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2009/12/30

Additions 2009

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2009/11/07

Sanpo-Ji Kyoto

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Temple Sanpo-Ji 三寳寺（さんぽうじ）
Sanpooji 三宝寺 Sanpoji

A Nichiren sect temple founded in December 8 1628.
The statue in the Myoken-do Hall was carved around the middle of the Edo period and the deity it depicts is affectionately known as 'the Myoken of Narutaki.' Chinese quince trees line the approach to the temple while the cherry trees next to the Main Hall are said to have been transplanted from the Imperial Palace. Both quince and cherry trees are well known features of the temple.
On the first Sat and Sun in December, the temple bustles with people who come to take part in the 'Nichirenshu no Daikodaki' or 'Nichiren White Stewing Radish Festival.'
source : kaiwai.city.kyoto.jp

Narutaki no Myoken-san
Matsumoto-cho Narutaki Ukyo-ku
京都市右京区鳴滝松本町32

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Mikuji - fortune telling slips in a wooden Daruma

source : Copyright (C) 2009 ZauCats
http://www.geocities.jp/philn/kyoto/ukyoku/sanpoji/sanpoji11.html

Charm

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厄落としの大根焚き（お会式）Daikotaki
Cooking Radishes for Nichiren
kigo for mid-winter

This festival is in memorial of Saint Nichiren and Nichiro 日朗上人.
If you eat a piece of the radish stew, you will be protected for the coming year and also not contract palsy 中風封じ祈祷.
Radishes are cooked with tofu from Saga 嵯峨豆腐.

When believers gave this soup to Nichiren, he tasted it and said

大根は大仏堂の大釘の如し、
あじわいは『とうり天』の甘露のごとし」

The big radish is like a nail of the big Buddha Hall.
It tasts like the sweet dew in the paradise of Tooriten.

There is also cooked rice with yuzu citron flavor, yuzu gohan ゆず御飯, another speciality which Nichiren liked very much and praized highly as food to warm the body.

厄落としの大根焚き

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Japanese HP
http://www.sanpouji.or.jp/index.html

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Saint Nichiren 日蓮上人
and related KIGO

Bishamonten and the Tooriten paradise とう利天

Myooken Bosatsu 妙見菩薩 Myoken Bosastu

Daikodaki (daikotaki) 大根焚 Cooking large radishes
kigo for mid-winter

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Sanpo-Ji in Tokyo, Nerima Ward
練馬区の石神井公園近くにある三宝寺
Tokyo, Nerima, Shakujiidai

source :　Nobuhiro, facebook

. Fudō Myō-ō, Fudoo Myoo-Oo 不動明王 Fudo Myo-O
Acala Vidyârâja - Vidyaraja - Fudo Myoo .

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Ikefuchi Historical Park
On the south of Shakujii Pond 石神井公園, just behind a little fox shrine, is the much smaller Ikefuchi Historical Park (池淵史跡公園) where shards of pottery were found, believed to be connected to the Shakujii Castle mentioned above. It is due to have a small museum built in it by March 2010.

Just a little east of Ikefuchi Historical Park is Sanpoji Temple, built in 1394 and later moved here.

At the eastern end of Sanpoji Pond, just in front of the site of Shakujii Castle, is where Japan's first 100 meter pool was built, in 1918, for training Japanese swimmers in preparation for the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium. In 1989, the eastern end of the old pool was turned into a "Waterside Observation Park" (水辺観察園) where various rare waterside flora can be seen, and serving as a resource for the full renaturing of the area.
- source : www.japanvisitor.com

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2009/10/27

Taiyaki Daruma Yaki

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Taiyaki たい焼き waffle in form of a sea bream

神田のたい焼き屋達磨

A store in Kanda, Tokyo, with the Name of Daruma
Kanda no Taiyakiya Daruma
Taiyaki Kanda Daruma （たいやき神田達磨）

Some waffles are sprinkled with sesame seeds.

神田達磨(Kanda Daruma)
2-1 Ogawamachi, Kanda, Chiyoda-ku
Tel: 03-6803-1704

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Figure waffles (ningyooyaki 人形焼) 　

another variety of Daruma Yaki だるま焼き

だるま水産株式会社
札幌市西区二十四軒3条1丁目42-1
http://www2.hp-ez.com/hp/daruma/page2

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Waffeln in Form einer Meerbrasse

Diese Waffeln stillen nicht nur den Hunger nach etwas Süßem, sie bringen auch Glück für den Esser, denn das Wortspiel mit TAI (japanischer Name der Meerbrasse) und MEDE TAI (glückverheißend) bringt jedem Glück. Daher fehlen sie auf keinem Festplatz und kleinere Buden verkaufen sie vor vielen Kaufhäusern, besonders in den kalten Monaten.

