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. rakugaki no koishiki kimi ga na mo arite .
among the graffiti . . . 落書
- - - - - . ran, ran no ka 蘭の香 Japanese orchids and their fragrance . * - - - - -
. ran no ka ya choo no tsubasa ni takimono su .
(autumn) fragrance of orchids. butterfly's wings. incense
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- - - - - . Rashoomon 羅生門 Rashomon Gate, Kyoto . * - - - - -
- - . Renku 連句 renga 連歌 Linked Verse . - -
. robiraki ya sakan oi yuku bin no shimo . 炉開き *
(winter) "opening the hearth". plasterer getting old. white hair at the temples
. rokugatsu ya mine ni kumo oku Arashiyama .
(summer) sixth lunar month, at Arashiyama 嵐山, Kyoto
. ro no koe nami o utte harawata kooru yo ya namida .
艪の声波を打って腸凍る夜や涙
(winter) freezing. oar hitting waves. my tears at night
- - - - - . roosaibushi, rōsaibushi 弄斎節 rosai-bushi, Rosai song . * - - - - -
- - - - - . - rusu 留守 nobody at home - . - - - - -
. rusu ni kite ume sae yoso no kakiho kana .
(spring) plum blossoms. you were out. beyond the hedge
. rusu no ma ni aretaru kami no ochiba kana .
(winter) gods are absent. desolate among the fallen leaves
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. ryoo no te ni momo to sakura ya kusa no mochi .
(spring) kusamochi rice cakes. both hands. peach. cherry blossoms
- - - - - . ryuu, ryoo, tatsu 竜 / 龍 dragon, dragons ###. - - - - -
. ryuuguu mo kyoo no shioji ya doyoo boshi .
(summer) airing during the dog days. dragon palace. tide way
- the legend of Urashima Taro and the Dragon Palace
. ryuumon no hana ya joogo no tsuto ni sen .
(summer) Dragon Gate waterfall. drinking companion. souvenir.
- in memory of the Chinese poet Li Po, Li Bo, Li Bai 李白
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06/07/2012
samidare - rainy season
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- samidare 五月雨 -
lit. "rain in the fifth lunar month" 五月雨 samidare
according to the old lunar calendar. Now it refers mostly to the rain during the Rainy Season (from mid-june to mid-july).
rain in the month of satsuki, satsuki ame 五月雨（さつきあめ）
also translated as
persistent summer rain,
summer rain / June rain / early summer rain (Haldane)
. rain in the fifth lunar month 五月雨 samidare .
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. samidare - Basho Archives SSS .
samidare ni tsuru no ashi mijikaku nareri
五月雨に鶴の足短くなれり
五月雨の降りのこしてや光堂
. samidare no furi nokoshite Hikari Doo .
(summer) rain during the rainy season. at the Golden Hall 光堂 in Hiraizumi
. samidare o atsumete hayashi Mogamigawa .
(summer) rain during the rainy season, river Mogamigawa 最上川, Hiraizumi
. samidare ya ryuutoo aguru Bantaroo .
(summer) "Dragon Lantern". flood warden
- depicting the flood prevention custom of the Edo period
. samidare ya shikishi hegitaru kabe no ato .
(summer) decoration card with poem. hole in the wall
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五月雨も瀬踏み尋ねぬ見馴河
samidare mo / sebumi tazune nu / Minare-gawa
river without a name
五月雨に隠れぬものや瀬田の橋
samidare ni kakurenu mono ya Seta no hashi .
(summer) rain during the rainy season. bridge at Seta, lake Biwa
五月雨に鳰の浮巣を見にゆかん
samidare ni / nio no uki su o / mi ni yukan
grebe bird
五月雨に御物遠や月の顏
samidare ni / on mono dō ya / tsuki no kao
face of the moon
五月雨の空吹き落せ大井川
samidare no / sora fukio otose / Ōi-gawa
River Oigawa
五月雨は滝降り埋むみかさ哉
samidare wa / taki furi uzumu / mikasa kana
waterfall
五月雨や蚕煩ふ桑の畑
. samidare ya kaiko wazurau kuwa no hata .
