SHIKI Masaoka
A HAIKU about SUMMER
#Hiragana #Romaji
くんぶぅゃ
Kumpū
ya!
せんざんのみどり
Senzan no midori
てらひとっ
Tera hitotsu
Kumpū
also written kunpū
Kun
薰
Fragrance + Fu 風
Wind Breeze
Sen
1000 Zan is San Mountain of greem midori
Tera
buddhist temple hitotsu one single
Fragrant
Breeze !
Amidst
a thousand green mountains
A
single temple.
He
must have been somewhere very remote for there to have been just one
small temple and not a whole complex given the fondness of the
Japanese for building temples and shrines atop mountains.
Fragrant
breeze is a KIGO for summer or late spring so while I've seen one
translator suggest pines for the source many trees flower in summer.
Perhaps
a remote valley too small to be worth farming but just enough room
for a shrine and trees?
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