Kamakura Snow Festival(かまくら) is held in Yokete city, Akita prefecture(秋田県), Northern Honshu, Japan on February 15th-16th every year.
It is a fantastic world appearing on a snow country evening, where children enjoy chatting in rooms made of snow.
Here are photos and haiku about Kamakura Snow Festival
羽後の国かまくらの灯の点りけり 秀法
Ugo no kuni Kamakura no hi no tomori keri
Kamakura, snow hut
has candles lighted on –
Akita – the land of poetry Hidenori
かまくらの星座の如き光かな 秀法
Kamkura no seiza no gokotki hikari kana
Kamakura, snow huts
shining –
a constellation Hidenori
甘酒にかまくらの神酔い痴れる 秀法
amazake ni Kamakura no kami yoishireru
god of Kamakura
gets drunk –
amazake, sweet rice drink Hidenori
Manisha Kundu-Nagata in Akita prefecture tells us about Kamakura snow festival in her blog.
Please check it out, and you will know about Kamakura better..
http://lipikazuo.blogspot.com/2009/02/kamakura-snow-festival-in-yokote.html
Lastly, let me post haiku and photos by Janessa and Cecilie Guldbrandsen, who studied about haiku and learned to write haiku at the class by Alexander Dolin, PhD, Professor of Japanese Literature and Civilization Studies at Akita International University(国際教養大学).
Janessa contributed the works of haiku and photos to us in November, 2011.
蒸気がグラスから立ちのぼる
だけど風が吹き始める
飲めるだろうか?
葉で一杯の川
滝に近づく
それからきれいになるわ
茶色の葉が散り
川の中に落ちるとき
忘れられてしまう
実を結ばない森
枯葉が地上で眠っている
冬が来るだろう
落葉のように
風の中でくるくる回り転がり落ちる
人生行路
Cecilie Guldbrandsen also contributed the works of haiku and photos to us in November, 2011.
Colorful ballet
Written in the air
Gracefully
色とりどりのバレエ
空に書かれるように舞う
優雅に
Dreaming earth
Breathing the hymn
Of lonely trees
夢見る地
賛美歌をささやいている
孤独な木々の
Strange chestnut
Roasted in yellow sun
On bare ground
風変わりな栗の実
黄色の太陽で焼かれている
むきだしの地面で
Leaves rustling
Surrounding patient trees
Wind dancing
葉がさらさらと音を立てている
我慢強い木々を取り巻いている
風が踊っている
Naked trees shivering
Getting ready for
A new winter coat
葉の散った木々が震えている
準備を調えている
新しい冬のコートに
The next posting ‘For New Year 2012 (9)’ appears on March 3.
― Hidenori Hiruta
I have really enjoyed the New Year posts. Thank you so much for sharing these haiku.