NUMATANI, Kasumi

I'm alive under this circumstances.

2011-03-19T00:56:00.000-07:00

There is a joke. I don't know of where's.

"Yes" has four meaning;
(1) I'll move as you say.
(2) I understood what you say.
(3) I'm listening.
(4) I'm alive.

Well, I was asked from some people actually "Are you alive?".
So I'll reply "Yes, no problem around me and my family".

I had encountered The Great Hanshin Earthquake at Kobe 16 years ago,
and I keenly feel that past disaster had been luckier one.

...sigh. now the government is broadcasting that radioactive material contaminated spinach and milk, though the value is ignorable. If it is ignorable you don't have to mention. They put out the information because it can't be.

Authorities say earthquakes and tsunami of the same scale as this time have been occurring every after one thousand years. Hanshin's was said that is four hundred years, and we laughed one another this must be the greatest one in my life. I was happy enough to encounter that all of my ancestors couldn't be experience, not only once, but twice!

Every time in the situation like this, the world wonder and appreciate Japanese people not to be in panic or riot. On the contrary I can't understand people's mind who cause riot. We cooperate because I myself want to survive. I don't want to be injured in a panic, I don't want to be disappointed to get nothing because of my rude deed. I wish I'd make a good example for you to imagine, but I can't.

* * *

Now world's eye may concentrate at nuclear plant #1 in Fukushima Prefecture.
It's plutonium thermal type, and the severe problem is occurring not in reactors themselves but fuel pool.
There is ten times of MOX in each fuel pool. In usual condition, it is fully in the water and chilled as cold as common people look down the water directly during the inspection tour.
At Four of six nuclear reactor stations, the fuel pool is overheating. Ten times plutonium than in the reactor. Those are what wear fearing.

Now the third trial to cool down the pool is doing. In the TV it looks like mist, but it looks like working much better than yesterday.

* * *

Our another problem is, the nuclear plant in trouble is to supply electricity to the Metro polis. It means we lack it. Blackout is in turn carrying out including commuter lines. We are ready to endure blackout of our household. However we can't eat without working. I wonder how long I can stand this situation.

* * *

well, so long for now. I made a new entry in tanka and essay category.

Today's tanka

2009-10-12T04:16:00.000-07:00

i'll reborn
as a worm
as many times
as the number of
fall webspinner i stamped

---
first published in The tanka Journal issue 35
read out loud at The 6th International Tanka Festival in Tokyo 2009, on 11th Oct., 2009.

started online poetry reading

2008-10-04T06:47:00.000-07:00

I started online poetry reading service using [PEPOZ]. I will read one tanka sequence or several tanka with a small talk in each service, which is 7-15 minutes long. Although [PEPOZ], free registration, is a service to whom understand Japanese language, and I am not so good at speaking English, Please have a try if you have got interested in.
You can see available service time from my top page of Japanese. Please push [日本語] and see the sidebar. For the time being acceptable payment is only credit cards.

today's tanka

2008-03-06T19:07:00.000-08:00

strangely
sprays the color of the sea
the sun is getting
step by step
malicious

voice

kuruidasu
umi no irotsubu
taiyou ga
koku ikkoku to
ijiwaru ni naru

today's tanka

2008-03-02T16:26:00.000-08:00

house of tanka
house of doll
house of primary
planted on the ground, or in the pot
soon the festival of the dead comes

from Listening to TWIGY

what's new

2008-03-01T17:52:00.000-08:00

a new reading voice record has uploaded, from free poetry, Anti Countable.

This poem is a translation and you can read and here original Japanese version from the Japanese part of this site.

today's tanka

2008-02-29T18:04:00.001-08:00

many me
left the world
one after one
then all of them
got out of sight

from scab of the sky

what's new

2008-02-29T17:59:00.000-08:00

scab of the sky , a tanka sequence.

This work is originally an acrostic, but i ignored it when translated.

what's new

2008-02-29T11:03:00.000-08:00

from inside "The Ferris Wheel" -- an essay from part 1 to 4 is completed at [essay]category.

reading voice of "latest tanka" has uploaded to [tanka reading (voice)] category. The template of this page is written in Japanese, but you can read and listen English as contents. The page contains embedded mp3 player, click the play button to hear my voice.

what's new

2008-02-28T22:02:00.000-08:00

from inside "The Ferris Wheel" -- an essay is in progress at [essay(or diary)]category.

today's tanka

2008-02-27T14:54:00.000-08:00

only be there
that's all i wish
i do not say
be happy, but
stay alive, please

tada soko ni
ireba iidesu
siawaseni
nareto iwanai
ikite kudasai

* originarl Japanese poem first published in "Les Papiers Cyans" February 2007 issue.

Old page was vanished.

2008-02-26T08:18:00.000-08:00

A sudden stop of service has occurred to my website, where i had rent a free rental space.
So there is no longer http://www.cmo.jp/users/swampland/ then you cannot read my Japanese work there.
Enjoy this pages please.

Best Regards,
Kasumi Numatani

today's tanka

2008-02-26T07:25:00.000-08:00

a blind man
got aboard on
a colorless cloud
then melted away
into cobalt blue of the sky

*first published in: Les Papiers Cyans February 2008 issue

today's tanka

2008-02-25T09:42:00.000-08:00

like a torso
made with wire,
i stand
waiting for you
with my hair reflect a light

harigane de
dekita torso no
ayausa ni
hito wo machi ori
kami hikarasete

-- from a tanka sequence He

today's tanka

2008-02-24T11:22:00.000-08:00

i telephone you
looking down
the pale sky
seeing a kite's back
which reflects the sunlight

aozora wo
miorosu basho de
denwa suru
tobi no se ni
hi no ataru wo mitutu

today's tanka

2008-02-23T12:11:00.000-08:00

that is like
the way of mold
to breed over a wall
that a shape of nation
changes its frontier

kabi-rui ga
katsuro wo hiraku
yarikata de
kuni no katachi ga
nobi-chijimi suru