Eine Waffel aus Weizenmehl, gefüllt mit süßem Bohnenmus oder Vanillecreme – das ist alles. Der Bäcker hat entweder eine getrennte Waffelform für jeden Fisch oder eine Stange mit mehreren Fischformen nebeneinander, die gleichzeitig über das Kohlenfeuer gehalten werden.
Ahnherr ist die Imagawa-Waffel von einem Laden der Edo-Zeit an der Brücke über den Fluß Imagawa im Stadtteil Kanda. Sie wird aus Weizenmehl, Zucker, Eiern und Wasser gemacht und ist einfach nur rund, mit süßem Bohnenmus oder Vanillecreme gefüllt.

Daraus entwickelten sich Waffeln in verschiedenen Tierformen, aber der TAI mit dem glückverheißenden Schwanzwort machte das Rennen.

Im Schwanzteil ist keine Füllung, den soll man am Schluß „zum Ausputzen des Mundes“ verspeisen. Wieder andere meinen, den Schwanz zuerst zu essen erhöhe das Glück bei den nächsten süßen Bissen.
Oder noch anders:
Die Herren beginnen mit dem Kopf, die Damen mit dem Schwanz. ... Japanische Lebensphilosophie!

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sea bream waffles, taiyaki　鯛焼き

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Fudoo yaki 不動焼き waffle from a Fudo Temple
Fudoyaki, Fudo-Yaki

This is more a kind of dorayaki, round waffle with red bean paste filling.

狭山不動尊 Sayama Fudo Temple 不動寺
It has been founded by Kobo Daishi.
This temple has been patronized by the third shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu, in 1632.
It has a lot of important buildings in the precincts.
In the neighbourhood are places which specialize in food with tofu.

In Tokorozawa (所沢市, Tokorozawa-shi), Saitama prefecture.
Sayama green tea is another speciality.

. . . CLICK here for Photos of the temple!

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鯛焼を割つて五臓を吹きにけり
taiyaki o watte gozoo o fukinikeri
　　
I break open
a taiyaki sweet waffle and blow
on its intestines

Nakahara Michio 中原道夫

The freshly baked taiyaki are usually very hot and steam comes out after breaking htem open. People have to fuufuu blow on them for cooling.

gozoo is an old term for the intestines, five zoo and six pu, gozoo roppu 五臓六腑.
According to the old Chinese medicine, these are the five full organs (heart, lungs, liver, spleen and kidneys), and the six hollow organs (stomach, small intestine, large intestine, gall bladder, urinary bladder and reproductive organs).

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2009/08/08

BACKUP - Daruma Food LINKS

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Daruma Food LINKS

. WASHOKU - Daruma Food LINKS .

Below is a backup from July 2012.

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Akachochin CHOOCHIN, lanterns 提灯とだるま
Ame, dagashi <> Sweets 　飴、駄菓子
Anko, sweet bean paste Daruma 餡子だるま , だるまあん

Azuki Daruma 小豆を「達磨」made from Red Beans

Bentoobako ― Lunchbox with Daruma Bentoobako 弁当箱
Bon, 盆 a tray

CHA 茶　The world of TEA and Daruma

Coasters
Cookies だるまクッキー
Daruma sweets
Cups and Mugs
..... Guinomi ぐい飲み Tea Cups
Cup soup <> カップラーメン Cup Ramen, Cup Raamen
Curry from GLICO グリコカレー / glico カレー職人 Gookaku　合格　to pass the examination

Fukudama Fukudama 迎春福玉 Sweets
Fukutoku Senbei - Waffles for Good Luck from Kanazawa
福徳せんべい

Gokoku hojo .. 五穀豊穣 (gokoku hoojoo)
Prayers for a Bountiful Harvest of the Five Grains

Hamburger Cotelettes KATSU Daruma Food
..... 合格祈願エビカツバーガー　to pass examinations
Hashi, O-Hashi ... Chopsticks お箸　おはし
Hashi oki ... chopstick rests 箸置き

Juken Food 受験フーズ Examination　Hell Food, January 2007

Kabocha Daruma as Pumpkinかぼちゃ達磨, かぼちゃだるま
Kagome Food for Exam Students カゴメ　
Kashigata 菓子型　＜＞　Cake Molds from wood
..... Kashigata 菓子型　Cake mold from iron
..... Kashi bin 菓子ビン <> Glass for cookies
Katsuobushi kezuriki かつおぶし削り器 cutter for bonito flakes
Keeki だるまケーキ Cakes decorated with Daruma

