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naviarhaiku402 – 
How cool cut hay smells
when carried through the farm gate
as the sun comes up

Nozawa Bonchō was a haikai poet and disciple of Basho who worked as a doctor in Kyoto. Later in life Bonchō distanced himself from Basho’s school and was imprisoned for a crime. He died in 1714.

For this track I made heavy use of Spitfire Audio's LABS Instruments: Soft Piano, Tape Orchestra Strings Flautando and Peel Guitar Ensemble. The field recordings in the background are from LABS' magnificent Tundra Atmos.
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haiku by Nozawa Bonchō https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nozawa_Bonch%C5%8D
image by mike liu https://unsplash.com/@mike33538

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Cool Cut Hay [NaviarHaiku402]

naviarhaiku403:
On the spring equinox
Clouds wander about
The entrance of a mountain temple.

haiku by Ida Dakotsu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakotsu_Iida
picture by Artem Sapegin https://unsplash.com/@sapegin

On this track I made use of Gatelab and Filterstep - fantastic FREE plugins from @audiomodern (https://audiomodern.com/)

Equinox [NaviarHaiku403]

naviarhaiku404:
A red sun
Falls into the sea
What summer heat!

haiku: Natsume Sōseki https://www.britannica.com/biography/Natsume-Soseki
image: Jonathan Borba https://unsplash.com/@jonathanborba

Summer Heat [NaviarHaiku404]

naviarhaiku405:
A day of rainbows
As Summer gives way to the
Damp days of Autumn

haiku: John Hinks https://soundcloud.com/flownblue
image: Dewang Gupta https://unsplash.com/@dewang

Damp Days [NaviarHaiku405]

naviarhaiku406:
first winter rain –
a nameless mountain
quaintly

Ryōkan Taigu was a Japanese poet and calligrapher who lived during the Edo period. A Buddhist monk who lived much of his life as a hermit, he spent most of his time writing poetry, calligraphy, and communing with nature. His poetry is often very simple and inspired by nature.

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haiku: Ryōkan Taigu https://artofwonder.org/2014/11/14/forgetting-the-moon-the-poetry-of-ryokan/
image: Paul Earle https://unsplash.com/@paulearlephotography

Nameless Mountain Rain [NaviarHaiku406]

naviarhaiku407:
quickening wind
every leaf of the turning maple
in tune

Mark Miller is an award-winning poet and photographer who has published four books of poetry, the latest being Light and Counterlight, a selection of his best haiku from over 350 that have been published in international journals and anthologies. Among his awards are an International Sakura Award in the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational 2013 and 2021, first place in the Blue Giraffe Press Second Haiku Competition 2014 and first prize in the FAWQ Haiku Competition 2016. His previous three books are Conversing with Stones (Five Islands Press, 1989), This Winter Beach (Seaview Press, 1999), and Scanning the Horizon (Ginninderra Press, 2018). Published by Ginninderra Press in 2020, Light and Counterlight is his first book of haiku. Mark lives in Shoalhaven Heads, Australia.

haiku: Mark Miller
image: Vincenzo Di Giorgi https://unsplash.com/@vincenzodigiorgi

Every Leaf in Tune [NaviarHaiku407]

naviarhaiku408:
noon stillness
the lyrebird sings
for all the forest

Mark Miller is an award-winning poet and photographer who has published four books of poetry, the latest being Light and Counterlight, a selection of his best haiku from over 350 that have been published in international journals and anthologies. Among his awards are an International Sakura Award in the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational 2013 and 2021, first place in the Blue Giraffe Press Second Haiku Competition 2014 and first prize in the FAWQ Haiku Competition 2016. His previous three books are Conversing with Stones (Five Islands Press, 1989), This Winter Beach (Seaview Press, 1999), and Scanning the Horizon (Ginninderra Press, 2018). Published by Ginninderra Press in 2020, Light and Counterlight is his first book of haiku. Mark lives in Shoalhaven Heads, Australia.

haiku: Mark Miller
image: Maxx Gong https://unsplash.com/@maxxgong

The Lyrebird Sings [NaviarHaiku408]

naviarhaiku409:
Darkness,
Wet with
The sound of the waves

A wandering poet and ascetic Zen priest, Santōka was a disciple of Ogiwara Seisensui, one of the first poets to discard the traditional use of the 5-7-5 structure in haiku.
Santōka’s poetry emphasizes the necessity of sabi (solitude) in order to achieve spiritual enlightenment and serenity.
haiku: Santoka Taneda http://www.chzc.org/Nonin.htm
image: Pawel Czerwinski https://unsplash.com/@pawel_czerwinski

Darkness Wet [NaviarHaiku409]

naviarhaiku410:
red camellia
white camellia
falling down

Like Santoka and Seisensui, Kawahigashi Hekigoto (1873-1937) was an important advocate of the free verse haiku.
Besides being a writer and critic of haiku, Hekigoto was a literary scholar, noh dancer, art critic, calligrapher, social commentator, and mountain climber.

