あたらしい年 new year

evening in my land

 

light from where i believe
reflection of my world

 
with a certain feeling of peace
without any tiny wind causes ripple
and truth that i hold

 
certain feeling of what i’ll make
affirmation for the year in bold



 
































黄昏のみなもは

 
わたしの世界を映すかがみ
私のなかにあるひかり

 
静かで揺らぎのない
さざなみひとつたたぬ水面
わたしの真実

 
新しい年への確かな予感

 

my story

writing is soothing myself

like weaving my story to and fro


when i think of you i talk in my mind and it goes on for some while
like talking to you... not knowing what you'd say





 
some people say all we can see is illusion that we make in our mind
if so i can make my illusion real...

signs of spring

some cherry blossoms already have come out

nice for doll's festival on 3 march…

(well it's also called 'peach festival' though)

近所でみつけた薄桃色の桜

なんていう種類だろう

桃の節供だけども  おひなさまの傍らに…

 

 warm rain moistening everything

and soon the valley was covered with milky fog...

place i belong to

how long have i been away from here…

from last winter
to spring, summer…
and now it's the end of autumn

among these days and months
we have moved to a new place

we have settled near a mountainside
at a house under a big sawtooth oak tree
there is a deep valley you can see in front

kids started going to new school
me also trying to get used to the new everyday life
mostly staying at home, sometimes taking a walk around
the country road, finding nature treasures everytime i go out



trying to hear my soul
dont know where to go
but it leads me somewhere…

to the light ahead
and to the depth inside myself
letting the light lit in me

last harvest

pity...     that last sunday
i made up my mind to
pick all the green ones
of petite tomato. 
I had to, to prepare the soil
for the next spring vegetable.
even the tiny flowers still on there.

it's late autumn,
there're cold days and 
warm golden beautiful days.
but next day it was strange:

cold like it waited me picking up tomatoes,
and cloudy grey day with sunlight at times
sudden short shower
then cold wind wiped the clouds away,
bright clouds,
became colder

that made us believe
winter almost came here..


at night the moon was brightly white and 
the sky was deep dark blue 
made a good contrast with the dark but bright grey clouds
at the end of the sky, wiped
reflecting the moonlight.





伸びきったミニトマトの藪
冬にも実がなるというので
そのままにしていたけれど
春の野菜の種も撒きたいから
思い切って整理する。
小さな青い実に黄色い花も
未練はあるけど
隅のひと株のこして全て摘みとった。


次の日　それを待ってたように寒くなった。
灰色の　。ときどき日がさしたかと思うと
突然ざっと降り、今度は冷たい風が雲を吹き払ってゆく。
きらめく雲
そしてさらに冷え込んだ。

冬はもうすぐそこ


夜　月はこうこうと白くかがやき
暗い蒼い空はひろい
グレーの雲は暗いのに明るい
はじっこに吹き寄せられて

autumn sunset

sun setting so fast these days

i realized that

finding squared light and lacy shadow

in the shade of the wall,

trying taking a few photos

and they went away so soon...

秋の日は　つるべ落とし

ほんのつかの間
なん枚か撮ったら消えてた

treasures

let me share
treasures i got for myself this spring

lacy tiny wild flowers and
old carton boxes with glass cover
used before in a museum for keeping fossils
from shizuoka

old boxes, tin box, washi paper with some notes written, 
hand spun linen thread, pottery used as paste cup,
birch ornament, wooden tiny case for watch parts 
which still remain inside, bobbin for knitting lace...
from many areas, japan and europe.








some boxes for keeping nature treasures
but basically i'm just content with looking at them.

beautiful gift

誕生日に...
いただいた本　ゆっくり読んでいます



essay about plants in nagano
beautiful cloth covered book

i imagine when she found it in a old book store



wrapped with a piece of old french book paper,
dried wild flower, and seeds of
christmas rose in antique wine and green color,
tulsi; holly basil heard that it's originally grown in 
dalai lama's botanical garden
in old transparent envelope for keeping stamps

i imagine how she prepare all the things neatly






 　　

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

and i see it's just beautiful as her soul is 

うつくしい　おくりものは
たたずまいを　眺めるだけでもうれしくて

古本屋の書棚でみつけてくれたときの 
出会いを想像するに うれしくて

丁寧に　つつんでくれたときの
気持ちを感じるたびに うれしくて。

ありがとう、ありがとう。





from one of my dearest friend
for my birthday

thank you...

tiny flowers in mountain

here are some flowers' photos from nagano

most of them are tiny,
blooming quietly in mountains

　　







akebia quinata あけび

　　　　　　　　

　　　　　　　　　

another type of akebia (chocolate vine) 　　　　　　　　　　

    

    around the neighbor

from the mountain that we hike.

wild violet and dogtooth violet (カタクリ erythronium japonicum, right)

that my parents love so much.

and this is my father's old drawing of the same flower 

which was at our old house

since so many years ago 

and i found this spring at their new house's loft

and now it's in my room.

from our garden in nagano

horny goat weed イカリソウ（錨草）

the name in japanese means 'anchor weed'.

it's interesting the shape of the flower 

looks like japanese old anchor to japanese when 

it reminds horny goat in the western countries!

and in the shade of old yew tree...

まだ春あさい早春の長野にて

山をあるくと、小さな花ばながひっそりさいている

カタクリは両親の好きな花

ことしの春、実家のあたらしい家の屋根裏で

父が何年も前に描いたカタクリの絵をみつけた

前の家にずっと飾られていたものだ

とりあえず飾ることもないみたいなのでもらってくる

それからまた、ことし父に鉢植えにしてもらった錨草が

長野の庭にもたくさんさいていた

日本語名の錨は伝統的な和錨のかたちに似ているからだそうだが

英語名はhorny goat weed...とがった角のヤギだなんて

おもしろい。