Haiku about the New Year (2010)

 

Happy New Year

2010 !

the Year of the Tiger

謹賀新年     kinga shinnen

二千十年           nisen ju nen 

平成二十二年　　heisei niju ninen

庚寅               Kanoe Tora

  

Miss Masuda Aika（桝田愛佳）, a freshman at Seirei Senior High School in Akita, celebrated the New Year by contributing her haiga to the Akita Sakigake Newspaper （秋田魁新報） on January 1. We readers enjoyed it in the newspaper, sharing the delights of the coming of the New Year with each other.

 

 

 Ms. Masuda Junko（桝田純子）, Aika’s mother, also contributed her haiku about the New Year to the newspaper.

 

初春や山輝いて力湧く 

hatsuharu ya  yama kagayai te  chikara waku

 

Mt. Taihei shines,

giving me power ― 

New Year’s Day

 

 

This is a picture of Mt. Taihei （太平山）, which made me write the following haiku.

 

新玉の光に映える太平山 

aratama no  hikari ni haeru  Taiheizan

 

Mt. Taihei 

reflects the light

New Year’s Day

  

Next I post two of my haiku about Namahage （なまはげ）, or ‘Ogre’ in the Oga Peninsula, Akita.

The first haiku also appeared in the Akita Sakigake Newspaper on January 1.

 

なまはげも男鹿半島で五七五 

Namahage mo  Ogahantou de  go shichi go

 

Namahage Ogre

writes haiku too ― 

the Peninsula of Oga

 

 

 

The second haiku is this:

 

なまはげは入道崎の光かな

Namahage wa  Nyudouzaki no   hikari kana

 

Namahage Ogre

keeps the lighthouse ―

Cape of Oga

 

 

Last of all I post haiku and some photos of swans I happened to find a little before the New Year’s Day.

There were swans taking a break during their flight near the bank of the Omono River （雄物川）in Akita.

 

 

Fortunately, I saw swans grooming there.

 

白鳥の繕ひ新た葦の岸

hakucho no  tsukuroi arata  ashi no kishi

 

Swans

groom by the reed bank

for the New Year

  

 

 

We wish you a wonderful 2010 !

 

―　Hidenori Hiruta