Basho compares himself to an ill silk worm
五月雨や桶の輪切るる夜の声
samidare ya / oke no wa kiruru / yoru no koe
barrel
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. rain in the fifth lunar month 五月雨 samidare .
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- samidare 五月雨 -
lit. "rain in the fifth lunar month" 五月雨 samidare
according to the old lunar calendar. Now it refers mostly to the rain during the Rainy Season (from mid-june to mid-july).
rain in the month of satsuki, satsuki ame 五月雨（さつきあめ）
also translated as
persistent summer rain,
summer rain / June rain / early summer rain (Haldane)
. rain in the fifth lunar month 五月雨 samidare .
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. samidare - Basho Archives SSS .
samidare ni tsuru no ashi mijikaku nareri
五月雨に鶴の足短くなれり
五月雨の降りのこしてや光堂
. samidare no furi nokoshite Hikari Doo .
(summer) rain during the rainy season. at the Golden Hall 光堂 in Hiraizumi
. samidare o atsumete hayashi Mogamigawa .
(summer) rain during the rainy season, river Mogamigawa 最上川, Hiraizumi
. samidare ya ryuutoo aguru Bantaroo .
(summer) "Dragon Lantern". flood warden
- depicting the flood prevention custom of the Edo period
. samidare ya shikishi hegitaru kabe no ato .
(summer) decoration card with poem. hole in the wall
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五月雨も瀬踏み尋ねぬ見馴河
samidare mo / sebumi tazune nu / Minare-gawa
river without a name
五月雨に隠れぬものや瀬田の橋
samidare ni kakurenu mono ya Seta no hashi .
(summer) rain during the rainy season. bridge at Seta, lake Biwa
五月雨に鳰の浮巣を見にゆかん
samidare ni / nio no uki su o / mi ni yukan
grebe bird
五月雨に御物遠や月の顏
samidare ni / on mono dō ya / tsuki no kao
face of the moon
五月雨の空吹き落せ大井川
samidare no / sora fukio otose / Ōi-gawa
River Oigawa
五月雨は滝降り埋むみかさ哉
samidare wa / taki furi uzumu / mikasa kana
waterfall
五月雨や蚕煩ふ桑の畑
. samidare ya kaiko wazurau kuwa no hata .
Basho compares himself to an ill silk worm
五月雨や桶の輪切るる夜の声
samidare ya / oke no wa kiruru / yoru no koe
barrel
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. rain in the fifth lunar month 五月雨 samidare .
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05/07/2012
taue, ta ue - rice planting
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- taue, ta-ue, ta ue 田植 rice planting -
Fields, especially the rice fields are very important for the farming communities of Japan. Life depended on a good harvest and the deities have been evoked in many rituals relating to rice planting.
source : www.chiba-tpa.or.jp
. WKD : taue 田植 planting rice in the paddies .
. song for rice planting, taue uta, taue-uta 田植歌 .
..... tauebushi 皐月節（さつきぶし）
..... saotome uta 早乙女唄（さおとめうた）
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風流の初めや奥の田植えうた
fuuryuu no hajime ya Oku no taue uta
The beginning of all art:
a song when planting a rice field
in the country's inmost part.
Tr. Henderson
jetzt wirds langsam poetisch ...
das Lied der Reispflanzer
von den Nordprovinzen
Tr. Gabi Greve
- Oku no Hosomichi - 奥の細道 - - - Station 11 - Sukagawa 須賀川 - - -
. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .
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at our local ricewine store . . .
柴付けし馬のもどりや田植樽
shiba tsukeshi uma no modori ya tauedaru (taue-daru)
having carried brushwood,
the horse returns -
wine casks for rice-planting
Tr. Barnhill
Written in summer of 1694 元禄7年. A tribute to his host, Kubota.
