December 13 has been supposed to be the day when people start preparation for the New Year. I put mother’s work and mine at the entrance of our house.
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今日は１２月１３日で、事始め。玄関に母の作品と一緒に飾りました。
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The couple next door to us have been really kind and considerate to both my mother and me. Yesterday, my mother and I practiced calligraphy for the first time in months. The photo shows what she wrote for them, including as you see, something out of season.
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お隣のご夫妻は母と私に本当に良くしてくださいます。昨日は母と久しぶりにお稽古をしましたが、母は写真の色紙などをお隣さんのために書きました。中には季節外れのものもありますが。
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This festive event has now firmly fixed in Japan. I somehow have a liking for the ornaments of witches, wizards, pumpkins and what not.
Oh, Halloween!/
Only candy/
Witches’ bags have/
Translation and calligraphy by Tomoko
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この催しも日本に完全に定着しました。魔女とか魔法使いとかカボチャとかの飾り付けが何とも好きです。
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I keep taking walks a couple of times day after day asked by my mother who loves going out. Just despite myself, I made an eardrop from the flowers blooming at the side of our usual walking course and put it on my mother’s ear for fun.
Red spider lilies/
Splendor both/
In clusters and alone/
Translation and calligraphy by Tomoko
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母にねだられて、散歩、散歩の日々。思わず彼岸花で耳飾りを作って、母親をネタに遊んでしまいました。
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Tonight we could have seen the beautiful harvest moon. However, unfortunately it was cloudy. I made this haiku for my mother who loves to see the moon, especially the full moon.
Mother is eighty-eight/
Toward the harvest moon/
Is cloudy sky/
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今夜は中秋の名月のはずでしたが、ずっと曇り空。米寿を得た母は月を観るのが好きなので、この俳句を書きました。
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September 11 was my teacher’s birthday. He was born in the year of dragon, and also my mother was born in the year of that imaginary creature.
“Dragon flies up into the sky.”
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今日は師匠の誕生日です。彼は辰年生まれでした。母もそうなんです。
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After my mother wrote this the other day for my old friend, she also created this one, “happiness”. Because the creator herself loves her own work, I had it made to be displayed. I can’t stop wondering if she is happy living with me.
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先日私の旧友のためにこれを書いた後、母が書いたものです。本人が気に入っているので表装してもらいました。母は私といて幸せなのかな、と考えてしまいます。
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“Denseness” The most suitable word describing the days of my mother and myself, after all.
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濃密な日々な訳です。
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Mother in her childhood again/
Is laughing and clapping to the/
Sunshine reflected by the/
Sun catchers/
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幼子に還った母がはしゃいでる/
サンキャッチャーが弾く太陽（ひかり）よ/
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When my mother in a wheel chair and I are taking a walk, swings in a children’s playground attract my attention. I felt sorry for my mother in a wheel chair, but once when no children were there, I enjoyed playing on one. My mother was innocently laughing just like she, herself was enjoying the swing.
Just looking at the swing/
As I am in a/
Wheel chair/
Translation and calligraphy by Tomoko
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車椅子の母と散歩していると、児童公園のブランコが目につきます。当然母は乗れないのでちょっと可哀想ですが、子供が一人もいないときにブランコに乗りました。母は自分がブランコを漕いでいるかのように嬉しそうに見ていました。
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