Maekake ... Apron 前掛け
Masamune
Daruma Masamune 達磨正宗 Aged Rice wine
Mito Kōmon .. 水戸黄門 Tokugawa Mitsukuni 徳川光圀

Nabe ... だるま鍋 ... Cooking pot and restaurant
Natto 納豆 ... Fermented Beans
Noren ... Door Curtains 暖簾　のれん

Pan, Daruma pan だるまパン Daruma bread and
Daruma monaka だるまもなか Daruma wafers

Parfait Daruma ..... パフェだるま Food Art

RESTAURANTS . . . More . . . DARUMA Restaurants

Sable Cakes from Kawasaki 川崎大師名物大人気元祖ダルマサブレー
Salt and Pepper Shaker Shio Koshoo Ire . 塩コショウ入れ. 塩胡椒入れ

Sake, Ricewine and Daruma 酒.....
Sakazuki　杯 small cups / 達磨タンブラー . Tumbler Daruma

Sankuro, Dondo Yaki and Spring Fire Ceremonies 三九郎とだるま　
(Sankuroo)
Sara - Plates お皿にだるま
Senbei だるませんべい Rice Crackers
Sencha 煎茶　＜＞　Tea with Daruma see > CHA
Shamoji しゃもじ　＜＞　Rice Spoon, Ladle
Snacks with Daruma スナック Food
Soba 蕎麦　そば　＜＞ Daruma Eating Buckwheat Noodles
SUSHI . Daruma Sushi だるま　寿司

TABEMONO More about FOOD with Daruma

Taiyaki たい焼き waffle in form of a sea bream
Tamago ... 卵だるま, たまごだるま, タマゴダルマEggs and Daruma

TEA and Daruma : Cha
The world of TEA and Daruma Introduction

Tokkuri ― Drinking Hot Sake with Daruma　　徳利とだるま
Tsumayooji (tsumajoji) 爪楊枝　つまようじ　＜＞　Toothpicks-holder

Udon Noodles with Daruma 達磨にうどん　ウドン

Vinegar Tasters, The three Vinegar Tasters of Chinese Art

Wasabi わさびだるま　Japanese Horseradish called "Daruma"

wine 達磨寺ワイン Darumadera Red Wine

Yunomi ― Drinking Tea with Daruma　　湯のみとだるまさん/ Guinomi

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Daruma (tags in the WASHOKU BLOG)

Daruma (tags in this DARUMA BLOG)

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2009/08/05

Bread (pan)

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Daruma Bread だるまパン Daruma pan

© PHOTO :　necojitamu.exblog.jp

Sold at the shrine Hoshitsuji Jinja, Daruma festival
星辻神社のだるま祭り
川反ダルマまつり Kawabata Daruma festival
Akita 秋田市大町1丁目
on April 12/13

The deity of this shrine protects from fire and catching a cold, and usually on the festival day rain is falling.

北斗七星 the big dipper is ment by the name Hoshitsuji.

A wafer with Daruma だるまもなか Daruma monaka

monaka manjuu chazuke 最中まんじゅうの茶づけ with Daruma san !

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Here is a special omamori talisman from the shrine
The character for STAR 星 is written on the head of Daruma.
Hoshitsuji Daruma 星辻だるま
Hibuse Daruma 火伏せだるま warding off fire

Poster for the festival

Reference : 星辻神社・川反ダルマまつり

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Pizza Pan Bread to pass the examination
合格だるまブレッド

ピッツァブレッド Pizzabread

source : www.nipponham.co.jp

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Pink Daruma Bread
Bread for good luck 縁起パン engi pan

Wonderful Daruma Bread Face

source : www.tincarbell.com

Pan and Yukidaruma pan ゆきだるまパン snowman Daruma bread

MORE
Photos of Daruma Pan だるまパン

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Daruma Monaka だるま最中 Daruma Waffles

shiawase monaka しあわせもなか　Happiness Monaka
上州銘菓

Handmade from Takasaki 「高崎だるま手作最中」

Sankaku Daruma 三角だるま monaka
Triangular conical Daruma

Inside is shiroan, shiro-an (白餡) white anko, made from white kidney beans.

水原名物

SANKAKU DARUMA 三角だるま Triangular Daruma

. ふくらすずめ最中 plump sparrow wafer

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Monaka 最中　モナカ　wafers, waffles

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Hibuse Daruma ... 火防達磨 Fire and war preventing Daruma.