Basho stayed in Iga Ueno at the home of Kubota Izen 窪田意専.
The tenant farmers of Izen had just finished planting his fields and he thanked them with sake to celebrate the event. The farmers carried the casks home on the back of their horses. Everyone was in a festive and leisurely mood after all the hard work was done.
having carried firewood
the horses now return -
barrels of rice wine
Tr. Gabi Greve
Trying to make a difference between European wine made from grapes and sake, rice wine, the traditional brew of Japan.
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Written in the same summer of 1694 元禄7年, Basho age 51, at the home of Kubota:
新藁の出初めて早き時雨哉
shin wara no desomete hayaki shigure kana
the new straw
is already out and there is
a cold drizzle . . .
Tr. Gabi Greve
This hokku has the cut marker KANA at the end of line 3.
MORE - hokku about - shigure 時雨 winter drizzle, sleet -
. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .
Further information about this hokku :
. WKD : shinwara, shin wara 新藁 (しんわら) new straw .
kigo for late autumn
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いなづまや闇の方行五位の声
inazuma ya yami no kata-yuku goi no koe
a flash of lightning -
into the darkness the voice
of a night heron
Written in the 7th lunar month of 1694 元禄7年7月.
During a haikai meeting with Kubota and 土芳 Toho. As the storm raged and lightning was on the horizon, this became the topic for their meeting.
goi 五位 is short for goi sagi 五位鷺 a night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax).
As the name says, it comes out in the evening and gives an eerie sound when flying over land. In the direction toward the lightning, the sky is all black and this makes the situation even more eerie.
A lightning gleam:
into darkness travels
a night heron’s scream
Tr. ?
. WKD : inazuma 稲妻 lightning .
kigo for all autumn
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Kubota Izen 窪田意専 / Sooshichi 惣七 Soshichi
(?1640 - 1704) - 宝永元年11月10日 at age 65
Kubota Sooshichiroo 窪田惣七郎 Kubota Soshichiro
Uchi no Kamiya 内神屋
His haiku name was Ensui 猿雖.
Together with Tohoo 土芳 Toho he was one of the leading haikai poets of Iga Ueno and a good friend of Basho, although he was four years older than the Master. Basho sent him a lot of letters.
In 1689 he entered the monkhood and took on the name of Izen 意専.
He lived in a retreat in the outskirts and left the family business to his heir. Every time Basho returned to Iga Ueno, they had a haikai party together.
At the temple Myookakuji 明覚寺 Myokaku-Ji in Iga Ueno is a stone memorial for his hokku.
source : www.bunka.pref.mie.lg.jp
かろき身の蝉は子もなし親もなし
karuki mi no semi wa ko mo nashi oya mo nashi
cicadas have a free life -
there are no children
there are no parents
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"wine casks for rice-planting" - taken literally :
Nowadays, people even use large sake casks for planting rice in them.
. PERSONS introduced by Matsuo Basho .
MORE about - uma 馬 - koma 駒 horse, horses -
. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .
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. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - SAIJIKI - humanity kigo .
inekari 稲刈 harvesting rice
世の中は稲刈る頃か草の庵
. yo no naka wa ine karu koro ka kusa no io .
saotome 早乙女 girls planting rice
五月乙女にしかた望まんしのぶ摺
早苗とる手もとや昔しのぶ摺
. sanae toru temoto ya mukashi shinobuzuri .
(shinobi-zuri)
shirokaku, shiro kaku 代掻く tilling the rice paddies
夜を旅に代掻く小田の行き戻り
. yo o tabi ni shiro kaku oda no yuki modori .
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. WKD : taue 田植 planting rice in the paddies .
. Cultural Keywords used by Basho .
. - KIGO used by Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - .
