I think I will practice again a book of models my teacher gave me when I was twenty.  “Age of twenty” means I was a student and the days when I was absorbed in what was happening at my college, anything about The Rolling Stones and how to look stylish.  So, I only barely continued going to my teacher’s school and kept practicing calligraphy.  In fact, I have now little memory about this book of models and just wonder if I could really work on these difficult tasks.

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ちょうど二十歳の頃に先生にいただいた折り手本を全部同じように習ってみようと思います。二十歳と言えば、私は学生で、お稽古は細々と続けていましたが、それよりも、大学のこと、ローリングストーンズのこと、オシャレのこと・・・などが大事だった頃で、このお手本のことも覚えていません。今見ると、本当にこんな難しいことがちゃんと出来ていたのかしら？　と思うばかりです。

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Many friends both domestic and abroad wrote to me, “It is cold!”.  A friend of mine in Poland even sent me a video of strong wind and snow.  These are two modern haiku’s about cold days in cherry blossom season.

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国内外の友人たちから『寒い！』知らせが入っています。ポーランドの友人からは、強い風雪の風景の動画が送られてきました。花冷えの現代俳句を二つ書きました。

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Coldness in the cherry-blossom season/

Got to talk with a friend/

First time in ages/

White is the moon/

Sky is getting cloudy/

Chill in cherry-blossom time/

Calligraphy and translation by Chio

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〜Satori in a sense  ある理想形〜

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“Pleasant breeze flowing through sunshine and the moon floating in the sky after a rainfall.”

I learned this is an analogy of a state of mind with no disbelief or complaint.

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『光風霽月』　

心に不信や不満がなく、さっぱりと澄み切っていることのたとえだそうです。

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I enjoyed a pleasant weather and beautiful blue sky all day today.

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今日は一日中、気持ちのいい天気で、青空が綺麗でした。

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Erasing complexion of the young/

Blue sky has come down/

Calligraphy and translation by Chio

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This is another small work of mine that I found while cleaning the house.  It is “deep love, to foster, to learn”.  In short, symbols of parents’ love toward their children, I heard.

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これも家の掃除をしていたら出てきた私の古い小品です。深い愛、育てる、学ぶ。つまり親の愛のことだそうです。

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The other day, I went and enjoyed a film adaptation of a musical.  It would be extremely hard to get its ticket in ordinary situation even if you belong to its fan club, however, as live performance on stage seems really hard to realize in these difficult days, they made it into a motion picture and so I could enjoy it to the fullest extent.  Now I just wonder what is positive and what is negative.

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先日、映画化されたミュージカルを楽しんで来ました。世の中が普通の状態だったらファンクラブに所属していてもチケットを取ることはまず出来ないらしいですが、このご時世ですので、劇場でのライブ上演が極めて難しいために、映画化されました。何がいいのか、悪いのか。

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Beautiful is the big wide-open sky/

It certainly is/

Calligraphy and translation by Chio

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