The Phoenix Arizona Matsuri has announced the winners of the 2021 Haiku contest.
Tucsonans Karen Falkenstrom, Director of Odaiko Sonora won in the Adult/University category, and Miki Pimienta won three awards in the Japanese Language category. Both Karen and Miki are on the SAJCC Council, and Miki, originally from Japan, has won these haiku contests every year since 2015. Karen was also Treasurer of SAJCC for a few years. Also winning 3 awards is Raquelle Wuollet, a student at Basis Oro Valley High School.
Karen’s winning haiku (page 20):
“Hummingbirds, soft jewels,
Sear the air around a flower-
Mine, for an instant”
Karen Falkenstrom
Miki’s winning haiku (selection from her two winning haiku, one honorable mention. pages 26, 30):
川底に 足跡残し 獣行く
“Kawazoko ni
Ashiato nokoshi
Shishi iku”
(English translation: In the riverbed, Footprints remain, Beasts go)
Miki Pimienta
Raquelle won two awards and also an honorable mention (pages 15,16,18). Here’s one of her winners:
“Shining desert stars
Lanterns for javelinas
Beacons for the bats”
Congratulations to all winners!. 2021 eBook haiku are listed here:
“Join the University of Arizona Center for Buddhist Studies for our Pu Yin Lecture Spring 2021 Co-sponsored by the Pu Yin Education Center, ChinaBUDDHISM AND PROTEST IN EARLY MODERN JAPAN: BUDDHIST PRIESTS AS ARBITERS OF CONFLICTS IN LOCAL COMMUNITIESTakashi Miura, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, the University of ArizonaThursday, April 8, 2021, 4 PM Mountain Standard Time (MST)Other time zones include: 4 PM (PST) (Los Angeles) 7 PM (EST) (New York) 12 AM (Fri. April 9) (GMT) (London) 7 AM (Fri. April 9) (CST) (Beijing) 8 AM (Fri. April 9) (JST) (Tokyo)Please verify the time in your area via a time zone calculator as Arizona does not observe Daylight Savings Time. To receive a link to the webinar, please sign up for our email list here: http://eepurl.com/gb2yaD. If you are already on our list, you will receive the link soon. Buddhist priests were frequent participants in peasant protests in Tokugawa Japan (1603–1867). In many cases, local priests served as mediators between villagers and authorities, and their contributions are highlighted in extant records (both written and oral) that portray them as competent negotiators who pressured government officials to embody the ideal of “benevolent governance” (jinsei). Yet, some records also present Buddhist priests as lazy and corrupt, neglecting to perform their mediating duties and failing to protect the interests of local communities. This presentation examines the complex positionality of Buddhist institutions and their representatives in local communities in early modern Japan utilizing resources traditionally reserved for the study of peasant protests. These lecture series are made possible thanks to the generous support from Pu Yin Education Center and Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou, China. For more information about our lecture series, please visit our website: https://cbs.arizona.edu/lecture-series.”
Ukiyo-e Exhibit – The 53 Stations of Tokaido at Yume Japanese Gardens from March 25 to May 9
UKIYO-E EXHIBIT THE 53 STATIONS OF TOKAIDO BY UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE
Image: “Shinagawa: Sunrise”, 2nd station, by Utagawa Hiroshige, Japan, Edo period, 1834, woodblock print (from Yume’s website)
From March 25 through May 9, 2021
“An exhibition showcasing reproductions of the complete series of Hiroshige’s The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō will be on view at Yume Japanese Gardens from the end of March through May.
Iconic Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the great masters of the Japanese landscape woodblock print. Between 1833 and 1834, he produced a series of prints illustrating the travelers’ main stopping points along the imperial road called the Tōkaidō (“the Eastern Sea Road”), which connected the Shogun’s administrative capital in Edo (modern Tōkyō) with the emperor’s palace in Kyōto. By Hiroshige’s time, the road was a popular scenic route, marked by many temples, shrines, shops, and inns, which he made famous through his prints.
The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō series is a timeless masterpiece of vibrant scenes representing daimyō‘s (noble feudal lord’s) lifestyle, realistic images of ordinary people’s daily life, and seasonal landscapes. These prints served as travel souvenirs and guide book, as well as advertisement to would-be travelers.”
Yume Japanese Gardens is located at 2130 N. Alvernon Way in Tucson (between Pima St. and Grant Rd. on Alvernon Way, south of the Tucson Botanical Gardens).
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DOCENT ART TALK on March 28 at Yume Japanese Gardens
Sunday, March 28, 2021, 3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Presented by Adrienne O’Hare
“Ukiyo-e are “Pictures of The Floating World,” an evanescent world, a world of fleeting beauty, divorced from the responsibilities of the mundane, everyday world; a hedonistic world of Kabuki actors, courtesans and geisha.