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- taue, ta-ue, ta ue 田植 rice planting -
Fields, especially the rice fields are very important for the farming communities of Japan. Life depended on a good harvest and the deities have been evoked in many rituals relating to rice planting.
source : www.chiba-tpa.or.jp
. WKD : taue 田植 planting rice in the paddies .
. song for rice planting, taue uta, taue-uta 田植歌 .
..... tauebushi 皐月節（さつきぶし）
..... saotome uta 早乙女唄（さおとめうた）
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風流の初めや奥の田植えうた
fuuryuu no hajime ya Oku no taue uta
The beginning of all art:
a song when planting a rice field
in the country's inmost part.
Tr. Henderson
jetzt wirds langsam poetisch ...
das Lied der Reispflanzer
von den Nordprovinzen
Tr. Gabi Greve
- Oku no Hosomichi - 奥の細道 - - - Station 11 - Sukagawa 須賀川 - - -
. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .
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at our local ricewine store . . .
柴付けし馬のもどりや田植樽
shiba tsukeshi uma no modori ya tauedaru (taue-daru)
having carried brushwood,
the horse returns -
wine casks for rice-planting
Tr. Barnhill
Written in summer of 1694 元禄7年. A tribute to his host, Kubota.
Basho stayed in Iga Ueno at the home of Kubota Izen 窪田意専.
The tenant farmers of Izen had just finished planting his fields and he thanked them with sake to celebrate the event. The farmers carried the casks home on the back of their horses. Everyone was in a festive and leisurely mood after all the hard work was done.
having carried firewood
the horses now return -
barrels of rice wine
Tr. Gabi Greve
Trying to make a difference between European wine made from grapes and sake, rice wine, the traditional brew of Japan.
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Written in the same summer of 1694 元禄7年, Basho age 51, at the home of Kubota:
新藁の出初めて早き時雨哉
shin wara no desomete hayaki shigure kana
the new straw
is already out and there is
a cold drizzle . . .
Tr. Gabi Greve
This hokku has the cut marker KANA at the end of line 3.
MORE - hokku about - shigure 時雨 winter drizzle, sleet -
. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .
Further information about this hokku :
. WKD : shinwara, shin wara 新藁 (しんわら) new straw .
kigo for late autumn
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いなづまや闇の方行五位の声
inazuma ya yami no kata-yuku goi no koe
a flash of lightning -
into the darkness the voice
of a night heron
Written in the 7th lunar month of 1694 元禄7年7月.
During a haikai meeting with Kubota and 土芳 Toho. As the storm raged and lightning was on the horizon, this became the topic for their meeting.
goi 五位 is short for goi sagi 五位鷺 a night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax).
As the name says, it comes out in the evening and gives an eerie sound when flying over land. In the direction toward the lightning, the sky is all black and this makes the situation even more eerie.
A lightning gleam:
into darkness travels
a night heron’s scream
Tr. ?
. WKD : inazuma 稲妻 lightning .
kigo for all autumn
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Kubota Izen 窪田意専 / Sooshichi 惣七 Soshichi
(?1640 - 1704) - 宝永元年11月10日 at age 65
Kubota Sooshichiroo 窪田惣七郎 Kubota Soshichiro
Uchi no Kamiya 内神屋
His haiku name was Ensui 猿雖.
Together with Tohoo 土芳 Toho he was one of the leading haikai poets of Iga Ueno and a good friend of Basho, although he was four years older than the Master. Basho sent him a lot of letters.
In 1689 he entered the monkhood and took on the name of Izen 意専.
He lived in a retreat in the outskirts and left the family business to his heir. Every time Basho returned to Iga Ueno, they had a haikai party together.
At the temple Myookakuji 明覚寺 Myokaku-Ji in Iga Ueno is a stone memorial for his hokku.
source : www.bunka.pref.mie.lg.jp
かろき身の蝉は子もなし親もなし
karuki mi no semi wa ko mo nashi oya mo nashi
cicadas have a free life -
there are no children
there are no parents
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"wine casks for rice-planting" - taken literally :
Nowadays, people even use large sake casks for planting rice in them.
