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[Japanease]
Blossom raft, begins to move with a small wave on the water.When the petals of cherry blossoms fall and gather on the surface of water, floating slowly like a raft, we, in the haiku world, call it a blossom raft. On the calm surface of a lake a blossom raft afloat remains still. Whether from a boat going past, a bird flying away or a breeze, the moment a small rippling wave crosses the waterfs surface, the blossom raft begins to move very slowly. The raft will soon crumble and rot away. But, that one small movement on the water gave life to the blossom raft and started it on a journey.
[season words] blossom raft Blossom fatigue, his hands rest on his lap.There is a certain fatigue we feel after cherry-blossom viewing. Not only are we tired from walking around among the crowds, but there is another sweet fatigue we feel that follows our excitement and entrancement from the blossoms.We were on our way back from the cherry-blossom viewing. We were very relaxed and he let his hands rest on his lap. We felt ecstatic with blossom fatigue for a long time afterwards.
[season words] blossom fatigue Cherry blossom lit, a train leaves for Tokyo.A young man is leaving for Tokyo on an evening dimly lit by cherry blossoms.His dreams for his future are waiting for him in Tokyo, but his feelings area mix of insecurity about this new unknown place and a reluctance to leavehome.We usually have mixed feelings of ecstasy and restlessness at cherry blossomtime. The young manfs train to Tokyo leaves with a sense of expectancy anduncertainty about the future, in the light of those blossoms which inspireboth joy and loneliness.
[season words] cherry blossom light Cherry blossoms, cherry blossoms, whom are you taking tonight?During the cherry blossom time, we often hear of someonefs death and it is as if he or she has been taken by the flower fairies.In the evening of cherry blossoms, I see many spring lanterns in town that make me imagine someone is leaving on a trip to heaven, led by a flower fairy. This thought once crossed my mind for one brief moment.
[season words] cherry blossoms, cherry blossoms In the evening of cherry blossoms, a reply with a tiny fib.Someone asked, gAre you so and so?h And I replied with a tiny fib. The fib was only meant to make me look a little better, and I only stretched the truth about myself a little bit.The reason for my little fib was the excitement I felt in that flamboyant mood created by an evening of cherry blossoms. My cute little fib may be excused in the presence of those beautiful evening blossoms.
[season words] the evening of cherry blossoms translated by Mineko Azuma
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