend of mine,
“In Japan, we call that a senryu, not haiku.”
“After I finish reading this book,” she says lifting a book, “I’ll give it to you. Tell me what you think?” The title of the book was something like “...
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Jan.03.2012
Happy New Year!
A FB friend of mine, Umut, put out the below news,
Physicists Seek To Lose The Lecture As Teaching Tool
http://www.linkedin.com/news?actionBar&articleID=1019800993&ids=cjgRd3cSej4MciMPejAMc3wVcj0Nb3AMdjcOe3oNc34IczwPe3ARdj4MciMVejcTc3cQcj0N&aag=true&freq...
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Dec.20.2011
Master of Rakugo (a Japanese story telling art)
I wrote this in my other blog in November, but it was very short and incomplete. I added more here about my thought. Below are his news and some definition on rakugo.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/...
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Dec.15.2011
Because I've shown before some Kana-Shodo and Arabian Shodo art pieces, I've been hoping to see an alphabet calligraphy exhibit. It was my plain luck that Yokohama Asahi Culture school had one before I left for the U.S. The photo quality is not good, I'm sorry, but I'm excited...
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Dec.05.2011
I've blogged about the Japan Fine Arts Exhibition and shown my photos of the picture cards that I had purchased. But on this blog, I am able to show you the photo of a real award winning kana shodo art created by Iida Kazuko sensei. I've complained to her husband...
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About Keiko
Keiko Amano is a bilingual and bicultural writer who lives in Los Angeles and Yokohama. She writes short stories and novels in English and Japanese. Her stories appeared in Eye-Ai magazine.
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