Zahnwehgott Dentist Haiku

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the god of toothache - I wish I was there to add my coin

In the town of Kathmandu there is a God of Toothache at a road corner in Thamel, just a piece of wood shaped like a molar itself. If you have a toothache, you go there and hammer one coin wishing your illness might pass.

Since my tooth is rather active today, I remembered this God.

Thamel is a district of Kathmandu where even nowadays many dentists reside.



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More Gods of Japan to heal your toothache !
Yakushi Nyorai and Jizo for your Toothache


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More Dentist Haiku


aki tatsu hi uroba ni gin o uzume-keri

The day autumn began
I had a cavity in my tooth
filled with silver.

Ryuunosuke, tr. Makoto Ueda



the dentist--
all his ten fingers
and thumbs in my mouth

Laura Bell, from Higginson's "Haiku World"


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. . . . . Dentist Haiku
. compiled by Larry Bole

autumn rain;
another cavity to fill:
my fiftieth year


coldest day of the year
and coincidentally
a toothache


plants everwhere
in the dentist's waiting room:
my teeth feel mossy


(my new dentist)

"I won't hurt you,"
the first words out of his mouth
on a mild winter day


leaving the dentist
I bite off a big mouthful
of crisp winter air


eating fast food
after a teeth cleaning:
an epicurean feast!

--Larry Bole


Dental and dentistry haiku by others:

in the dentist's waiting room
tulips with their petals
tightly shut

--George Swede


professional conference--
in the restroom all the dentists
washing their hands

--Lee Gurga


at last no cavities;
every tooth
filled

--John Brandi



every zero
tidily filled in
the dentist's ledger

--Elizabeth St Jacques


record high--
this heat
even in my toothpaste

--Michael Dylan Welch




muzukashii saiku ha-isha mo kuchi o aki

A difficult piece of work,
The dentist
Opens his mouth too.

--Gorosuke, trans. R. H. Blyth



asa-samu ya hamigaki niou tsuma no kuchi

The morning cold:
smelling of tooth powder,
my wife's mouth.

Sojo, trans. Ueda


万緑の中や吾子の歯生え初むる
banryoku no naka ya ako no ha hae-somuru

Myriad green leaves--
in their midst my baby
begins to cut his teeth

--Kusatao
trans. Ueda

(Blyth's translation of the above haiku:

Among the myriad leaves of spring
My child has begun
To cut his teeth.)


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kane ga nai
mono ga nai
ha ga nai
hitori

no money
no things
no teeth
just me

--Santoka, trans. Addiss


tsumetasa no ha ni shimiru ha o itawaro

babying it
the tooth so sensitive
to cold things

--Santoka, trans. Burton Watson



horori to nuketa ha de wa aru

This the tooth that came out just like that

--Santoka, trans. Sato


the inside of my mouth utterly foul, I eat sardines

--Tokihiko, trans. Sato


And finally, two haiku making an indirect reference to teeth growing old, and tooth loss,
both by Matsuo Basho:

otoroi ya ha ni kui ateshi nori no suna

ebbing strength--
my teeth detect a grain of sand
in the dried seaweed
trans. Ueda


(my version:

feeling decrepit:
biting on a bit of sand
in the dried seaweed)



魚の骨しはぶるまでの老を見て
uo no hone shiwaburu made no oi o mite

Old age
sucking on
fish bones.

trans. Lenore Mayhew, an interior verse in the 'kasen' "Summer Moon" ('Natsu no Tsuki').

all that he can do
is suck upon the bones of fish
and think of old age
trans. Miner



I have become so old -
I have to suckle
fish bones
Tr. Gabi Greve


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External LINK
God of Toothache


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Dentist Daruma だるまのマーく
A Picture Book for Children.
Daruma goes to the forest with his big toothbrush and fights with the bacteria monsters.

source : だるまのマーくん


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Yoga for Toothache ! . My GenkiJuku



My Toothache haiku from 2006


. tooth hardening ceremony 歯固 hagatame
observance kigo for the New Year


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. Agonashi Jizo あごなし地蔵尊
Jizo without a chin .
healing toothache


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