Chèvrefeuille tells us:
"A new Tan Renga Challenge is on ... to challenge your senses and insights in the association on themes. As I have done this month with the Tan Renga Challenges I have another classical haiku-poet for you to write Tan Renga. This week I have chosen a haiku by Sho-u. As far as I know he wrote only two haiku and there is nothing else to tell about him ... I couldn't find anything about Sho-u ... The goal of the Tan Renga Challenge is to write a second stanza of two lines (7-7 syllables or less) towards the given haiku by association on the first stanza in this case the haiku by Sho-u.
Mount Fuji |
mannaka ni fuji sobietari kuni no haru
in the centre,
mount Fuji towers up:
spring in our country
© Sho-u
Here is Chevrefeuille’s offering:
in the centre
Mount Fuji towers up:
spring in our country © Sho-u
Mount Fuji towers up:
spring in our country © Sho-u
a gathering of families
celebrates the cherry blossoms © Chèvrefeuille
celebrates the cherry blossoms © Chèvrefeuille
Could living under mount Fuji be something I can relate to? Here living in Trentino I can understand the feeling of the majesty of the mountains ... and I know that mount Fuji is particularly dear and sacred to the Japanese.
pink blossoms perfume the air
in the centre
Mount Fuji towers up:
spring in our country © Sho-u
tempting the first butterflies
© G.s.k. '14
I really like "tempting the butterflies"
ReplyDeleteLol ... they start out in late spring I suppose ... I'm not really up to date on butterfly habits, but liked the image.
ReplyDeleteWhat a nice continuation to the haiku by Sho-U and it makes the Tan Renga stronger ... in it's scenery.
ReplyDeleteThank you Kristjaan ... it was a difficult hokku in the sense that it didn't really say much to me ... until I began to think about spring cherry blossoms ;-)
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