impatient the air
slams a door, a saucer
certainty of downpours
evaporates before
reaching this far
Image: Utagawa Hiroshige, Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo 1857. c/- Metropolitan Museum
And for music this morning, here’s Japanese composer Isao Tomita with Claire de Lune (Youtube). The whole album (sorry couldn’t find it on Youtube but there’s plenty of Tomita for you to enjoy) is pretty fab from the master of synths. (I remember my father bringing home one of Tomita’s LPs and we sat fascinated that all this music was without a single instrument being bowed or blown into or orchestra being conducted)
Peter Frankis writes 
The music transports me to a magical place, where anything is possible. I’m now following Master Tomita on spotify. Nice image and tanka also.
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Glad you enjoyed – a world of musical riches and quirkiness awaits you.
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Yes the image is wonderful – thanks to the public access program in the Met. Such a radical set of diagonals in image – no straight horizon, just curves that lead you along the bridge, down the river – and by that time you’re soaked.
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I used to play Claire de Lune on the piano many years ago. The tanka is wonderful. The twist at the end is brilliant.
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as far removed from an ekphrastic as can be – Bravo Peter – the opening lines so memorable and then you left us with a Chinese puzzle ending!
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thanks Laura – glad you liked – and were intrigued
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