Hanno Revisited
Blowing in autumn wind along silver grasses
Today I and wife went to Hanno, Saitama, that is located at the next to my hometown, west of Tokyo
The city was very intimate place for some dear fiends of high school days. We were always playing in hometown in the long vacations of summer, winter and spring. using bicycles. And sometime we had gone to Hanno to play the baseball at the city ground and see the Iruma River that flows the centre part of the city.Ans very rarely learnt the vacation work at the old city library alike a tiny elementary school building.
Along the bicycle road used to go and back, fantastic silver grasses were calmly swaying in the Autumn wind. We ran fast the slope road seeing the railroad at right side. Occasionally we met the diesel train.
Today I went there with wife by car, using which we went camping or barbecue at the river side far old days together with two children.
Now they are already grown up and working in the central Tokyo. We are enough old and feel tranquil seeing the river and the hills behind.
When the children were very young, we let them buy some confectioneries at the river side tiny shops that are still remaining in the same old style.
The time flew fast and afar went. The river was only sparkling with same beauty.
Tokyo
5 October 2012
29 July 2018 Text revised
Sekinan Research Field of Language
Sekinan Research Field of Language