Sound of Cicadas

Leaf 399 – Looking Back

 

Kobayashi Kiyochika - Looking at Evening Lights (c.1930s)

This is a haiku which I wrote during my first visit to Japan in 2003, while I was staying at a hotel (which no longer exists) overlooking Shinobazu Pond.

 

 

Wandering back to the hotel –

the sound of cicadas

in the warm night.

 

 

 

Tsuchiya Koitsu - Shinobazu Pond in Ueno (1939)