Matsuri, Daruma Matsuri ... だるま祭り ... Daruma Festivals

Star Shrines .. Hoshi Jinja

WASHOKU
Food with Daruma

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2009/05/16

Cookies

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Daruma Cookies だるまクッキー

From Gunma

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CLICK for original ... darumaya.cc/catlog_cookie.html

with a lot of almonds

From Darumaya Sweets　だるまやスイーツ
Darumaya Confectionery、Yamagata
http://darumaya.cc/

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chibi Daruma チビだるま small Daruma cookies

福を呼ぶ男、チビだるま型のお菓子

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Two homemade Daruma cookies, one is the red ridinghood
akazukin

wagawagashi.seesaa.net/category/5497470-1.html

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開運だるまクッキー Good Luck Daruma Cookie

CLICK for more Daruma Cookies

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Daruma Cookies from Nara

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- - - MORE delicious Daruma kukkii at TsubameDo
- source : 焼き菓子　つばめどう日記

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. Mingei Kukkii　みんげいクッキー　Mingei Folk Art Cookies .

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和べっこう飴 Japanese Bekko Candy

Kitkat - Kit Kat キットカット Daruma

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source : .. r/ghibli ...
Totoro Daruma macarons

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More FOOD with Daruma ! in the Daruma Museum

Snacks with Daruma スナック Food

Tabemono　食べ物　 Food with Daruma / Album

WASHOKU : DARUMA and Food

だるまパフェ Daruma parfait

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2009/03/07

Fukusuke

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Fukusuke 福助だるま

He is almost like a god, helping people to make good business.

It is the figure of a man seated on his knees on a cushion, with a big round shaven head.
The origin was a god of good luck (fuku no kami　福の神)
called Kanoo Fukusuke 叶福助 in Edo.
. . . CLICK here for Kano Fukusuke Photos !

Fukusuke would grant a wish (kanoo, kanaeru 叶える) and was popular with the tea shops and courtisans.

睦まじう夫婦仲よく見る品は不老富貴に叶う福助

Fukusuke would also bring long life and prosperity to a loving couple.

A model was probably the farmer Sataro from Settsu province 摂津国西成郡安部里の佐太郎 in 1802, who did not only live long but was of a small body with a large head (probably from a disease) and often the aim of people's laughter. He went off to Edo for a better life, got caught by a dealer (in human beings) near Odawara and was made a showpiece in a curio show in Kamakura, and later brought to Edo.
A disabled person was a fugu suke ふぐ【不具】, later read as Fukusuke, FUKU being a pun with "good luck".

A certain noble Hatamoto bought Fukusuke from his owner for 30 ryo of gold and gave him to his daughter as a playmate. The new owner family prospered and Fukusuke was able to marry the servant of the home, Risa りさ.
They started a small shop in Nagai-Cho and sold Fukakusa yaki 深草焼 pottery. He even made dolls of his own figure and sold them for good luck items.

Well, that is quite a story of a long, eventfull life of a disabled person!

Click for more photos ... Walton antiques

The original might also have been a merchant of Kyoto during the Edo period, who sold cloths.

His ears are quite big (fukumimi).

His wife is O-Fuku (Ofuku　お福、O-Tafuku, Otafukuお多福) and his dauther is a Fukumusume 福娘. (but only in the curio shops).

He sits at the entrance of the store and welcomes visitors with a deep bow.

おじぎ福助 ojigi Fukusuke

Gott der Händler. Puppe mit großem Kopf.

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Fukusuke from Hirado pottery 福助　平戸

Yabase clay doll, Akita 八橋人形

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. Daruma Museum
Fukakusa-yaki 深草焼, Clay Dolls from Fukakusa

To our day, there is a store in Tokyo selling tabi socks with a big toe.
Tsujimoto Fukumatsu established the Fukusuke Tabi company in 1885.

English Reference Fukusuke Tabi

Fukusuke is also the name of a type of chrysanthemum
Fukusukegiku 福助菊
. . . CLICK here for Photos !

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Fukusuke with a family crest of radishes

Click for more auspicious FUKUSUKE photos !

