Hiromi Itō

雪

Language: japanese

Translations: german (Schnee)

雪

てんてんとつづく足あとを目で追っていきますと
うさぎが殺されたのがわかりました
まっすぐつづくのはきつね、と教えてもらいました
そろってぱたりそろってぱたりとつづくのはうさぎ
「そろってぱたり」と「まっすぐつづく」がまじわって
「まっすぐつづく」になっていました
血はみあたりませんでした
「そろってぱたり」は暴れもしません
わたしは裸足です
靴をぬぎ靴下をぬぎました
なにもかもがむきだしになりました
あなたはそれを見ます
靴と靴下をぬいだら
わたしの足ゆびには毛が生えていました
足ゆびのまたから血がでていました
あなたはそれも見ています
わたしは字をかいています
あなたはそれも見ています
わたしはそれを見せたいと思っています
あなたも字をかいています
わたしはそれを見ています
なんてうつくしい字をかくおとこだろう
とわたしはおもっています
なんてうつくしい
おとこだろう、おとこたちだろう、おんなたちだろう
あなたは字をかきおえてそれをしまいこみます
わたしには見せないつもりらしい
あなたは靴をはいて
雪の原を横切りに出かけます
わたしはここに残ります
雪の原を「そろってぱたり」なら
「まっすぐつづく」に取られる運命
それはきっとあたりが明るくなる
朝のこと

Hiromi Itō

伊藤比呂美

photo © gezett.de

* 13.09.1955, Tokyo, Japan
lives in: Encinitas, United States

Hiromi Itō, born in Tokyo in 1955, is one of the most significant and highly-regarded poets in Japan, whose sensational debut in the late 1970s broke new ground in the Japanese poetry scene. In her extraordinarily provocative and taboo-breaking work, she speaks boldly about pregnancy, motherhood, death and lust.

Itō has published more than 10 volumes of poetry, as well as translations and essays. She is also famous as a writer of essays, and has compiled several collections, where she writes about topics as diverse as gardening, learning English, and rearing children. She has worked as an illustrator and a Japanese teacher, as well as a publisher of various different poetry magazines. Through her books, as well as through her live readings, she often combines poetry with other art forms, working together with illustrators, photographers and musicians.

photo © gezett.de

Since 1997 Itō has lived with her three daughters and her second husband - an English artist - in California. Her experiences of being a 'foreigner', the permeability of language, and the interplay between various cultural traditions, are central themes in her work.

Hiromi Itō was awarded the 21st Noma Literature

Award in 1999 and in 2005 won the prestigious Takami Jun Award.

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