{"id":30277,"date":"2013-01-06T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=7babcf357bb2510d23bc587ff2d25b4d"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:34:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:34:18","slug":"semipalmated-plover-north-americas-chidori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/semipalmated-plover-north-americas-chidori\/","title":{"rendered":"Semipalmated Plover, North America\u2019s Chidori"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

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The Semipalmated Plover (Charadrius semipalmatus) is a winter visitor here on the Gulf Coast of Florida.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Many years ago when I was stationed in Japan I heard a koto musician play a piece called “Chidori,” which means plover in Japanese. The story behind this haunting music is of a Samurai walkinghis guardpost on a castle wall….at dawn he sees a lone plover on the shore and feels a kinship with the bird….sharing the beautiful dawn with the “chidori.” Having seen my share of dawns from guard posts in Asia, I have always remembered the music, the emotion and the memories…every time I see this shorebird.<\/p>\n

The “chidori” is a cultural icon in Japan, it is found in traditional music, art, poetry andeven contemporary comics and on t-shirts.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Beautiful Japanese calligraphy, “Chidori.” a Haiku poem “A plover on the shore No grasses, no trees his rainy night” – Yosa Buson (1716-1784)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Here’s a famous woodblock print (nishiki-e) from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. “Two plovers, waves and a full moon,” by Utagawa Hiroshige I, from the Edo Period (late 1830’s). Utagawa Hiroshige<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

When nature becomes part of our lives and culture, we become a part of nature….no longer just observers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many years ago when I was stationed in Japan I heard a koto musician play a piece called “Chidori,” which means plover in Japanese. The story behind this haunting music is of a Samurai walkinghis guardpost on a castle wall….at dawn he sees a lone plover on the shore and feels a kinship with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":2145728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[1687,2734,2731,2732,2733,1686,2668],"class_list":["post-30277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-charadrius-semipalmatus","tag-chidori","tag-haiku-poem","tag-japanese-calligraphy","tag-nishiki","tag-semipalmated-plover","tag-steven-scott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2145728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}