{"id":5180,"date":"2011-05-03T06:30:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T18:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=5180"},"modified":"2011-05-02T18:16:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T06:16:04","slug":"tuesday-poem-haiku-the-world-of-dew-by-kobayashi-issa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/05\/03\/tuesday-poem-haiku-the-world-of-dew-by-kobayashi-issa\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poem: Haiku—“the world of dew” by Kobayashi Issa"},"content":{"rendered":"

the world of dew
\nis the world of dew
\nand yet, and yet…<\/p>\n

.<\/p>\n

Kobayashi Issa,<\/em> 1763-1827 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

—<\/em><\/p>\n

On January 25 I posted the haiku spring rain<\/em><\/strong>, also by Kobayashi Issa, as my Tuesday poem. You are probably receiving the impression—correct as it happens—that I very much admire Issa as a haijin. the world of dew<\/strong> <\/em>is another of my Issa favourites. I think we all intuitively understand the inherent dichotomy between reality and possibility inherent in this poem. Yet even apparent reality is ephemeral: it is, after all, the world of dew. And yet again, maybe …<\/p>\n

The reason I chose to feature Issa again today is because on April 24, Toni Bernhard commented on the spring rain<\/em> post to draw my attention to her essay about Issa on PsychologyToday.com.<\/em> I enjoyed reading the essay and wanted to draw it to the attention of Tuesday Blog readers so featuring Issa again—and the world of dew<\/em> haiku in particular since it also appears in Toni’s essay—seemed like the right choice for this Tuesday, 3 May.<\/p>\n

To read Toni’s essay, Turning Straw Into Gold<\/strong><\/em>, click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

To read the featured poem on the Tuesday Poem Blog<\/strong>\u2014and link to other Tuesday Poets posting around NZ and the world\u2014either click here<\/strong><\/a> or on the Quill icon in the sidebar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

the world of dew is the world of dew and yet, and yet… . Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 — On January 25 I posted the haiku spring rain, also by Kobayashi Issa, as my Tuesday poem. You are probably receiving the impression—correct as it happens—that I very much admire Issa as a haijin. the world of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-writers","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5180"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5190,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions\/5190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}