ぐい呑みは風の軽さや爽やかに                  神谷宣行

guinomi wa kaze no karusa ya sawayaka ni    Kamiya, Nobuyuki

              season word: sawayaka / refreshing　　　　

 

the cup of sake
becomes light as the wind
so refreshing

 

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秋といふ大きなうしろすがたかな                 三玉一郎

aki to iu ōkina ushiro sugata kana                    Mitama, Ichirō

              season word: aki / autumn

 

it is
the large retreating figure
called autumn

 

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みちのくや花野に今も髑髏                                    喜田りえこ

michinoku ya hanano ni ima mo sharekōbe                   Kida, Rieko

season word: hanano / autumn field full of wild flowers

　　　　　　　　＊Michinoku: Tōhoku / northeastern part of Japan

 

Michinoku ——
in the flowering autumn field
there still lie skulls

 

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秋の日やものみな白き須磨の浦                 齊藤茂

aki no hi ya mono mina shiroki suma no ura   Saitō, Shigeru 

              season word: aki / autumn

 

autumn day ——
everything is white
on the shore at Suma

 

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あけびの実はぜて真白き雲となり                            加藤百合子

akebi no mi hazete mashiroki kumo to nari                   Katō, Yuriko

              season word: akebi no mi / fruit of the akebia vine

 

fruit of akebia
bursting open
a white cloud

 

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舞ひ落ちて渦のとりことなる落葉                                千堂富子

maiochite uzu no toriko to naru ochiba                           Sendō, Tomiko

              season word: ochiba / fallen leaves

 

a fallen leaf
fluttering down to fall captive
to a whirlpool

 

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羽ばたきは互い違ひに二羽の秋                               大南明美

habataki wa tagaichigai ni niwa no aki                          Ōminami, Akemi

              season word: aki / autumn

 

the autumn
of two birds
wings beating in turn

 

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乾びたる切り干し軽し母軽し                               上田雅子

karabitaru kiriboshi karushi haha karushi                   Ueda, Masako

              season word: kiriboshi / dried strips of daikon radish

 

shriveling dried radish
is light and mother
is light

 

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蓑虫の泣いてすつきり夢の中                                西川遊歩

minomushi no naite sukkiri yume no naka                   Nishikawa, Yūho

              season word: minomushi / bagworm.

 

in a dream
a bagworm shedding tears
feeling refreshed

 

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秋空にふらんすぱんのひとつ浮き                伊藤靖子

akizora ni furansu pan no hitotsu uki               Itō, Yasuko

              season word: aki no sora / sky in autumn

 

in the autumn sky
a loaf of French bread
floating

 

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歩きたし紅葉の映る水の上                                   橋本小たか

arukitashi momiji no utsuru mizu no ue                     Hashimoto, Kotaka

              season word: momiji / tinted leaves

 

I wish
I could walk on the water
reflecting tinted leaves

 

 

 

About Hasegawa Kai, Kim Komurasaki(the Shiki team)

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