in the rain and wind
uttering no cry
a shrike in winter
haiku by Takeshita Shizunojo (Translated by Makoto Ueda)
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seashells on the table
concealing the melodies
of the deep sea
Takeshita Shizunojo, from Far Beyond The Field: Haiku By Japanese Women [translated by Ueda Makoto]
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Some haiku written by women
Morning glories
the person who wakes others
doesn’t get to see the flowers
Chiyojo (1703-1775)
Unchanging doll’s faces
I’ve had no choice, except
to grow old
Enomoto Seifu (1732-1815)
Mother and child
play cards, while a fox
cries at night
Hashimoto Takako (1899-1963)
The aged person
wanting to become a tree
embraces a tree
Mitsuhashi Takajo (1899-1972)
Grief and anger
I spit black, black
watermelon seeds
Takeshita Shizunojo (1887-1951)
Fireworks vanish
leaving the darkness
changed from before
Inahata Teiko (b. 1931)
One who loves someone
with the one who doesn’t
drinks beer
Tsuji Momoko (b. 1945)
Hung on the wall
it turns into a
flower
a summer hat
Katayama Yumiko (b. 1965)
Mother’s Day
I end up making
my mother cry
Mayuzumi Madoka (b. 1965)
— Compiled and translated by Makoto Ueda.
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snow fierce —
how many the things
I leave unwritten ?
Takeshita Shizunojo
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It fills me with anger, this moon; it fills me and makes me whole. Takeshita Shizunojo
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Je me range dans la foule des hommes grossiers puant la sueur . Shizunojo Takeshita , Japon
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Un vague démon des livres
joue, ce soir,
dans la sombre bibliothèque
Takeshita Shizunojo, in Du rouge aux lèvres - Haïjins japonaises, Anthologie - traduction de Dominique Chipot et Makoto Kemmoku (Ed. Points, Poésie)
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It fills me with anger,
this moon; it fills me
and makes me whole
Takeshita Shizunojo
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the library at dusk—
playing in the spring twilight
elves out of the books
Takeshita Shizunojo, from Far Beyond The Field: Haiku By Japanese Women [translated by Ueda Makoto]
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How many things I leave unwritten? (Takeshita Shizunojo 1887-1951)
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