Komorebi No Jikan

[Machine Translation] In this collection of poems, I feel that a beautiful mirror is placed here and there. It is a mirror of water, sometimes called "the soul. The surface of the mirror may have shimmered in the wind or encountered a stormy night. The mirror's clear surface that transcends these things must be the poet's clear words. It transcends the boundary between you and me, between spring, summer, fall, and winter, between the four seasons, between day and night, and even between death and life, and embraces all who visit it. They sparkle like the soft sunlight filtering through the trees....

この詩集のなかには美しい鏡がいちまい置かれているように感じます。それは「魂」と名付けられることもある水の鏡。鏡の面は風に揺らめくこともまた、嵐の夜に遭遇したこともあったでしょう。それらを超えて、澄み渡る鏡の面は、詩人の澄み渡ることばに違いありません。あなたとわたしの境をこえ、春夏秋冬、四季の境をこえ、昼と夜の境をこえ、死と生の境までもこえ、訪れるものを包んでくれます。やわらかな木漏れ日のようにキラキラと...。