May 2007
Nagasaki
haiku and artwork by Fay Aoyagi
copyright (c) 2007
During Edo Era (1603 - 1867), Tokugawa
Government forbidded Christian religion. In
Nagasaki, a port city, had been the center of
the trade with European countries. Many
people were forced to abandon their faith.
Those who refused to convert were executed.
You can learn more about this tragedy by
reading Silence, a novel by Shusaku Endo.
sunset--
the lure
of the matryrs' sea
tombstones
facing the ocean
a cuckoo
a covert cross
under the eaves--
spring bamboo
morning clouds
sweepers cart away
a heap of origami cranes
blighted leaves--
the remains
of the prison wall
The second atomic bomb was dropped in
Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. There were a
church and a prison at the ground zero.
displaced ocean goddess
in the hilltop temple
hydrangea in half bloom