. PERSONS introduced by Matsuo Basho .
MORE about - uma 馬 - koma 駒 horse, horses -
. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .
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. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - SAIJIKI - humanity kigo .
inekari 稲刈 harvesting rice
世の中は稲刈る頃か草の庵
. yo no naka wa ine karu koro ka kusa no io .
saotome 早乙女 girls planting rice
五月乙女にしかた望まんしのぶ摺
早苗とる手もとや昔しのぶ摺
. sanae toru temoto ya mukashi shinobuzuri .
(shinobi-zuri)
shirokaku, shiro kaku 代掻く tilling the rice paddies
夜を旅に代掻く小田の行き戻り
. yo o tabi ni shiro kaku oda no yuki modori .
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. WKD : taue 田植 planting rice in the paddies .
. Cultural Keywords used by Basho .
. - KIGO used by Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - .
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12/06/2012
Mochi Rice Cakes
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- mochi 餅 rice cakes Reiskuchen -
. WKD : Rice cakes (mochi 餅) .
source : www.ichinoseki-hakken.com
(短冊：東山町紙すき館)
naritai na angyoo kanete mochi Bashoo
I want to become like this !
continue my religious wanderings
to become a "Mochi Basho"
Mochi-Musume "Little Miss Mochi"
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青ざしや草餅の穂に出でつらん
. aozashi ya kusa mochi no ho ni ide tsuran .
(summer) aozashi "fresh wheat sweets". mochi rice cakes. ears of wheat
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有明も三十日に近し餅の音
ariake mo misoka ni chikashi mochi no oto
even dawn gets closer
to the last day of the year -
the sound of pounding mochi
Written in 1693, Genroku 6 元禄6年, Basho age 50
This was the last time he spent the New Year in Edo.
It is also the last time for him to spend the New Year, he died on the road in the following year, Genroku 7.
. WKD : mochi no oto 餅の音 sound of pounding mochi .
humanity kigo for mid-winter
Basho's hokku is an allusion to a waka by the famous poet
Yoshida Kenko 兼好法師
ありとだに人に知られぬ身のほどや
みそかに近き有明の月
aritodani hito ni shirarenu mi no hodo ya
misoka ni chikaki ariake no tsuki
. Yoshida Kenko 吉田兼好 Yoshida Kenkoo .
1283? – 1350?
Comment from Robin D. Gill:
. . . we wonder if the mochi-making goes on right up to the last day's dark of the moon. The male/female yin/yang connotations of the pestle/mortar pounding was put into kyouka and that and feelings about the human role in rebirthing the heavenly bodies etc all should be felt in these things -- the year is dead, long live the (new) year around the corner --
the kagami mochi moon will, unlike the sun, be there long before the real moon grows back though . . .
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source : tukitodora.exblog.jp
暮れ暮れて餅を木魂の侘寝哉
kure kurete mochi o kodama no wabine kana / kurekurete
the year ending
with echos of pounding rice-cakes -
a desolate sleep
Tr. Barnhill
The very end of this closing year -
With the echo of rice-cake pounding
I sleep alone.
Tr. Takafumi Saito
Written in 1681, 天和元年. Basho age 38.
Living alone at Basho-An, Fukagawa, Edo.
Since he lives alone, he does not pound mochi for himself and can only hear the echo from the neighbours.
the year ends fast
with the echo of pounding mochi
while I sleep alone . . .
Tr. Gabi Greve
or
the year ends fast
with the echo of pounding mochi
while I spend a lonesome night . . .
Tr. Gabi Greve
kure kurete has a nuance of "to close in" or "tick down,"
so how about this for L1:
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clock ticking towards year end
Tr. Hideo Suzuki
the year-end ended
to the pounding of mochi
I sleep alone
Tr. John Carley
Trying to incorporate the repetition of KURE KURETE
This hokku has the cut marker KANA at the end of line 3.
