土筆摘む翁を追えば点々と
小金井堤にオオイヌノフグリ

An old man was picking horsetails
Looking at him
I found countless bird's eyes
Growing over the bank of Koganei　

Oo-inunofuguri (Bird's Eye) : Veronica persica

三月は山茱萸に寄り幾度目の
花暦繰る日々を始める

In March I come up to
A Japanese cornel
To begin a quest of flowers in season
Again and again　

sanshuu (Japanese cornel): Cornus officinalis

March 5, 2006

湯島にて枝垂れる梅を浴びながら
待ちかねる陽の伝言を聞く

In Yushima
Under the falling branches of a plum tree
I listen to the message
Of the sunshine to come

一輪の温み恵まれ天神を
駆け足で出る勤め人かな

Receiving the grace of warmth
From a flower of Japanese plum
I ran out of the shrine
To be in time for my office work

Ume; Japanese plum: Prunus mume

February 23, 2006

暗がりに身を潜めるは寒椿
葉も艶やかに朱を抱える

Hiding in darkness
Is the camellia of winter
Shining leaves are
Holding the scarlet body

Kan-tsubaki: Camellia x hiemalis 'Dazzler'?

自生する岸の水仙ワーズワース
忘れ去られた教卓の詩集

Naturally growing daffodils beside a lake
Are of Wordsworth
An anthology was left behind
On a teacher's desk long time ago

suisen: Narcissus

February 18, 2006

人里を離れる夢を抱きながら
一人となれば首をめぐらす

I've been dreaming
Of running away from crowd
When I'm all alone
I am looking around

枝光る冬木凛然素裸に我彼共に大地の子なり

Branches are in light
A winter tree is proudly bare
It is, and I am
Born on earth

水墨の雑木林は銀嶺を
迎えて凍る時の静けさ

Quiet is the time
When woods freeze
In sumi-e ink colors
With the silver mountain appearing

都市に行く水まだ深き湖の面に光る陽と戯れて

Water going to the megalopolis
Is still glittering on the surface
Of the deep lake
Playing with the light

January 9, 2006

東大和市多摩湖
Lake Taka, Higashiyamato-shi, Tokyo

人波の寄せぬコートに関東のから風巻いて幻ラリー

Waves of people are coming no more
To the abandoned tennis court
Freezing wind blows over the Kanot Plain
To stir the illusory rally

銀色に三又堅き鈴を振る
誰呼び覚ます冬野の果てに

Hard silver bells of mitsumata are shaking
Nobody knows who they are calling to get awake
At the end of the winter field

Mitsumata : Edgeworthia papyrifera

January 7, 2006

In a miniature garden which holds senryo and manryo

Here I mark the starting point of the Kanto Plain

senryo (below) : Sarcandra glabra

manryo (left) : Ardisia crenata

センリョウとマンリョウ抱く坪庭に

関東平野起点を記す

January 4, 2006

東京都東村山市
Higashimurayama, Tokyo