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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Now I think I haven’t written pieces of this favorite theme of mine for a while, that is, contrast of the letters used nowadays and
ancient letters. Putting them side by side will make an interesting work, I believe. The one written in dark ink is a modern form and the one in pale ink is ancient form of 楽.
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この大好きなテーマの作品もしばらく書いていない気がします、つまり今使っている文字と古代文字。並べて書くと面白い。
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The seasonal phrase for about a week starting today is this, namely, “swallows arrive” migrating from south. The characters in the phrase literally mean “black birds come”. Now, I remember swallows used to come and build nests every spring at the entrance of my mother’s natal home. I also remember people were happy to have them, believing the birds bring happiness.
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今日から一週間ぐらいの七十二候の名称がこれです。玄鳥つまり黒い鳥は燕で、燕が南から渡ってくるという意味だそうです。そう言えば、母の実家の玄関先には毎年決まって燕が巣を作っていました。燕は幸運を運んでくると言って、皆が喜んでいたのを覚えています。
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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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“People begin hearing distant rolls of thunder.” In fact, this is the last seasonal phrase for March. The drumstick you see on the left is a custom-made item of the famous drummer whose sad news of death was officially announced some time ago. I am now remembering it was almost 20 years ago that I picked it up thrown to the audience by the drummer himself at the end of a concert.
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「遠雷が聞こえ始める」実はこれは３月最後の七十二候の名称です。左側に写っているのは、先ごろ訃報が報じられた有名なドラマーの特注品のスティックです。コンサートの最後に彼が客席に投げたのを拾ってきたのは、20年近くも前だったかと思います。
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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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Cherry blossoms make me feel lonely. When they bloom and
when they fall, they make me feel lonely anyway.
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桜は寂しい。咲いても、散っても桜は寂しい。
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The character is “tree”. It is a small piece of about 14 cm or 5 inches on a side. I hope someone would like it as a simple, little ornament on a kitchen wall, for instance.
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一辺が13センチぐらいの小さな色紙です。キッチンの壁などにお気軽に飾ってもらえるかと思うのですが、如何でしょうか。
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The piece this photo shows was actually sold at an art marché in December last year and naturally it is not with me anymore. As I had a considerable feeling for this one myself, when I look at this picture, I have a kind of loneliness but at the same time, I feel VERY happy.
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写真の短冊作品は、昨年12月のあるアートマルシェでお嫁に行って、もう手許にはいません。自分でも思い入れがあったものですので、この写真を見るとちょっと寂しくて、でもとても嬉しいです。
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