Haiku by Gabi Greve for Int’l Haiku Spring Festival 2010 (12)

 

Gabi Greve, a haiku friend of mine, in Okayama(岡山), Japan, kindly contributed her travelogue for the posting on May 23, on the last day of Int’l Haiku Spring Festival 2010.

She loves haiku trips around Asia, writing travelogues as shown below.

 

one day in sunshine

one day in pouring rain . . .

travelling in spring

 

Her self-introduction says as follows:

Gabi Greve, a medical doctor graduating from Heidelberg University Germany, came to Japan in 1977 and has since been involved in translating. She has written two books about Japanese Buddhist art.
She studies kigo as a means to get a better understanding of Japanese culture and has started to compile the World Kigo Database since 2004.
Since 1995, she lives in a remote area in the mountains in Western Japan and continues her internet activities also through a Daruma Museum Online and a Saijiki about Washoku, traditional Japanese food.

World Kigo Database
http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/

Daruma Museum Online
http://darumasan.blogspot.com/

Washoku
http://washokufood.blogspot.com/

 

On May 14, on the third day of our Haiku Festival, Gabi Greve sent me the following comment on ‘Haiku by Fay Aoyagi for Int’l Haiku Spring Festival’:

Thanks so much for introducing Fay!

I am a great fan of her work too !!

Gabi

by the way, join me in a walk through Nagi, Tottori and Chizu (partly in the rain …)

http://traveloguegokuraku.blogspot.com/2010/05/nagi-yama-no-eki.html

 

On the last day of our festival, we are willing to share her travelling in spring with each other from now on.

5/11/2010 

Nagi Yama no Eki

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Nagi Hill Station 那岐山麓山の駅 Red bridge and stone dragon ……………………………………………………………………. three monkeys – – is my WAY right or wrong ? monkey teachers . . . to see, to hear to recite haiku

My ALBUM : Nagi

The Hill Station of Nagi, about 400 meters high, is famous for its great view and the clear water that runs down from Mount Nagi san.
They serve dishes with the famous local “black pigs” kurobuta 黒豚 and you can have a first-hand experience at making saussages.

There are lodges for families to stay on the cheap and enjoy the many hiking courses which start from here, or just go down to the gorge and play in the water among the stones.

There are also other farm-related experiences offered to the tourists, like making tofu, ice cream, butter or cheese and even handicraft with local natural materials.

The temple Bodaiji 菩提寺 with its famous huge old Gingko tree is close by.

The hill station is ealily reached by bus (40 min) from Tsuyama train station.

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Nagi is also famous for its villate lay-kabuki,
Yokozen Kabuki 横仙歌舞伎.
I once watched a performance and was quite impressed with the high skills of the actors. The audience was laughing and weeping … and all had a good time.
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Mount Nagi (那岐山), is a mountain located on the border of Chizu, Tottori prefecture, and
Nagi, Okayama Prefecture.

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The trip in May 2010 starts from here in Nagi, on the way to Tottori, visiting a few places there and on the way back we ended in Chizu, because of heavy rain.
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. Nagisan 那岐山, Mount Nagi and the plum blossom park in Kume 　

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Posted by Gabi Greve at 5/11/2010

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Our festival has just ended with her travelogue by Gabi Greve in a walk through Nagi, Tottori and Chizu (partly in the rain …).

We sincerely hope that you have enjoyed yourselves in our Haiku Festival in your own ways, and that each of us will have a nice poetic life as usual.

Thanks to our sister festival, 2010 Bath Japanese Festival, we have had such a flourishing and fruitful ending.

With millions of thanks.

 

The next posting, ‘Haiku by Nobuko Johnson’ appears on May 29.

 

― Hidenori  Hiruta