{"id":3935,"date":"2005-07-02T01:56:41","date_gmt":"2005-07-02T05:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/07\/02\/supporting-one-live-8-with-is"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:57:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:57:36","slug":"supporting-one-live-8-with-issas-haiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/07\/02\/supporting-one-live-8-with-issas-haiku\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporting ONE & Live 8 — with Issa’s haiku"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Live8sm\"  Tonight, I’m borrowing Issa’s words, as translated <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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hazy night–
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in my home village
they’re used to poverty…
maiden flowers
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people call it
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the mushroom hunters
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even the poor
workhorses of Edo sleep…
in mosquito nets!
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<\/FONT><\/FONT>morning time–
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from today on
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“Issa self neg” – all haiku by Kobayashi <\/EM><\/FONT>ISSA<\/EM><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A>, <\/FONT><\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“<\/FONT>hazy night<\/FONT><\/A>” “<\/FONT>in my home village<\/FONT><\/A>” “<\/FONT>people call it<\/FONT><\/A>” <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Issa, the classic haiku master of 19th Century Japan, has often helped this weblog make points on very contemporary issues.      Tonight, I’m borrowing Issa’s words, as translated by Prof. David G. Lanoue, in support of the important work of ONE – The Campaign to Make Poverty History — and of Live 8.  Your Editor just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-11t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13144,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions\/13144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}