Basho uses the characters for "tree spirit" 木魂, read "kodama".
Considering the huge wooden mortar and mallets, this is quite appropriate.
MORE about
. Kodama 木魂 The Tree Spirit .
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餅を夢に折り結ぶ歯朶の草枕
. mochi o yume ni ori musubu shida no kusa makura .
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source : kikyou0123
餅雪を白糸となす柳哉
mochiyuki o shira-ito to nasu yanagi kana
mochi-snow
like twisted white stripes
for the willow tree . . .
Tr. Gabi Greve
Written in 寛文7年, Basho age 24.
A typical hokku in the Teimon style.
Large snowflakes are making
A willow into rice cake
Of twisted white thread!
Tr. Oseko
shiraito mochi 白糸餅, white striped mochi
the mochi dough is twisted into stripes.
A kind of . WKD : Yaseuma やせうま .
also called shinkomochi しん粉餅, because a special kind of flower is used.
mochiyuki is a kind of wet snow. Also called "botanyuki", peony snow.
. WKD : "snow like rice cakes" mochiyuki 餅雪 もちゆき .
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餅花やかざしに挿せる嫁が君
餅花やかざしに插せる嫁が君
mochi-bana ya kazashi ni saseru yome ga kimi /mochibana
MORE
. WKD : Mochi flowers for the New Year .
. First mouse 嫁が君 (よめがきみ ) yomegakimi .
old name of the mouse / New Year
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両の手に桃と桜や草の餅
. ryoo no te ni momo to sakura ya kusa no mochi .
忍さへ枯れて餅買ふ宿り哉
. shinobu sae karete mochi kau yadori kana .
At Atsuta Shrine
誰が聟ぞ歯朶に餅負ふうしの年
. taga muko zo shida ni mochi ou ushi no toshi .
鴬や餅に糞する縁の先
. uguisu ya mochi ni funsuru en no saki .
煩へば餅をも喰はず桃の花
. wazuraeba mochi o mo kuwazu momo no hana .
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source : www.ichinoseki-hakken.com
Mochi no Hosomichi もちの細道 in Memory of Basho
“奥の細道” で有名な『 松尾芭蕉 』のように
方々を行脚（あんぎゃ）する旅にでて！？
Shop named Ichinoseki いちのせき which serves all kinds of mochi.
Mochi-Musume is the owner of this shop.
See her tansaku at the beginning of this page.
. WKD : Rice cakes (mochi 餅) .
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- mochi 餅 rice cakes Reiskuchen -
. WKD : Rice cakes (mochi 餅) .
source : www.ichinoseki-hakken.com
(短冊：東山町紙すき館)
naritai na angyoo kanete mochi Bashoo
I want to become like this !
continue my religious wanderings
to become a "Mochi Basho"
Mochi-Musume "Little Miss Mochi"
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青ざしや草餅の穂に出でつらん
. aozashi ya kusa mochi no ho ni ide tsuran .
(summer) aozashi "fresh wheat sweets". mochi rice cakes. ears of wheat
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有明も三十日に近し餅の音
ariake mo misoka ni chikashi mochi no oto
even dawn gets closer
to the last day of the year -
the sound of pounding mochi
Written in 1693, Genroku 6 元禄6年, Basho age 50
This was the last time he spent the New Year in Edo.
It is also the last time for him to spend the New Year, he died on the road in the following year, Genroku 7.
. WKD : mochi no oto 餅の音 sound of pounding mochi .
humanity kigo for mid-winter
Basho's hokku is an allusion to a waka by the famous poet
Yoshida Kenko 兼好法師
ありとだに人に知られぬ身のほどや
みそかに近き有明の月
aritodani hito ni shirarenu mi no hodo ya
misoka ni chikaki ariake no tsuki
. Yoshida Kenko 吉田兼好 Yoshida Kenkoo .
1283? – 1350?
