Is September Autumn?

Clouds are telling that the autumn has come high above in the sky. How about low on the ground?Kishiwada Danjiri Festival will be held on 16 and 17 this year, on Saturday and Sunday. The festival had been held on KEIRO-NO-HI (Respect-for-theAged Day) and the day before, but the holiday was moved to another day. That decreased the number of tourists last year.TSUKIMI-MATSURI (the moon-viewing festival) held around MOZU-HACHIMAN Shrine near my neighbourhood is still following the traditional lunar calendar, thanks to its unpopularity.Those festivals around this time of the year are commonly called AKI-MATSURI (autumn festivals), which sounds odd in recent years.The severely hot tempreture of the last September caused a trouble on Izumi's sports day. That had us move the day to the first term. The heat which we still have here seems to be endorsing our dicision.

Aki kinuto. Me ni wa sayakani. Mie ne domo. Kaze no oto ni zo.
Odorokarenuru.

FUJIWARA TOSHIYUKI

(Has the autumn already come? None of its signs can I see here. Yet I'm
surprised to sense and hear the wind's whisper and sound.)