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Spring
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A touch of spring - / slipping off my jacket / the softening air
春めいて上着ふと脱ぐぬくみかな
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In the veil of spring rain‐ / the softened night / a sheltered face breathes.
春雨の夜陰にひそむ素顔かな
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old wooden houses, close- / red-plum twigs loosening / let spring slip
路地裏に隠せぬ紅の梅便り
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taller now, you stand / with whom will you share a glimpse / of the gentle spring sky?
背も伸びた君誰と見る春の空
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tickle it just so / the young bud begins to uncurl / a green day begins
くすぐれば今にも開く木の芽かな
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blessings of blossoms / shower the baby's pram / a soft, pink confetti
祝福の花ふりしきれ乳母車
Summer
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a childhood summer- / its light still glowing / in my picture diary
絵日記に陽射し封じて夏休み
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summer festival night- / your geta clacking / with your slow steps
履きなれぬ下駄は鳴りおり夏祭
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a sunflower - / ripened through the summer, / its laden head bowing
向日葵や重さにこうべ撓みおり
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the welling water - / where summer sunlight weaves / delicate watery rings
湧き水や夏の陰影編む手かな
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summer fair— / parents' pearls of sweat / behind the smiles
夏祭裏方さんの汗の数
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deep in the rainy season— / the letters seem to blur / on storybook pages
梅雨じまり絵本の字さえ滲むかな
Autumn
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my shadow stands alone, / so thin, so frail / autumn cold seeps in
身にしみて我は挫けし影一本
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deep into the autumn night- / the rustle of turning pages / through the stillness
頁繰る音のみひびく夜長かな
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clouds rank on rank / growing stone-heavy - / the sky closes in
石化する鱗雲かな空の圧
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his favorite pumpkin- / my son blows and blows, / still too hot
好物の南瓜ふうふう食う子かな
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too soon for aging eyes— / another autumn finds me / with sanma on my plate
目の老いを疑う年の秋刀魚かな
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a town farther north— / a little ahead of time, / autumn finds its whisper
北の町一足はやき秋の声
Winter / New Year
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fogged window - / a child’s finger-drawing / lingers in warmth
暖房に曇る窓には子の指絵
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so close now, the spring / a child's brow furrows in sleep / against the morning sun
春隣朝日に眉寄せ眠る子かな
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on the shrine's path / a camellia lights the way / a sacred winter lamp
宮道や神灯ともし冬椿
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a round orange rests / a small sun in my palm / glowing against the cold
お日様は手のひらにあり丸蜜柑
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Shoulders stiff with strain / As year-end tasks now consume / December's relentless surge
肩も凝り仕事積もりて師走かな
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Ruby dawn bleeds light / Ice fangs erupt from hoary ground / Air, a razor's edge
曉に研ぐ牙鋭き霜柱
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ripe persimmons / falling to the ground- / the tree ablaze / in a frame / of mellow autumn colors
熟れた実を無造作に地に捧げおる柿の木燃ゆる秋の額縁
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excuses piled high - / my hand falls short / of even the clouds; / the fragile foothold / I've built for myself
言い訳はいくら積んでも雲にさえ手も触れられぬ脆き足場よ
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a breeze blows- / the cosmos swaying, / lost among the flowers, / an autumn afternoon /just as it is
無造作な風に吹かれる秋桜の花にまぎれて飾らない午後
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from a passing train - / rooftops drift away one by one, / each day within / held in the fading gold / of an autumn evening
車窓から屋根ひとつずつ遠ざかる小さな営み照らして夕日
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my gaze still held / by the darkness within- / a shard of sunlight / bright beyond bearing, / sears the iris
まなざしは心の闇を離れない陽射しのかけら虹彩焦がす
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a flock of small clouds / drifting toward some far shore— / not one strays; / and I, here below, /remain lost
列をなし向かう先知る羊雲ひとつも遅れず僕は迷子だ
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