365 まんぽ haiku (34) 《節分》

  

我が夢は鬼打ち豆を食む白寿

(waga-yume-wa oniuchimame-o hamu-hakuju)

                                    （薫風士）

　

my dream:

celebration at the age of ninety-nine,

eating ninety-nine oniuchimames

   

(Note)

The word “oniuchimame” means “roasted soybeans which are hurled at imaginary ogres on February 2 or 3 (the day before the calendrical beginning of spring) according to Japanese traditional customs.

   

This picture shows, among other things, an ogre mask and "oniuchimame" put in a measuring box.

    

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