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first temple visit
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| Posted by Gabi Greve Sat, Jan 12th 2008, 02:33 :: | |||
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first temple visit -
http://haikuandhappiness.blogspot.com/2008/01/reflecting-life.html
. Wishing you all the best for 2008 !
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| Look at the photos HERE http://haikuandhappiness.blogspot.com/2008/01/reflecting-life.html hatsumoode, first temple or shrine visit of the New Year, a kigo in Japan. . | |||
ena'akaas -e/
yek zendegi-e khoob
انعكاسِ/
يك زندگي خوب
I see, John, you translated TEMPEL with KIRK, seems like CHURCH (Kirche in German) to me ...
Gabi
Translating Haiku Forum
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/translatinghaiku/
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so you use the word KIRK then for any place of worship in your country, even a mosque ?
hatusmode as a kigo is very typical for Japan though.
Anyway, I came across a haiku of a Japanese visiting the German town of Koln and writing about the famous cathedral of Koln (der Kolner Dom), using the expression
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kerun no tera ... temple of Koln
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that struck me as rather odd ...
so there are many ways to express the world of worship!
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In Japan we differ between a temple for Buddhist worship, a shrine for Shinto worship and a church for Christian worship....... People reading only your translation might think I visited a church in Japan, which is not what I did and not what I wrote in my haiku ... that is all .....
Greetings from cold Japan!
GABI
shunmin no kerun no tera no kane ga naru
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sleepy in spring ..............
the bells of the cathedral in Cologne ................
are ringing
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岡野圭一, Okano Kei-Ichi
Tr. Gabi Greve
http://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.com/2007/10/church.html
I have altered the translation. perhaps you could do the same on your web thanks for the explanation