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	<body><![CDATA[[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][i]painting: [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Drobychevskaja"]Wild Horse[/URL] by Elena Drobychevskaja[/i][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT]



[INDENT][INDENT][i]sinking sand
skin and bone
bring on the dancing horses
[B]Echo and the Bunnymen, Bring on the Dancing Horses[/B]


I am a feather on the bright sky
I am the blue horse that runs in the plain
I am the fish that rolls, shining, in the water
I am the shadow that follows a child
I am the evening light, the lustre of meadows
I am an eagle playing with the wind
[B]N Scott Momaday, The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee[/B]


somewhere up there he's waiting for me
and he knows that I'm coming' for him 
and I just can't rest till I find
that raven black stallion that wears no man's brand 
with a wild restless spirit like mine
[B]Chris Ledoux, Caballo Diablo[/B]


Because the pleasure-bird whistles after the hot wires,
Shall the blind horse sing sweeter?
Convenient bird and beast lie lodged to suffer
The supper and knives of a mood.
[B]Dylan Thomas, Because The Pleasure-bird Whistles[/B]


Sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.
[B]William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, act 1, scene 3[/B]


wild wild horses 
we'll ride them 
someday
[B]Rolling Stones, Wild Horses[/B][/i][/INDENT][/INDENT]


My first aikido teacher Kinjo Asoh sensei liked art. His father was an artist. Asoh sensei had some pictures of horses. You could feel their power. 

There is a kind of concise Japanese proverb called [I]yojijukugo[/I] &#22235;&#23383;&#29087;&#35486; &#12424;&#12376;&#12376;&#12421;&#12367;&#12372;. [I]Yojijukugo[/I] are very popular and there are many books about them. They are four-character phrases. Sometimes the meaning is clear from the kanji themselves. But there are also lots of idiomatic [I]yojijukugo[/I] with special meanings. In English we have a few four word maxims too. Like [I]more haste less speed[/I]. 

[I]Gyuuinbashoku[/I] is a [I]yojijukugo[/I]. &#29275;&#39154;&#39340;&#39135; &#12366;&#12421;&#12358;&#12356;&#12435;&#12400;&#12375;&#12423;&#12367;. Cow drink horse eat. It means heavy drinking and eating. Drink like a cow and eat like a horse. 

In Europe now there is a food scandal. Horsemeat was sold as beef and used in the manufacture of burgers and lasagna. It seems like a mislabelling for profit scandal more than a serious public health problem. But perhaps the fact that it was horsemeat was shocking. 

Horsemeat is eaten a little in Japan. It can be eaten raw as [I]sashimi[/I] called [I]basashi[/I] or cooked. In the United Kingdom where I'm from horsemeat is not eaten at all. There is no word for it. English words for meat came from Norman French. Beef from [I]boeuf[/I]. Pork from [I]porc[/I]. Mutton from [I]mouton[/I]. Anglo-saxon words were used for the animals themselves. Cow, pig, sheep. Horse.

The nineteenth century novel [I]Black Beauty[/I] by Anna Sewell is one of the best-selling books of all time. It was a sympathetic story about the life of a horse. A similar story [I]War Horse[/I] was filmed by Steven Spielberg in the twenty-first century. 

For centuries horses have been used in war. Alexander had a famous horse called Bucephalus. In Japan some samurai fought on horseback. The [I]katana[/I] used by horsemen was called a [I]tachi[/I]. It had a slightly different rake and it was not worn blade up in the waistband. It was hung blade down on straps. Still today you can see demonstrations of horseback archery - [I]yabusame[/I] - at festivals. 

Niall


[I][B]poems and background articles[/B]

[url]http://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/175895[/url] 
N. Scott Momaday, The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee 


[url]http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/because-the-pleasure-bird-whistles/[/url]
Dylan Thomas, Because The Pleasure-bird Whistles


[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yojijukugo[/url] 
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse[/url]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horses_in_East_Asian_warfare[/url]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yabusame[/url]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_meat[/url] 
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_meat_adulteration_scandal[/url]
[url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2278359/Whats-point-food-safety-quango-save-eating-stallion-burgers.html[/url]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Beauty[/url] 
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Horse_(film)[/url]


painting: [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Drobychevskaja"]Wild Horse[/URL] by Elena Drobychevskaja

special thanks to Elena Drobychevskaja for permission to use her powerful painting

[URL="http://drobychevskaja.de/modern-horse-paintings-of-elena-drobychevskaja.htm"]Elena Drobychevskaja's home page[/URL]


my home page with a mirror of these blog posts plus other articles: [URL="http://mooninthewater.net/aikido"]mooninthewater.net/aikido[/URL]
 

my [URL="http://www.aikiweb.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=75&filter[1]=Niall%20Matthews"]columns[/URL] on aikiweb[/i]


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	<date>02-19-2013</date>
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