俳句 365 haiku (131) 《粽 Issa》

  

粽とく二階も見ゆる角田川

(chimaki-toku nikai-mo-miyuru sumidagawa)

                                （一茶）

　

unwrapping a chimaki

on a second floor, also visible_

Sumida-river

                                     (Lovee)

   

(Note)

The word “chimaki” means a kind of rice-dumpling wrapped with a bamboo grass leaf.

It seems that Issa expressed the broadness of Sumida-river or crowdedness around the Sumida by the words “second floor also visible”, whereas generally a first floor only is visible from a small river.

  

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