Tag: Masaoka Shiki

蜩や夕日の里は見えながら higurashi ya yuuhi no sato wa mienagara The village in sightat sunset –the call of evening cicadas.

秋の蠅二尺のうちを立ち去らず aki no hae nishaku no uchi o tachisarazu I can’t get pasttwo feet outside –autumn flies!

秋の蠅叩かれやすく也にけり aki no hae tatakare yasuku nari ni keri Swattingautumn flieshas gotten easy!

籠あけて雑魚にまじりし鱸哉 kago akete zako ni majirishi suzuki kana Opening the basket,sea bass mixed inwith the small fry.

月の出や皆首立てて小田の雁 tsukinode ya mina kubi tatete oda no kari At the rising of the moonall stretching up their necks –geese in the rice field!

風吹て廻り燈籠の浮世かな kaze fukite mawaridourou no ukiyo kana The wind blowson the fleeting worldof the revolving lantern!

どちらから見てもうしろの案山子哉 dochira kara mite mo ushiro no kakashi kana From wherever you lookyou always see its back –the scarecrow!

母親を負ふて出でけり御遷宮 hahaoya o oute ide keri gosenguu Carrying his motheron his backto the rebuilt Ise Shrine.

草市にねぎる心のあはれなり kusaichi ni negiru kokoro no aware nari Pathos –hagglingat the Obon flower market!

うれしさや七夕竹の中を行く ureshisa ya tanabata take no naka o yuku Happiness –walking through the bambooat the Tanabata Festival!