猫柳を詠む
ねこやなぎ岸の旧居を見る思い 青穹(山田維史)
山深きかの地かの川ねこやなぎ
いまむかし龍沢の岸ねこやなぎ
男なる旅の孤影ぞねこやなぎ
頬なでて笑むや童子の猫柳
【Haiku】
Nekoyanagi kishi no kyu-kyo wo omoimiru
Seeing pussy willows
recalled my former house
on the brook's shore
Yama fukaki kano-chi kano-kawa nekoyanagi
The deep mountains
that place, that stream,
that pussy willow in my mind
Ima-mukashi Ryuzawa no kishi nekoyanagi
Long time ago, not now
On a bank of the Ryuzawa river
A pussy willow I remember
Otoko naru tabi no koei zo nekoyanagi
The lonely shadow
of a man"s journey
on side by a pussy willow
Hoho nade te emu ya doji no nekoyanagi
The cheeks were stroked
and laughed, In the baby's hand
a pussy wilow
Tadami Yamada