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Day 19 - cemetery- may your rest be peaceful

#scarathlon #skeletoncrew @CIwojick & @StayCurious

She makes a nice model.

This a gorgeous book. The sense, while reading, is visual. The poems are all so short, a compression of multi-meaning sparse impressions. Rexroth includes mini-biographies of each author in the back, which adds some needed weight for lost a reader like me. I don't know anything about Japanese, its poetry, or ancient history. I had no context for these. I enjoyed them, even if they didn't stick. I enjoyed looking at them.

Ōtomo No Yakamochi lived from 718 to 785.

This is a gorgeous book i‘ve had for ages and am finally working through. I don‘t have any context. I haven‘t read any Japanese poetry, and I have no clue what was happening in Japan when these poems were written.

Catie, dear friend, what a wonderful and thoughtful package! I saw the book was one you posted about some years ago, that changed or inspired you, so I‘m really looking forward to it. I have a growing collection of Michigan shirts so this is perfect 😁 #Nunlit folks, please note the prayerful pretzels. I will snack on them while reading my nun books. The tea looks delicious. Everything is lovely - thank you so much Catie! I hope you are well!

#spray #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

This slim collection of classic haiku with illustrations by Nanae ito is just lovely! Nothing is as restful and calming to me as reading classical haiku.

This would be an amazing reference book. It not only has all of Basho‘s poems collected and translated, it includes extensive info about each period of his life and all the techniques he employed in his writing. When available notes from his journals are paired with the appropriate poems, and each piece has extensive notes in the appendix describing any wordplay or historical/cultural/literary significance that modern western readers may miss.

Among the many reasons I love buying books on Etsy:
Sometimes you open the package and there‘s a present for you to unwrap!!! #bookmail

This is an exquisite book. I found it in a thrift store in NYC when I was in college. Thanks to Litsy and the #FoodandLit #japan challenge,I finally read it. In 1832, Ichiryusai Hiroshige, when he was 35, traveled the highway from Tokyo to Kyoto called the Tokaido. There were 53 stopping places about a day‘s journey apart. He created 53 colored prints of a view from each station. There is one on each page with a Japanese poem. A treasure.

Dinner at a local Japanese restaurant that has been in my neighborhood for a very long time. It took a Litsy challenge to finally visit it. This challenge has gotten my husband out of his comfort zone! I only have a photo of my first course, a vegetable tempura. Vegetables were asparagus,broccoli,mushroom and sweet potato. My entree was teriyaki tofu. Both were delicious. #foodandlit #japan