2018年10月短歌
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雨しづく我をうつして束の間の仮の宿かな … こぼるるままに
a crystal raindrop
mirrors me …
my sublunary room
for a moment
…until falling
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光あつめて芒穂の雫一滴無窮の彼方うつしとる
gathering light
a dewdrop
on the blade of silver grass
reflects infinite space
… eternal sky
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間近きの刈り入れのとき夕月の早(はや)西に冴え祭り言祝ぐ
the harvest
will soon come …
evening moon
shining earlier in the west sky
and celebrating festival
2018.9.15.18:19 Evening Moon
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4 and 5 田沢湖の鷺 / A heron at Lake Tazawa
※辰子は秋田県にある田沢湖の守り神です。
Tatsuko is Goddess of Lake Tazawa in Akita.
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美(うるわ)しき辰子の鱗は優しき波となり鷺と戯るるかも
Lake Tazawa …
Tatsuko’s beautiful scales
might
become calm waves
and flirt with a heron
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深みより群青に光(て)る田沢湖の岸辺の鷺は底方（そこい）に目やり
Lake Tazawa …
waves shining indigo blue
from the depth
a heron at the shore
looks toward the bottom
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せせらぎに竜胆一輪添ひて咲く山近き野に遊ぶ真昼間
a single gentian
by the babbling of a brook …
at midday
relaxing in fields
close to the mountain
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思ひ草あはく散りばめ竜胆（リンドウ）の青色かげる野路の秋かも
thoughtful flowers
faintly here and there
blue of a gentian
waving in the sun
… the autumn field
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20180924
恋ふれども叢雲に坐(ま)す月読(つくよみ)の今宵のおもひ如何にあらむや
although
my wish is to see you —
Tsukuyomi
in gathering clouds tonight
what do you intend to do?
※ Tsukuyomi is God of the Moon in Japan.
This year’s harvest moon was September 24th in Akita, Japan.
I am sorry I could not see it because of clouds.
Tonight is the harvest moon.
It is cloudy. Probably I will not be able to see the harvest moon.
月読は日本の月の神様です。今年の仲秋の名月は9月24日でしたが、残念ながら曇っていて見ることができませんでした（秋田県）。
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たまゆらに朝露ふれてはらひをり芒に野菊 逢瀬は秋に
morning dew
briefly touching and falling…
silver grass, blue daisy
each other’s
autumn happiness
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宙(そら)ぞ知る秋明菊のきらめきを儚さ超えて現在(いま)に咲きしを
the welkin knows
autumn anemones
twinkling
beyond transience
… they bloom now
※ Autumn anemone is Japanese anemone/ Anemone hupehensis.
編集 蛭田秀法
Edited by Hidenori Hiruta
Akita International Haiku Network 
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