Friday, October 8, 2010

Wisteria

*



Yoshida Toshi



In the pale moonlight


Hasui Kawase


the wisteria's scent


 Chikanobu


comes from far away


 Hiroshige




Haiku by Buson




*

35 comments:

  1. Hi Delwyn:

    I love wisteria. Does it grow in Australia? I am especially captivated by paths under a tunnelled ceiling of the cascading blooms.

    Lovely images to accompany the haiku.

    ReplyDelete
  2. kawase hiroshige and buson. they created the deepest and richest renderings of people and nature. truly beautiful delwyn! steven

    ReplyDelete
  3. Lovely, Delwyn. I know so little about Japanese art, yet I love these exquisite paintings.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Oh I love these. I love wisteria.

    Been missing you.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Wonderful wisteria block prints. I'll have to go back to the exhibit of prints at the art museum and see if there are any prints with wisteria. It seems like such a natural subject for Japanese prints. . . so graceful and flowing.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Love the first depiction -beautiful and dreamy!

    ReplyDelete
  7. You have such a great collection of pictures that works so well with your words! :)

    ReplyDelete
  8. Ummm, I can smell wisteria through your words and your beautiful pictures. So good to hear your voice here Delwyn :)

    ReplyDelete
  9. A very dream-like and soothing post, Delwyn!

    ReplyDelete
  10. A beautiful, calming post, Delwyn. Have a peaceful weekend.

    ReplyDelete
  11. Possible the most beauitful haiku I have ever read in my life :)

    Very beautiful.

    Pictures are eye dazzling. I am hoping to travel to Japan next year.

    ReplyDelete
  12. steven, martin, jeanette,
    lovely to see you again, thanks for
    calling by,
    Happy days

    ReplyDelete
  13. The first image of an arch bridge framed by the wisteria is most lovely. A long while ago, I embroidered a scene of Japanese ladies under the wisteria. I love creepers and wish wisteria can be planted in tropical locales.

    ReplyDelete
  14. always liked that vine...might have to look into getting a bit of it for the garden

    ReplyDelete
  15. Lovely post, Delwyn. I'm guessing that austral wisteria is blossoming about now. I love it when it blossoms here in the spring about 6 months from now.....

    ReplyDelete
  16. Hi, nice to meet you, Delwyn. I've come to know your blog by Wanda's introduction. I do love your photography, your choice of haiku and images.

    Come to think of it that you're in Australia, the weather seems to be like May in my place when wisteria both cultivated and wild bloom fragrantly.

    Recently the scent of fragrant olive, which comes nowhere, delights me.

    ReplyDelete
  17. A poem of longing, Delwyn. Nice to hear from you!

    ReplyDelete
  18. Very pretty. Wisteria is so pretty when in bloom. This poem would sound the same with honeysuckle inserted. Nice.

    ReplyDelete
  19. This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.

    ReplyDelete
  20. Hi Delwyn. I love the wisteria theme! We have a wild, indigenous tree wisteria that flowers around about now in Botswana - quite stunning!

    I have been trying to catch up on your past blogposts (have been offline for way too long!) there is just so much to read, but I'm enjoying it all :)

    ReplyDelete
  21. Hi, I am still in Montana but the workshop is over and I fly home later today. The haiku is beautiful, and your images of the stroll along the Noosa River are wonderful.. I wish I could be there.

    ReplyDelete
  22. Lovely!

    We have a wisteria growing on a pergola in our courtyard..it's my favorite! I wish it smelled better, though! LOL!

    ReplyDelete
  23. It is lovely to see the wisteria calmly overhanging.
    This haiku is perfectly fitting for the peaceful atmosphere with the pale purple・・・wisteria.
    The drum bridges, which we call Taiko bashi in Japanese, are also very lovely.
    Have a good day.

    ReplyDelete
  24. I love haikus. Saying so much in so little words. Thank you for this one, and the pictures! Love from Germany!

    ReplyDelete
  25. That first card is a thing of beauty and peace. I could stare at it for hours. I planted some wisteria for the first time this year, and now, I can't wait till next spring!

    ReplyDelete
  26. What a lovely blog you have here: soft colors, lovely pictures, quiet words.

    ReplyDelete
  27. I love wisteria. We used it have it completely covering a deck.

    ReplyDelete
  28. You have provided wonderful artwork with the haiku. Such sensory appeal.

    ReplyDelete
  29. I love the artwork you've presented here; it has a quality of purity and innocence about it.

    Wisteria is one of the things I miss about Louisiana. We don't have a lot of that here in New Mexico.

    ReplyDelete
  30. I can never quite accustom myself to the upsidedownness of the Northern and Southern hemispheres. Our wisteria vine is bare now, and we are all about the falling leaves. But in May . . .

    ReplyDelete
  31. Hello.
    It is elegant ukiyoe...
    There seems to be a lot of time there.

    Thank you.
    ruma

    ReplyDelete
  32. I just love the images!They are the picture poems!

    ReplyDelete

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.