あけがたは耳さむく聴く雨だれのポルポトといふ名を持つをとこ 大辻 隆弘（１９６０～）
Arousing, my ears caught bleakly
sound of falling drops
pol...pot
...It's the name of a man,
Pol Pot Takahiro Ohtsuji
In this tanka poem the writer overlays an image on another image effectively by an onomatopoeia,pol pot, from drops to a name.
Pol Pot(1925～1998) is a notorious Cambodian prime minister(1976～1997), as it well known.
In genre of tanka, they can sing about almost all events, landscapes, dairy matters and social ones.
In the case of social matters it is difficult to describe something more than mouthing slogans, because writers usually get information through media.
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| my neighbour's magnolia taken in early spring |
Whity buds of purple magnolia
pointing up and staring at nothing,
Nearly 20,000 victims
are left up in the air
in northen Japan haricot
Although I don't know if this one came into effect well or not, I could not help making this about aftermath of 3.11 disaster by earthquake and Tsunami, around one month later.
About four months have passed since it occurred, there are still more than 22,000 dead and unexplained disappearances.
倒されて運ばるるとき天心をはじめて見たるレーニンの像 大塚 寅彦（１９６１～）
Being fallen
and being carried on
It saw the centre of sphere
for the first time,
The statue of Lenin Torahiko Ohtsuka
Vladimir Lenin was a Marxist in Soviet, and this tanka is written in a sort of sarcastic way for the famous parson and the statue.
I suppose that many readers would bring up the image of Saddam Hussein's statue that was pulled down in 2003.
As for a statue I also remembered the story " Happy Prince"by Oscar Wilde. It is written with sarcastic point of view, in a different way. (plot is here)
The rainy season around this area was over only this week.
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How interesting to associate Pol Pot with the sound of falling rain, sad because of the tragedy that he created.
Modern tank ( am I right in saying this?)seems to be allowed to express fresh perceptiveness freely in a simple way. He sure was concerned about what was happening in Cambodia then.
I think your translation "staring at nothing" is a profound idea.
Beautiful sky with clouds again. A friend of mine says there's something you could see there. I never get tired of looking up at the clouds in the sky.
Thank you for the beautiful poetic photos.
Brace for the summer heat, haricot.
Salut,
J'adore vos photos " très poétiques"
ces gouttes restées sur les feuilles c'est vraiment beau.
Bon weekend.Celeste
In your tanka, I wondered " 宙" meant infinity, and by your translation I understood your meaning by “staring at nothing” .
Beautiful blue sky and the blue flower reminded me of my favorite poem "Sky-blue Flower". Maybe the statue of Lenin got closer to the truth for the first time when fallen down to see the sky above. I always love looking up at the sky. It's beauty, it's immensity, and its ever-changing melody created by clouds formation infuses itself into my heart.
The last image is terrific! Thank you, haricot, for this post.
Jenny
Thank you for your comment about tanka which was written about Pol Pot. It was tragic way for intellignetnsia and people who were forced to work in farms.
cosmos
I'm interested in what you could see in the sky.
As you wrote it is said that current tanka is called modern tanka（現代短歌）, and the ones written in a little older era, Meiji and Taisho, are called 近代短歌.
Thank you for your comment.
Celeste
Merci beaucoup pour votre commentaire sur mes photos.
Je ne suis pas forte pour prendre les photos, mmais c'est amusant.
stardust
I don't know the poem "Sky-blue Flower". I'd like to read it someday.
The sky tells us about the subtle change of season well, and you would find more than that when you look up ta the sky, I suppose.
Thank you for the comment.
Haricot！こんばんわ～～.
ようやく梅雨が終わりましたね。２枚の空の写真は、印象的です。青い空に浮かぶ雲。さわやかにも見えますが、これから先には、何が起こるか分からない様な・・・暗示するような入道雲に似た雲。３月１１日以来、アッと言う間に４ヶ月過ぎました。まだまだ花の蕾も固く、この様にどんよりした青い空の日だったのでしょうか。犠牲者の人々を深く思う気持ちから生まれたHaricotさんの短歌は素晴らしいと思います。
Redrose.
It's nothing where white solid buds point. How uneasy about the future they and we are! I hope everything change for the better.But what can I do for it?
But is this reading right?
Anyway your sensibility is great.
Thank you for sharing your work.
Redrose
いつも丁寧に読んでコメントして下さってありがとうございます。
どうしてもメディアを通して物事を捉えてしまうので、社会詠は（には限らずですが）難しいです。その点、やはり歌人の歌には独特の眼があって心を打たれます。
sarah
感じた事に対する率直な意見をいつもコメントして下さってありがとうございます。
わたしの歌はまだまだですが、これという一首を目指してマイペースでやっていこうと思っています。
「空いろの花」（金子みすず）と書いたほうがよかったかな？ 先月、私のブログでとりあげました。日本語リンクもありますので、ぜひ。
stardust
読んだのに英詩と思ってしまってタイトルと結びつきませんでした。うっかり、、、です。
Very nice!
Kissy.
Nita
Thank you very much for visiting here.
Have a nice week.
Thanks so much for this beautiful post, haricot! I enjoyed very much as usual reading your translations and interpretations about the two tanka-poems that Ohtsuji and Ohtsuka have written. I found the usage of "pol pot" in the Otsuji's tanka as raindrops very interesting! Your own tanka-poem deeply resonates with me!! It tells so well how we feel about the tragedy caused by the quakes and tsunamis.
今回も現代歌人の秀逸な歌をご紹介くださって感謝申し上げます。 私のほうはもうすぐ長い夏休みに入ります。お体に気をつけて、よい夏をお過ごしくださいね。
sapphire
心に残っている短歌を探し出してきているのですが、訳がもの足りないなあと思いながら、書いています。最近思うのですが、短歌や俳句など短詩形の好きな人は感覚人間が多くて（自分も含めて）論理的に書いてゆくのが苦手なのかもしれない。ブログを書くのはよい訓練になると思いますが、難しさも感じます。励ましになるコメントをどうもありがとうございます。
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