からすうり天女が紡ぎ咲かせしか 大橋敦子
karasuuri tennyo ga tsumugi sakaseshi ka
Japanese snake gourds
a nymph might have woven
and let them bloom
Atsuko Ohahi
from Haiku Dai-Saijiki (Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006
からすうり天女が紡ぎ咲かせしか 大橋敦子
karasuuri tennyo ga tsumugi sakaseshi ka
Japanese snake gourds
a nymph might have woven
and let them bloom
Atsuko Ohahi
from Haiku Dai-Saijiki (Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006