May 7 (Sun.) 06: O-Yamazaki Ginko Report.
May 7 (Sun.) 06: Report. “Ginko under fresh green leaves, 新緑の大山崎吟行”
Light rain- Six hailstones of JW, KY, 2 MKs, DM and HM gathered in front of Hankyu O-Yamazaki station. Mr. S, a haiku poet, was an official voluntary O-Yamazaki guide for us that day.
First he told the history of this area in the O-Yamazaki History Museum. My personal three key words were the junction of three rivers (the Uji from Lake Biwa, Katsura from Kyoto Towns and Kizu from the Yamato Basin) where the Yodo begins to flow to Osaka Bay; Tai-an待庵, a Tea-ceremony Hut, built by Sen-no-Rikyu (1522-1591); and the Decisive Battle of Ten-no-zan by Mitsuhide and Hideyoshi in 1582.
Secondly we enjoyed seven Monet pictures of water lilies in O-Yamazaki Villa Museum of Art. Nice potteries by Bernard Leach, Kanjiro Kawai and other potters. As well, the hazy view from the terrace of the Kizu near the river junction, Mt. Otokoyama, Yahata and southern Kyoto towns and especially, wet fresh green leaves nearby in the rain.
We ascended a steep path looking up at purple paulownia flowers to visit Hoshakuji Temple where 11-faced Bodhisattva, Yama (the king of hell) and Daikoku-ten (one of 7 Lucky Gods) waited for us. - Readers can see a nice haibun with a Yama picture by DM in another Post.
We then descended a steep slope exclaiming, “O! The snail! Here!” to the foot of Mt. Ten-no-zan, at which we found the Sokan’s Haiku Monument: Sokan’s hut for Haikai-no Renga meet, Kan-non-do Reisen-an 観音堂霊泉庵, is said to have been there. うずききてねぶとに鳴くや郭公(uzuki kite / nebuto ni nakuya / hototogisu) May comes - / shrilly cries, / a laughing cockoo.
After late lunch, the finale of ginko was visit to Suntory Yamazaki Distillery. We studied zymurgy through the process of barley budding (malting), its fermentation with yeast, repeated distillation for spirit and its long-term aging to yield whisky. I saw Bacchus jumping around on casks piled up in the big, dim aging storehouse! In appreciation of the hard study, we enjoyed Suntory products such as whisky or “Nacchan” fruit juice.
Still lightly raining. Ginko punctually finished.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to S-san for his nice planning and guidance. Otsukare-sama!
(We are to have Kukai afterwards and haiku in this ginko will be opened later in another Post).
Light rain- Six hailstones of JW, KY, 2 MKs, DM and HM gathered in front of Hankyu O-Yamazaki station. Mr. S, a haiku poet, was an official voluntary O-Yamazaki guide for us that day.
First he told the history of this area in the O-Yamazaki History Museum. My personal three key words were the junction of three rivers (the Uji from Lake Biwa, Katsura from Kyoto Towns and Kizu from the Yamato Basin) where the Yodo begins to flow to Osaka Bay; Tai-an待庵, a Tea-ceremony Hut, built by Sen-no-Rikyu (1522-1591); and the Decisive Battle of Ten-no-zan by Mitsuhide and Hideyoshi in 1582.
Secondly we enjoyed seven Monet pictures of water lilies in O-Yamazaki Villa Museum of Art. Nice potteries by Bernard Leach, Kanjiro Kawai and other potters. As well, the hazy view from the terrace of the Kizu near the river junction, Mt. Otokoyama, Yahata and southern Kyoto towns and especially, wet fresh green leaves nearby in the rain.
We ascended a steep path looking up at purple paulownia flowers to visit Hoshakuji Temple where 11-faced Bodhisattva, Yama (the king of hell) and Daikoku-ten (one of 7 Lucky Gods) waited for us. - Readers can see a nice haibun with a Yama picture by DM in another Post.
We then descended a steep slope exclaiming, “O! The snail! Here!” to the foot of Mt. Ten-no-zan, at which we found the Sokan’s Haiku Monument: Sokan’s hut for Haikai-no Renga meet, Kan-non-do Reisen-an 観音堂霊泉庵, is said to have been there. うずききてねぶとに鳴くや郭公(uzuki kite / nebuto ni nakuya / hototogisu) May comes - / shrilly cries, / a laughing cockoo.
After late lunch, the finale of ginko was visit to Suntory Yamazaki Distillery. We studied zymurgy through the process of barley budding (malting), its fermentation with yeast, repeated distillation for spirit and its long-term aging to yield whisky. I saw Bacchus jumping around on casks piled up in the big, dim aging storehouse! In appreciation of the hard study, we enjoyed Suntory products such as whisky or “Nacchan” fruit juice.
Still lightly raining. Ginko punctually finished.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to S-san for his nice planning and guidance. Otsukare-sama!
(We are to have Kukai afterwards and haiku in this ginko will be opened later in another Post).
posted by HISASHI MIYAZAKI at 2:50 pm
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