More looking at 2024 final weeks (Japan)

=-=-=-= Japan 2024 series-part 3 from November to early January

ancient Shinto shrine of boulders with well in foreground

Iibe Shrine lush moss

Awaits the coming wet snows

Sacred well now capped

feudal-era imposing gatehouse at road edge

Old gate house stands guard

Retainers returned to dust

No one wears swords now

methodical process of taking down a former home and shop front

Down comes the old shop

Generations' livelihood

Soon a memory

interior of c.1979 coffee shop with vast book and vinyl music collection

Godot's coffee shop

Serves the old customers well

Vinyl and roast beans

consolidating tombstones of family lines now gone

Gather the old stones
Nobody pays a visit

Newly dead only

religious stone marker on pedestal near rice paddy

Praise the Buddha's words
Grateful for golden rice fields

Harvest and harvest

bronze statue of itinerant monk or pilgrim in traditional garb

Pilgrims climb this mount
88 prayer stations here

Mini-Shikoku

drainage channel at base of mountain flanked by guard rail and paved road

Tree meets steel and wins

Winding around the railing

Reaching clouds above

narrow and curving feudal-era road now paved

1000-year road

It goes Kyoto to Fuchu

One step at a time

autumn river scene in bright morning light

Hino River bright

Flows northward in all seasons

Japan Sea beckons

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Defining "Photo Haiku," reflecting on " 写真俳句

https://shashin-haiku.org [added purple text] The webpage about "what is a photo haiku" stirs thoughts about some of the issues and considerations when putting visual and verbal layers together. The joining of word and picture is known in Japan by various references to the 5-7-5 structured image poems; for example, shahai , haisha , photo haiku, photo 575, and so on. The example in this screenshot from the webpage at https://shashin-haiku.org/写真俳句とは has a mother and child peering at the myriad koi (carp) filling a shady spot in a channel of moving water. One way to put the verse into English is: Mama and child / A moment at the streamside / Shining so brightly. Some people begin with their text and then seek a photo that relates somehow to the verbal "snapshot," either closely fitting the haiku, or more loosely associated with the feelings carried in the words. Others will see something that catches their eye for some reason and then later they come up with a ...

Between fall and winter's first hints

Visual haiku from October 6 to ice in birdbath 23 October 2023 Wet October bright Morning wetland colors true Shine in the cloudbreaks Too weary just now The cart can rest in the sun Mind preoccupied Leaves fall stiffly down The wet cement later dries Leaving time's traces Bodhisattva head Fluid essence now made hard Far from East Asia Fresh asphalt and paint Make riding such great pleasure Rolling through the days Racing morning clouds Fly over bright fall treetops Birds watch day breaking One tree so vivid Announcing cold days to come More colors ahead Myriad pond life Diverse microbiota Thrive in quiet rot Living roots' power Push through petroleum crust Thirsting for sunshine Fall color and sculpture Bathe in October sunshine Winter days coming White contrail above Streaks over the fall colors Apples bob below Dappling on green leaves Maples soon red flames to be The nights grow colder Glittering fall light Makes leaves of maple so bright Pushing winter back Pathway statue...

Mild February feels like March

Snow shovel at rest Winter takes a break these days Rising global heat Shaggy frost on stone Fades in the spring-like morning Comes again tonight A lone pine needle Bears the heavy frost for now Knowing it soon melts Winter sumac bows With frost its furry blanket Thinking of spring days Capped in copper frost No need to light the pathway Morning light is fine Gliding under ice Open water for breathing Chilly scales and tails Unmoving boulder Feels winter breaking a little Pines stand ever green Sun-bleached railings stand Zig-zagging across the pond Sumac on one side Boat landing frozen Eight or nine weeks yet to go Before it arrives Flutter in mild breeze February feels like March But winter stays still No baseball today It's still winter after all Teams come in two months Wetland boardwalk bright Buzzing drone high overhead Sees the baseball fields

Picturing Haiku

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