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

 

Posted with Blogsy

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

Posted with Blogsy

Enlightenment? (a haiku & tanka in the works)

 

Moonlight

(laves) albesence

bliss

reflecting in a puddle

creamhued linen moonbeams

Posted with Blogsy

Which way ?

 

 

Posted with Blogsy

Capitalism is not Democracy

Cyprus

Financial Molestation

Capitalism

(Spain, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Britain, america? Your all up next! Remember, just call it AUSTERITY )

Hennepin Canal, 2009

Trough off US 30 in Idaho

         Stagnant  -  wildness

    algae laced water teeming

      Life's recycling trough

Hiking by moonlight

Soaking in    brilliant moonbeams

Suddenly    struck by

Old growths droppings

Chiaroscuro

Sun & foliage transposed

A forest imbued

A new years Haiga (Image Sheep Slaughterhouse Attic #1)

(A Haiku/Tanka)

Aesthetic

Connotations

Haiku


Visual & literal

Haiga duality transposed

#12 of 12 views of The Mckenzie River Trail

Inspired by the Japanese wood block printer Katsushika Hokusai and his 36 views of Mt Fuji. I thought I'd display a slightly different interpretation of a body of work, 12 views of the Mckenzie River trail.

#11 of 12 views of The Mckenzie River Trail

Inspired by the Japanese wood block printer Katsushika Hokusai and his 36 views of Mt Fuji. I thought I'd display a slightly different interpretation of a body of work, 12 views of the Mckenzie River trail.

#10 of 12 views of The Mckenzie River Trail

Inspired by the Japanese wood block printer Katsushika Hokusai and his 36 views of Mt Fuji. I thought I'd display a slightly different interpretation of a body of work, 12 views of the Mckenzie River trail.

#9 of 12 views of The Mckenzie River Trail

Inspired by the Japanese wood block printer Katsushika Hokusai and his 36 views of Mt Fuji. I thought I'd display a slightly different interpretation of a body of work, 12 views of the Mckenzie River trail.

#8 of 12 views of The Mckenzie River Trail

Inspired by the Japanese wood block printer Katsushika Hokusai and his 36 views of Mt Fuji. I thought I'd display a slightly different interpretation of a body of work, 12 views of the Mckenzie River trail.

#7 of 12 views of The Mckenzie River Trail

Inspired by the Japanese wood block printer Katsushika Hokusai and his 36 views of Mt Fuji. I thought I'd display a slightly different interpretation of a body of work, 12 views of the Mckenzie River trail.

#6 of 12 views of The Mckenzie River Trail

Inspired by the Japanese wood block printer Katsushika Hokusai and his 36 views of Mt Fuji. I thought I'd display a slightly different interpretation of a body of work, 12 views of the Mckenzie River trail.

#5 of 12 views of The Mckenzie River Trail

Inspired by the Japanese wood block printer Katsushika Hokusai and his 36 views of Mt Fuji. I thought I'd display a slightly different interpretation of a body of work, 12 views of the Mckenzie River trail.

# 4 of 12 views of The Mckenzie River Trail

Inspired by the Japanese wood block printer Katsushika Hokusai and his 36 views of Mt Fuji. I thought I'd display a slightly different interpretation of a body of work, 12 views of the Mckenzie River trail.

# 3 of 12 views of The Mckenzie River Trail

Inspired by the Japanese wood block printer Katsushika Hokusai and his 36 views of Mt Fuji. I thought I'd display a slightly different interpretation of a body of work, 12 views of the Mckenzie River trail.

#2 of 12 views of the Mckenzie River trail.

Inspired by the Japanese wood block printer Katsushika Hokusai and his 36 views of Mt Fuji. I thought I'd display a slightly different interpretation of a body of work, 12 views of the Mckenzie River trail.

#1 of 12 views of the Mckenzie River Trail

Inspired by the Japanese wood block printer Katsushika Hokusai and his 36 views of Mt Fuji. I thought I'd display a slightly different interpretation of a body of work, 12 views of the Mckenzie River trail.

Loneliness, in solitude

Oregon's Coast, 2011

Gaia-Kiwanja Circumcised

Phallic Symbology

token euro totem

Ah!  dis-proportionality

Cherry Blossoms fading

Sage Brush   c R    Mb      i N
                                   u       L        g
                                           

Thirty six shades of pink

a powder upon the high plains


Clouding Mt  Fuji 

Tinging the Aesthetic of Elk Mt

"Espy Lithe"

Wet Streaks Glimmering

Pulsing beacons     drenched in darkness

Fireflies showering in Moonlight

Eastern Oregon-Idaho Border

A redit

Time to turn over a new leaf

Free Range Turkey ?

Coloured Seattle Arrangement

B&W Seattle Arrangement

Fall   bygone Autumn

Sentimental foliage

Windswept leaves,   abate

Poekuagery

Blooming wet noise

noisy wetness

Spray painting river rocks     moss green

saturation of green growth

Old growth bridge     a stream

Salmon leaping upstream

Wrought Iron Gate in colour

Springfield's Wrought Iron Gate