We, almost naturally, had some beer with food at a Japanese-style pub after happily reuniting. We enjoyed the drinks and food immensely.
Hold the transparent saké cups/
And try beating the heat/
Calligraphy and translation by Chio
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久しぶりに会って、居酒屋でお酒とお食事、となるとやっぱりまずビール。美味しかったです。
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One of the significant people in my life is celebrating his 80th birthday today.
As I regret to see summer leaving/
I reserved a cake for the celebration of/
His eightieth birthday/
Calligraphy and translation by Chio
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今日は、私の人生で重要な意味を為した方の傘寿のお祝いです。
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I think I have written here something like “for the first time in ages” many times these days. And here is another post of that sort. I will be on a Shinkansen train in several hours and will go to Tokyo for the first time in a long time.
Shinkansen bullet train/
Hurtling in the green paddy fields
Is a silver needle/
Calligraphy and translation by Chio
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このところ「久しぶり」が続くようですが、何時間か後には久しぶりに新幹線に乗って東京に向かう予定です。
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When I was a small child, I had dreams about an insane woman. However, I can only remember that an insane woman appeared in the dreams and I have no memories about other settings of the dreams.
O peach blossoms/
Insane woman/
Gets kompeito sweets in month/
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幼い頃、狂女の出てくる夢を何度も見ました。けれども、狂女が出てくるということだけが印象に残っていて、それ以外の設定はまるで思い出せません。
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The other day I found a haiku on swallows in summer while I was netsurfing. I liked it very much and I wrote this haiku on a thin strip of paper and posted it. And I found a pleasant-sounding phrase about the bird on the net again. “Summer season swallows are flying on a course of progress.”
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先日夏ツバメの句をネットで見つけましたが、ネットを見ていたら、また夏のツバメについての言葉を見つけました。伸びやかで気持ちのいい言葉だと思います。
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I was delighted to receive a summer greeting card from a senior in the calligraphic society who I have a lot of respect for. The image shows my small work of a contemporary haiku, which I will enclose in my reply letter to her. Now, I am feeling I would try and go further in this art.
Writings on a summer greeting/
Make me happy/
O daytime stars/
Calligraphy and translation by Chio
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書の大先輩から、嬉しい暑中見舞いをいただきました。これはお返事に同封しようと現代俳句を書いてみたものです。まだまだ頑張れそうです。
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These photos are from one of my very good friends. She says she enjoys looking at these pink hydrangeas in her garden. Since most of the hydrangeas in my neighborhood are in blue or bluish-violet color, these deep pink colored hydrangeas look both beautiful and new to me.
O hydrangeas/
Earth is a ball of water/
After all/
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お庭の綺麗なピンクの紫陽花の画像をいただきました。私の近所では青や青紫色の紫陽花ばかりを見ますので、こんな濃いピンクのお花は綺麗だし、新鮮な気がします。
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Although I don’t often have shaved ice and ice cream, sometimes I think of having something very cold in this hot and humid weather.
If forgetting is a sign of gentleness, I am not a gentle person.
Gentleness called “forgetting”/
O shaved ice/
Calligraphy and translation by Chio
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かき氷やアイスクリームはあまりいただきませんが、流石にこう暑くてはときどき欲しくなります。
忘れることが優しさなら、私は優しくはありません。
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Last month was my birth month and even at a gathering of the elderly people’s association of the community, I got a wonderful present of socks for the summer.
A sock is missing/
A sunny spell in the rainy season/
Calligraphy and translation by Chio
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先月は誕生月でしたが、地域の老人会の集まりでもプレゼントをいただきました。夏用のソックスです。
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Among the many gifts that I got on my birthday last month was, of course, a big bottle of Japanese saké.
Drinking saké in the daytime/
Cherry petals swirl around/
A tree far away/
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先月たくさんいただいた誕生日プレゼントの中には当然のように日本酒もありました。
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