H
A I K U S P
I R I T
Spring
A Hidden
Pond-Anthology of
Modern
Haiku,
Kadokawa Shoten
1997
Translated by T Koko Kato and David
Burleigh
ISBN:
4-04-883453-3
IMPORTANT
The shape of an egg
on the morning table cloth -
the approach of spring
Kato Koko (1931 ~)
An insect living
in the stone animal's mouth -
time of melting snow
Kato Kenko (1920~)
How clear and sweet
the water of this mountain to
an evening pilgrim
Kamio Kumiko (1923~)
A chair for thinking
where the spring reaches
right up my knees
Nakamura Michiko (1917~)
Solitary spring -
throwing a javelin and then
walking up to it
Nomura Toshiro (1911~)
In spring sunlight
the rows of tea bushes
ripple like waves
Morita Toge (1924~)
Twisting round its mouth
into what looks like a yawn -
noontime butterfly
Kiyosaki Toshio (1922~)
Two enormous peaks
stand facing another -
butterflies at noon
Ota Aha (1921~)
An enormous moon
suddenly appeared in the midst
of budding trees
Ameyama Minoru (1926~)
Star above the peak -
a silk worm-breeding village
silently asleep
Mizuhara Shuoshi (1892~1981)
The mother crow
walks forward with her young
following behind
Naruse Otoshi (1926~)
The odour rising
from a kitchen cleaver spreads
through the haze of spring
Ando Tsuguo (1919~)
On the mountainside
the wind swirling like water
through the new green leaves
Kikuchi Tsuneko (1922~)
New elm leaves -
wind brushes a stone memorial
like a feather fan
Kurokawa Miki (1905~1994)
An old woman
in the green wheat beside a house
in the rising sun
Kaneko Minako (1925~)
Stitched with silver-white
the twilit mountain ridge
holds the last spring light
Kato Koko (1931~)