30 June 2004

水無月の閉じる間際に白木槿
いよよ降れよと天に傾く

As June's coming to an end
Roses of Sharon start to bloom
They slightly slant to look at the sky
Inviting rain to fall more on them

Mukuge: Hibiscus syriacus

29 June 2004

山辺に思い彷徨う羽蝶蘭
夕餉と急ぐ街角に逢う　

My though was wandering
Among rocks in mountains
When I met the orchid
On my way home rushing to cook dinner

Uchouran: Orchis graminifolia

28 June 2004

何処へも逃げる術なし夾竹桃
燃え立つ街に影さしかける

There is no place to escape
Oleanders give humble shade
Over a burning city

kyochikuto (oleander): Nerium indicum

27 June 2004

店先に桔梗咲かせる鰹節屋
バンダナ兄の朝から多忙

Japanese bellflowers bloom
In front of a katsuobushi shop
A young master wearing a bandana
Is working busily in the morning

Japanese bellflower: Platycodon grandiflorum

26 June 2004

空梅雨に枯れ花ばかり見ゆという
このささやかないのちなんとす 　

You say no fresh flowers grow
In dryness of the rainy season
What would you say to these tiny lives?

25 June 2004

石垣の端で日傘を握りしめ
近づいてくる陽炎を待つ

Holding a parasol by a stone wall
I wait for a heat devil approaching

人気なき茂みに屈み焦点を
合わせる我も花盗人か

23 June 2004

夕暮れの空刻々と色深め
遂にカントウヨメナと変ず

The evening sky
Has been changing its tints
Until it turns to be purple
Of yomena in the field

Kanto-yomena: Kalimeris pseudoyomena

22 June 2004

茴香を一茎入れた厚鍋で
コトコトと煮る追憶の味 　

With a stick of fennel
I cook stew slowly
To taste once-upon-a-time

Uikyou: Foeniculum vulgare cv. Rubrum　

21 June 2004

草いきれ歩き続けて青い花
すれ違い行く人を覚えず 　

Walking in the thick smell of
Summer grasses
I found blue ones
Which never recognize me 　

20 June 2004

タチアオイかの山里のホームにて
発車の音に引き裂かれたり

Hollyhocks remind me of the platform
In a station deep in mountains
The train was starting
To tear me aprt from the summer scenes

tachiaoi: Alcea rosea

19 June 2004

未央柳（びようやなぎ）美女の異名に誇らしく
御髪なびかせ風に人呼ぶ

Biyouyanagi has another name:
A beautiful woman
With her hair swinging in wind
To allure people proudly

Byouyanagi: Hypericum chinense

18 June 2004

六月の深山に咲く花白く
感嘆の声響き交わしぬ　

White is the color of flowers
In June in mountains
In which your voice of amazement
Echoes in a far distance

17 June 2004

歯の抜けた片側町の商店は
アガパンサスに動乱遠し

Shops in the one-sided town grow
Pots of plant but lost many of heir companions
Once lining closely abreast
Like they lost the days of rabblement

16 June 2004

遮断機の開くまでの間に引き寄せて
花占いをさせる緋色よ

For a moment of waiting
The crossing gate to open atain
Flowers of vivid orange call me
To tell the day's fortune

15 June 2004

クチナシの匂う暗がりひんやりと
ここは森だと念じて通る

In the cool darkness
Where gardenias smell
I walk by in the imagination
That I'm in a real forest

Kuchinashi (gardenia): Gardenia jasminoides

14 June 2004

江戸人の形見床しき七段花
紫陽花山の裾野飾れり

People of Edo Era
Left their graceful heritage
In the flowers of Shichdanka
At the foot of the hydrangea mountain

13 June 2004

中空に住まう人あり友とする
空近くして憂い放てり

12 June 2004

蕾さえ泰山木の尺度なる
屹立するを遠巻きにする 　

The grandeur of magnolia in summer
Shows in its buds erect
I fearfullhy watch them afar off

Taizanboku: Magnolia grandiflora

11 June 2004

箱庭に茗荷の森はすくすくと
忘却などを誰か恐れる 　

In a box garden myouga is
Forming a green forest
Who's afraid of forgetfulness?

Myouga: Zingiber mioga

10 June 2004

枇杷のなる家遠ければひとの庭
もの狂おしき水無月の午後

Biwa: Japanese medlar: Eriobotrya japonica
cf. 28 November 2004

9 June 2004

鮮やかに日を愛でて後クレマチス
種振りまくか籠に囚わる

After loving the sun openly
Clematis is imprisoned in its own cage
As if in the danger of spreading its seeds

8 June 2004

頬を打つ不意の雨粒仰ぐ目に
ヒメシャラひとつ高く咲きけり

A sudden drop of rain
Hit my cheek to make me glare
At the sky just to find a white flower
Of shaya high above

shyara:Stewartia pseudo-camellia

8 June 2004

きみどりの球連なって垂直に
造化の神の影 行き過ぎる

Bunches of lightgreen bulbs hang
Vertically to prove
Mystery of creation has just passed through

7 June 2004

六月に異国の香るストケシア
瑠璃菊という和名なつかし　

In June stokesia makes me long for
Going overseas but its Japanese name
"Rurigiku" (lazurine chrysanthemum)
Attracts me more to my land　

Rurigiku: Stokesia laevis

南郷の山の畑の朝霧を
今運び来る姫小百合かな

Himesayuri has just arrived
To bring me the morning mist
Of the mountain farm of
Village Nango beyond the memory　

Himesayuri is the small lily which blooms first of all lilies. They grow only in certain parts of the mountains inFukushima, Miyagi, Yamagata Niigata, and a few more in Japan. A very rare kind. They are grown in a mountain farm of Village Nango, Fukushima Prefecture. For more information: Village Nango.

5 June 2004

花落ちて実となる形既にあり
畑ならずも茄子育ちおり

The sape of an eggplant
Can be imagined in the flower
Which grows not in the filed
But in a tiny planter

4 June 2004

赤い実を産む花白きナンテンに
清められんと佇んでおり

Nanten: Nandina domestica 　
cf. 27 October 2004

3 June 2004

青梅のたわわな果肉まだ堅く
人寄せ付けぬ木立を過ぎる 　

Green plums are still hard
In spite of their fullness
I pass by the trees
Which are defying people 　

2 June 2004

栗の花伸びてなまめくかんかんと
日照り返す葉の煌めきも 　

Flowers of chestnuts are alive
Under the glorious sunbeam
Also lively are thier leaves shining

1 June 2004

ポプラとは見上げるものと後ずさり
また近寄れば木肌美し

A popula tree is to be looked up
I withdraw to look it up and
I come close to the trunk,
Such a beautiful bark it has