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Fay Aoyagi
July 11, 2021
San Francisco, CA
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In January 2009, I started translating tanka from “Gendai Tanka no Kansho 101” (Apreciation of Modern Tanka 101), an anthology written and edited by Ken Kodaka. It took longer than I thought, but I am happy to announce that the mission was completed at last!
Since I do not write tanka and some poets use classic Japanese, I found tanka translation more difficult than haiku translation. From now on (at least for a while), this blog will concentrate on haiku.
I appreciate your support and encouragement in the past 3 years!
Fay Aoyagi
November 30, 2011, San Francisco
オリオンの楯を貫く一詩欲し 長沼ひろ志
orion no tate o tsuranuku isshi hoshi
a poem that will pierce
the Orion’s shield
I would like to have
Hiroshi Naganuma
from Kusamochi (Mugwort Cake), haiku collection of Hiroshi Naganuma, Gendai Haiku Kyokai (Modern Haiku Association), Tokyo, 2021
手相見のマスクの声のわが未来 村上鞆彦
tesômi no masuku no koe no waga mirai
palm reader’s voice
through the mask…
my future
Tomohiko Murakami
from “Chijitsu no Kishi” (Shore on Slow Day), haiku collection of Tomohiko Murakami, Furansudo, Tokyo 2015
木枯の半音上げて曲り来し 谷岡健彦
kogarashi no hanon agete magarikishi
winter blast
it came from the corner
raising a halftone
Takehiko Tanioka
from ‘Wakagaki’(‘Young Writing’) haiku collection by Takehiko Tanioka, Honami Shoten, Tokyo 2014
くさめして身体のどこか新しき 御子柴弘子
kusame shite karada no dokoka atarashiki
sneeze
somewhere in my body
becomes new
Hiroko Mikoshiba
from Haiku Saijiki electronic version edited by Kadokawa Shoten, published by Kodansha Sophia Shuppan, Tokyo, Japan, 2018
Fay’s Note: “kusame” (sneeze) is a winter kigo.
浮かんだり沈んだりして鯨かな 西村麒麟
ukandari shizundarishite kujira kana
it floats
and sinks…
a whale
Kirin Nishimura
from “Kamo” (Duck), haiku collection of Kirin Nishimura, Bungaku no Mori, Tokyo 2017
Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi) 