Three Haiku

^{translated from the Japanese by Kimiko Hahn}

[In the next room an anchor reports on border crossings] 
this and that - drifts to mind - must be the sakura

[In the next room an anchor reports on increased bombing] 
along this road - on which no one sets out - autumn’s foot fall

[In the next room an anchor reports on recent banned books] 
Futami Bay where - a traveller severs clam from shell - I cut out into fall

さまざまの事おもひ出す櫻かな 
samazama no koto omoidasu sakura kana

この道や 行く人なしに 秋のくれ 
kono michi ya iku hito nashi ni ai no kure

蛤のふたみにわかれ行秋ぞ 
hamaguri no futami ni wakare yuku aki zo