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Japanese haiku continues; but this cute haiku is by a child;
and I took it from "the son's haiku" in "The collection of the father
and his son's haiku"
in "Suzuki Shin-ichi's Dry Wind Haiku Land." You can feel a nice communication
between a father and his son, Hidaka through the page, if you could understand
Japanese.
Hidaka is now 16 years old, but this haiku was made when he was 10, his
father wrote to me.
When Hidaka awoke at midnight, he remembered vividly a scarecrow's face
and imagined it
still standing in the darkness... Scarecrows are busy here: in
California in this season, too,
as they especially watch hard for pumpkins before Halloween.
The Japanese word Kagashi for scarecrow was from Kagasu (to let
(small animals) smell),
because of the old custom of burning the dead bodies of small raiders
in a farmer's field.
Of course the English word 'scarecrow' is from "to scare crows."
In EL, and in this situation, I tried to express this concept as 
(doll-field) , scarecrow,
using a hyphen. If without the hyphen,
means "doll's field."
* This hyphen日本人の俳句が続きますが、今回は子どもの俳句、).
Please feel free to download the new EL Font. Now EL typing is much easier with this device.
｛人形-畑｝の組み合わせの
｢人形の畑」という* このハイフンは記号gfが更新したものです。９月からこのフォント更新によって
地球語タイプがしやすくなりました。ＨＰからダウンロードしてお使いください。
The Original haiku by Suzuki Hidaka
:
{
human, 
shaped, 
instrument}: doll (人形) {
sense, 
}(by
the total shape): eye(s) (目)
{
, dot}(as the
picture): pupil (瞳)
: plant(s)
(植物) {
human, shaped,
instrument}: doll (人形) { 
place for 
human raising,
plant(s)}:
cultivated land; field, patch (耕作地･畑)
: scarecrow (かがし).......It uses hyphen (ハイフンでつないでいます)
: (plural dots): to show a pause (連続２点は休止符){
verb mark,
condition}:
the verb expresses about the present/general situation {
sense, }(by
the total shape): eye(s) (象形で｢目｣): open
(開いた)
: (the subject) opens its eyes ((主語の)目が開いている) {
preposition-mark, 
emphasize}: even at/in.. (modifying front word with the following words)
(～（続く語）にさえ) {{
(a part of 
the sun), 
under (the ground),
time}: midnight (深夜)