Name: Sunlight tea wave (naviarhaiku604) by Snowman Lost His Head in haiku #604: In spring sunlight / the rows of tea bushes / ripple like waves
Duration: 3 min 9 s
Description: Sunlight tea wave © 2025 by Alan Florit is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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haiku #604: In spring sunlight / the rows of tea bushes / ripple like waves

a track by Marco Lucchi re-imagined by 'lighthillvision' (Gareth Jones)

lighthillvision - the golden eternity

Where Gold Sleeps

HAIKU MUSIC CHALLENGE

Naviarhaiku 602

scent of plum
in a flash of rising sun!
the mountain path

This week's challenge features a poem by the greatest master of haiku, Matsuo Bashō.

Haiku by Matsuo Bashō

Picture by Michel Stockman
 

Submission deadline: 23rd July 2025
 
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Sweet Elderpath (naviarhaiku602)

scent of plum
in a flash of rising sun!
the mountain path
(Matsuo Bashō)
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku602-scent-of-plum/
Komposition1078 Ensemble5

in a flash (naviarhaiku602)

雀（Sparrows）

すずめ
すずめ
転げて落ちた
親も子も
転げて落ちた
見向きもされず
見向きもされず
また死んだ

Sparrows, sparrows, sparrows tumbled down.
Parents and chicks all fell.
None of the passersby on the road looked at them.
Many sparrows died again today.


雀（Sparrows）

HAIKU MUSIC CHALLENGE

Naviarhaiku 603

insect tremolo
soberingly cools the heat
of farmland roads

Kogetsu Eguchi (1825-1867) was a Japanese poet active in the late Edo period. Together with Kazan Watanabe, he authored the haiku book Tōke shunchō.

Haiku by Kogetsu Eguchi

Picture by Luca Ercolani
 

Submission deadline: 30th July 2025
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Equilibrium (naviarhaiku603)

insects tremolo and chatter...  insect tremolo
soberingly cools the heat
of farmland roads

Kogetsu Eguchi (1825-1867) was a Japanese poet active in the late Edo period. Together with Kazan Watanabe, he authored the haiku book Tōke shunchō.

Haiku by Kogetsu Eguchi


 

Submission deadline: 30th July 2025
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Sentimental Insects (NaviarHaiku603)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
604
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku604-in-spring-sunlight/

2025-07-31

In spring sunlight (Naviarhaiku 604)

In spring sunlight
the rows of tea bushes
ripple like waves
 

Tōge Morita (1924-2013) was a Japanese teacher and poet from Osaka. In the early 50s, he started publishing his poems in the Katsuragi 葛城 magazine, later becoming its editor-in-chief and, in 1990, its editor.

Haiku by Tōge Morita: https://www.lucacenisi.net/2023/04/16/cinque-haiku-di-toge-morita/

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

more halF unusuaL

halF cuppA [naviarhaiku604]

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 11 Nov 2020 & 30 Jul 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, effects.

This original version of "Old Liver Fall” was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 604: In Spring Sunlight.

In spring sunlight
the rows of tea bushes
ripple like waves

by: Tōge Morita

Tōge Morita (1924-2013) was a Japanese teacher and poet from Osaka. In the early 50s, he started publishing his poems in the Katsuragi 葛城 magazine, later becoming its editor-in-chief and, in 1990, its editor.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 18 Nov 2018, LIRR, NY, USA

Music & art © 2018, 2020, 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

Old Liver Fall (naviarhaiku604)

HAIKU MUSIC CHALLENGE

Naviarhaiku 604

In spring sunlight
the rows of tea bushes
ripple like waves
 

Tōge Morita (1924-2013) was a Japanese teacher and poet from Osaka. In the early 50s, he started publishing his poems in the Katsuragi 葛城 magazine, later becoming its editor-in-chief and, in 1990, its editor.

Haiku by Tōge Morita

Picture by Kyle Bushnell

Submission deadline: 6th August 2025
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Whisper fields (naviarhaiku604)

An electronic composition, original sounds created using Pure Data.

Sunlight Ripple (naviarhaiku604)

Sunlight tea wave (naviarhaiku604)

Little musician from little island. OST for films, documentary & videogames.

Naviar is a music community and label. Through regular publications, open projects and events, we explore the connection between experimental music and traditional Japanese poetry.

To join the Haiku challenge, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Sunlight tea wave (naviarhaiku604)

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