Spring Folding Into Summer : Haiku of the Day
Changing the dresses
Spring has vanished
Into a long coffer
—Ihara Saikaku
The image that this poem plays on is a wooden chest for storing clothes. The change of seasons in traditional Japan used to be associated with the heavier spring kimono being exchanged for the light summer one. As the cherry petals fall and vanish into the earth, so does spring itself. Summer is waiting in the wings.
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