Hooker in Moonlight.

Addendum to Chiyo-ni's "Wild Violets under a Bridge":

# 1


Kobayashi Issa's haiku:

Hail stones falling,
the hooker in Moonlight
sees me return.


tama arare / yotaka* wa tsuki ni / kaeru-meri.
[* Edo-time (1603-1867) street prostitute with straw mat.]

"ball hail / hooker (nom.) in Moonlight / return-see."

# 2


Chiyo-ni's keeping up hope:

Lying on my straw mat
my dream doesn't lose its colours:
today the mums will flower !!


yume samenu / tatami ni kiku no / sakishi kyō.

"dream not-loses-colour
on straw mat chrysanthemums'
flowering today."

Thanks to http://tangorin.com/
and http://www.michaelhaldane.com/HaikuNonJapanese.htm