The seasonal phrase for about five days from today is this, which they say, means it is the time of year when snow turns into soft spring rain and the earth is beginning to be moist. The phrase inspired me to write it with plenty of ink in the brush.
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今日から5日間ほどの七十二候の名称で、雪がしっとりとした春の雨にかわり、大地が潤い始める頃だとの意味のようですが、ふと潤筆で書きたくなりました。
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This is the seasonal term allocated to five days from around today. It means Japanese bush warblers, also known as a spring herald, begin singing in mountain villages.
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今日辺りから5日間の七十二候の名称です。春告鳥とも呼ばれる鶯が山里で鳴き始めるとの意味です。
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Because, obviously, at the moment, the moon is in the Libra, I wrote the myth of its origin.
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In the Nemea dale, lived a cannibalistic lion with skin as hard as steel. A number of young men went to the dale to eliminate it. However, none returned. One day, King Eurystheus of Tiryns heard this and list killing of this lion as one of the twelve Labors to give Heracles to expiate his mortal crimes of his wife and children.
Having brute strength, Heracles head out to kill the lion with a club and a powerful bow and arrow. However, they were powerless against the lion with a hard skin. Still, he hadn’t given up and with his extraordinary strength he kept strangling the lion for three days and nights. Goddess Hera watched this scene and honored the lion for its fighting spirit and made it into a constellation because she hated Heracles.
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今、月は獅子座にあるようですので、獅子座の起源の神話を描きました。
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This is the seasonal words allocated for the five days starting yesterday. “(Warm) east wind melts ice in rivers, ponds and lakes.” Here “east wind” means “spring wind”.
Now I remember way back when as a student, I read “ODE TO THE WEST WIND” and learned the west wind here is a prelude of springtime and didn’t really understand.
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昨日ぐらいから5日間の七十二候の名称です。暖かい春風が吹き、川や池、湖などの氷が解け始めるとの意味で、東風は春風と同義のようです。
思い出すのは、学生の頃「西風に寄す」を読んで、ここでは西風が春の先触れであると聞いたときに、よく分からないなと思ったことです。
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According to the old calendar, today marks the first day of spring. Here is the routine phrase of the day, “the first day of spring: excellent luck”. The expression has been considered very fortunate because it is bilaterally symmetric and looks just the same from the reverse side. However, being an individualistic calligrapher, I have never succeeded in writing the phrase exactly symmetric, though.
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今日は立春ですので、立春のお決まりのフレーズを書きました。これは左右対称で裏から見ても同じに見えるので、縁起がいいとされるそうです。個性派書家の私は左右対称に書けたことがありませんが。
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Today falls on Setsubun, the day before the beginning of spring and at the same time, beginning of a new year. There is a long tradition or a custom that we playact throwing beans to the ogres (symbol of evil spirits) in order to chase away ill fortunes on the evening of this day.
One theory says “On this evening when years switch around, people entertain ogres that come to this world from the alien world through the crevice of “time” with feast (beans) and urge them to return to their world.”
Driven by the scattered beans/
Archipelago is full of ogres/
Calligraphy and translation by Chio
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今日は節分ですが、豆蒔きという習慣には、「１年が切り替わる節分の夜に、異界から「時」の裂け目を通ってやってくる鬼に、ご馳走（豆）をあげることで、棲家へと帰ってもらうという意味だ」との説もあります。
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This is the season words for around five days starting yesterday which means “because of this terribly cold spell, even the mountain runoff freezes”. Actually, we seem to be hit by a severe cold wave that occurs once in a decade.
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昨日から5日間の七十二候の名称で、「厳しい寒さで沢の水さえも凍る」という意味です。実際、10年に一度の強烈寒波が来ているようです。
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This is the seasonal phrase for around five days starting today. Apparently, it means “Butterbur sprouts softly begin growing in this bitterly cold weather.”
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今日から5日間ほどの七十二候の名称です。厳しい寒さの中、蕗の薹がそっと顔を出し始めましたというような意味だそうです。
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This is the seasonal wording for around five days starting today. Apparently, it means “Frozen water underground begins to melt and move. Although the air is still cold, things are beginning to verge on the spring season little by little.”
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今日からの5日間の七十二候の名称です。
「地中で凍った泉の水が溶け、動き始める頃。まだまだ空気は冷たく、寒い時期にも、春に向けて少しずつ動き出している」といったような意味らしいです。
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Actually, the five days allocated to this phrase is about to end. It apparently means even under the snow pile, the wheat begins to sprout.
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実は、その割り当てられた５日間ももう終わりに近いのですが、この時期の七十二候の名称です。雪の下で麦がひっそりと芽を出すといった意味のようです。
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