Today falls on the winter solstice or the midwinter and it is naturally a cold day, as the name suggests. However, the day’s motto is this, “swing from the negative to the positive”. In other words the world shifts from the negative to the positive today, which should make many people’s lives pleasant.
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Yet again, kind neighbors gave me some yuzu citrus fruits from the tree in their garden. Now I am looking forward to enjoying the bath on the night of the winter solstice. Tanka here is my favorite among all my own haikus and tankas.
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The phrase that symbolizes this time of year is this, “Trout migrates upstream in dense”. I simply have no knowledge about trout biology. I have only seen how the fish swim up the rivers on TV or some other sources.
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This is the symbolic expression for this time of year, meaning “Qi (life energy) of heaven and earth closes up to go into the winter season”. It is cold for sure. Especially I find it difficult to get up in the morning these days.
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This is the symbolic phrase for this time of year, meaning fruits of Tachibana orange begin to turn yellow. However, I regret I don’t recall if I have seen this kind of trees or not.
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I learned the symbolic phrase for this time of year is this. However, I am afraid it is a little too hasty, because it was pretty warm in the afternoon today, in fact.
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Someone mentioned『星月夜』or “a very bright night sky”, literally “stars, moon, night” to my request asking for a favorite letter (character) or word, saying she loves the phrase because it is just very beautiful, and that she likes the famous painting by Van Gogh, as well.
As a matter of fact, I, too, like this beautiful phrase very much and had put it into my own haiku I wrote while looking after my mother still alive at that time.
The photo shows my work composed of three parts, that is, my tanka, my haiku and some comments. At times when my mother had bad moods, I used to take her out putting her in her wheel chair, which happened even after dinner a number of times.
One evening like that, the evening star and the crescent moon were seen beautifully in the sky as if they were facing each other and smiling at each other.
The first tanka part is my description of it and the second part is a haiku I wrote imagining taking mother’s hand and flying in the night sky together, and here I used the phrase『星月夜』.
And the last part is my comment that I was truly amazed to see my mother “expressed gratitude” to the beauty of the stars just because I had never thought she was that kind of person.
I didn’t write here, however, after returning home, she even said she should have put her hands together to give deep gratitude to the beautiful stars, which surprised me so much.
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This is the seasonal phrase for this time of year, meaning “the earth becoming to be icy”. Because it has got very chilly especially early morning, I think it well describes the weather now.
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This is a seasonal phrase for this time of year meaning camellia flowers start blooming. We can enjoy camellias in bloom all through the winter till the springtime. And that is why, I heard, the Chinese character for this plant consists of “tree” and “spring”, despite the plants’ image of “winter blossoms”.
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The seasonal phrase for this time of year is “it drizzles from time to time”. We may be going into this kind of season especially in mountainous areas.
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