Kasane tsuki,
yaenadeshiko no
utsukushisa.

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  Double moon,
  Double Dianthus
  of beauty.
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ces, Tues. Oct. 19 `99

As in many haiku, there are several meanings. 
Here are 9 of the possible meanings.

1. Simplest: person sees the double petalled flower that is pretty and
calls it double moon as the moon looks pink sometimes when it rises on
 a hazy day or flower is white like moon when it first blooms.

2. The flower is so aweinspiring that the person seeing it weeps and
through tears the moon looks double.

3. The original Chinese or kanji characters for friend are
literally double moon, so a play on words. So the person is telling a
friend about the flower  OR it is saying that close friendship like
the flower can be beautiful but friendship is fragile like a flower
and must be treated with care.

4. Young Japanese women are occasionally referred to as yaenadeshiko,
 more commonly in the Edo era, so in above replace reference to 
flower by a young woman.

5. Person was thinking about laying flowers on friend's grave, and 
remembering the friend looked at the moon and it was double through
 the tears.

6. It is around dusk and the pink sun and white moon are both in the sky,
 and flowers which can be white and pink are seen in the light of both.

7. Kasane tsuki is two month time period, along with other interpretations,
e.g. flowers are still beautiful after two months, friend died two months
ago, hasn't seen friend or yaenadeshiko for two months or has known for
that time period, etc.

8. Kasane tsuki is a "blue moon", two full moons in same calendar month,
a rare event. Double petalled nadeshiko are also somewhat rare. So seeing
such a beautiful yaenadeshiko is a very rare event and quite special.

9.Kasane tsuki is the moon and its reflection in water such as would
happen at the pond around the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto, along with
other meanings for yaenadeshiko.

10. ?? ???  whatever you would like it to say.







 5/21/00 put nadeshiko on father's grave