Day 4 1November 2019
Today there was a surprise waiting outside- there are mountains! The sky has been low and white since I arrived and now, even though it’s raining, they are visible. Dark and brooding their sudden presence changes my perception of the place.
I hope she won’t mind….
I borrow the little girl’s notebook and a pencil from the Wendy House ‘wood-land-shinsha’. I hope she won’t mind. She’s kindly drawn her dream wedding dresses and a lovely picture of falling leaves. In fact that’s the name she has given her house. “LEAF.....”. It is written on the lintel in green marker pen.
I cover the roof with red leaves but slowly the sycamore leaves fall
But this morning the farmer has cut the boundary hedge; a brutal affair. The Energy-line tree has had its top sawn off and the Sky-Shelf has gone; only a pile of saw dust remains. I wonder what that means?
In memoriam.
It’s raining, so I return to my room to write Haiku verse. They attempt to follow the typical three line 575 pattern and should contain a seasonal reference. Some of mine do.
Marriage seems an apt metaphor for the meeting of two lines of energy: Water and Earth. But then there’s also Rock and Woodland and I wonder if that’s where the rope may come in?
Shimenawa ‘enclosing ropes’ are set up to enclose sacred or pure space, often in Shinto shrines; their purpose is to ward off evil spirits. They are often found at sacred landmarks.
MEOTO IWA (“Wedded Rocks”) Japan. The larger rock represents the husband and the smaller the wife,. The couple represents Izanagi and Izanami; the gods that created Japan.