Comment from Robin D. Gill:
. . . we wonder if the mochi-making goes on right up to the last day's dark of the moon. The male/female yin/yang connotations of the pestle/mortar pounding was put into kyouka and that and feelings about the human role in rebirthing the heavenly bodies etc all should be felt in these things -- the year is dead, long live the (new) year around the corner --
the kagami mochi moon will, unlike the sun, be there long before the real moon grows back though . . .
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source : tukitodora.exblog.jp
暮れ暮れて餅を木魂の侘寝哉
kure kurete mochi o kodama no wabine kana / kurekurete
the year ending
with echos of pounding rice-cakes -
a desolate sleep
Tr. Barnhill
The very end of this closing year -
With the echo of rice-cake pounding
I sleep alone.
Tr. Takafumi Saito
Written in 1681, 天和元年. Basho age 38.
Living alone at Basho-An, Fukagawa, Edo.
Since he lives alone, he does not pound mochi for himself and can only hear the echo from the neighbours.
the year ends fast
with the echo of pounding mochi
while I sleep alone . . .
Tr. Gabi Greve
or
the year ends fast
with the echo of pounding mochi
while I spend a lonesome night . . .
Tr. Gabi Greve
kure kurete has a nuance of "to close in" or "tick down,"
so how about this for L1:
.
clock ticking towards year end
Tr. Hideo Suzuki
the year-end ended
to the pounding of mochi
I sleep alone
Tr. John Carley
Trying to incorporate the repetition of KURE KURETE
This hokku has the cut marker KANA at the end of line 3.
Basho uses the characters for "tree spirit" 木魂, read "kodama".
Considering the huge wooden mortar and mallets, this is quite appropriate.
MORE about
. Kodama 木魂 The Tree Spirit .
.............................................................................
餅を夢に折り結ぶ歯朶の草枕
. mochi o yume ni ori musubu shida no kusa makura .
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source : kikyou0123
餅雪を白糸となす柳哉
mochiyuki o shira-ito to nasu yanagi kana
mochi-snow
like twisted white stripes
for the willow tree . . .
Tr. Gabi Greve
Written in 寛文7年, Basho age 24.
A typical hokku in the Teimon style.
Large snowflakes are making
A willow into rice cake
Of twisted white thread!
Tr. Oseko
shiraito mochi 白糸餅, white striped mochi
the mochi dough is twisted into stripes.
A kind of . WKD : Yaseuma やせうま .
also called shinkomochi しん粉餅, because a special kind of flower is used.
mochiyuki is a kind of wet snow. Also called "botanyuki", peony snow.
. WKD : "snow like rice cakes" mochiyuki 餅雪 もちゆき .
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餅花やかざしに挿せる嫁が君
餅花やかざしに插せる嫁が君
mochi-bana ya kazashi ni saseru yome ga kimi /mochibana
MORE
. WKD : Mochi flowers for the New Year .
. First mouse 嫁が君 (よめがきみ ) yomegakimi .
old name of the mouse / New Year
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両の手に桃と桜や草の餅
. ryoo no te ni momo to sakura ya kusa no mochi .
忍さへ枯れて餅買ふ宿り哉
. shinobu sae karete mochi kau yadori kana .
At Atsuta Shrine
誰が聟ぞ歯朶に餅負ふうしの年
. taga muko zo shida ni mochi ou ushi no toshi .
鴬や餅に糞する縁の先
. uguisu ya mochi ni funsuru en no saki .
煩へば餅をも喰はず桃の花
. wazuraeba mochi o mo kuwazu momo no hana .
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source : www.ichinoseki-hakken.com
Mochi no Hosomichi もちの細道 in Memory of Basho
“奥の細道” で有名な『 松尾芭蕉 』のように
方々を行脚（あんぎゃ）する旅にでて！？
Shop named Ichinoseki いちのせき which serves all kinds of mochi.
Mochi-Musume is the owner of this shop.
See her tansaku at the beginning of this page.
