〜So happy for my mother! 朝市帰り〜
A very good, longtime friend of mine came to offer some flowers to my late mother on her way home from an earl …
介護
〜My tanka and haiku about my mother どちらも自作〜
“Write your own poems” said my second calligraphy teacher. Then immediately I thought I could never write hai …
〜Collaboration 道徳経〜
〜Collaboration 道徳経〜 . I found this one, the very first collaboration with my late mother and myself while I wa …
〜Initials 母の名前と私の名前〜
Sometime ago, at a calligraphy exhibition I saw a piece composed with the initial letters of a mother’s name a …
Hospital visit
For the first time in months, I paid a visit to the hospital my late mother used to go and see her doctor, jus …
Fans for mom
These old fans are what I did for my late mother. . She used to love using these in bed before falling asleep. …
Heartwarming gifts
One of my valued, long-time friends from my previous work sent me some gifts for offering on my mom’s altar an …
“Lotus flowers begin blooming”
Here is a subdivided phrase of the solar terms for around this time, that is, the second or the third week of …
Happy Mother’s Day
Here is a haiku of irregular rhythm I made around one year ago. . People may be celebrating Mother’s Day in a …
Love is the ocean
This is my favorite image, the image of love’s inexhaustibility. . Now, I know I am immersed in it. Thinking …