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Haiku for Honshu, Japan
Hands clasp: Miyako’s
Touch makes my DNA, blood
Cry, “No, not Japan!”
I never told you,
Dad, your pride in Mom’s Japan
Made it real for me.
She kept much from view
Behind her silk fan and screen—
Samurai—poised, strong.
Now Granddad’s photo
Of the Sea says its shores will
Soothe again … in time.
March 13, 2011
Takeo Hirose was descended from samurai of the Tosa Clan. He came to the United States to sell his family's imariware, as the samurai were pursuing new ways to make a living after the 1853 Opening of Japan. There he met and married Sabrina Loomis' grandmother and with her raised their daughter Chiyo in New York City and Tokyo.
Exquisite, double-sided ingraved Japanese Silver Medallion of floral motifs with gold accents, circa 1920.
Japanese artisans have a long history of studding their silver and even ironworks with gold highlights.
As gold was scarce, artful placement of small amounts turned the pleasant piece into a breathtaking one.
Chiyo's Medallion reminds us of the fragile beauty of flowers and our need to heal and protect the environment.
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Astrology Helps Japan
On March 11, 2011, Uranus, the planet of individuality and unexpected change, completed an 84 years orbit to enter the 1st degree of Aries. Traditionally marking the start of spring and a new Zodiacal year, this powerful degree has for its symbol a woman emerges from the ocean, embraced by a seal. It means a new stage in consciousness and evolution is at hand. Like the fish morphing into the reptile that lumbers ashore, the woman represents the universal drive to move forward on the great chain of being. But the seal, who is also a mammal, is returning to the sea after he says goodbye to his courageous friend. No one said change, especially of the magnitude Japan has experienced with an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster is easy, or that it doesn’t require tremendous courage!
A week later on March 19th, as the Sun reached the end of Pisces, the Moon waxed full in its opposite sign and degree, this year in 29 degrees Virgo. According to a Sabian spirit guide, this degree means a seeker after occult wisdom reads an ancient scroll that illuminates him. With the Sun in Pisces 29 whose symbol is light breaks into many colors as it passes through a prism, we have the power of ancient wisdom combining with modern analytic methods. The polarity weds ageless wisdom teaching with science’s breakdown of life into myriad component parts. With the Moon full at perigee, trhe closest it gets to us, its silver disk shone unusually large and bright.
Three days later the Sun itself moved into Aries to kick off a new year before a stunned, but ever hopeful planet. The small island nation’s situation has been christened, “The Second Opening of Japan—its Heart and Soul,” particularly for the people's stoic courage fighting the double-edged sword of nuclear disaster on one hand, and criticism of its containment effort on the other.
But with the legacy of the samurai woven into Japan’s national identity now plain to see, people all over the world are studying bushido, the way of the warrior, who serves from a sense of responsibility and duty with humility, sincerity, polite courtesy, compassion, heroic courage and honor to see how it can help make an ardent, ravaged world a better and kinder place.
Chiyo's Medallion
Orders are being taken for finest quality reproductions of Chiyo's Medallion in all Sterling silver;
Sterling silver with 18K green gold highlights; Sterling silver with diamond and gold highlights;
all 18K white or green gold; and 18K white or green gold with diamond.
Part of Gemscope's profits go to providing Medallion Reproductions for the Japanese Nuclear Power Plant Heroes
repairing the damaged Fukushima Nuclear Reactors.
All 18K gold orders receive a gift of original haiku and vintage photographs by Takeo Horose
featuring scenes of Honshu's northeast coastal towns,1920-1930.
