/ a review of Far Beyond the Field by Makoto Udea (Modern Haiku 34.3, 2003)
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/ Far Beyond the Field: Haiku by Japanese Women (An Anthology) by Makoto Ueda
Sutejo Den (1633-1698)
*Ueda notes that “a pine mushroom (matsutake) is so named because it sprouts under pine trees. In Japan, pine trees were once believed to live for a thousand years. Buddhism emphasizes that each living thing possesses a different sense of time.”
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