Poor Monk (dooshinboo)

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Poor Monk (dooshinboo)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Non-seasonal Topic
***** Category: Humanity

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Explanation

Doshinbo, Dooshinboo　道心坊. ドウシンボウ
is a person who entered into Buddhist monastery life after he grown up.
It is also used to call a poor begging monk, beggar monk, kojiki 乞食, kojiki boozu 乞食坊主.

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Dooshinboo is also the name of a dance during the great Nenbutsu Dancing.

踊りは、花笠・鳥毛・奴振り・枕打ち・四ツ竹・道心坊・相撲・行司からなり.
http://www2.jan.ne.jp/~isazawa/HP2003/nenbutu/nenbutu.htm


風流踊りの念佛では Nenbutsu Dance of Ippen Shonin
願念坊(ガンネンボウ Gannen Boo )、願人坊(ガンニンボウ Gannjin Boo )、道心坊(ドウシンボウ Dooshin Boo )、新発意(シンボチ Shinpochi)
http://www.tkc.pref.toyama.jp/furusato/minyo/t00-4.html

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道念坊 / 道心坊 Doonen-Boo / Dooshin-Boo
道心坊主
Japanese LINK

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Worldwide use


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Things found on the way

On the way from Edo to Kyoto, around the eights station from Kyoto, there was the Teahouse of Doshinbo Nonko. He was a friend of Basho's too. Nonko hab become a Zen priest and enjoyed to mix with the travellers. He offered them Miso soup and cooked beans.

道心坊能古の茶屋跡。
芭蕉とも親交のあった人

枯枝に烏のとまりたるや秋の暮
kare eda ni karasu no tomari taru ya aki no kure

on a bare branch
a crow has settled
autumn dusk

BASHO
http://www.hi-ho.ne.jp/bonkura/toukai_w.htm

Tr. Jane Reichhold

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HAIKU

道心坊や草履ひたひたむら時雨
dôshin bô ya zôri hita-hita mura shigure

Priest Doshin's
straw sandals pitter-patter...
hard winter rain

I picture an indoor scene in a temple; a priest (a friend of Issa's?) rushes here and there. A scene of intimacy and confinement, thanks to the winter rain.

Issa (tr. David Lanoue)




Who is priest Doushin?
Doushin-bou means priest who became Budha’s student on his half way of whole life.
I think Doushin-bou is Issa himself, because till the time he lost three children and his wife. For the sake of praying for the souls of the dead, he made a temple named Haikai-Ji
Where was he going?
He was going in a hurry to his son who was under care of the other’s.

旅の不在を許せ吾が子よ
tabi no fuzai o yuruse wagako yo

forgive me my son
my absent of travel

© Haiga and Renku by Nakamura Sakuo

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Dooshin-zaka in Winter 冬の道心坂

The slope of Doshin in near the Arashi Kita mountains of Kyoto. It freezes in winter and is hard on travellers.


© PHOTO 本多　木賊


秋風や角力の果ての道心坊　　
akikaze ya sumoo no hate no Dooshinboo

Issa 一茶, 政６

　　　



白妙の僧白妙の梅の花
shirotae no soo shirotae no ume no hana

a monk
in white robes - plum blossoms
in white robes

Kobayashi Issa


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葬礼のあとで経よむ道心坊　
soorei no ato de kyoo yomu dooshinboo

after the funeral,
he reads the sutras -
Priest Doshinbo

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Tr. Gabi Greve


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Related words

***** . Beggar, begging .
monogoi 物ごい / 物乞い beggar, begging
binboonin 貧乏人 Bimbo, "a poor person"
hoomuresu ホームレス　homeless
kojiki 乞食 beggar (an old word used by Issa) ...


***** Amida Prayer (Namu Amida Butsu) Japan. Amitabha


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