Frame Two: This Sensual Splash of Visual Haiku
The Spirit of the Art Lies Within.
Welcome To: Frame Two.
♥ Original Haiku by Pearldiver ♥
An excellent haiku should be written to provide the reader with the opportunity to visualize and completely sense a specific moment. Haiku should be traditionally all about the events and spirit of nature. That moment in the life of nature may only be a tree shedding a leaf for example, yet a perfect haiku will describe the event as if that very moment in time is life changing, which indeed it could be if the haiku is good enough to capture it. The reader must be able to feel, to gauge the moment, as if they are experiencing that instance along with the entirety of its environment first hand.
Therefore, a haiku should not be written as a vehicle for ‘reporting’ a scene in past tense, or written in such a way as to leave the reader thinking; “Yes, but so what!” If that is how the verse is presented, or expected to be read, then the very purpose of writing haiku has been ignored by an author who is not skillful enough to comprehend or work within the living spirit of this ancient art form. As such, that living spirit dictates that each haiku is a frame in the life of nature; simple yet complexly unique, moving independently yet in tune with its environment, a stand alone event balanced in time. To hold a powerful beauty like that found in Netsuke. Ultimately, the haiku must be the living spirit and can only achieve that status with a level of mastery that clearly provides nourishment to the life flow living and described within the haiku.
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Here within Frame Two the author has attempted to consider the spirit of each Woodblock Print and apply it in haiku to that moment within each work. The skill in the exercise comes from not doing so, in past tense or as a review of the print. What has been considered is the need to nourish the spirit of the scene and the likely thoughts of those with the scene, as if they were actually writing the haiku. In essence Pearldiver is attempting to bring the woodblock print to life; a task not so hard, when the master printers featured here, have so skillfully locked life into their print. Yes, but so what? Well let’s see what that life and spirit can actually say. Enjoy Frame Two.
♥ Original Haiku by Pearldiver ♥
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Haiku - about living the moment.
Just offshore fishing
Clever lantern light dances
Master fisherman
oo0oo
Standing on the hill
A fisherman’s ghostly face
Broken light shadows
oo0oo
Golden rays of light
Setting out and searching
Market fare to trade
oo0oo
Dark inky seas heaving
Fishing boats riding swells
Large arrow squid
oo0oo
Black nights over Sado
Dipping nets and bamboo lures
Hungry birds waking
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New snow joins old snow
Perfect fish time together
Old fathers stay home
oo0oo
White cherry blossoms
Covering the world with hope
Fishing in the snow
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More modern woodblock prints.
What is being depicted?
Colors form shapes
Nature through a prism
Seasons dance as one
♥ Original Haiku by Pearldiver ♥
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Hokusai - True Master of Print.
In view of Mt.Fuji
The master and his students
Cormorants fishing
oo0oo
Testing limitations
On the edge of long wet rocks
Dawn until lunchtime
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Hope you enjoyed these haiku.
Thanks for reading Frame Two.
Thank you for taking the time to read these haiku. I hope that you also appreciated the power of the Japanese Woodblock Print Masters Hasegawa, Shotei, Hasui, Matsubara and Hokusai. The dates of these works range from between 1780 - Current and though styles may have changed over that period, the principles of the original carvers and printers really have not.
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