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Japan Pavilion Haiku
Fitting that JB Conway should select as the setting for this week's haiku the Japan Pavilion at EPCOT, since the Japanese developed haiku as an expression of their culture. JB's haiku, of course, is an expression of Disney, and here the twain meet.
The haiku theme for this month is the moons of June. We'll visit the Haunted Mansion, Port Orleans, the Japan Pavilion, and the Astro Orbiter. By moonlight.
Moonlight reflected on water is eldritch beauty.
JB's mystical haiku brings us to the Japan Pavilion in the World Showcase, where you will find a pond stocked with koi fish, some of them startlingly large. Koi are similar to their smaller cousins, goldfish, and both breeds count as their ancestor the lowly carp.
What about the torii?
That's not a fish; it's a gate, translated from the Japanese as 'bird perch', and typically found at the entrance to Shinto shrines - and to the Japan Pavilion!
But you don't need to take notes or read my tedious explanations to enjoy JB's haiku. Approach it with your mind open not for knowledge but for beauty.
If you haven't bought JB's book, Mouse of Zen, and yet you come here each week to read his haikus, why do you torture yourself? Are you a masochist? (Or maybe a mouseochist?) Don't you know you can get all the haikus at once? In the book!
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