Friday, November 30, 2001

武蔵野の紅き欅は腕広げある限りの葉空に放てり

Keyaki, a treen flaming in reed, opens its hands
Leaves all its leaves up into the sky



Thursday, November 29, 2001

新調の靴に食われる足先で外回りする街路延々

New shoes hurt my feet when I visit my cliants
Streets of unknown towns stretch far in front



Wednesday, November 28, 2001

記念日は様々にあり遠き人とことば交わせり祝福と知る

On a memorial day of a kind we exchanged words far apart
I know it's nothing but a blessing!



Tuesday, November 27, 2001

解放は束の間にせよ歩み出す衝動止めず流れる小川

If it's the momentary liberation
Nobody stops the impulse of walking along the stream



Monday, November 26, 2001

燃え上がる銀杏太古の形して人を鼓舞する脈動のあり

Flaming ginko trees in an ancient shape
Inspiring people with their pulses deep



Sunday, November 25, 2001

後ずさり踏み込む小路目隠しの塀に囲まれ愕然と立つ

I go backwards into the maze-like back alleys
And find myself surrounded by blind walls to my dismay



Saturday, November 24, 2001

ヒマラヤの稜線染める落日の写真料理の間を継ぐ店屋

Photos of sunset coloring Himarayan ridgelines
Fill the waiting time in the restaurant



Friday, November 23, 2001

ためらいつ電子の海に投げ入れた言の葉を飲む渦をみつめる

Hesitatingly I threw my words in the cyber sea
I glare at the whirlpool they are engulfed



Thursday, November 22, 2001

残り火を煽る木枯らし振り返る刹那の笑みの殊にうつくし

Fire left unquenched is stirred up again by the cold wind
Special beauty is in the smile looking back for a moment



Wednesday, November 21, 2001

自転車で豚肉届け弟は大事にしろよと夜道へ消える

My brother brought me loafs of pork and went home
By bicycle telling me to take care into the darkness



Tuesday, November 20, 2001

特急券コーヒーカップ鞄二個走るホームの背に響くベル

With an express ticket, a coffee cup, and two bags
I run the departure plathome hearing the bell behind me



Monday, November 19, 2001

黄金に燃える銀杏を窓枠に瞬間見せてバス遠ざかる

The firing gold of ginko trees are shown momentarily 
In a window frame of a bus, which goes away and away 



Sunday, November 18, 2001

書くほどにことば連ねて淋しきは返らぬことを承知の便り

Sorrow is in written words so many
When I know there will be no response



Saturday, November 17, 2001

冬将軍暫し待たれよ咳をするか弱きものに慈悲賜らん

Stop and wait, Winter-General, for the coughing!
We appreicate your gift of charity to the weak



Friday, November 16, 2001

手短なことば交わせり忙中に霜降る月の淡いときめき

Brief words were exchaned in a busy moment
Subtle excitement in a month of the first frost



Thursday, November 15, 2001

経巡りの季節の詩の烈風は枯れ葉舞い上げ国境を越す

The wind blows in a poem of changing seasons
Fallen leaves dance wildly to go over border lines



Wednessday, November 14, 2001

中学の長い廊下を歩み寄り十三の影薄明に消ゆ

Walking down the long corridor of a junior high school
A shadow of a thirteen-year-old passed by in twilight



Tuesday, November 13, 2001

順を待つ無表情なる人群れに埋もれて溶ける自意識の角

Waiting in expressionless crowd are melting
Pointed angles of my selfconsciousness 



Monday, November 12, 2001

黄落の道浸す雨遠景に紗幕をかける笑みはかりそめ

Yellow leaves are soaked in rain on the road
It veils distant views in pseudo smiles



Sunday, November 11, 2001

静けさと不気味さ混じる平穏に卵攪拌しつつ逆らう

Peacefullness in silence mixed with eeriness
I revolt it while beating an egg



Saturday, November 10, 2001

文明の十字路という要堺に消える女を追う熱嵐

To the crossroad of cultures, a bastion
Follow women desappearing in a passionate storm



Friday, November 9, 2001

印刷の文字立ち上がり息をのむ意味を付与する咎我にあり

Printed letters remarkably capture my eyes
I should be blamed of my egocentric interpretation



Thursday, November 8, 2001

哀しくも寂しくもなしひたすらに夢見た後の残照に醒め

No sadness nor loneliness remain 
I wake in the last light of my long dreams 



Wednesday, November 7, 2001

かろやかに飛び行くこころとどめ得ず我の錨をほどく潮時

How can a heart be detained when it wishes to fly?
Let the anchor of my feet be relased as well



Tuesday, November 6, 2001

さやさやと吹き寄せられる山茶花に染まる敷石踏む百万歩

Millions of steps go on the pavement
Tinted with the frail petals of sasanqua drifted together



Monday, November 5, 2001

洋梨を煮詰めて残る透明な果肉僅かに延命叶う

La france is stewed to be transparent
The fruit is allowed to survive a little longer



Sunday, November 4, 2001

仕立屋に上着誂ふたまさかの贅沢の果て秋風に出る

The rare luxary of ordering a jacket at a tailor
We walk out into the wind of autumn



Saturday, November 3, 2001

降りしきる雨音被り構えなく午後の過ぎゆく霜月の無為

In the heavy rainfall with no intentions
Afternoon passes leisurely in a November day 



Friday, November 2, 2001

草むらを菊花に変える心ばせとりどりの色野趣に任せて

Someone turns a patch of weed into chrysanthemums
With various colors in wild mixture



Thursday, November 1, 2001

木の葉踏み水の畔へ降りて行く空へと至る階梯と知り

I take steps to water stamping on fallen leaves
I know they are steps to the sky