#Haiku Happenings #5: Fay Aoyagi’s Today’s Haiku features Midorijo Abe!
Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi)
ふるさとを恋ふこともなく障子貼る 阿部みどり女
furusato o kou koto mo naku shoji haru
without longing for home
I repaper
shoji screens
Midorijo Abe
from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006
Fay’s Note: Midorijo Abe (1886-1980) ‘shoji haru’ (paper (or ‘repaper) a shoji screen) is an autumn kigo. FYI: ‘shoji’ itself is a winter kigo.
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