WKD - spring rain

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It has been rather a dry spell lately and wildfires started in some parts of Western Japan. So today the sounds on my roof and the rain is very welcome,
thinkng of the dry woods and the wet rice paddies.


rain in spring -
the rain of today is
spring rain


春の雨　今日の雨なら　春雨じゃ


In the Japanese language, there are some fine differences, concerning the kigo about natural phenomenon.

Haiku poets in Japan observe nature very closely.
There are different types of rain, which makes it so pleasant to read the different Japanese haiku with different feelings toward how the rain is experienced.
This is the true power of kigo when used properly in Japanese haiku.

And it is a challenge for the translator, I must admit.
But it should at least be attempted to show the differences:


rain in spring (haru no ame 春の雨) :
that could be any kind of rain, usually an unpleasant cold one, during springtime.

spring-rain, spring rain (harusame 春雨):
harusame is the word for Chinese glassnoodles. This is a kind of soft, welcome rain for the forest and the rice paddies which are so dry from the winter time.




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Famous HARUSAME HAIKU
Tr. Gabi Greve

- - - - - Matsuo Basho


春雨や 蜂の巣つたふ 屋根の漏り
harusame ya hachi no su tsutau yane no mori

spring rain -
drips from a wasp's nest
through the leeking roof



春雨や二葉に萌ゆる茄子種
harusame ya futaba ni moyuru nasubidane

spring rain -
two leaves sprout
from the eggplant seedling



春雨や蓬をのばす草の道
harusame ya yomogi o nobasu kusa no michi

spring rain -
the mugwort grows
along a road with weeds



不精さや掻き起されし春の雨
不性さや抱起さるゝ春の雨
bushoosa ya kaki-okosareshi haru no ame

such laziness -
finally woken up
by rain in spring

Written in Iga Ueno, at the home of his brother in 1691 元禄4年2月頃. Basho age 48

. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .

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. Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 and the Spring Rain .

Buson has quite a lot of poems about the spring rain!


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Kobayashi Issa


春雨や盃見せて狐よぶ
harusame ya sakazuki misete kitsune yobu

spring rain -
I show my sake cup
and call the foxes



春雨やかまくら雀何となく
harusame ya Kamakura suzume nan to naku

spring rain -
the sparrows of Kamakura
how they sing!



春雨や ばくち崩と夜談義と
harusame ya bakuchi kuzure to yo dangi to

spring rain -
some old gamblers
and a night sermon



めぐり日と俳諧日也春の雨 　
meguri-bi to haikai-bi nari haru no ame

a day of menstruation
becomes a day for haikai ...
rain in spring　


o-meguri 　お回り　is another expression for menstruation.


David Lanoue has this version

めぐり日と俳諧日也春の雨
meguri hi to haikai hi nari haru no ame

a day for wandering
a day for haiku...
spring rain


Issa Haiku with Meguri
めぐり日
and written with Chinese characters
巡り / 廻り
how many times / ambling down my road / makeing the rounds / after twists and turns / circling
浅間巡り - Mount Asama's pilgrims


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Tr. and Comment by Chris Drake

片方は雪の降也春の雨
kata-hoo wa yuki no furu nari haru no ame

on the other side
they say it's snowing --
spring rain

This hokku is from the 2nd month (March) of 1822, when Issa is either in his hometown or a village near it. His hometown was on a plateau nearly surrounded by mountains, and beyond the mountains to the northwest was an area of very heavy snowfall, so he may looking toward the north or northwest.

Spring rain is coming down around him, but travelers tell of snow coming down only a few miles away. Perhaps this feeling of being near the border of snow and rain physically suggests to Issa his own existence as a borderer, living in a hometown that only feels like half a hometown while his mind is so often with haijin in Edo, in the area around Edo, and in other parts of Shinano, the area in which he now lives. Of course, as a haijin himself, he always lives halfway between experience and representation.


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(A Small Boat in the Spring Rain
Kawase Hasui 川瀬巴水, 1920)


April rain –
the boatman watches
a flying skylark

- Shared by Virginia Popescu
Joys of Japan, 2012


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kooen de hashiru kodomo to haru no ame

In the park
kids running...
Spring rain

Alberto Sanz

Look at the haiga HERE
source : www.targetjpn.com
Tuesday, 02 March 2010


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bands of heavy rain
play music with the wind...
spring concert

- Shared by Pat Geyer ‎
Joys of Japan, March 2012



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春雨や今日の食事はハルサメじゃ
harusame ya kyoo no shokuji wa harusame ja


spring rain -
lunch today is
harusame noodles


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