目をつむりセーター脱げば剥製です 渡部陽子
me o tsumuri seitaa nugeba hakusei desu
taking off a sweater
with eyes closed
I am a stuffed specimen
Yoko Watabe
from “Gendai Saijiki” (Modern Saijiki), edited by Tôta Kaneko, Momoko Kuroda and Ban’ya Natsuishi, Seisei Shuppan, Tokyo 1997
Fay’s Note: ‘Stuffed specimen’ for ‘hakusei’ may sound strange. My first choice was ‘a stuffed animal,’ but I do not want a reader to imagine a cutesy Teddy Bear. It is a stuffed animal (or a bird) made by a taxidermist.
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I feel deeply moved by this one.
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The modesty of the these translations bring the haiku to the quiet bridge of high art. I just feel so grateful.