Cosmic Multicultural Bucharest in the Pandemic (44):
In the Japanese Garden
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (astro-photo-poem-essay) and Florin Alexandru Stancu (design)
On October 27, 2020
I saw the Crowned Moon and I remembered that the Japanese people organize the Festival of the Moon every September.
So on November 11, 2020
I visited the Japanese Garden in Herastrau Park and, in that beautiful environment, I thought of:
-their mythological sun goddess, Amaterasu (“Great Divinity Illuminating Heaven”);
-their national telescope (located in Hawaii), Subaru (which means Pleiades);
-the amazing performances of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA);
-their great planetariums;
-the “Great Comet of 1996”, named after its Japanese discoverer, Yuji Hyakutake.
I also remembered visiting myself Japan in 2012 (with the president of SARM, Valentin Grigore) for a world conference (”Asteroids, Comets, Meteors”), an annular solar eclipse, a planetarium show in Sunshine City and a visit to the National Observatory of Japan (where we were received by one of its directors, Junichi Watanabe).
And last but not least…
In Japan, the King
of the Haiku greeted me:
“Welcome, little friend!”
#poetry