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題：「地球」(the Earth)
Haiku by Rika Inami
1
野末路に淡き花かげ藤袴
thoroughworts…
fragrant with faint floral light
on the end of my path
2
朝霧やカラスの眼光 田を射抜く
morning fog…
crow’s keen eyes piercing
through the rice field
3
ミゾソバや季（とき）の乙女の直香(ただか)かぐ
water pepper…
I smell its fragrance
Maiden of Fall
4
瑠璃紺に茄子漬かがよふ 母の味
pickled eggplants shine
in lapis lazuli blue
… my mother’s taste
5
秋冷や気温差十度 昨日(きぞ)と今日
autumn chill…
between yesterday and today
ten degrees difference
6
おろぎなきみ空に紅(あか)き七竈
cloudless…
clear, beautiful sky spreading
crimson rowan shines
7
異国(とつくに)の戦争うれふ秋の虹
worries about
the foreign land’s war, prayers
to autumn rainbow
8
月あかり見あぐる平和 宇の人は
peace
looking up the moonlight …
how’s it in Ukraine?
9
露の侵攻 物価上昇すさまじき
Russian invasion…
tremendous price increasing
through the world
10
節電と奥より出(い)だす湯婆（たんぽ）かな
save electricity…
I pull the hot-water bottle
out of the deepest
<Brief Biography >
A member of ‘Tanka Association Mirai,’ ‘Muro Saisei Learned Society’ and ‘Akita International Haiku Network. Rika Inami mainly composes tanka poetry. She has written it for twenty years, and the subject is primarily nature in Akita, where she lives.
She published some books, including her tanka works written in English and Japanese, and the translation book from English haiku and tanka into Japanese fixed ones.
Akita International Haiku Network 
Beautiful nature prompts Rika Inami’s spontaneous versification making us merge with the ever changing moods of the seasons the poet captures in her mind’s eye and through the camera iris.
Beautiful poems. Congratulations, Rika ❤️💐