April 2019, Tanka
2019年4月 短歌
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1
うるはしき春風そよぎ和の心さざなみわたれ令和の御代に
beauteous
spring breeze …
New Era, Reiwa
the spirit of peace
rippling around the world
2
うたかたの煩ひなるとおぼゆるも流れ止揚し難を解くべし
even though
thinking of my worry
as a bubble
I should aufheben the flow
to solve the problem
3
彼岸入り野ざらしの髑髏(しゃれこうべ)とふ君さするごと木魚拭きたり
the beginning
of vernal equinox week —
as if caressing you
a weather-beaten skull
I clean a wooden-fish
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木魚は魚を模して作られたということですが、髑髏に似ていると思います。
木魚について→https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%A8%E9%AD%9A
Higan is the equinoctial week in spring and autumn in Japanese.
In this work, it means “Vernal Equinox”.
During Higan, most Japanese Buddhists visit their family grave or offer Shojin vegetable food to their dead family and ancestors.
Wooden-Fish is put before a family’s Buddhist altar and it is said to be made in imitation of a fish. However, I think it looks like a skull.
More info about Wooden-Fish →
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden_fish
4
杉木立 斑雪(はだら)の森に黒々と花粉となりて君は入りしか
cedar trees
in shadowy black
stand
in the dappled-snow forest …
do you enter me as pollen?
5
各々の選(よ)りし場に発(た)つ彼岸明け一期一会のやさしさに満ち
finishing Higan
each leaves for the place
where each chose
… filled with tender heart
of once-in -a-lifetime chance
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6
奥羽の山脈(やまなみ)遠白く白鳥ら精こめ翔(かけ)る帰還の旅路
a spacious
Ōu mountain range —
swans soaring yonder
the journey to return home
with their all spirit
7
白鳥ら雪解の泥田に影うつし帰還の旅路に備へ食みをり
swans mirror themselves
in the surface of paddy fields
after snow-melt
eating and preparing
for their return journey
8
より近くにて撮るべしとふ声ありて懼れて寄りて嬉々として撮る
a voice falling to me
“Take pictures of swans closer”–
approaching
slowly and silently
I do so gleeflly as the voice
9
異類種に群れの啼き声つひ已むも害無きかなとなほ弾み啼く
perceiving
me, a different species
a pride stops calling
knowing my innocence makes
their whooping more joyfully
10
佳き空の無事の旅路を祈りつつ離れがたきの白鳥ゆ去る
wishing
for the beautiful sky
for their safety in flying
I leave swans at the paddy fields
… reluctant to part
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