世の中の炬燵の中という処　　　池田澄子

yononaka no kotatsu no naka to iu tokoro

in this world

the place under

‘kotatsu’ quilt

Sumiko Ikeda

from “Haiku Saijiki” electronic version edited by Kadokawa Shoten, published by Kodansha Sophia Shuppan, Tokyo, Japan, 2018

Fay’s Note: ‘Kotatsu’ is a low table with heat source (usually electric nowadays, but formerly a pit of hot coals) underneath, covered with a quilt to retain the heat, used for keeping warm in winter, as people sit around it with their legs under the quilt.