Autumn, at last

Kishiwada Danjiri Festival has gone. The festival is said to bring Autumn to Kishu-ji, the southern part of Osaka Prefecture. So it does, rice plants along the street from Higashi-Kishiwada Station to the school have started ripening, bending their ears.

Kinofu koso sanahe torishika itsuno
mani inaba soyogite akikazeno fuku

(from Kokin-shu)

It was yesterday that we planted rice.

Time flies.

Rice plants are bending under autumn winds.