#Haiku Happenings #1 (3/19/21): Fay Aoyagi’s Today’s Haiku features Tae Kakimoto!
Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi)
ルビコンは渉らず近江霾ぐもり 柿本多映
rubikon wa watarazu ômi tsuchigumori
not crossing the Rubicon
Ohmi is cloudy
with yellow sand
Tae Kakimoto
from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine), April 2017 Issue, Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo
Fay’s Note: ‘tsuchi’ (yellow sand from Mongolia by the wind) is a spring kigo. Honestly, I have no idea about the connection between the Rubicon and Ohmi district (current Shiga Prefecture with the Biwa Lake), other than a fact that yellow sand has to cross the ocean to reach Japan.
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