A Haiga for Hiroshige's "36 views of Fuji" #4.

A Contemporary Haiga

imitation

visual sampling

Wave of flattery

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "36 views of Mt Fuji #3(Sukiyagashi in the Eastern Capital)".

A contemporary Haiga

cold-dawn    yawns under

spread of crunchy cold whiteness

a son     slow to rise

Untitled

Chiaroscuro

 

sky permeates foliage

 

on a forest floor

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A Senryu for the final image of Hiroshige's "53 Views of the Tokiado".

A Contemporary Haiga

Bridging Sandbars

Tokiado to Kyoto

Fifty three ways

A Haiku for Hiroshige's "69 Stations of Kisokaido #28.

A Contemporary Haiga for (Nagakubo/Nagakubo Station)

Dark young leaves

Cool fog a diffusing   bridge

gossamer moonbeams 

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "Moon and Wild Geese", from his Nature print series.

A Contemporary Haiga

          Moonlit trio

silent dive from a cool moon

Visual      S  C  R  E  E  C  H  !

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "36 views of Mt Fuji #27".

A Contemporary Haiga

        A red gated rock

strewn      weeping bush clovers

    stone seashore orchard

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "69 stations of Kisokaido #40".

A Contemporary Haiga, (edited)

Vitriolized raindrops

agitate placidity

medicants flee 

A Senryu for Hiroshige's "53 Stations of the Tokaido #26".

A Contemporary Haiga for Kakegawa Akibayama enbo/Distant View of Mt Akiba at Kakegawa

Atop a bridge                                        s

                                                         e

non-capitulation                           E

                                                  L

f    u    t      r    n           a kite   F  

   l     t     e    i    g

A Haiku & Tanka for Hiroshige's "69 Stations of Kisokaido #51.

A Contemporary Haiga

Cormorants strung out

Fires cast ephemeral light

Bobing by moonlight

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "53 Stations of the Tokiado #49".

A Contemporary Haiga for (Tsuchiyama no haru no ame/Spring Rain at Tsuchiyama)

A bridge fords a stream

Mirth !     tree lined civility

spittled raindrops scream

A Haiku (senryu) & Tanka for Hiroshige's "69 Stations of Kisokaido #37.

A Contemporary Haiku/Tanka for (Miyanokoshi Station/Miyanokoshi)

Genpei Shadows

Moonlit Heike Silhouettes

wait!     Yoshinaka?

Minamoto !      Taira !

Tales of Heian Fuyu    

A Haiku for Hiroshige's "69 Kisokaido Stations #51".

A Contemporary Haiga

Suwa Fuyu

Fuji water xing 

Omiwatari

 

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A Senryu for Hiroshige's "Sixty-Nine stations of Kisokaido #33".

A Contemporary Haiga

Woodcutters Shelter

Under a gnarled pine   fire warms 

Motoyama Soba  

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "36 views of Mt Fuji #30".

A contemporary Haiga

A sacred path

Kai's Misaka Pass

that tree frames Fuji

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "36 views of Mt Fuji #24".

A contemporary Haiga

A    d  r  i  f  t

pining for Mt Fuji

de nouveau

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "36 Views of Mt Fuji #20".

A Contemporary Haiga

At waters edge

Enoshima's Torii

Fuji's sacred gateway

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "100 views of Edo #106".

A contemporary Haiga for Fukagawa Kiba/Fukagawa Timber yards

Snowboards

Crisp air

powdered snow

A Senryu for Hiroshige's "100 views of Edo #80".

Contemporary Haiga for Kanasugibashi Shibaura/The Kansaugibashi Bridge and Shibaura

Buddhist Pilgrims

Nam-ya-myoho-renge-kyo ?

Nichiren Xing 

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "100 views of Edo #42,65,76".

Contemporary Haiga 

Cherry Blossoms    gone

the scent of Wisteria

Xing with pilgrams

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "100 views of Edo #72".

Contemporary Haiga

Edo's Bento Shrine

Hundreds of views later

Haneda Airport

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "100 views of Edo #75".

Contemporary Haiga for Kanda Konyacho/ The Dyer's Quarter in Kanda

Fuji

Hiroshige's Monogram

Sakana dyed silk

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "100 views of Edo #93".

Contemporary Haiga for Meguro Jijigachaya/Grandp's Tea-House at Meguro

A windy road

Viewing Fuji from a tea stall

Grandpa's Meguro

A Senryu for Hiroshige's "100 views of Edo #90".

Contemporary Haiga for Saruwakamachi yoru-no kei/Saruwakamachi Quarter by Night

Bunraku   shadows

Sarukawa-Machi

Kabuki theatrics

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "100 views of Edo-98"

A contemporary Haiga for Ryogoku hanabi/Fireworks at Ryogoku

Ephemeral

Chiaroscuro

Sky Bridge xing

seasonal purification

a river of flower fire

A Hiaku for Hiroshige's "One hundred famous views of Edo #101".

A Contemporary Haiga for  Asakusa tanbo tori no matchi mode/Asakura Rice Field During the Cock Festival at Otori Shrine

Look!      Bear Claws

A tailless courtesan lounges

Pilgrims pass below

Yoshiwara Sparrows

tori      visit by daylight

A Haiku for Hiroshige's "100 views of Edo #94".

A Contemporary Haiga for Mama-no momiji Tekona-no yashiro Tsyugashi/Scarlet Maple Trees at Mama by the Tekona-no yashiro Shrine and the Tsugihashi Bridge

Japanese Maples

Landscape portraiture

A bridge to a shrine

Manyoshu links to the past

Tekona's sensitivity

Another Haiku-tanka-Haiga-Poekuagery in the works

Gales mash root rot

Autumn's needles cry    in fall

on a forest floor

A breeze   leaves   a trunk prostate

Shrill silence     Autumn's fall

An excerpt from the 2nd edition of my book JIKU

Life splintering

Relationships flickering

A cloud       a bear witness

 

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An untitled Haiku

I pedal past

raindrops,  pummeling petals

wrung dry,  by high winds

A Cycle

Morning Glory burst into bloom

Kokyo by mid morning

Jakkodo arrives by noon

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Enlightenment? (a haiku & tanka in the works)

 

Moonlight

(laves) albesence

bliss

reflecting in a puddle

creamhued linen moonbeams

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