花野【はなの】 hanano flowery field(s) / flowery moor(s) / flower-field(s) (all autumn)
- 花野原【はなのはら】 hananohara flowery field(s) flowery moor(s) / flower-field(s)
- 花野道【はなのみち】 hananomichi flower-field path
- 花野風【はなのかぜ】 flower-field wind/breeze(s)
This refers to fields bright with blossoms of autumn flowers. As the
season reaches its peak, a wide variety of wild plants flowers or ripens into
seed, to be tossed in the autumn winds. Broad expanses of fields at the feet
of mountains may turn bright with color when the autumn flowers are in bloom.
Wildflowers have a distinctive beauty unlike that of cultivated flowers -- and
a slightly desolate quality that appears when they are briefly at their peak and
about to fall. The seasonal word hanano, associated with
autumn, was already in use by medieval waka and linked
verse poets. It has long been a favorite of haikai poets, as well.
The force of the modifier "soft" (yawaraka) is just
right for the setting of a flowery field. The wheels of the mobile library
may creak as it rolls slowly along. The weight of the vehicle underscores
the beauty of the field's blossoms.
松葉掻く人かすかなる花野かな
信徳
matsuba kaku hito kasukanaru hanano kana
someone rakes
pine needles faintly
those flower-fields
Shintoku
天渺々笑ひたくなりし花野かな
渡辺水巴
ten byōbyō waraitaku narishi hanano kana
the sky boundless
I wanted to laugh:
these flower-fields
Watanabe Suiha
友情をこゝろに午後の花野径
飯田蛇笏
yūjō o kokoro ni gogo no hananomichi
friendship
on my mind this afternoon
flower-field path
Iida Dakotsu
癒えて帰る馬車に花野の天丸く
米田一穂
iete kaeru basha ni hanano no ten maruku
cured and returning
by carriage--the flower-field
sky is round
Yoneda Kazuho
花野やはらか移動文庫の車輪過ぎ
>平畑静塔
hanano yawaraka idōbunko no sharin sugi
the flower-field soft
the bookmobile's wheels
roll on
Hirahata Seitō
