Chapter 41 moon and sakura

I have a soft spot for Ms. Mizuhara Akisakura's haiku (a short poem composed of seventeen syllables unique to Japan.) Among them, one of the haiku I particularly like and appreciate is: In the place where the spring thunder is sounding, when the spring rains are continuous, in the dark kitchen, we cook sakura bream in the rain (sakura bream refers to the sea bream caught in the inner bay during the season when the cherry blossoms are blooming.) The owner is cooking cherry bream in the dimly lit kitchen. The spring rain keeps falling outside the window. Occasionally, there will be two spring thunders, and the light of lightning illuminates the whole kitchen in an instant. obvious.But that was only for a moment, and the kitchen would return to darkness in a blink of an eye.

When I was a reporter for a magazine, I had an opportunity to ask for a manuscript from Ms. Suwon. I remember that I first contacted Ms. Suwon by phone. After the phone rang, a young woman’s voice came: Are you looking for Suwon?Which Suwon? Hearing the other party ask such a question made me panic.Because I forgot that Ms. Mizuhara is a haiku writer, but that is only her side job after all, and what she is actually doing is medical work. I remember that my mother often wrote some haiku to relieve boredom. Usually, I wrote two sentences a month, and then sent it to Ms. Nakamura Tie in the magazine for revision, and sometimes it was actually published.

I remember one month my mother told me: I only wrote one sentence this month, please write one sentence for me! There was a rascal in her commanding tone. No way, I searched my stomach and wrote a sentence: It's almost dusk, the new moon is on the branches, where the lights and shadows are fluttering, the fragrance of flowers enters the window lattice. Originally, I wrote it with the mentality of coping, but unexpectedly, Ms. Nakamura wrote back with a very high evaluation of my haiku. The new moon can be used as a seasonal word for June! I have no impression of June, I only know that there is a new moon every month.I didn't know that the new moon, which can be seen every month, can be used as the season language of haiku.Later, I checked Ms. Suwon's "Sui Shi Ji" and learned that the moon represents autumn, so the new moon can of course be used as a season language.