Secret Garden

The Japanese nightingale is smaller the European nightingale. When it is sitting it looks like a wagtail and is about same size.

「岩手 この空の下、明日への道を探して」

国境なき子どもたち写真展 2012

「岩手 この空の下、明日への道を探して」

日時：2012年4月26日（木）〜5月16日（水）10：00〜18：00　

（最終日は15：00まで）

※日曜および5月3日（木祝）〜5月5日（土祝）は休館

会場：アイデムフォトギャラリー「シリウス」

東京メトロ丸の内線新宿御苑前駅そば

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Issa in Spring

Haiku are a series of three lines of 5-7-5 syllables. Issa is a celebrated poet of the 18th -19th century in the mid-Edo period, but became famous in the Meiji period when his poems were adopted into school text books.
Below is one of his haiku and a series of interpretations.

桜咲く
大日本ぞ
日本ぞ

Cherry blossoms in bloom
What a beautiful country
Our Japan is.

Cherry in Japan
In magnificent bloom
Oh real Japan.

I am proud of Japan
When the cherry trees are in full blossom
That's Japan

Cherry blossoms
Bloom splendour o'er Japan
For our Japan

The season of cherry blossom
Oh, the glorious Japan
Oh, beautiful Japan.

アトリエＯＢＡ 子供たちの作品展

コール田無
３月１０日〜１１日
１０時〜１６時

素晴らしい！是非見て！

A Grass-Hopper

A little early in the season!

The Morning After!

8:30am-He must have had a few. He won't make the set, today!

Neighbourhood art!

It's still 29th February, I told you anything could happen!

Neighbourhood art!

Good Morning from Tokyo!

It's 29th February, anything can happen!

Sayings

He has abundance, who knows what is enough.

Sayings

足るを知る者は富む

ToBec Burns Supper

ToBec Tribute to Poets and Poetry

Here's a bottle and an honest friend!

What wad ye wish for mair man?

Burns night, 25^th January, is the night Robert Burns is celebrated by Scots and non-Scots around the world.  While Burns is said to have never left his native Scotland, he was very aware of the world, the French Revolution and the American movement for independence.

In 2000 a newspaper described Burns as the man of the Millennium.  He not only wrote poetry, but also restored and recorded poetry and songs that had been passed down from generation to generation.  At ToBec we have adopted Burns as an ambassador of all poets and poetry.  Behind me on a bookshelf are six volumes of the ToBec Newsletter.  Browsing, I came across Burns’ “On Scaring Some Water-Fowl in Loch Turit.”   The last verse I think reminds us of the moderating, even auditing role literature should have over science.

Or, if man’s superior might

Dare invade your native right,

On the lofty ether borne,

Man with all his pow’rs you scorn;

Swiftly seek, on clanging wings,

Other lakes and other springs;

And the foe you cannot brave,

Scorn at least to be his slave.

Burns urges the waterfowl to fly away to other safe places, but what do they do when there is nowhere to go?  Today, “man’s superior might” has reached the nuclear age, and it is not only the birds that must find other places to live!

Robert Burns

25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796

Chronology

25 January 1759      Born

1759 – 1766            Alloway, Ayrshire

1766 – 1777            Mount Oliphant

1771 – 1796            Completed over 550 poems, ballads and songs

1777 – 1784            Lochlea, between Tarbolton and Mauchline

February 1784         William Burnes died

1784                      Met Jean Armour of Mauchline

1784 – 1796            Mossgiel Gilbert and Robert started the farm together, but Gilbert  continued the farm alone

1786                      Secretly married Jean Armour who gave birth to twins

1786                      Published ‘Kilmarnock Poems'

1786 – 1788            Gained celebrity in Edinburgh as the ‘ploughman poet’

4^th May 1788          Formalized marriage to Jean Armour

June 1788 – 1791    Ellisland, Dumfrieshire farming and working in excise

Nov 1791 1796        Dumfries. Officer in the Dumfries Port Division of the Excise

21 July 1796           Passed away

At ToBec Burns Night we welcome readings from all poets, including original poetry, so; 

Bring a poem, and a dram or dish

We’ll raise our glasses and make a wish,

For family, friends and neighbours, too

For all the world, and for you.

Songs and ditties in humour and fun,

In riddles and rhyme a truth may run.

Thoughts shared, ideas sown,

Dreams to prosper in the year to come.

Below is a simple Chronology of Poetry in English Literature compiled from “Love Through the Ages”.  This chronology gives some indication of how poets and their poetry have responded to the issues of the times.  The website above is a good place to explore the role and influence of poetry.

PERIODS OF LITERATURE

THE CLASSICAL PERIOD (1200 BC - 455 AD)

The Classical (Homeric) Age

Extracts from The Odyssey

The Classical Roman Age

Extracts from Ovid's Metamorphoses

THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD (455 AD-1485 AD)

The Medieval Age

THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION (1485-1660 AD)

The Renaissance and Elizabethan Age

Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe

THE ENLIGHTENMENT (NEOCLASSICAL) PERIOD (1660-1790)

The Neoclassical Age

The Restoration (c. 1660-1700)

The Augustan Age (c. 1700-1750)

The Age of Johnson (c. 1750-1790)

THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1790-1830)

THE VICTORIAN PERIOD and the 19th Century (c. 1819-1901) 

MODERN PERIOD (c. 1914-1945)

The Age of Modernism

The Lost Generation (also called the writers of The Jazz Age, 1914-1929)

THE POSTMODERN PERIOD (c. 1945 onward) (1950-2001)

Multiculturalism

The Beat poets

CONTEMPORARY POETRY (2001- )