The most delightful compliments about my appearance should be “sense of clarity”. Probably, it is just because I have always had fair skin. Still, I can’t hide a smirk on my face when hearing the phrase.
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容姿を褒められたときに一番嬉しいのは、『透明感がある』です。多分、単純に色白の方だからだと思いますが、それでもこう言ってもらうと嬉しくてにやけてしまいます。
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For the first time in a while, I practiced copying my teacher’s calligraphy. It seems the phrase means “when hearing the voice of eternal verity, my heart is filled with great pleasure”. However, there is a possibility that he intended to put more Buddhist meaning.
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久しぶりに先生の書を臨書しました。永遠の真実を聞くと心が歓喜に満たされるということのようですが、先生はもっと仏教色の濃い意味として書かれたのかもしれません。
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The first picture shows a painting that my important friend in Poland sent me. This painting immediately reminded me of a sort of a game played among people of culture in old times; that is, first, a painter draws anything he or she likes and then a calligrapher writes in the margin what he or she is inspired by the drawing. The second picture shows the result; first I added the calligraphy “energy of love” on the same paper, then, I added my paperer framed it into a panel.
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1枚目の写真は、ポーランド在住の大事な友人から送られてきたもので、これを見たとき、昔の文人たちの遊びを思い出しました。つまり、まず画家が好きな絵を描き、書家がそこからインスピレーションを得た字を書き足すという優雅な遊びです。2枚目の写真が、私が初めの絵に「愛の波動」と書き足し、更にパネルに仕立ててもらったものです。
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I learned that “pluviophile” means someone who loves rain, and that precisely indicates me. However, I am so certain that rain must fall moderately.
On the leaves; rain without sorrow.
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雨の好きな人のことをpluviophileというらしいですが、私がまさにそれです。けれども雨は適度に降るのが良い。
葉上無愁雨。
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Finally, we are beginning to have summerlike weather, which reminded me of this one. This is my old work of a summery poem I wrote many years ago.
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いよいよ夏らしい気候になってきました。それでずいぶん前に夏らしい詩を書いた半切を思い出しました。
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I received this gift a while ago. It not only looks cute but produces cool refreshing sound. The sound really makes you feel even your heart is cleaned.
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少し前に贈られてきました。金魚の形をしていて可愛らしいだけでなくて、本当に涼やかな心まで綺麗になるような音がします。
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Wind chime rings/
Ears tickled/
Calligraphy and translation by Chio
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I found this phrase while net-surfing for no special reason. “Small streams gather to be a mighty river.”
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何となくネットサーフィンをしていたときに見つけた言葉です。「小川が集まって大河になる」
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I saw little cucumber flowers in a home vegetable garden in a neighbor’s and remembered this one.
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ご近所さんの家庭菜園のキュウリが花を付け出したので、これを思い出しました。
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One good elderly/
In one house/
Flowers on gourds/
Calligraphy and translation by Chio
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Because the gardenias in my garden are blooming beautifully, I wrote a haiku on them and their flower languages, “I am so happy”, “I diffuse delight”, “refinement” and “elegance”. What came into my mind is have I not been always happy.
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家のクチナシの花が綺麗なので、その句と花言葉（私は幸せ、喜びを運ぶ、洗練、優雅）を書きました。それで思ったのは、私はずっと幸せではなかったかということです。
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Living in the house/
Where/
Gardenias blooming in profusion/
Calligraphy and translation by Chio
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I cooked some wheat noodle（素麺）after a long interval. It is known to many people that cooking it is rather time-consuming, however, it is so easy to eat it fast.
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久しぶりにお素麺を作ってみましたが、これって作るのは面倒だけれども、食べるのは時間がかからないんですよね。
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Oh, thin wheat noodles/
Finally, only one is/
Drifting about in the bowl/
Calligraphy and translation by Chio
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