All rights reserved ©Rika Inami 稲美 里佳
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.
Comment
Inspired by fine works of haiku and photo haiku by Rika Inami, Hidenori Hiruta introduces some Japanese Haiku (Japanese/English) from HI (Haiku International) magazine issued by HIA (HAIKU INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION).
復興の水車のしぶき植田風
(fukkō no suisha no shibuki ueta kaze)
Splashing
over the waterwheel for instauration…
wind through paddies
谷川 章子
TANIKAWA Fumiko
HI 2020 No.149
ウイルス禍立夏無人のイス多し
(uirusu ka rikka mujin no isu ōshi)
Virus fate
coming of summer…there are
many empty chairs
福田 ひさし
FUKUDA Hisashi
HI 2020 No.149
白セーラーの平和のちかひ慰霊の日
(shiro sērā no heiwa no chikai irei no hi)
A sailor-suited school girl
makes a vow for peace
Okinawa Memorial Day
髙橋 紀美子
TAKAHASHI Kimiko
HI 2020 No.149
一人前の気迫の斧を子蟷螂
(hitori mae no kihaku no ono o kotōrō)
Full-fledged
full of spirit…a baby mantis
lifts its forelimbs up
矢野 真緋子
YANO Mahiko
HI 2020 No.149
天上の恵み焦がれし桜月
(tenjō no megumi kogareshi sakuratuki)
Longing for
grace of heaven
third lunar month
結菜 やよひ
YUNA Yayoi
HI 2020 No.149
母の日の母ありし日の割烹着
(haha no hi no haha arishihi no kappōgi)
mother’s day –
I put on my deceased mother’s
kitchen apron
杉山 やよひ
SUGIYAMA Yayoi
HI 2020 No.149
人の世の命はかなし春の月
(hito no yono inochi hakanashi haru no tsuki)
The life of a person
is like an ephemeral
spring moon
チョーコ ビーン
BEEN Chōko
HI 2020 No.149
花は咲き鳥啼くされど人を見ず
(hana wa saki tori naku saredo hito o mizu)
Flowers come out
birds sing – nevertheless
nobody is strolling
秋山 マリア
AKIYAMA Maria
HI 2020 No.149
ひまわりの笑顔は万国共通語
(himawari no egao wa bankoku kyōtsūgo)
Sunflowers
Smiling Smiling Smiling –
The cosmic word
遊行 三起
YUGYŌ Miki
HI 2020 No.149
父の日や父の遺愛の腕時計
(chichi no hi ya chichi no iai no udedokei)
Father’s Day !
a wristwatch cherished
by my deceased father
永井 弘子
NAGAI Hiroko
HI 2020 No.149
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