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[Japanese]
Ants coming out of their nest, find the aroma of crepes.The town with that sweet aroma of crepes adrift, that is Harajuku. This is where the newest fashions start. In Harajuku, where young people gather, we also find antfs nest. They come out of their nest after their long hibernation.In this town, the first thing those ants meet is the aroma of crepes. Here the small lives in nature encounter a big city. It is a spring scene of the present-day on a small scale.
[season words] ants coming out of their nests A child pilgrim, passing by with his jingles a little louder.Many pilgrims visit the 88 holy temples in Shikoku to take their vows. When a group of pilgrims passed by I heard a child pilgrim's bells jingle a little louder on his stick.Children do not understand the meaning of pilgrimage. In the warm sun, the child walked by jumping around so innocently. It seemed that the cheerful sounds of jingling must bring spring to Shikoku.
[season words] a child pilgrim Valentine's Day, evening stars appear faintly pink.It was on Valentine's Day that I finally decided to tell him about my feelings."Will he come?" Hopefully and anxiously, I waited for him on that evening. The stars that began to twinkle in the evening sky looked somehow faintly pink that day. They seemed to be shining through that filter called "falling in love."
[season words] Valentine's Day Spring waves, there is a timely ending for a love affair.I visited the spring ocean with a love that was about to end. No one was at the beach. The waves were calmly rolling in and out. And that small pink shell that he left with me, our love with its beautiful memories, rolled out quickly like the waves in the bright spring sun light. The affair that endin a timely and beautiful way is supposed to bring me another chance for love.
[season words] spring waves translated by Mineko Azuma
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