on the New Year’s day
colorful butterflies dance
here in Singapore
元旦や
シンガポールの
蝶が舞い
sweeping plum
as a parachute
just flaring down
パラシュート
今降り立ちて
しだれ梅
a ray through the cloud
divides the earth
cold and cloudy day
寒曇り
ひとすじの光
地を別ける
a candle on the cake−
spring ray through clouds
to a toy train box
キャンドル立て
春日の当たる
玩具(きしゃ)の箱
a feeler of the honey-bee
putting out when
the wisteria swinging
触覚の
いま触れなんと
藤ゆらぐ
the morning sun beaming
at the edge of the rock
a hermit crab hiding in
やどかりに
朝光りたる
岩の角
through dense fog
a boat with bunches of roses
rowing up the Menam
メナム河
積み荷の薔薇に
霧深く
at the cockpit
feathers tossing about
exposing to western sun
闘鶏の
飛び交う羽に
西陽射る
the red of a spider lily−
burning the village
all of a sudden
曼珠沙華
一気にもえて
村焦がす
cold enough to freeze,
wings of aeroplane
cutting clouds
雲を切る
機翼に寒の
極まれり
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日頃よりささいな物事の新鮮な驚き、喜び、希望を小さな紙片に書き綴っておりました。
好きな英語を使って、何時とはなしに、日英両語の俳句を嗜んでいました。
広い視野が開けて行く様でした。 此の度、活字にする運びとなって、あらためて平成六年から八年の二百句以上の句を眺めました。 まるで写真を見るように句の思い出が、鮮明によみがえり、貴重な日々であった事を痛感します。 その中から拙句百二十句を選出して、予てよりの念願の｢句集｣を上梓する事ができました。 喜びと共に、これからの新たな努力の出発が始まりました。 折しも、今年の秋に俳聖松尾芭蕉の｢奥の細道」の自筆本が、 大阪市の古書店より二五三年目に日の目を見ることができたと言う 一大ニュースが飛び込んで来ました。 私を応援して下さった方々に、深く感謝いたします。 俳句指導は沢野弘先生（「俳星会」主宰） 英語ハイク指導は 坂本悠貴雄先生（関西大学教授、英国および米国ハイク協会会員）なお、先生方からは、激励の御言葉を賜わりまして、身に余る光栄と感謝いたしております。 装丁と印刷にあたられた大西孝男氏、光子様御夫妻のご尽力に厚く御礼申し上げます。 又、英語指導および編集・レイアウトは山本創造氏（娘の夫）にお願いしました。 御多忙中にも拘らず、何度かの打合せの折に数々のアイデアと工夫をいただき、 ご協力に心から感謝致しております。 表紙題字は、母大村昌香（登志子）、俳画担当は山本律子（娘）です。 皆様にお世話をおかけ致しました。有難うございます。 併せて鱸 克彦（夫）、息子夫妻の協力に、感謝します。 平成八年 十二月 鱸 美 智 子
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I have been composing haiku for a long time and yet it is always a
refreshing experience. I am constantly surprised as to where it leads my
thoughts on everyday events in nature. But also it underlines for me the
delicate balance of life that we seem to becoming less aware of in our busy
lives. I wrote my haiku poems on whatever small pieces of paper were at hand and when an idea came to mind. Composing them in Japanese and English posed its problems but in turn opened up further possibilities and new insights that I had previously never considered. When I planned to publish my haiku work, I took out my old diaries to read again and again the more than 200 haiku I composed from 1994 to 1996. I fondly remembered every single minute and scene in each haiku vividly. After I picked 120 haiku out, I was lucky enough to get an opportunity to publish my first book. I hope it will be the start of a new direction in my life. Soon after the decision to publish my work, a wonderful event took place that I took for a good sign. The original book of “Oku no Hosomichi (The Narrow Roads)” written by Matsuo Basho was discovered in a storage room in a book store in Osaka after missing for 253 years. They say the haiku spirit of “Matsuo Basho” is still living with us. I hope we can share the haiku spirit together. I would like to thank my teachers: Mr. Hiroshi Sawano, the President of “Haiseikai” Haiku Society, for teaching me haiku. Prof. Yukio Sakamoto of Kansai University, a member of the British Haiku Society and the Haiku Society of America, and Prof. Stephen Gill of Ritsumeikan University, a member of the British Haiku Society, for teaching me English haiku techniques. I am grateful to Mr. & Mrs. Takao & Mitsuko Onishi who helped me in the designing, printing and binding of this book. I would also like to thank my son-in-law, Sozo Yamamoto for helping me in layout and editing work and for redrafting my haiku in English. Despite his tight schedule, he spared the time to give me ideas and ingenuity whenever I needed it. Many thanks to my mother Shoko Omura, real name Toshiko, who wrote the Japanese calligraphy on the cover and my daughter, Ritsuko who drew the pictures and finally my husband, Yoshihiko Suzuki and my son and his wife for their understanding and support to publish this book. Thank you very much.
December 1996
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