{"id":5366,"date":"2007-02-22T02:38:53","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T07:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/2007\/02\/japanese-culture-is-global-culture\/"},"modified":"2014-08-30T14:02:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T14:02:38","slug":"japanese-culture-is-global-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2007\/02\/japanese-culture-is-global-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Culture is global culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lot of elements of Japanese culture have become part of the great global mash-up, especially food culture and pop culture. But none, I think, will have the endurance of the little poem that could, the haiku.<\/p>\n

Via Miriam Burstein<\/a>, who’s usually more inclined to blog in script than in verse, comes word of an Academic Haiku Contest<\/a>: summarize your research in a mere seventeen syllables! Unfortunately, the contest is ending shortly, but if anyone can dash off haiku, I image that our readers can. My own contribution<\/a> was bilingual:<\/p>\n

Yamaguchi no
\nHawai deimin ga
\nObon kaeri<\/p>\n

I suppose you\u2019d like it in English? Let\u2019s see if I can translate it and maintain the Haiku form:<\/p>\n

Obon dances bring
\nYamaguchi emigrants
\nback from Hawai\u2019i<\/p>\n

[Obon is the a Japanese festival honoring ancestors, a time when families come together. Yamaguchi prefecture was a significant source of Japanese migration to Hawai\u2019i]
\n“International Labor Migrants Return to Meiji-Era Yamaguchi and Hiroshima: Economic and Social Effects,” under review.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My entry may actually have come too late to count<\/a>, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have some fun over here. Update<\/b>: In comments, Jim Gibbon says that there’s a few hours left, until 8pm EST (that’s 3pm, HST), so let’s show ’em what we’ve got!<\/strike><\/p>\n

Weekend Update<\/b>: Voting is open through Monday. He’s divided them into four categories<\/a> so you can actually vote for four favorites! (OK, I’ve voted. Oddly, perhaps, I didn’t vote for my own haiku in the Social Science division. It’s the most technically correct<\/i> haiku [the only one with a seasonal reference], but there was one I liked<\/i> more. Go figure.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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