Dietmar Tauchner
Gunsaku in German and English
Both versions by the author
Arrangement of Light
Written on a journey to Tokyo, Nagoya, Kyoto and Nara in Japan, February 2009
nightflight |
Nachtflug |
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| Setsubun a coin operated demon tells my future |
Setsubun |
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| Kanda all these books make me illiterate |
Kanda |
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Electric City |
Electric City |
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| Shibuya crossing God- zilla as crowds of people |
Shibuya-Kreuzung |
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| Japanese girl staring at me behind a protective mask | Japanisches Mädchen starrt mich an hinter einer Schutzmaske |
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Shinjuku station |
Bahnhof Shinjuku |
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| Shinjuku silence in the crowded subway |
Shinjuku |
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| Asakusa skyscrapers swallowed Basho’s hut |
Asakusa |
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Ume-Matsuri in Ueno Park |
Ume-Matsuri im Ueno-Park |
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| Kamakura inside the Great Buddha nothing |
Kamakura |
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| Hase-Dera Temple I'm marching through an army of Buddhas |
Hase-Dera Tempel |
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unborn children |
ungeborene Kinder |
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| unborn children these tiny buddhas in a cave |
ungeborene Kinder |
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| snowy Fuji smoke out of the factories |
veschneiter Fuji |
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Fuji in the train window |
Fuji im Zugfenster |
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| Nagoya castle near the teahouse a well dressed tree |
Nagoya-Schloss |
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| waterharp pot the faint sound of life |
Wasserharfentopf |
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nightfall in Kyôto yet another vermillion torii |
Nachteinbruch in Kyôto noch ein weiteres oranges Dori |
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| Sanjûsangen-dô I join the line of Buddhas |
Sanjûsangen-dô |
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trans- the to |
trans- der zum
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Hôryûji |
Hôryûji |
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| Narita Express my thoughts already departed |
Narita Express |
Dietmar Tauchner, born 1972 in Austria, lives and works in Puchberg and Vienna. He is editor of the Austrian-based international Haiku Web magazine Chrysanthemum, and has co-directed four short haiku films. Dietmar’s work has appeared in magazines and anthologies worldwide. His awards include: first prize at the International Haiku Contest in Ludbreg, Croatia 2004; third prize at the Kusamakura International Haiku Competition, 2005 & 2009; the Naji Naaman "Creativity Prize" in Lebanon 2009; twice the "Scorpion Prize" for the best haiku published in Roadrunner; first prize of the Haiku International Association (HIA) in Tokyo 2008 .