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[Japanease]
A swing, the windows are lit one by one."Furakoko" means a swing in a Japanese local dialect.When we swing under a blue sky it is full of fun, but in the dusk it feels rather lonely and depressing.As the spring dusk surrounds us little by little, lights in the windows of houses are lit one by one. The children playing in the park leave for home one after another. They all go to their warm homes to their families who wait for them.But one girl stays on her swing, because she knows that no one has come home yet. Now that I am grown up, I realize that it certainly is a lonely thing to come home with no one waiting for me. When I think about going back to my dark room alone, and feeling lonely as I turn on the lights by myself, I decide that I would rather stay on the swing for a while longer like the girl I saw on that day.
[season words] a swing Soap bubbles, blowing and wishing to be lonesome.When my mood turns to spring melancholy, I have moments when I wish to be lonesome.At times like these, I must already be feeling lonely, so therefore, I must wish to be even more lonesome. Soap bubbles, swings and windmills are some of the season words for spring that express playfulness. They are cheerful words,but they have a secondary sense of sadness and loneliness. Soap bubbles fly into the sky, shinning in rainbow colors, and then suddenly they disappear. When I was a child waiting for my parents to come home, I would blow bubbles. Now I am grown when I blow bubbles, but the same lonely feeling comes back to me. Is it because I am waiting for someone to visit me? Is it because I am looking at someone beloved?
[season word] soap bubbles The evening church bells spread the spring sunset all across the sky.The chimes of church bells are telling us that it is time for evening worship. After the villagers finish their work for the day, they change into their clean clothes and congregate at the church. Then they say their prayers of gratitude, confess their sins, and go home to continue on with their daily farming chores for tomorrow.Sometimes the church bells chime for prayers, and sometimes for a requiem. They carry a special message each time. As if to obey these sacred sounds, the spring sunset gradually spreads across the rosy sky. It seems as though we can feel the existence of God's will. The spring sunset spreads as if to envelope the people congregated at the church. And it keeps on spreading as if to demonstrate God's protection and blessings.
[season word] spring sunset Letting the sea wind blow on my cheeks, I reluctantly bid farewell to spring.Letting the strong sea wind blow on me, alone, I am bidding farewell to the passing of spring. I let the sea wind blow, without worrying about messing my hair, just letting it hit me all it wants.Unwilling to say farewell to spring, I am also reluctantly letting go of my spring memories. It was spring that saw many trees and grasses bud and the blossoms bloom. The spring is leaving us now as it gives way to the new season. I relish in my feelings of lamentation for the passing of spring all day long. And then, with my feelings refreshed, I turn the page to welcome the new season.
[season words] reluctantly bid farewell to spring translated by Mineko Azuma
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