I see father’s face
in the mirror
Daruma Pilgrims (Confucius)
Note:“The first reference to the sekiten (a ceremony to honor Confucius and his students) in a Japanese context appears in the Shoku Nihongi, and is dated 701. The sekiten was initially held twice a year (in the second and eighth months) at the University, as mandated by the relevant section of Taiho Code. Althought imperial interest in the sekiten laspsed in the eighth century; it made a resurgence in the ninth, during a period of great enthusiasm for Chinese culture in general. The Japanese sekiten at this time was, as it had been in China (and would be again when revived by the Tokugawa bakufu), a large-scale, formal, official event,” Anne Commons, Hitomaro: Poet as God, p. 99). And Tokugawa Confucian education exerted great influence on haikai poets.
