カレンダー発三つ物連句―1月
新年。手創りカレンダーを届けた友人よりの返信の中にあった1句
光差す天地なりけり初暦
を見て眠っていた連句魂が目覚めた。北イタリアピエモンテ州の記念碑となっているサンミケーレ
寺院の一景を描いて「被造物」というタイトルを付けた1月の絵にうってつけの句を昔の句友が詠んでくれた。
この句と、手紙の中にあった「塔の中の小さな人物が絵を見ている人の視点となっている。」との彼女のコメントと合わせると、その人物と彼の眺めている天地、この暦を見ている人とこの暦という2重構造が現れてくる。
昨年、その場に立って、辺り全体を包む神聖な空気感から、建物も人物も山河も大地まですべて被造物であるという感触を得て、この絵にそんなタイトルを付けたわけだが、彼女がこの絵を立体的に捉えて「光差す天地」と表してくれた事に深く感動を覚えた。
返してもらったボールを戻したい、という気持ちになって、毎月連句をつけていこう、という考えが浮かんだ。久しぶりの連句だし,しかも日英語でやりたいという思いから、初めてだが最短の三つ物に挑戦することにした。
脇の句の賀状から、第3の花吹雪へとルールを何度も何度も見返しながら何とか終了。英語を添えて1月版終了。伊那在住の小田切淑子さんは連句初体験なのに、(またはだからか)素敵な発想の句をさっと送ってくださった。
2月以降も発句交互にして、続けていって、ブログも更新していきたいと思う。12月までに少しは伸びていけるよう期待しつつ。
光差す天地なりけり初暦 淑
電子賀状の届く曙 麻
花吹雪伊那路を歩むブーツにて 淑
Triplet Staring from Calendar-January
A new year. My renku spirit was awakened by a verse found in the reply from one of my friends I had sent my calendar to.
hikarisasu tenchinarikeri hatsugoyomi
the light is shining/ all over heaven and earth/ a new calendar
The picture for January has a scene of Sacra di San Michele (designated monument of Piemonte in north Italy) painted on it. My haiku friend from the old time had composed a haiku just right for this picture titled 'the creation'.
From this haiku and her comment "The little figure works as the viewpoint for the people looking at this picture" a dual composition emerges: the figure against heaven and earth and the person looking at it against the calendar.
Last year while I was standing at this holy site, the sacred air veiling the entire site led me
to feel everything, from buildings,people,mountains,rivers to the soil,had been created; thus,the tile was fixed on 'the creation'. I was deeply moved to find this picture had led her to perceive the scene 3-dimensionally and express it as 'heaven and earth where the light is shining.'
Feeling like returning the ball which had been thrown back to me,I hit upon the idea of monthly renku. I wanted to write bilingually and also it's a long while since my last practice so I decided to challenge the shortest,'mitsumono' (linking the first three verses),though it is my first trial.
We managed to finish it with the second verse on a new year card and the third on blossom storm,by referring to the rules ever so often. January version of the linking was completed with the English translation attached.
Ms. Yoshiko Kotagiri, a resident of Ina,sent me verses at once with lovely imagination without any prior experience in renku (or maybe because of it). I would like to continue this little project with alternate starting verses and keep renewing this blog from February on, hoping to see some improvement by Dec.
the light is shining/all over heaven and earth/a new calendar Yoshi
"A Happy New Year" has reached/ by e-mail at daybreak Ma
the blossom storm/sauntering on Ina road/wearing the boots Yoshi
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