Wednesday, August 14, 2013

猛暑東京 - Boiling hot days in Tokyo

We have so many extremely hot days in all over Japan this summer.
We have a lot of guerrilla rainstorms also in Tokyo. 

On the way to and from work, I walk through a big park near the metropolitan government buildings and the park is filled with big buzzing of many cicadas in the air.
Usually we cannot see cicadas but only hear their buzzing.  This year you can easily find many cicadas & their cast-off skins everywhere in the park.
We Japanese like chirring of cicadas in chorus from the ancient times but this is almost extraordinary crazy noise in this park & make me feel the air is hotter…Well, we cannot blame them as they just enjoy their short life after long years growing underground.

Famous HAIKU: 
Deep silence, the shrill of cicadas, seeps into rocks.
Composed by MATSUO Basho at Ryushakuji temple, Yamagata Prefecture on July 13 1689.

向かい合わせ。こんなところで。


こんなところで鳴かなくても。

ええーっ!?

言いたくないけど、今年は猛暑。東京でもゲリラ豪雨が多いですなぁ。
通勤中、都庁の近くの大きな公園を通り抜けしているのだけれど
セミの声がすごいのだ。
普通、セミの声はすれど姿は見えないもの、なはずだと思うけど、
ぱっと見るだけで、視界にセミとセミの抜け殻があちらこちらに。
古来、日本人はセミの鳴き声を夏の風情として愛でてきたのだろうけど、この異常な大合唱は。。。余計、空気が暑く感じてしまう。
やっと地上に出てきて短い命を謳歌している彼らを責めることはできないけど。

閑さや岩にしみ入る蝉の声 
松尾芭蕉 奥の細道』より

元禄2527 山形市立石寺で詠まれた発句

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