今日も時折雪の舞う寒い日でした。陽が射すと明るい光が溢れるようで、春だなと思います。
近所の中学校の校門に反旗が揚げられていました。恐ろしい災害から４年が経ちました。
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It was a cold day with occasional snow. But once the sun shone, the world was full of bright light.
A Japanese flag was flown at half-mast at the gate of a nearby junior high school. Four years already have past since the devastating earthquake.
Recurrence of cold/
NEVER/
Did I want it/
Translation and calligraphy by Tomoko
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タイトル、そのまんまです。雪は降っているときには写真に撮れませんでしたが、夕刻にはこんな感じでした。
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Today’s weather was exactly what the title says. The snowfall was so slight it couldn’t even be photographed when it was falling. However, in the evening, one corner of our garden was looked this.
Until a while ago/
Dancing down/
Snow in spring/
Translation and calligraphy by Tomoko
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石井ゆかりさんによる９日からの週の双子座のためのコメントから引用します。
「変化し始めること、ゆらぐこと、いくつものことが同時に始まること、軌道を変更すること、集めたものを分配すること。貴方でなければ出来ない活躍がここから、華やかに始まっていきます。」
先週、先々週と少々違って、こうだったらいいな、の展開ですね。
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Here is a quotation from Ms. Yukari Ishii’s (in Japanese) comment from the astrological point of view for the Geminis for the week starting on March 9, which roughly goes:
Beginning to transmute,
Swaying,
A number of things starting simultaneously,
Changing the orbit,
Sharing out what you have collected,
Activities you only can accomplish are going to get underway brilliantly from now on.
Unlike the comments from previous and two weeks ago, I now only wish it will come true.
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運動不足が酷いので、四股のまねごとなんかをしてみました。難しいです。でも、いい運動なのだということはよく分かります。
相撲甚句の一節を書いてみました。
今日から大阪の春場所です。
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As I am afraid that these days I have been lacking of exercise quite terribly, I tried to copy the basic training of sumo wrestlers called “shiko”, only to find it too difficult for me. However, I got perfectly aware it was a very good exercise.
The photo shows my work of a passage from a song sung at sumo events.
The spring sumo tournament in Osaka begins today.
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湧書会が定期的にお稽古の場を持っていたとき、私は、半紙まで含めて総べてのお道具を用意していました。それを例えば、自分を師として自信がないからとか、サービス過剰だと捉えていた向きもあったようですが、もちろんそんなことはありません。高い位置にいるからこそ、お弟子に負担をかけないで済むようにしていたのです・・・と、言いたいところですが、本当は、京都や奈良にちょっと来ている外国人観光客の人たちも、時間さえ合えば来てもらえるようにと思ってのことでした。
ただ、師が弟子のために総べてのお道具を用意する、というのは、伝統的に正しいやり方だったことを教わり、私の考え方が基本的に間違っていなかったと分かり、嬉しく思いました。
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When Yushokai had regular lessons, I provided all the necessary utensils, including even paper for the students. I was well aware that some people considered it lack of confidence as a teacher on my part or just excessive service. However, that idea is absolutely wrong, for it is because I was in the higher position, I wasn’t willing to put any burden on my students…Actually, to tell the truth, I just wished Yushokai would casually welcome travelers from abroad who happened to do sightseeing in Kyoto or Nara, if only it suited their itineraries.
However, I was really pleased to know that my way of thinking mentioned above, that is, preparing everything for students and avoiding putting any trouble on them was authentically right, after learning it was a traditional custom for teachers to prepare everything needed in calligraphy lessons.
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「破壊と再生」が合い言葉だそうです。しかも、しっかり握ってきたものを手放すのが、良い、と。何度も書いていますが、私はどうもこれが苦手でいけません。
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“Ravage and regeneration” is said to be the word. Moreover, it will even be more beneficial if you let go what you have kept on firmly clutching, I heard. As I have repeatedly written here, I am helpless when it comes to discarding something.
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石井ゆかりさんによる２日からの週の双子座のためのコメントから引用します。
「・・・そこはまるっきり見知らぬ場所ではなく、むしろ深い親しみを感じられる『自分のいるべき世界』です」
先週に引き続き、当たっています。ゆかりさんは私の事情を知っておられるのかしら？
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Here is a quotation from Ms. Yukari Ishii’s (in Japanese) comment from the astrological point of view for the Geminis for the week starting on March 2, which roughly goes:
This week, you may accomplish a remarkable outcome by believing the benefit of protecting something and being protected by something.
This is a terminus and quem, if you will, for which you have been seeking with a single mind for sometime rather than what you have just started.
This is a “quite familiar world for you that you should belong to”, rather than a totally unknown place.
Just as the previous week, it hits my reality. I wonder if she knew about my present surroundings.
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今日は亡父の誕生日で、ふと誕生花を調べたらアセビで、それは有毒植物だとあったのでちょっと笑ってしまいました。誕生花ってたくさんの説がありますけれどね。
書いたのは、アセビの花言葉です。
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Today is my late father’s birthday, and I casually checked what the birth flower for the day was. I found it was Japanese andromeda and moreover, it was a toxic plant, which made me laugh a little.
I am also aware that there are so many theories about the birth flowers, though.
The photo shows my work of the plant’s floral language; sacrifice, dedication, pure and innocent heart and an offer for a journey together.
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近所の神社で流し雛の催しがありました。写真のお人形たちはもう流れていませんが。
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I visited the nearby shrine to see the event of nagashi-bina (in Japanese), or floating hina dolls down a river. It is believed to be the origin of the Doll Festival whose object is to wish for sound growth of young girls. The dolls in the photos aren’t floating anymore, though.
They never think of their fate/
To be let go/
Oh, paper dolls floating downriver/
Translation and calligraphy by Tomoko
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そろそろ草木も動く、ということらしい。
人の動きもありますよね。新しい土地、新しい仕事。新しい仲間も、だといいな。
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The phrase is supposed to describe this season, early spring. For it means trees and grasses begin budding
It is also true with people. You maybe heading for a new land, a new job. Even a new fellowship, hopefully.
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