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We traveled Tateyama Kurobe Alpen Route. We stayed at Hotel Tateyama in Murodo plateau with an altitude of 2,450m and enjoyed climbing and trekking.
Mt. Tateyama(3003m), located in the north of Northern Alps has been opened as a sanctuary of the mountain faith. It is one of Japan's Three Sacred Mountains along with Mt.Fuji and Mt.Hakusan. It designates the chain of splendid mountains of 3000m high which tower in the east of Toyama prefecture.
Though it rained hard on one of the days when we stayed there, I enjoyed hiking up in Mt. Oyama(3,003m). Mt. Tateyamas were so beautiful and the shapes of the mountains are still in my mind.

First day walking : 10,340 steps
Second ddy hiking & mountaineering: 19,260 steps
Third day walking: 16,511steps

笠ふかく　案山子は独り　風の盆

Straw cap over brows,
A scarecrow stands alone,
Winds Bon Festival

夕陽浴び　山は一日を　くつろぎぬ　

In evening sunlight
Mountains end a day's labor
to show their glory

つきぬけて　空の壁となり　神の山

Sky walls!
Tateyama sacred mountains
stand high up in the sky

東福寺ジョギングにて

鐘の声　甍に群れる　赤とんぼ　

Hearing a temple bell
A group of dragonflies are
flying over the old roof

龍駆ける　雷雨にたたずむ　東福寺

A dragon flies in the sky,
Big old Toufukuji temple
stands in a thundershower

　　　　　Caught in a sudden thundershower 急に雨が降り出し　　

* Toufukuji temple has a big monochrome painting of a dragon on its ceiling.

夏

遠く見ゆ　心に語る　大文字　

• In the disance
• Burning daimon-ji fire
• talks to my mind

夏草や　火床の蜥蜴　大の字に

• A lizard lies still
• on a daimonji fireplace
• among summer grass

暑気しのぐ　老ライダーや　大伽藍

• An old rider rests
• in a big old temple
• on a hot afternoon

大伽藍　老女の弁当　夏の風

• An old woman eats lunch
• under the eaves of a big old temple
• summer winds pass her by

入梅に

やさしきや　想雨に濡れる　蝸牛

• Reminding rain
• falls delicately on a snail
• with its shell drenched

日帰りの仕事

畦駆ける　子の影揺れて　苗に風　
　　　A kid runs on a rib,
　　　The reflection in a water field waves,
　 　 The wind blows rice grasses

老夫婦　旅に肩寄す　車窓の苗　 新幹線の外国人の老夫婦の旅を見て
　　　shoulder to shoulder
　　　An old couple are in a travel
　　　Young Rice grasses in a train window,

大和葛城山

おとうさん！　先行く子の声　山みどり
Here I am, daddy!
A kid calls aloud at his father,
Mountains are green now


みどりの日

緑風に　夢ひとときの　友ありて

３月３１日

黒土の　
耕えし畝に
日燦燦

遠山に
心模様の
春霞

Course Keihan-Otsu Line Ohtani Station ---- Semimaru Shrine ----- Tokaido Old Foot Trail ---Top of Mt. Otowa (593m) ---- Ushio Kannon ----- Keihan-Ohtsu Line Oiwake Station

Today, it was very cold. We enjoyed half-day hiking in Mt. Otowa, which is located between Kyoto and Shiga. On the top of Mt. Otowa piercing cold winds blow hard, but the scenery from there was splendid. We saw Kyoto city and Hama-otsu, and moreover snowcapped Mt. Hiras. We always feel happy after walking up hard and looking down at beautiful sceneries from the top. Frost formed on the mountain path. When we tramped upward, the path popped like telling spring is a little behind. It was cold today.

裸木の風　山海原の　波の音

Winds blow are trees,

In the sea-like mountain woods

Sounds of waves

風寒き　こぼれ松葉の　山の道

Cold winds pierce,

Piles of fallen pine needles

On a mountain path

鳥鳴きて　山日だまりに　春を待つ

Birds chirp out,

Mountains wait for spring to come

In the sunshine

山寺に　手水凍りて　人気無し

A temple in the mountains

Has few visitors

Frozen hands-wash water

鉄塔は　空突き刺して　冴ゆるかな

An iron pylon

In the piercing cold

Sticks the sky

寒風や　コーヒーカップも　手にぬるし

In the cold winds

A coffee cup is not

Hot enough

愛宕さん参り

Mt. Atago, 10 January, 2004

We went to Mt.Atago this year, too. It has been warm these days. So The stairs to Atago shrine on the top was not ice-covered. We wenr up there by way of No head Zizo (KUBINASHI-ZIzo). It was fresh for us. The stream was always by the side of the route. and it gave us nice healing sounds.

新春の　杉山響く　チェーンソー

New spring has come,

Chain-saw sounds

in cedar mountains

山奥の　地蔵の笑みに　春陽射す　　

• In a mountan path
• far away from a village
• Zizo smiles at the sun light