When we hear the news that the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, there should always be a rainy day like today.
Aroma of/
The Jurassic/
Spring rain in my back garden/
Calligraphy and translation by Chio
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As it is getting warmer, I expect small insects such as butterflies will be around soon. This work is a copying practice of my teacher. It has an interesting haiku about something very big and something very small; that is, a hanging temple bell and a butterfly settling and sleeping on it.
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It has become quite warm now. It was raining on and off all day yesterday. The tree of thunberg’s meadowsweet I saw just before getting home already has a lot of tiny, white flowers, which I found somewhat heroic.
Every time they swing/
I see more flowers/
On thunberg’s meadowsweet branches/
Calligraphy and translation by Chio
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I found this interesting haiku while reading a website. I found it really interesting because it has some hint of science fiction that I love so much. Moreover, it happened to occur while I was watching a science fiction movie whose motif was that more than one time zones existed in one spaceship.
Obviously, this haiku has no season word, which is very rare. For, “seasons” are expremely important in haiku world.
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I can’t recall the last time I rode a Ferris wheel. Because I hear these days there are a number of extraordinarily large ones, I strongly want to try one. And one more thing, I wonder why some people feel so scared to ride Ferris wheels.
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Ferris wheel/
Scoops a spring day/
In a floaty manner/
Calligraphy and translation by Chio
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As today happens to mark the Vernal Equinox Day, I wrote two haikus about spring season. I learned that the child’s plays such as “bubbles”, “seesaws”, “swings” and others are categorized as spring-time seasonal words in haiku world and that it is because when spring comes children start playing vigorously outside. I thought haiku thinking is really interesting.
Incidentally, the drawstring pouches behind by calligraphy are beautiful works by Ootakoubou.
Butterfly may be born/
Among the crowds/
Vernal equinoctial week/
Gears working busily inside/
Bubbles/
Calligraphy and translation by Chio
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Flowers of mimosa, I hear, that in Italy represent beginning of spring and at the same time, a tradition of giving gifts to the close people, as well. The day of the event, March 8th is officially designated as “International Women’s Day” in many countries.
However, I think how you regard “women” can substantially differentiate how you regard this “day”.
As I happened to find a fun modern haiku about the flower, I tried to express this amusingness with somewhat peculiar lines.
Mimosa branches swing/
Just can’t recall how the love/
Ended/
Calligraphy and translation by Chio
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Since we are enjoying a pleasant weather this morning, there seems a sense of a warm day ahead in the air. These past two days or so, it was very windy, and moreover, the air was so cold I don’t think the wind was the “first gale of spring” as a meteorological term. Here is a modern haiku on the spring gale, though.
First gale of spring/
Anticipation of/
Something changes tomorrow/
Calligraphy and translation by Chio
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I quite suddenly received a variety of gifts; baked goods, meat boiled down in soy, rice crackers and what not. There was nothing special about the day. Only, she sends me something good and special from time to time.
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Painting of pears/
Put up on a wall of a/
Confectionary shop/
Calligraphy and translation by Chio
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Finally, it is March. I wish we were enjoying a warmer day but it turned out to be a cold rainy day today.
On every living thing/
Falls fluffily/
O, spring rain/
Calligraphy and translation by Chio
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