From the Land of Rising Sun

Ooooh... my mum attempted to procure a Japanese meal for the first time! so exciting!

So for dinner, the menu was basically like this:



1) Cold Soba with Shoyu, chopped spring onions and little bits of seaweed
2) Tonkatsu (fried pork cutlet) with her very own diced tomato dip, salsa-ish

... okay so the salsa thing just threw the whole Japanese thing off. But considering that i put wasabe on everything negates this, so there.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Japanese hokku and haiku are traditionally printed in one vertical line, though in handwritten form they may be in any reasonable number of lines."

• An example of classic hokku by Basho:

古池や蛙飛込む水の音　

Furu ike ya kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto

Old pond

Frog jump-in

Water sound

Please note that the english translation DOES NOT FOLLOW THE 5-7-5 RULE (count?), for reasons simple enough for basic human comprehension.

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