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to nimo de yo fururu bakari ni haru no tsuki

come outside too
just to see
this spring moon

come out everyone
almost close enough to touch
the spring moon

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todomare ba atari ni fuyuru tonbo kana

now I’ve stopped
the air is filling
with dragonflies

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I close the screen doors —
fallen leaves quietly end
this very day

withered lotus leaves
some broken, some not,
float on the spring water

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The season of changing clothes
For summer; I see a bridge
not so far away

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Portrait by Susumu Takiguchi

Hoshino Tatsuko , Teijo, Takako, & Takajo were known as the four 'T's