#Basho #haiku #ume
One of Basho's final haiku is the opening poem in a short renga done with his student Shida Yaba
Ume ga ka ni
Noto hi no deru
Yamaji kana
I translate this as The fragrance of plum blossom Suddenly the sun rising On a Mountain path
Word for word in Japanese its plum fragrance at on place time marker suddenly sun of the rising (on) a mountain path.
Seems almost too simple
Ume can grow at quite high altitudes and think about the sequence of images
the fragrance of plums not the sight of pale flowers then suddenly the sun rising on a mountain path
the path winding up slope through or past plum trees in the pre dawn gloaming barely visible invisible maybe and then the sunlight reaches the path ...
This haiku will be one of the themes for works shared on Patreon and DeviantArt and other social media this month
Haiga coming soon!
... oh some thing else special about this month it can be written and read entirely with kana.
A Gwailo's View of Han Zi ! A Blog featuring my experiments with Han Zi and digital typographic art and articles on Chinese derived characters. Also some articles on Chinese characters in general and their use of multiple Asian languages.
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