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Body Parts
***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Non-seasonal Topic
***** Category: Humanity
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Explanation
Here I will try and collect haiku about certain parts of the body.
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Spine, muscles along the spine (sesuji 背筋)
Carrying babies on the back was and still is common in Japan.
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Worldwide use
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Things found on the way
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HAIKU
春の日を背筋にあてることし哉
haru no hi o sesuji ni ateru kotoshi kana
exposing my spine
to the spring sun...
this year
Kobayashi Issa
Tr. David Lanoue
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麦秋や子を負ながらいはし売
mugi aki ya ko o oi-nagara iwashiuri
ripened barley--
with a child on her back
the sardine vendor
Kobayashi Issa
Read the comment by David Lanoue:
. WKD : Echigo and its food
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垂直に背筋伸ばして筆竜胆
suichoku ni sesuji nobashite fude rindoo
vertically
it streches its back -
this gentian flower
Daisuke 大介
with photo HERE
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/ryuusimutou2/53310402.html
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spring breeze
the little boy on her back
waves his hand
Chen-ou Liu
Candada
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on my back
two chunky avocadoes --
Indian bag
one drop rolls
off the goose’s back --
chasing coot chicks
a row
of upturned backs --
women planting
And then, this one which implies the mother's back :
selling red plums --
baby too bends
up and down
Isabelle Prondzynski
Belgium
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