Another example of Jikuzo-shi tanka & Haiga with a Hokusai print

phallic tussle

flirtations       wet parasols      

Oiran vie  

Cherry trees

Yoshiwara . . . blossoms

A woodblock print by Hokusai

A jikuzo-shi haiku, and excerpt from "JIKU".

A jikuzo-shi form of haiku

hanging blossoms

            inquiring      a fanned facade

                                          faning ignorance

(A Hiroshige woodblock print)

A jikuzo-shi & honkadori haiku, and excerpt from "JIKU".

A form of jikuzo-shi & honadori haiku

streaming throngs

drifting perfection      crests

foaming white      capped

(A Hokusai wood block print #74 Travelers climbing a Mountain path, 1835-6")

An aizurie version of Hokusai's woodblock print #16, Kajikazawa in Kai Province (Koshu Kajikazawa)

A haiku in Jikuzo shi form

blustery      gusts

precarious     swirling

the high ground

snow capped     surrounded      jutting

coarse jetty

(A woodblock print by Hokusai)

An aizurie version of Hokusai's woodblock print #17 Kajikazawa in Kai Province (Koshu Kajikazawa)

A jikuzo shi haiku

thatched hovel

hoo-ji's view

of lake suwa

(A woodblock print by Hokusai)

A haiku for Hokusai's woodblock print #42 Amida waterfall on Kisokaido Road (Kisoji no oku Amidagataki)

A haiku in jikuzo shi form

thoughts streaming

aerated essence . . . mist

a woodsmoked breeze

(A woodblock print by Hokusai)

Hoo-ji

Hokusai's rooftop view

A clouded dream

Haiku for Hokusai's Hodogaya on the Tokaido Road/Hodogaya on the Tokaido Road

Contemporary Haiga

a gnarled framing

a skewed composition

passing Mt Fuji

A Haiku for Hokusai's Nakamaro Watching The Moon From A Hill/Abe no Nakamaro (Chao Heng)

Contemporary Haiga

poetic

longing for ones homeland

capitulation

(The Waka that accompanied it, translated read)

"When I look abroad

O'er the wide-streched "Plain of Heaven",

Is the moon the same

That on Mt Mikasa rose,

In the land of Kasuga?"

A Haiku for Hokusai's "Sumida River Seen from Azuma Bridge/Azumabashi yori Sumidawo miru no zu"

Contemporary Haiga

Sumida Gateway

an abridged waterway

pathway      see?

A Haiku for Houksai's Yamashiro Arashiyama Togetsukyo/Crossing-Moon Bridge At Arashiyama In Yamashiro Province

Contemporary Haiga

Landscapes of grandeur

transitions      visual tones

on land & air      see?

A Haiku for a Hokusai Print

Contemporary Haiga 

ephemeral sky

           ethereal pathway

                          westward currents   f  l  o  w