Japanese origin ¶ã¹Ô
GIN means singing, praising, making a poem

KOO means walking



Ginkoo ¶ä¹Ô

also means the bank where you put your money in, but that is only the same
sound, a completely different word.

But you can still have a ginkoo at your local ginkoo :o)



We had a wonderful GINKOO at GokuRakuAn on Saturday/Sunday with some friends
from neaby Kobe City.

Checking out three places Saturday afternoon with three haiku for each place
(the local temple, the terraced rice fields and Paradise Hermitage itself).
Everybody made 9 haiku which where then choosen, discussed and evaluated the
next morning (Sunday evening was for practicing to drink ricewine, you get
the point¡Ä) and watching the full moon from an open-air bathtub made of
local rocks (iwaburo)

http://www.amie.or.jp/daruma/GokuRakuAn.html



My Japanese haiku teacher at Kamakura always said:

Do NOT take pictures, do NOT sketch, but look deeply into anything you see
on our walk. Imprint it in your heart and mind to make a good haiku. Take
notes in your haiku book.



Ginkoo can show you how the same people in the same place will find
completely different things to SING about afterwards. It is a great
community activity.



Here are three links



http://www.millikin.edu/haiku/global/ginko.html



http://www.charnwoodarts.com/index.php?portalid=7&areaid=0&pageid=738



http://www.haikuhut.com/MOSS/moss-ginko/



Gabi san




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