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5000th!

Uploaded 5000th today!!

Thank you for visiting and sharing.

Fay Aoyagi

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December 2, 2022

San Francisco, CA

Tanka Translation 100th tanka uploaded!

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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

 

 

Today’s Haiku (March 20, 2023)

うぐひすや博物館の庭広く  野口る理

uguisu ya hakubutsukan no niwa hiroku

            bush warbler—

            a big garden

            at the museum

                                                Ruri Noguchi

from Haiku, a monthly haiku magazine, February 2022 Issue, Kabushiki Kaisha Kadokawa, Tokyo

Today’s Haiku (March 19, 2023)

てのひらに初蝶乗せて風乗せて  川島由紀子

tenohira ni hatsuchô nosete kaze nosete

            on my palm

            putting a first butterfly

            putting a wind

                                                Yukiko Kawashima

from Shûkan Haiku (Haiku Weekly) #759. 11/7/21 Issue, http://weekly-haiku.blogspot.com

Today’s Haiku (March 18, 2023)

春の長雨オルガンに木のこころ  伊藤 波

haru no naga-ame orugan ni ki no kokoro

            long spring rain

            an organ with a soul

            of a tree

                                                Nami Ito

from Shûkan Haiku (Haiku Weekly) #759. 11/7/21 Issue, http://weekly-haiku.blogspot.com

Today’s Haiku (March 17, 2023)

春睡や四肢あがきてはやがて鰭   有澤榠櫨 

shunsui ya shishi agakitewa yagate hire

            sleeping on a spring day—

            I struggle and my limbs

            become fins

                                                            Karin Arisawa

from Haiku, a monthly haiku magazine, June 2022 Issue, Kabushiki Kaisha Kadokawa, Tokyo

Today’s Haiku (March 16, 2023)

儀式です死も生も蒼きアネモネ  鳥居真理子

gishiki desu shi mo sei mo aoki anemone

            a life and a death

            are rituals…

            blue anemone

                                                Mariko Torii

from Haiku, a monthly haiku magazine, June 2022 Issue, Kabushiki Kaisha Kadokawa, Tokyo