{"id":7318,"date":"2023-09-24T12:12:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T16:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.midnightsunmag.ca\/?p=7318"},"modified":"2023-09-24T12:38:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T16:38:01","slug":"scallion-flowers-inspiring-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnightsunmag.ca\/scallion-flowers-inspiring-words\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Inspiring Words&#8221; &#038; &#8220;Scallion Flowers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7318\" class=\"elementor elementor-7318\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2336886e elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-content-top elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-items-bottom elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2336886e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;,&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1eb23ce\" data-id=\"1eb23ce\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1471be56 elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-phone animated-slow elementor-view-default elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon\" data-id=\"1471be56\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInDown&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"icon.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon\">\n\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-angle-double-down\"><\/i>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-70947519 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"70947519\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6bb844a8\" data-id=\"6bb844a8\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5824a0b4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5824a0b4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/LdZ_buke3_A\" target=\"_blank\">Photo: Nk Ni\/Unsplash<\/a><\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-563296ef elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"563296ef\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3449b0a7\" data-id=\"3449b0a7\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2ff4bbe2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2ff4bbe2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\">9. 24. 2023<\/h3><h1 style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Inspiring Words&#8221;<br \/>&amp; &#8220;Scallion Flowers&#8221;<\/h1><h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><b><br \/><\/b><strong>Shibuya Teisuke<\/strong><\/h3><h3 style=\"text-align: right;\">Translated by Adam Kuplowsky<\/h3><hr \/><div><h2><em><br \/>Inspiring Words<\/em><\/h2><p class=\"\">\u201cFuck the police! Pay them no mind!\u201d<br \/>I can still recall those inspiring words<br \/>spoken from the lips of Ms. S\u2014<br \/>&#8230;and those shining eyes!<br \/>&#8230;and that passionate voice!<br \/>\u201cFuck the police! Pay them no mind!\u201d<\/p><p class=\"\">A March night at the village shrine<br \/>A festival underway; cherry-blossoms in bloom<br \/>I was carrying hundreds of leaflets<br \/>to distribute<br \/>to all of my comrades<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-22115b0 elementor-view-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon\" data-id=\"22115b0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon\">\n\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-sun\"><\/i>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f9aa272 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f9aa272\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><em>Scallion Flowers<\/em><\/h2><p class=\"\">Everything\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Everything<br \/>is jumbled up inside me!<br \/>Harried by fieldwork and silkworms<br \/>I am utterly deprived<br \/>of even the little time left<br \/>after my evening chores<\/p><p class=\"\">Radish flowers after midnight<br \/>Scallion flowers in the moonlight\u2014<br \/>How I envy your freedom!<\/p><p class=\"\">Not knowing what to do next<br \/>I wander exhausted<br \/>like a sleepwalker in the garden<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a76c918 elementor-widget-divider--view-line_icon elementor-view-default elementor-widget-divider--element-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"a76c918\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon elementor-divider__element\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-sun\"><\/i><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-754f2f2d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"754f2f2d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Shibuya Teisuke (1905-1989): Japanese poet, farmer, and activist. In 1926, he published his first and only collection of poetry, \u91ce\u826f\u306b\u53eb\u3076 (<i>Shouting in the Fields<\/i>), which he dedicated to the memory of the Ukrainian serf-poet Taras Shevchenko. Despite his enormous impact on Japan\u2019s rural poetry movement, he abruptly withdrew from Japan\u2019s literary scene to commit himself fully to socialist and farmers\u2019 rights causes.<\/p><p>Adam Kuplowsky is a translator based in Toronto. He recently translated the anarchist tales and fables of Vasily Eroshenko from Japanese and Esperanto for Columbia University Press (<em>The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales<\/em>, 2023).<\/p><p>The poems above are published with the kind permission of Fujimi City Library (Saitama, Japan), which holds the rights to Shibuya Teisuke\u2019s works.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d1a435c elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-phone\" data-id=\"d1a435c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2ba87a60 elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-phone\" data-id=\"2ba87a60\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c03441e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c03441e\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-654ed38\" data-id=\"654ed38\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2b13bde5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode\" data-id=\"2b13bde5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"shortcode.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-shortcode\"><div class=\"shariff shariff-align-flex-start shariff-widget-align-flex-start\"><ul class=\"shariff-buttons theme-default orientation-horizontal buttonsize-medium\"><li class=\"shariff-button twitter shariff-nocustomcolor\" style=\"background-color:#595959\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.midnightsunmag.ca%2Fscallion-flowers-inspiring-words%2F&text=%E2%80%9CInspiring%20Words%E2%80%9D%20%26%20%E2%80%9CScallion%20Flowers%E2%80%9D&via=midnightsunmag\" title=\"Share on X\" aria-label=\"Share on X\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"shariff-link\" style=\"; 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