APR 11, Japan Visit: hiking the Nakasendo Trail

Through the villages of Magome, Tsumago and Nagiso, along a mountainous 150 year-old post trail, joining Tokyo and Kyoto ...

  

   

volunteers' gratis teahouse along the trail;
visitors from many countries sign in

 

this old locomotive is seen approaching the Nagiso train station

TODAY'S POEM (senryu *) 

my heart and soul weep:

bereft of expertise, how

can we learn what's known?

Giorgio Coniglio

* learn more HERE about senryu, a lesser-known Japanese short poem that shares the physical characteristics of haiku (nominally 17 'on' / syllables in three non-rhyming lines), but deals in a satiric or humorous way with human foibles rather than with Nature. 

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