Sky
August 8th, 2011 | 
Author: Waka, or tanka, are short fixed forms of 31 syllables, said to express the spirit of the Japanese people. It has been written for over 1,000 years. The Emperor Meiji was celebrated as “Sage of Poetry”, and he composed some 100,000 waka poems. Mikao Usui recommended students read aloud one of these poems as the first step of spiritual work.
This weeks Waka is:
Sky
The spacious sky
Spans serene and clear
So blue above,
Oh, that our soul could grow
And become so open
The Valley of Approach at Oyama in Sagami Province
Ando Hiroshige 1852
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