Free for members and with regular Gardens admission.”
Downtown Tucson’s 2nd Annual Haiku Hike winners announced in March 2021
Haiku Hike
2nd Annual Literary Competition
On display starting the first day of Spring 2021: March 20
About
“Presented by The Downtown Tucson Partnership (DTP) and the University of Arizona Poetry Center, the 2nd annual Haiku Hike literary competition showcases twenty winning haiku poems printed on acrylic signage in planters located along Congress Street and Stone Avenue. These signs provide visual and cultural interest throughout the Spring season, beginning Saturday, March 20 through June 1. A hike through downtown following the Haiku trail is the perfect opportunity for the public to get reacquainted with all that Tucson’s urban center has to offer.
DTP is continuing to encourage downtown patrons to Visit Safely by social distancing from others, wearing a mask and washing or sanitizing hands regularly. DTP has posted hundreds of health and safety reminders, and deployed 30 hand sanitizer stations throughout downtown.
8different countries represented in the submissions
Locations of the Winning Haiku
Twenty winning haiku poems are printed on acrylic signage and located in planters along Congress Street and Stone Avenue. Click on the numbered points in the map below to read each Poet’s haiku, where they’re from in the world, and the closest physical address of their haiku in Downtown Tucson.
How the competition works
This year’s haiku entries were judged by Tucson’s poet Laureate, TC Tolbert. Twenty winning poems were selected from over 700 submissions. All winners receive public recognition and have their work featured on public signage downtown, online and in the media. Poets were encouraged to submit haiku reflecting this theme.”
What is a Haiku?
… a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables in three lines of five, seven and five.
“Karen Korematsu, founder and executive director of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute, and daughter of the late civil rights icon, will deliver the 2021 Peter Chase Neumann Lecture on Civil Justice at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law on March 24.
Korematsu will discuss why her father’s fight for justice was a fight for all Americans, and what his message would be if he were living today. Topics will include her father’s background, why his controversial U.S. Supreme Court case decision has been cited frequently over the past 75 years, and Dr. Korematsu’s campaign for the State of Arizona to establish “Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution” on January 30 in perpetuity.
Fred T. Korematsu was a national civil rights hero. In 1942, at 23 years old, he refused to go to the United States government’s incarceration camps for Japanese Americans. After he was arrested and convicted of defying the government’s order, he appealed his case all the way to the Supreme Court. In 1944, the Supreme Court ruled against him, arguing that the incarceration was justified due to military necessity. The decision in Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944) was widely criticized and has been repudiated by modern courts. In 1983, Korematsu’s conviction was overturned in a federal court in San Francisco. It was a pivotal moment in civil rights history.
When: Wednesday, March 24, 2021, 5:30-6:45 p.m. (PST)
About Karen Korematsu Since her father’s passing in 2005, Karen Korematsu has carried on his legacy as a public speaker, educator and civil rights advocate. She shares her father’s passion for social justice and education and in 2009 established the Fred T. Korematsu Institute to advance racial equity, social justice and human rights for all. The Institute’s work has expanded from K-12 civic education to promoting public civic engagement and participation.
Her work extends to advocating civil liberties for all communities and addresses current issues that draws upon lessons of the past.
Korematsu has signed on to amicus briefs in several cases opposing violations of constitutional rights arising after 9/11, including Odah v. United States, Turkman v. Ashcroft, Hedges v. Obama, and Hassan v. City of New York and recently, Hawaii v. Trump.
In 2015, she was inducted as the first non-lawyer member of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. Korematsu serves on the board of directors of Advancing Justice-AAJC and NAPABA Law Foundation. Korematsu has received numerous awards and honors including GMNY 2015 Isidore Starr Award, Muslim Advocates-Voice of Freedom Award; the “Key to the City of Dearborn, Michigan”; and the ACLU-Chief Justice Earl Warren Civil Liberties Award. Most recently, Korematsu received the Community Leadership Award from the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies in Washington, D.C. and her first honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from St. Michael’s College in Burlington, Vermont.
About the Peter Chase Neumann Lecture The Peter Chase Neumann Lecture on Civil Justice is part of Arizona Law’s Civil Justice Initiative, which seeks to elevate the American civil justice system and train the next generation of great trial lawyers.
The lecture series began in 2013, with past speakers including Thomas Girardi, Patrick J. McGroder, Richard Fried and Randi McGinn. University of Arizona Law alumnus Peter Chase Neumann (’64) endowed the lecture in 2016.”