. WKD : Rice cakes (mochi 餅) .
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07/06/2012
rusu - nobody at home
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- rusu 留守 nobody at home -
The tenth lunar month (now November), after the harvest when the Japanese gods had done their duty, they left their local shrines for a bit of a vacation. They would all go for an audience and to celebrate at the great shrine of Izumo, so the rest of Japan was "without gods".
. WKD : kami no rusu 神の留守 Gods are absent .
kigo for early winter
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都出て神も旅寝の日数哉
. miyako idete kami mo tabine no hikazu kana .
I left the capital
and shared many nights on the road
with the gods
Basho had left Kyoto late in the 10th lunar month and arrived in Numazu on his way to Edo early in the 11th lunar month, just when the gods are absentin Izumo and might have been on their way home too.
Numazu Hie-jinja 沼津 日枝神社 Hie Shrine in Numazu
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留守のまに荒れたる神の落葉哉
rusu no ma ni aretaru kami no ochiba kana
the gods gone
everything desolate among
the dead leaves
Tr. Barnhill
Barnhill says of this hokku:
"This hokku has been read symbolically to reflect Basho's long absence from Edo and his disciples there."
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留守に来て梅さへよその垣穂かな
rusu ni kite ume sae yoso no kakiho kana
I went to see a certain person at his hermitage, but an old man caretaking the hut said, “the master is off on a temple pilgrim-age.” The plums by the hedge were in full bloom so I replied,“These will take his place—they look like him.” To which he responded,
“Well, they belong to the neighbors.”
arriving when you were out,
even the plums are far away
beyond the hedge
Tr. and comment : Barnhill
Written in 貞亨3年春 , Basho age 43.
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月はあれど留守のやうなり須磨の夏
. tsuki aredo rusu no yoo nari Suma no natsu .
Oi no Kobumi 笈の小文 - - - . Basho visiting Suma 須磨 .
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. WKD : kami no rusu 神の留守 Gods are absent .
. Cultural Keywords used by Basho .
. - KIGO used by Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - .
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- rusu 留守 nobody at home -
The tenth lunar month (now November), after the harvest when the Japanese gods had done their duty, they left their local shrines for a bit of a vacation. They would all go for an audience and to celebrate at the great shrine of Izumo, so the rest of Japan was "without gods".
. WKD : kami no rusu 神の留守 Gods are absent .
kigo for early winter
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都出て神も旅寝の日数哉
. miyako idete kami mo tabine no hikazu kana .
I left the capital
and shared many nights on the road
with the gods
Basho had left Kyoto late in the 10th lunar month and arrived in Numazu on his way to Edo early in the 11th lunar month, just when the gods are absentin Izumo and might have been on their way home too.
Numazu Hie-jinja 沼津 日枝神社 Hie Shrine in Numazu
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留守のまに荒れたる神の落葉哉
rusu no ma ni aretaru kami no ochiba kana
the gods gone
everything desolate among
the dead leaves
Tr. Barnhill
Barnhill says of this hokku:
"This hokku has been read symbolically to reflect Basho's long absence from Edo and his disciples there."
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留守に来て梅さへよその垣穂かな
rusu ni kite ume sae yoso no kakiho kana
I went to see a certain person at his hermitage, but an old man caretaking the hut said, “the master is off on a temple pilgrim-age.” The plums by the hedge were in full bloom so I replied,“These will take his place—they look like him.” To which he responded,
“Well, they belong to the neighbors.”
arriving when you were out,
even the plums are far away
beyond the hedge
Tr. and comment : Barnhill
Written in 貞亨3年春 , Basho age 43.
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月はあれど留守のやうなり須磨の夏
. tsuki aredo rusu no yoo nari Suma no natsu .
Oi no Kobumi 笈の小文 - - - . Basho visiting Suma 須磨 .
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. WKD : kami no rusu 神の留守 Gods are absent .
. Cultural Keywords used by Basho .
. - KIGO used by Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - .
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