100 HAIKUs of TAKAHAMA Kyoshi (1~20)

      

(HAIKU of Kyoshi Takahama, translated by Satoshi Kinoshita)     

春雨の衣桁に重し恋衣 (M27. 1894年

            (harusameno ikouniomoshi koigoromo)

            heavy on a dress-rack

            clothes of love_

            spring rain

怒濤岩を噛む我を神かと朧の夜 (M29. 1896年

            (dotou iwawokamu warewokamikato oboronoyo

            as if thinking me a god,

            surging waves bite the rock I'm standing on_

            hazy moon night      

蓑虫の父よと鳴きて母もなし M32. 1899年

            (minomushino chichiyotonakite hahamonsashi)

            a bagworm chirps

            papa papa,

            without mamma, either   

子規逝くや十七日の月明に (M35. 1902年

         (Shikiyukuya juushichinichino getsumeini)

            Shiki passed away

            in the moonlight

            of the 17th day   

秋風や眼中のもの皆俳句 (M36. 1903年

            (akikazeya ganchuunomono minahaiku)

            autumn wind_

            anything you see

            could be a HAIKU

 (或時は谷深く折る夏花かな (M37. 1904年

       (arutokiwa tanifukakuoru gebanakana)

       'gebana' flowers,

       taken deep in a valley

       at a cetain time

刑罰の石を背負うて夏野かな (M38. 1905年

      (keibatsuno ishioseoute natsunokana)

   the stones of punishment

        carried on one's back_

        the summer field

 (垣間見る好色者に草芳しき (M39. 1906年   

      (kakimamiru koushokumononi kusakanbashiki)

      the grasses fragrant     

      to a lecherous man

      peeping in through the hedge            

桐一葉日当りながら落ちにけり (M39. 1906年

   (kirihitoha hiatarinagara ochinikeri)

   a leaf of paulownia

   fell,

   with the sunlight on it

 10曝書風強し赤本飛んで金平怒る (M41.1908年

      (bakushokaze tsuyoshi akahontonde kinpiraikaru)

      strong a wind at book-exposing,

      a red-covered storybook blown down,

      exposing the hero Kinpira angry  

11凡そ天下に去来程の小さき墓に参りけり(M41. 1908年

  (oyosotenkani kyoraihodono chiisakihakani mairikeri)

      Under heaven,

      I visited such a tomb 

      as small as I heard of Kyorai.       

(12)(13) 霜降れば霜を楯とす法の城 (T2. 1913年

         (shimofureba shimowotatetosu norinoshiro)

         if there is a frost,

         the frost be a shield_

         the temple of laws        

(14) 春風や闘志いだきて丘に立つ (T2. 1913年

        (shumpuuya tousiidakite okanitatu)

        in a spring wind

        I stand on the hill,

        my heart full of fight         

(15囀や山かけて売る土地広し (T2. 1913年)

     (saezuriya yamakaketeuru tochihiroshi)

       chirps of birds_

       the broad lot to be sold

       with a hill behind

(16この後の古墳の月日椿かな  (T2. 1913年)   

    (kononochino kofunnotsukihi tubakikana)

     after this date,

     time of the ancient mounds_

     the camellias      

(17) 歌人祭らず俚人ただ祭る社あり (T2. 1913年)

(kajinmatsurazu satobitotada matsuru yashiroari

      (on Hitomaro death-anniversary)

      a shrine,

      no poets worship it,

      villiagers only worship it        

(18) 一つ根に離れ浮く葉や春の水 (T2. 1913年)

     (hitotsuneni hanareukuhaya harunomizu)

     the spring water_

     the leaves float aloof,

     grown from single roots                 

(19) 舟岸につけば柳に星一つ (T2. 1913年)

     (funekishini tsukebayangini hoshihitotsu)

     the boat reached a shore,

     there a willow,

     thereabove a star      

(20) 秋来ればいつもあはれにきぬたかな (M24. 1894年

      (akikureba itsumoawareni kinutakana)

      autumn has come,

      always pathetic

      'kinuta' fulling

         

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