Net Haiku Selected by Hasegawa Kai < http://gokoo.main.jp>
translated by Kim and Pat① October 2012
大気圏に入りて流星火の棒に神谷宣行

taikiken ni irite ryûsei hi no bô ni

Kamiya, Noriyuki

season word: ryûsei / shooting stara shooting starentering the atmospherea shaft of flame
燃える流星を力強く描いた。迫力あり。
Comment: The blazing shooting star is described vigorously.
This haiku has power.

鷹柱すなはち龍のあらはるる

村松二本takabashira sunawachi ryû no arawaruru

Muramatsu, Nihon

season word: takabashira / group of hawks rising on an updraft
group of hawks
rising on an updrafta dragon
これも鷹柱を力強く描いた。
Comment: This describes the “takabashira” very vigorously.

糠床に里のあれこれ十三夜

安藤久美

nukadoko ni sato no arekore jûsanyaAndô, Kumi

season word: jûsanya / the thirteenth night moon
[Note] “Nukadoko”: bed of salted rice bran used for picklinghometown vegetablesin the salted rice bran ——moon of the 13th day「里の」が入ったので、こまやかな句になった。安藤さん、この調子で。
Comment: “ Hometown” makes this haiku refined. Ms. Andô、you should
continue in this way.

お大師といつときの夢秋昼寝

齋藤茂

odaishi to ittoki no yume aki hirune

Saitô, Shigeru

season word: aki hirune / a nap in autumn[ Note] odaishi: Saint Kôbôa moment of a dreamwith Saint Kôbô
nap in autumn
夢の中でしばし弘法大師といっしょだった。はかないが幸福感がある。
Comment: In the dream he was with Saint Kôbô for a time. It is fleeing, butthere is a feeling of happiness.

大凡の人はつれなし烏瓜

古味嵯楓ôyoso no hito wa tsurenashi karasuuri

Komi, Safûseason word: karasuuri / a Japanese snake gourdalmost everyone
is indifferent
a Japanese snake gourd
おおよそ見向きもされない烏瓜。
Comment: Hardly anyone will have an interest in Japanese snake gourds.

広げたる小さき毬に実が三つ

原田たか子

hirogetaru chiisaki iga ni mi ga mittsu

Harada, Takako

season word: mi / fruit, nut
three nuts arein the small
open chestnut burr
描写が的確。
Comment: This is a precise description.

一つ鳴き一つは骸ちんちろりん

池桃汰

hitotsu naki hitotsu wa mukuro chinchirorin

Ike, Tôta

season word: chinchirorin / a pine cricket
one chirps
another is a corpse
pine crickets
死はそこにある。ちんちろりんは松虫。
Comment: Death lies before one’s eyes. Chinchirorin is the sound pinecrickets make.

②October 2013

封筒にアサガホノタネ空に風松本邦吉

fûtô ni asagao no tane sora ni kaze
seeds of morning glories
in the envelope

Matsumoto, Kuniyoshi

the wind in the sky

さかしまに干されて真赤唐がらし岩井善子

sakashima ni hosarete makka tôgarashi

Iwai, Yoshikoseason word: tôgarashi / red pepper
aired upside downturned bright red
the chili pepper「さかしま」で赤が鮮やかに。
Comment: “Upside down” has made the red color bright.

立ちながら棒となりたる案山子かな

山本しほ

tachinagara bô to naritaru kakashi kana

Yamamoto, Shiho

season word: kakashi / scarecrow
to become a stick
while standinga scarecrow

いまさらにどうでもよろし敬老日

山本しほ

imasara ni dôdemo yoroshi keirôbi

Yamamoto, Shiho

season word: keirôbi / Respect for the Aged Dayat this point
not worth bothering about
Respect for the Aged Day大仏の背中は小春日和かな

北側松太

daibutsu no senaka wa koharubiyori kana

Kitagawa, Matsuta

season word: koharubiyori / warm autumn weather
the backof the Great Buddha
autumn warmth

吾も縫はん長寿の夢の菊枕

佐々木まき

a mo nuwan chôju no yume no kikumakura
season word: kikumakura / pillow stuffed withchrysanthemum petals
I too will make a pillowof chrysanthemum petals
dreaming of longevity

金木犀夜は夜の香りただよへり

安藤久美

kinmokusei yo wa yo no kaori tadayoeri

Andô, Kumi

season word: kinmokusei / a fragrant olivenight of fragrant blossoms
the scent of nighthangs in the air

見張るひよ啄むひよやひとつがい澤田美那子

miharu hiyo tsuibamu hiyo ya hitotsugai
season word: hiyo / brown-eared bulbul

Sawada, Minako

one bulbul on the watch
one bulbul pecking
together are a pair

秋寂ぶや朝つぱらから鴉鳴き角野京子

akisabu ya asappara kara karasu naki

Kadono, Kyôkoseason word: akisabu / autumn deepens with desolate feelingautumn deepens desolately ——since early morninga crow has been crying
鴉の声に「秋寂び」を感じている。
Comment: The poet senses the desolate feeling of autumn in the voice of acrow.

十六夜や憂いも消えて母の前齊藤茂izayoi ya urei mo kiete haha no mae

Saitô, Shigeru

season word: izayoi / the sixteenth night moonon the night after the full moon —before my motherworries disappear

蟷螂の恋より広野枯れはじむ

古味瑳楓tôrô no koi yori hirono karehajimu
season word: kareru / withersince the time of mantis love

Komi, Safûthe grassy plain has begun
to wither

朝霧の里より届く今年米木下誠asagiri no sato yori todoku kotoshimai

Kinoshita, Makoto

season word: kotoshimai / this year’s rice
this year’s ricearrives from the village
with morning mist

今年酒白髪となれる夫と酌む

三木桂子

kotoshizake shiraga to nareru tsuma to kumu

Miki, Keikoseason word: kotoshizake / this year’s sakethis year’s sakewith my husband
whose hair has turned gray

よろこびをもう一つぶや葡萄食ふ

岡崎陽市

yorokobi o mô hitotsubu ya budô kuu

Okazaki, Yôichiseason word: budô / grapes
one more
bite of joy
eating grapes

木漏れ日や椎の実はまだこぼれぬか

上村明美

komorebi ya shii no mi wa mada koborenu ka

Uemura, Akemi

season word: shii no mi / an edible acorn
sunlight filtering through trees —has the acorn
not yet dropped ?