??Haiku??? The Pleasure of Haiku

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??Haiku??? The Pleasure of Haiku
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The Definition of Haiku

• A poem recording the essence of a moment keenly
  perceived in which nature is linked to human
  nature.
• (American Haiku Association, 1994)
• Haiku is communication between human and nature
• The heart of Haiku is based on Zen Buddhism
• Making Haiku opens the world of natural
  beauty and keeps you sensitive to the change of
  nature and human life. (Haikui awareness)
• Dr. Professor Robert Cowen, President of CESE,
  addressed that the heart of International
  Education for peace is like the heart of Haiku
• in 2007 CESE World Conference.

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Lets make a good Haiku in your Haiku moment
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The Essence of Haiku Moment
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Chasing a dragonfly on the mountain
path
the reflection of twilight (Koji Nakamura)
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Haiku Empty space full of meaning and imagination

• The old pond a frog jumps in the sound of
  water.
• (??)translated by R.H. Blyth
• Ah, summer grasses! all that remains of the
  warriors dreams ?????????????

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Calm and sereneThe sound of a cicadaPenetrates
the rock- written by Matsuo Basho
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Basic Rule 1 Five-Seven-Five Syllables Three
Lines (Present tense)

• This bitter ale-
• the taste
• of her lipstick
• (Paul David Mena, 1998)

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Basic Rule 2 Season Word

• Spring rain
• A spent salmon
• Drifts a shore
  
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  (Nika, 1994)
• Frog pond
• a leaf falls in
• without a
  sound
• (Superposition) (B.L. Einbond)
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Basic Rule 3Cutting Word ???

• Stillness
• the candle flame
  
• grows
• (George Marsh
  1993)
• Autumn evening
• a crow perched
• on a withered bough
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  (Basho)
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Haiku Elements

• 1. The Essence of Haiku Moment
• 2. Awareness, sensitivity to Natural phenomena
• 3. Brevity, simplicity (empty space and room to
  imagine)
• 4. Simile and metaphor
• 5. Superposition
• In the falling snow,
• a laughing boy holds out his palms
• until they are white (Richard
  Wright)1908-1960 (US)
• No other flowers
• In the winter garden but
• The rose of Christmas (James Kirkup
  1923-) UK

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The Haiku Moment and Awareness

• Old pond-- ???
• frogs jumped in ?????
• sound of water ???
• (?? translated by Lafcadio Hearn)
• June rain
• brides eyes
• become the sea
• (Tomo Yamada, Univ.
  student)

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Haiku in your memory or in your daily life

• Chasing a dragonfly ????
• on the mountain path ???
• the reflection of twilight ?????
• High school reunion ???
• old familiar faces ?????
• twinkles in your eyes ???

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How to find yourself in the middle of
HaikuMoment
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The Japanese View of Nature

• We are a part of nature, not apart from
  nature. The Japanese traditionally view nature
  in harmony with human beings, not as disorderly
  chaos to be controlled. Nature, beauty, and art
  are joined together, and the eternal is found in
  fleeting moments of beauty like sakura (cherry
  blossoms).

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???? Spring in Japan Canola blossoms along the
river

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Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full
bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless?
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Rainy Season
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Wet rice farming
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???? Summer in Japan
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?????? Cosmos in Autumn
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Typhoon Season
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Harvest in fall
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???? Lovely Autumn in JapanPersimmon tree in an
autumn sky
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???? Japans natural surroundings contribute
greatly to its beautiful scenery
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???? Cold Winter in the Northern Part of Japan
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A country life in a snow country
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The Essence of a momentHaiku Moment and
Awareness

• Distant thunder
• Falling love with you
• ever in my dream
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• Harvest moon
• the thud of falling apples
• in the night (Jim Kacian)
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The Essence of a momentHaiku Moment and Awareness

• Captured firefly
• A childs fingers
• Hatch the moon David E. Lecount
• The moon reflecting
• in the silver river
• of the owls eyes
• 
  Branishlav Brazakovie

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The Essence of a momentHaiku Moment and Awareness

• How still it is!
• Stinging into the stones
• The locusts thrill ( )
• An old man
• Trying to forget love
• Winter rain
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Superposition

• A fallen petal
• Flies back to its branch
• Ah! a Butterfly ?????
• traslated by F.S. Flint
• frog pond
• a leaf falls in
• without a
  sound
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  (B.L. Einbond)

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Sudden Awareness of the Communication between
human and nature

• A field of rape-flowers
• The sun is the west,
• The moon in the east
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Which Haiku do you like?

• Just one drop of dew
• Reflects the whole suns burning
• Ten millions of leaves
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  (Edith M. Shiffert, 1987)
• Dewdrops
• each
• a sun
• 
  ( Jack Stamm)

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Homework Making the best Haiku in Haiku Moment

• Make the best Haiku in your daily life in your
  Haiku Moment.
• Send the best one you made with your full name to
  Kojis e-mail address
• You are supposed to explain it including your
  Haiku Moment.
• koji_at_konan-u.ac.jp

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? Spring

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• In spring it is the dawn that is most beautiful.
  As the light creeps over the hills, their
  outlines are dyed a faint red and wisps of
  purplish cloud trail over them.
• The Pillowbook of Sei Shonagon

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? Summer

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• In summer, the nights! Not only when the moon
  shines, but on dark nights too. As the fireflies
  flit to and fro, and even when it rains, how
  beautiful! The Pillowbook of Sei Shonagon

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• ? Autumn
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• In autumn, the evenings, when the glittering sun
  sinks close to the edge of the hills and the
  crows fly back to their nests in threes and fours
  and twos more charming still is a file of wild
  geese, like specks in the distant sky. When the
  sun has set, ones heart is moved by the wind and
  the hum of the insect sounds. The Pillowbook of
  Sei Shonagon

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• ? Winter
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• In winter, the early mornings. It is beautiful
  indeed when snow has fallen during the night, but
  splendid too when the ground is white with frost
  or even when there is no snow or frost, but it is
  simply very cold and the attendants hurry from
  room to room stirring up the fires and bringing
  charcoal, how well this fits the seasons mood!