Chris's Japan Page: calligraphy and photos relating to Japan

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This site displays examples from around 350 Japanese calligraphy pages (goshuin, ). They were inscribed in my pilgrimage books (shuinchou "red seal book") at various Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines in Japan from Nagasaki in the south to Wakkanai and Rishiri Island in the north. Other albums now being shown are photos of Japanese traditional dance in New York City, some early 20th-century postcards, and one of my favorite monuments in Japan. There is also a page on Miyazawa Kenji, which is still in progress. These pages do not require a Japanese font, but some of the links open Japanese-language web pages. Such links are flagged with the character: . (See some additional notes about browsing.) rice transplanting (detail, in Frank Hoff, trans., The Genial Seed. A Japanese Song Cycle, New York, 1971, p. 94)		small MIDI file: Mizu no inochi	*MP3 file: Haru no yayoi* (aka Etenraku imayou)**
	Odorou odorou "let's dance" — with friends in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Totems: fox, tiger, bear, rabbit.
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Today's Haiku

Prof. Ueda gives some of the commentaries on this verse of June, 1689. Surely many before Bashou must have felt the impact of Japanese folksong and seen it as a wellspring, or a source of inspiration, for the familiar aristocratic verse. (See, for example, the verse discussed in Donald Keene, Seeds in the Heart, New York, 1993, p. 237; Kokinshu. A Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern, trans. L. R. Rodd, Boston, 1996, p. 54.)

the beginning of refined verse -- riceplanting songs of the northland fuuryuu no hajime ya oku no taueuta (Bashou)

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