{"id":1567,"date":"2012-07-17T08:33:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T21:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2012-07-26T06:55:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T19:55:16","slug":"toshis-wrinkles-the-noh-mask-and-the-haiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1567","title":{"rendered":"Toshi’s wrinkles, the noh mask and the haiku"},"content":{"rendered":"

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>At a time when I was busy with exams at school a few weeks ago and there wasn\u2019t much time to squeeze in any writing, it was particularly gratifying to get a little bit of recognition for a poem I\u2019d written in the ancient castle town of Sasayama back in March. Yoko had taken us to a tiny museum of ancient wooden noh<\/em> masks and I was drawn to one which had an uncanny resemblance to my friend Toshi. Later in a souvenir shop there was a little post box inviting people to submit haiku so I scribbled one out and put it in. (We\u2019d also seen these invitations to the public and haiku letter-boxes in the other castle-town of Matsuyama.) Months later I get a nice packet of Japanese green tea and a letter from Sasayama thanking me for my contribution and a printed version of a poem which would be a mystery to most gaijin without the wordy preceding preamble!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Toshi\u2019s laugh wrinkles<\/h4>\n

carved into Nikko\u2019s Noh mask<\/h4>\n

six hundred years since<\/h4>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  At a time when I was busy with exams at school a few weeks ago and there wasn\u2019t much time to squeeze in any writing, it was particularly gratifying to get a little bit of recognition for a poem … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}