haiku: Kawahigashi Hekigotō https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kawahigashi-Hekigoto
image: Han Chenxu https://unsplash.com/@hanchenxu

Camellia Falling [NaviarHaiku410]

naviarhaiku411:
no sooner
clouds come into sight, than
migrating birds appear

Kyorai was a Japanese haiku poet who first trained as a martial artist before he started writing and became one of Basho’s first disciples.

haiku: Mukai Kyorai https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mukai-Kyorai
image: Gauravdeep Singh Bansal https://unsplash.com/@gauravdsb

Migrating Birds [NaviarHaiku411]

naviarhaiku412:
even the fields
have a morning attitude
blue mist

Among the four great masters of Japanese haiku, Issa was the most prolific: during his lifetime he wrote over 20,000 haiku, hundreds of tanka, and several haibun.

haiku:  Kobayashi Issa https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kobayashi-issa
image: Marcel Gross https://unsplash.com/@marcelgross_ch

Fields Morning Mist [NaviarHaiku412]

naviarhaiku413:
Star-like, distant lights
Twinkle erratically –
Cold December night

haiku: John Hinks https://soundcloud.com/flownblue
image: Andrew Seaman https://unsplash.com/@amseaman

Distant Lights Twinkle [NaviarHaiku413]

naviarhaiku414:
grim wartime relics
– white lichen circles brighten
their crumbling concrete

haiku: Raymond Cobley https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley
image: Abby Anaday https://unsplash.com/@aalteredstaate

Wartime Relics [NaviarHaiku414]

naviarhaiku415:
A cool breeze blowing
Now my tree is almost bare
Autumn sky beyond

haiku: John Hinks https://soundcloud.com/flownblue
image: Cole Wyland https://unsplash.com/@cole_wyland_24

Bare Autumn Sky [NaviarHaiku415]

Among the four great masters of Japanese haiku, Issa was the most prolific: during his lifetime he wrote over 20,000 haiku, hundreds of tanka, and several haibun.

haiku: Kobayashi Issa http://haikuguy.com/issa
image: Kumiko SHIMIZU https://unsplash.com/@shimikumi32

Lucky Day [NaviarHaiku417]

naviarhaiku418:
A machine gun,
the low moon,
round and resounding.

Saitō Sanki (1900 – 1962) was a dentist who discovered his passion for haiku poetry in his mid-thirties, when his colleagues at the hospital in Soto Kanda convinced him to write a haiku for a collection. Later, he became one of the most important exponents of wartime haiku: he was imprisoned in 1940 during the government’s World War II persecution of controversial artists, and was officially forbidden to write until the end of the war.

haiku: Saitō Sanki https://harvardreview.org/content/three-demons-haiku-by-sanki/
image: Rosie Sun https://unsplash.com/@rosiesun

Machine Gun Moon [NaviarHaiku418]

naviarhaiku419:
this feeling of loneliness –
he plays with his building blocks
as the snow heaps up

Kubota Mantarō (1889 – 1963) was a Japanese author, playwright and Japanese poet. Although he was more interested in novels and plays, Kubota published several haiku collections and for a while was editor of the haiku magazine Shunto.

haiku: Kubota Mantaro https://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.com/2009/08/kubota-mantaro.html
image: Brandi Redd https://unsplash.com/@brandi1

Feeling Loneliness [NaviarHaiku419]

naviarhaiku420:
adorned with raindrops
from the shower, a sparkling
princess Azealia

A contemporary of Basho, Den Sutejo was the eldest daughter of a distinguished samurai family living in the mountainous area northwest of Kyoto. After her husband’s death, she became a nun and spent the final years of her life as a Zen devotee.

haiku: Den Sutejo https://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.com/2007/03/den-sutejo.html
image: Lenstravelier https://unsplash.com/@lenstravelier

Raindrops from the Shower [NaviarHaiku420]

naviarhaiku421:
White and white
Heaven and bottom useless
–Winter cloudy

haiku: Yoshida Donguri https://haiku.kaigonokaeru.info/
image: Das Sasha https://unsplash.com/@dasdasha2015

White Winter Clouds [NaviarHaiku421]

naviarhaiku422:
the edge of the world
– the road vanishes into
a curtain of mist

haiku: Raymond Cobley https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley
image: Miriam Espacio https://unsplash.com/@miriamespacio

Edge of the World [NaviarHaiku422]

mikey_a is an ambient and soundscape artist living in Melbourne, Australia.
Though now producing mainly in the box with a mix of VST and field recordings he still likes to occasionally crank out some of the physical treasures he's owned since the '80s: a Korg MonoPoly, a Roland TR-606, TB-303, S-10 and D-110 along with a TEAC 3440 reel-to-reel.
He is a frequent contributor to the Naviar Records' Haiku Challenge and Disquiet Junto projects.