Hoshinaga Fumio

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Hoshinaga Fumio 星永文夫　
(1933 - )
Kumamoto



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Hoshinaga Fumio has developed a unique approach to haiku.
As a native of Kumamoto Prefecture in Kyushu, he is especially concerned with local tribal history and culture, and has discussed the possibility of ressurecting both nature and culture through poetic language. Hoshinaga was recently selected as one of 12 outstanding national gendai haijin.
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きのこスープ飲む隣　戦争が来て坐る

ほら吹きがまた殖ゆ　五月の湿地帯

危険な書を積んで　石榴その上に

夕焼けを狩るため少年指鳴らす

落椿踏んでゲバラは裸足です

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ni-juu oku koonen no gishoo
omae no B-gata

twenty billion light-years of perjury:
your blood type is "B"

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"Blood-type B is rare in Japan; Type A is happier, but Type B carries a sense of melancholy. So, I felt my rebelliousness or revulsion could not be Type A – it must be blood-type B."
Hoshinaga Fumio (p. 173).
quote from
Poems of Consciousness, Richard Gilbert
source : Simply Haiku Summer 2008

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Hoshinaga Fumio: - Selected Haiku from Kumaso-Ha

善人の順にかぞえて　六おぼろ
zennin no jun ni kazoete roku oboro

counting down the goodness of man:
from the sixth
obscure

The playfully dark, ironic metaphor of "becoming Hitler" is disjunctive, allowing a sense of depth to enter the haiku, a depth partly created through allusion. Due to itchy feet (a summer kigo), the author cannot smartly click his heels or march in goose-step. The poem presents a disturbing psychosocial complex indicating the will to power or assumption of dictatorial authority which often remains hidden in persons or society.



水虫がかゆくてヒトラーにはなれぬ
mizumushi ga kayukute Hitorâ ni wa narenu

Athelete’s foot itches –
still can’t become
Hitler


The focal point of this haiku seems to be on a subject that is either indistinct or missing: the subject is not allowed or able to solidify or cohere. A difficult technique to manage, as an indistinct subject will in general create a haiku lacking in poetic direction — it will be unclear what images to base sensation upon. Ending with "obscure" (also "dreamlike, foggy," a spring kigo), the haiku seems to echo with multiple dimensions of obscurity — of goodness and its measurement, of finding goodness, and the sense that, in the human realm, such findings may be moot.

(trans. Gilbert & Ito, 2004)
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