March 31, 2004

紫に土手埋め尽くす勢いも
一輪ずつの造形に帰す

Banks are covered with
Countless flowers of murasaki-daikon
The power is reduced to
Each one perfectly created　

March 28, 2004

森は今朝緑目覚めてしなやかに
マユミ枝張る沈黙を超え

This morning in the woods
Green got awake
A supple twig of mayumi
Grows overcoming silence

Mayumi: Euonymus sieboldianus Blume　

March 27, 2004

武蔵野の雑木林にものおもう
足音を聞くすみれそこここ

In the woods of Musashino
Are clusters of violet here and there
Listening to the pensive footsteps

どこまでも一方通行　連翹は
どこにもひらく　坂道の街

One-way streets go on and on
Rengyo blooms wherever I go
In a town of slopes

Rengyo; forsythia : Forsythia suspensa (Thunb.) Vahl

March 24, 2004

憧れの光に揺れる雪柳
緑に溶けていく寸前に

Yukiyanagi is swinging in light
Of their adoration
Right before they go
Melting into green

Yukiyanagi: Spiraea thunbergii Siebold ex Blume

March 23, 2004

星くずの舞い降りたるか若桧葉に
花とも実とも呼べず佇む

Has sardust fallen on?
Young leaves of Japanese cypress!
Unable to call them flowers nor fruits
I just stand watching their tips

枯れ枝に紫陽花の芽のひらき初む
絢爛の日の遠い先駆け

At the end of dry stems
Start opening buds of hydrangea
The herald of gorgeous flowers
In the far future

March 21, 2004

なごり雪消える朝（あした）に露抱き
ムスカリ伸びて霞む大空

Muscari; grape hyacinth: Muscari neglectum Guss. ex Ten.

March 19, 2004

卒業に贈る言葉は花束の
いろとりどりに命短し

Words to celebrate graduation
Are in a bouquet colorful
All saying life is short

March 18, 2004

純白に一日（ひとひ）装う木蓮は
弥生の新婦永久（とわ）に 触れ得ず

Magnolia dressed in
Pure white for one day
Is a bride of March
Unable to touch for ever

Hakumokuren: Magnolia heptapeta (Buchoz) Dandy

March 17, 2004

待ちかねたたより届けば姫辛夷
淡色（あわいろ）の花天に差し出す

Receiving a message long-awaited
Flowers of himekobushi
Subtly tinted
Are offered to the sky

Himekobushi or shidekobushi: Magnolia stellata (Siebold et Zucc.) Maxim.

March 13, 2004

春蘭の密かにひらく路地裏を
幾度訪ねて幻に会う

How many times
Do I visit the alley
Where shunran blooms stealthily
To follow a phantom?

Shunran: Cymbidium goeringii (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f.　

March 12, 2004

こなゆきのひとひらこおるくきのさき
銀蘭水仙雪原有情

A snowflake is
Freezeing at the tip of the stem
Through flowers of snowflakes
I watch the land covered with snow

Ginransuisen; snowflake: Leucojum aestivum L.

March 11, 2004

青い菜を一束買って水に挿し
いつか過ぎゆく盛り見ており

A green bunch of field mastard
I bought and put it in water
To let it bloom
I keep watching it passing its prime

Nanohana; field mastard: Brassica rapa var. amplexicaulis

March 10, 2004

この上は無言の重み胸に溜め
花との「対話」いかがとわらえ

A single Spring star flower
Makes me bend down
It is a transformation
Of the star on the earth

Keep the weight of silence in bosom
Won't you have dialogues with us?
Oh, star flower, you tell me with laughter!

Hananira: Spring star flower: Ipheion uniflorum (Graham) Raf.

March 8, 2004

土佐水木花房あふれ言祝ぎの
時に棄て得ぬ悲しみもあり

Flower clusters of tosa-mizuki
Decorate the whole tree
It's time to celebrate
Yet I can't throw away saddness

Tosa-mizuki: Corylopsis spicata Siebold et Zucc.

March 6, 2004

十匹の骸の上に冬を越え
幻想の川メダカは上る

青い目の小さき魚の腑に
詰まる神秘を命と呼びぬ

Ten died by winter
Medakafish that survived
Swim upstream of illusion

Inside of the small fish
With huge blue eyes
The mystery is filled
Which you call Life

：−　：−　：−

medaka: Medakafish Homepage

March 4, 2004

懐に日数重ねた便り入れ
寒緋桜も凍る啓蟄

kanhizakura: Cerasus campanulata (Maxim.) A.V.Vassil.　

枝に刺す鳥に蜜柑と近づけば
集まる花の甘い企み

三つ股の先に丸々くす玉は
マイクロフォンで春取材中

Are they oranges stuck
In sticks for birds?
No, they are sweetly designed
Balls of collected flowers!

The decorative balls
At the top of trident sticks
Are microphones reporting
Early spring!

mitsumata: Edgeworthia chrysantha Lindl.

March 2, 2004

森深く分け入る心地町の端の
羊歯生う庭の主は逝きけり

You're invited to the depth of the forest
Being in a corner of a town
Leaving the fern in his garden
The owner has passed away

Do you know the name of this fern?

March 1, 2004

くさむらは光抱きとめ地に伝え
命出でよと風に歌えり

Receiving the light
Sending it into land
The grass is singing
Along the wind