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~)





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