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Fukusuke as a baby
like a Daruma Doll

Daruma Museum : Otafuku, O-Fuku Daruma
お多福だるま、お福達磨, お福だるま

fuufu Fukusuke 夫婦福助 the couple of Fukusuke and his wife
Sendai hariko 仙台張子 papermachee dolls from Sendai

Fukusuke, Daruma and
other auspicious items for the New Year

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Fukusuke on a spring horse 春駒持ち福助
© PHOTO : Nakamura Sakuo

© Reference

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福助のお辞儀は永遠に雪が降る　　　
Fukusuke no o-jigi wa eien ni yuki ga furu

the servile bow of Fukusuke
is with us for ever . . .
it is snowing

鳥居真理子 Torii Mariko (Torii) (1948 - )

. WKD : Gendai . Modern Haiku 　　

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source :　zenmaitarow

Fukusuke and O-Tafuku as kokeshi 福助 - お福こけし

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fuku no kami 福の神　god of good luck

source :　ameblo.jp/shigeoh14

Maybe the most popular are Ebisu and his companion Daikoku

. Ebisu えびす　恵比寿　 .

Hotei, one of the "seven gods of good luck" is another great candidate
. Hotei 布袋 Pu-Tai .

A red Daruma doll is also seen as
"always happy to brind good luck to the family
いつも明 AKAるい家庭に宿る福の神
. Daruma Dolls in 10 colors / カラーだるま .

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小柱や己が夜寒の福の神
ko-bashira ya ono ga yozamu no fuku no kami

small post,
you're my god of luck
this cold fall night
Tr. Chris Drake

This hokku is from the eighth month (September) of 1810, when Issa was staying in the city of Edo and in the area just east of Edo. This is a year in which Issa made a vigorous attempt to return to his hometown, where he hoped to establish himself as a self-supporting haikai teacher. At the end of the fifth month, he made a trip from Edo all the way back to his hometown to discuss sharing his inheritance with his brother, but his brother refused, and Issa got no farther than the entranceway of the house left by his father, even though the house was half his. (See the 8/23/2013 post for some other hokku from this period.) After Issa returned to Edo, he was dispirited but even more determined to return to his hometown, a dream he realized in 1813.

The present hokku seems to have a double tone of frustration and resolve. Issa is traveling around and staying at different people's houses, so the post near the house where he is staying tonight is not literally his. He simply chooses it as his god. Autumn is beginning to deepen, and the night is sharply colder tonight, though not yet freezing. The temperature also probably suggests Issa's own sense of his situation at the moment. In Japanese, gods are traditionally referred to as pillars or posts (hashira), presumably because in Japanese shamanism gods were believed to descend down trees when they manifested themselves in this world. Also traditionally, there are seven gods of good luck or good fortune, and so when they are counted individually, they are "seven pillars/posts."

A single god, when counted, is "one pillar/post." Relying on this usage, Issa decides that a nondescript, small post in a street or a garden will be his own god of good luck in this season of increasing cold. It has no tradition, individual name, or special characteristics, but it seems to have continued to stand where it is for some time, and its ability to endure and be a post suggests it is blessed with good fortune. Issa wants to do likewise. I take the hokku to be his address to the post, telling it he respects it and hopes the post will show him how it's been able to be so lucky and endure so long.

The two hokku placed immediately before this hokku in Issa's diary also shed light on Issa's thinking when he wrote this hokku. First the hokku placed two hokku earlier:

tsuyu-tsuyu ni nagasaresou naru hashira kana

surely that post
will be washed away
by the dew

The post seems so weak and fragile that it looks as if it will soon be carried off by the daily and nightly dew, which in comparison seems to be stronger than the post. And then this hokku placed just before the first hokku translated above:

furusato ya kore mo yosamu no nyorai-sama

my hometown --
on a cold fall night
you, too, my Buddha

Issa always prays to Amida as his special Buddha among many Buddhas, but on this cold autumn night he also prays to his hometown as another personal Buddha. This is not an unusual form of worship in Japan, where the souls of ancestors are even now in rural areas often called "Buddhas" or "gods." Issa feels a strong spirit coming from his hometown and from the spirits of his dead father and mother and others, and he vows to maintain his reverence for his hometown on a spiritual level even though his brother and stepmother continue to refuse to meet him. The intensity of Issa's identification with his hometown in this hokku could indicate that the post referred to in two of the three hokku is a post standing near the house left by his father in his hometown.

Since Issa often wrote several hokku a day, the weak post in one hokku and the small post in another are probably the same post, a post that wouldn't appear at first glance to be a prominent candidate for being a god of good luck. But to Issa small, weak things are often very powerful in their own way and worthy of great respect. And if the post stands in front of the house where Issa was born, then it is a very powerful post -- and god -- indeed.

Chris Drake

. Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 in Edo .

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