Fukyo Endaka

Wisdom’s palace of excess the war of words and men the love of money the root Eccentric but saneBy all estimations taking advice from a dysfunctional insane world in the decades of the lost, which calls good bad and bad good, I lost my carnal mind for an ever-loving one that is a good thing God knows men ritualistically fight over nothing for the Love of God how the world gets it backwards small things but insane

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John Beam

Date: 11/7/2015 1:06:00 PM

Endaka a serious recession, the so-called lost decade. currency war economics endaka - haikai [jovial] Traditionally a term used to distinguish populist and humourous verse from the more courtly and refined classical style. Later, an abbreviation for haikai-no-renga. In modern times, and principally in occidental usage, a generic term for all forms of Japanese verse, especially haiku.

John Beam

Date: 11/7/2015 1:05:00 PM

"Poetic dementia". Basho, and others that followed him, liked to delight in being mad poets. This eccentricity allowed a twisted view of the world in haiku, which was also consistent with the haikai spirit of being less formal and more playful.

John Beam

Date: 11/7/2015 1:03:00 PM

fukyo [poetic madness] A willful, if not mannered, demeanor adopted by Basho in his early years imagined to betray a transport of 'poetic dementia'. [poetic madness]