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Internet Copyright - Read Before You Steal   --   Авторское право в Интернете:  прочти, прежде чем воровать!

Объясняются - опровергаются 9 распространённых мифов об авторском праве. (Чуть позднее я переведу на русский для непонимающих по-английски)

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My haiku among distinguished again:  Haiku in English in Mainichi Daily News: Best of 2010      --     Моё хайку снова среди отмеченных:  Хайку в Майничи Дэйли Ньюс: Лучшие хайку - 2010


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Slowly but surely, The Tiger has being creeping closer, waiting to officially spring into his Year on February 14. After such a remarkable start on the night of the Blue Moon , let us proceed with Japanese traditional art and poetry. Please meet the Tiger -- both as a kigo and a non-seasonal topic in haiku, according to WKD : Tiger a kigo for haiku ( Read more... )

Hi everyone, I hope you are all fine, and had a happy Halloween tonight! We did have about 20 or so children visited for candies (and some parents, too); and I was (and still am) having fun with haiku friends at the virtual costume party in Renku group :) It was a nice warm autumn day, after a pretty severe storm yesterday. Anyway, glad to be with ( Read more... )

Haiku Library, Part I -- первая часть;  Haiku Library, Part II  --  вторая часть

One more post with books ...   --   Ещё один пост с книгами ...


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Haiku Library, Part II  (see here:  Haiku Library, Part I )

Today, I would like to share with you, and to recommend, some of my favorites. This is one of the shelves with my favorite haiku books:    --    Сегодня хочу поделиться с вами, и порекомендовать вам то, что сама люблю. Вот одна из полок в моей хайку библиотеке:


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Below, there are some unconventional haiku -- only in Russian (in Part I of the exercise). I translated haiku into Russian from other languages, and will show the originals in the next post (Part II). So please, dear English- and Japanese-speaking friends -- bear with us, and I promise the mystery will be solved to your satisfaction and reading ( Read more... )

This post is two days late due to a visit by Melissa and Michael (on their way to England)  -- we hadn't seen them for two years, so can imagine our business :) Anyway... This is a book of poetry translation by a wonderful American translator Arthur Kalmeyer
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Today is the last day of June which is called misoka in Japan. This day, as well as the last day of the year (December 31, oomisoka) are specially celebrated with rituals of purification in Japanese Shrines and Temples. The rituals of these two days are also called "Great Purification" ooharae 大祓, when people thank for the past half year and pray ( Read more... )