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A White Tea Bowl: 100 Haiku from 100 Years of Life is a selection
of poems written by Mitsu Suzuki, the widow of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi,
founder of San Francisco Zen Center. After he passed away in 1971, she
remained at Zen Center where she taught tea ceremony and began writing
poetry. Her first collection of haiku, Temple Dust, was published in 1992.
These 100 haiku, written after her return to Japan in 1993, were chosen
by editor Kazuaki Tanahashi and translated by Zen teacher Kate
McCandless to celebrate Mitsu's one hundredth birthday on April 23,
2014. The introduction by Zen poet and priest Norman Fischer describes,
with loving detail, a meeting with Mitsu at Rinso-in temple in 2010,
considers the formative impact on her life of war in Japan and social
upheaval in America, and places her poetry in the evolution of haiku as
an international form.
Part I: Haiku presents haiku by Mitsu Suzuki organized under the
following sections: Temple Bells, A Widow's Life, Three Generations,
Peach Blossoms Open, No Limit to Kindness. Each haiku includes the
English translation, the Japanese characters, and a transliteration of
the Japanese.
Part II: Pickles and Tea contains teaching stories and anecdotes
about Mitsu Suzuki by those who lived and studied with her at San
Francisco Zen Center: Reb Anderson, Victoria Austin, Ed Brown, Peter
Coyote, Yvonne Rand, Paul Rosenblum, and Mary Watson. Often these
meetings took place in Mitsu's kitchen where she provided countless cups
of tea, cookies, and homemade pickles, as well as sage advice.
164 pages. Paperback.
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