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I enjoyed an exciting reunion and a delightful conversation with people who led me to the greatest event in my life. It is so hard to put into words how grateful I am to them.
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I got an e-mail message from a good, old friend from our high school days. Incidentally, as the Mercury is retrograding, we may meet with each other for the first time in many years. The letter is the first one in her name.
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I like the month of June just because, I think, I was born in this month.
What a sweet breeze/
Blows over/
June/
Translation and calligraphy by Tomoko
For this single-leaf screen, I chose my favorite haiku about my favorite flower, hydrangeas. I remembered about this screen when a kind-hearted neighbor gave us these flowers from her garden yesterday evening. This screen is an old work of mine from about ten years ago. It welcomed visitors at the entrance to my first solo exhibition. I am now flooded with many good memories of the exhibition.
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Turning a flash into eternity is a task of a calligrapher: my understanding of the art.
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According to the Solar term, today falls on this year’s first day of summer.
No wonder it was so hot.
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Transparent is the first star of the evening/
Summer is here now/
Translation and calligraphy by Tomoko
二十四節気によると、今日がまさに立夏。
暑かったはずです。
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Yesterday, coincidentally, fell on the Full Moon in the Libra, I went to the shrinewhich I visit from time to time.
And there I got a written oracle. Its comment in the form of tanka roughly goes as follows.
Birds freed from a cage are each having fun/
Lots of fun in the fields in springtime/
Translation and calligraphy by Tomoko
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折しも、天秤座満月の昨日、時々お詣りする神社に行ってきました。
御神籤もいただいてきました。短歌形式で書かれています。
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Today falls on the Winter Solstice.
It is a long tradition in Japan to enjoy a hot bath with a kind of citrus fruits in the bathtub on the night of the midwinter. The refreshing smell and the nice feeling of the water help you to relax.
I read a comment in a post on the Instagram that this custom also shows the Japanese people’s love of taking a bath.
Soft steam/
Is the central player/
Bath on the winter solstice/
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今日は冬至。
柚子湯はこの寒い時季のいい習慣だと思います。
誰かがインスタに、日本人の風呂好きがよく分かると書いておられました。
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As I have been suffering from a cold, I haven’t practiced calligraphy for some time. Today, I resumed this activity by using two brushes, two brushes with extremely long tassels, that is.
The motif is a typical phrase for this season, “a caterpillar turns into a butterfly”.
As a matter of fact, I wish to have skills to express something wilder, unheard-of and unseen.
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風邪で暫く筆を持っていませんでした。
久しぶりに墨を磨って書いてみようと思ったら、つい筆を２本、それも長鋒を２本持っていました。
題材はごく普通に、この季節を表す「菜虫化蝶」。
本当は、もっともっと破天荒になりたい。
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“Drive away ogres! Invite happiness into the house!”
When I was a small child, I used to hear the above phrase from houses in the neighborhood. People did shout while scattering roasted beans on Setsubun, the last day of winter, and I remember my father used to do that. However, these days in usual homes, the custom is seldom observed.
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私が子どもの頃、節分には普通の家庭でも「鬼は外！ 福は内！」というのをやっていましたよ。
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