It is not that I actually see this kind of bird very often in summer, but I felt a pleasant note from this haiku and chose it as a material for my calligraphy.
O summer swallow/
The wind is born/
From the wings/
Calligraphy and translation by Chio
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この時期のこの鳥を日常的に見るわけではありませんが、気持ちのいい句だなと思って書きました。
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I had always loved my own superior memory, which at times people around me hated. However, as getting older, my memory retention is not as good as before. And now, I am somewhat relieved about this fact but with mixed feelings.
Visited a friend/
Shower of blossoms/
Is not found in my memory/
Calligraphy and translation by Chio
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私は、人から嫌がられるほどの記憶力を誇っていましたが、年をとった今となってはもうそれ程でもありません。これはなかなか複雑な気分です。
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I have been receiving many kinds of presents these days. Cherries, fruits of the season, were among them.
Toward the sun/
Cherries filing off/
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贈り物をたくさん受け取りました。季節の果物のさくらんぼもいただきました。
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An excellent friend gave me a delightful gift of a furoshiki or cloth wrapper designed by Takehisa Yumeji.
Wearing a yukata, summer kimono/
And posing as a woman in a drawing by/
Takehisa Yumeji/
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素敵な風呂敷をいただきました。竹久夢二のデザインだそうです。
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The white hydrangeas on the sidewalk looked so attractive they caught my attention.
O white hydrangeas/
It seems to me/
Souls are around/
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歩道で見つけた白い紫陽花がとても綺麗で、心が惹かれました。
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The weather these days makes us perceive that the summer season is approaching. However, we also feel pleasant winds at times.
Early summer breeze/
Either the color of the sky/
Or the color of the water/
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このところ夏間近と思わせる暑さですが、気持ちのいい風もときとして感じられます。
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I think seasons transit faster than normal this year. And the rainy season started earlier.
Rainy season’s purity/
Over/
Trees of stretched-out leaves/
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今年は季節が進むのが早いように思います。梅雨入りも早かったですし。
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A couple of decades ago around this time of year, I enjoyed seeing fireflies dancing in the back of my house near the small river. But not anymore.
Feel like telling anybody and everybody/
First found fireflies of the season/
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何十年か前のこの時期には、家の裏の小川の近くに蛍が飛んでいましたが、今はもういません。
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When I was growing up, we saw a lot of cabbage white butterflies outside of our house, all around, in our garden, along roadsides; literally everywhere. However, these days they seldom are seen. Can you find a white butterfly in the second image?
Hi, white butterfly/
I will apply some lipstick/
On you/
Calligraphy and translation by Chio
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子供の頃には、家から一歩出れば、庭に道端に、どこにでもたくさんいると思っていた紋白蝶ですが、今では滅多に見かけなくなりました。２枚目の画像の中に白い蝶々がいるのが分かりますか？
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My late mother always asked me what kind of rice balls I would like for the lunch box on special days such as a school excursion day. And every time I answered, “I would like fig-shaped rice balls!”. Then she would answer, “I won’t make those because it is troublesome”. And then, every time, I said to myself, “She shouldn’t have asked me that question at all because she must certainly know that I would surely answer I would like figgy rice balls”.
And on the next morning, she never failed to cook my favorite rice balls.
I would like to add here for her due credit that her rice balls looked much nicer and tastier. I just have no idea how she used to cook them.
The ocean in my mother’s palm; a rice ball/
O Mother’s Day/
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遠足など特別の日のお弁当のおにぎりには何がいい？ と亡母は必ず聞いてくれました。そして私は必ず「無花果のおにぎりがいい」と答え、その度に母は「あれは面倒やからアカン」と言い、私は「だったら聞かなければいいのに。私が絶対に無花果のおにぎりがいいと言うことは分かっているくせに」と思ったものでした。
それで、結局、明くる朝には母は必ず無花果のおにぎりを作ってくれていました。
母の名誉のために書きますが、もっとずっと形が良くて美味しそうなおにぎりを作ってくれましたが、どうやって作っていたのかまるで分からないのです。
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