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NOTES from
John Potts
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 7:27 pm Post subject:
Yes, Haruo Shirane is a lively minded academic. he has some ideas. But, you did not respond directly to my observation _______. Let me explain. ...
Haiku is a seasonal entity. (Let's stay with the Nippon traditional form and avoid the cranky western debate.) The seasons as they are in nature and as people respond to these changes, both idiosyncratically as individuals, and accordingly as intrinsic parts of their culture, in the latters reponse to the seasons.
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The horizontal plane of Shirane's schema is fine. Imagine a circle, segmented around north/south/east/west as a compass form. This is the now of nature, ever moving through its seasonal cycles. No worries. Your basic magic circle - an extension of our body's coordinate system, projected onto planetside space, rotating and timed as a living calander. Moving into 3D, this is sychronous with the archetypal sphere of the seasons, the central slice of Eve's apple.
It's at this point the dissonance occurs in the Shirane model and the ubiquitous mythic model (based on being alive in the world within a 3D coordinate system).
In the traditional view the upper and lower portions of the sphere of the seasons represents states of being, from gross to fine.
The everpresent mutable now. The everchangingness of unchangeingness is the tradional model. Cultural time is not overtly figured.
To overcome this, I propose a series of spheres along a timeline to overcome the clash of schemas. Pearls on a string, each bead representing a previous cultural period. In total all of the past. We can project these into the future, for completeness. This keeps time on the level of the horizontal, moving through galactic space. This keeps the original sphere's vertical axis descriptive of states of being, exclusively.
The reason I'm onto this is that a schema is being designed to accommodate a broader definititive map for haiku. [Part of the basic texts for the Pure Land International Haiku Movement). I guess it will need a substantial prescript to disentagle Haruo's model from the time-tested classic archetype (outlined here) which I will be basing this on.
Who was it mentioned that once we had a calander [mirrored on the 3D circle-cross], then kigo. However, that's another story.
John
PS
Man, when I first came across Haruo Shirane's usage I was so cross. But, I guess he's no mythographer. Shame. It's useful until we realised the havoc his thing can cause conceptually. Especially given the crucial seasonal lens which proper haiku is based on.
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