{"id":14133,"date":"2021-12-19T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/?p=14133"},"modified":"2021-12-19T12:52:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T19:52:49","slug":"tokyo-in-those-rainy-autumn-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/?p=14133","title":{"rendered":"TOKYO IN THOSE RAINY AUTUMN DAYS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Translated by H\u01b0\u01a1ng Cau Cao T\u00e2n from the Vietnamese version<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>on 18 December 2021, in British Columbia, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Konnichiwa Narita. Hello how are you Princess of the Sea<br \/>\nIt is full of dew when the airport welcomes me<br \/>\nDrops of dew are drizzling like those of Li\u00ean Kh\u01b0\u01a1ng Airport previously<!--more--><br \/>\nWhile all the roads and streets, as I can see<br \/>\nAre very narrow and full of traffic moving all around<br \/>\nAnd it takes more than one and a half hours or about<br \/>\nFor the Airport Limousine to reach the downtown area<br \/>\nWhere it is full of luxuriously exquisite lights shining far<\/p>\n<p>Hello Tokyo in the morning<br \/>\nWhen it is blurrily drizzling<br \/>\nWhere the clouds are floating low covering the stories of hi-rise buildings<br \/>\nEven though the Washington Hotel is 25 stories in height<br \/>\nBut it is surrounded and enclosed so tight<br \/>\nBy other lofty skyscrapers<br \/>\nThose are standing tall proudly and indifferently in their manners.<\/p>\n<p>The rain is still drizzling steadily<br \/>\nAlthough it is happening oh so lightly<br \/>\nBut heavy enough to make muddy all the crisscrossed roads of the city<br \/>\nWhere people are overwhelming and cars are jostling noisily<br \/>\nTokyo is a heavily windy city<br \/>\nWhere the rains are weaving in the streets closely<br \/>\nOnto a sea of people in the streets scattering<br \/>\nWith umbrellas in their hands in their hurrying.<\/p>\n<p>I have a chance to talk to a petite young girl in my inquiry<br \/>\nOf the roads leading to Waseda University<br \/>\nThe little girl smiles, showing her protruding tooth so charming<br \/>\nAnd bends her head in her shyness showing<br \/>\nBut due to the limit of English language in conversation<br \/>\nEach time when she finishes a sentence<br \/>\nShe bows her head and utters \u201chai, hai\u201d<br \/>\nAnd I will also bow and happily smile<br \/>\nArigato, thank you very much, to the little girl of mine<\/p>\n<p>The rain never stops falling incessantly<br \/>\nPeople are surging over the pavements overwhelmingly<br \/>\nWhen it is red at the traffic lights which is so often<br \/>\nThey talk and laugh as if nothing has happened<br \/>\nEverywhere is crowded, I say<br \/>\nPeople are holding an umbrella in one hand, the other, carrying a suitcase<br \/>\nBusily and busily during the day<\/p>\n<p>Karioka Tokyo, some form of favourite enjoyment<br \/>\nThis morning the rain is still falling<br \/>\nWhen I am saying goodbye to this city<br \/>\nAs people are going back and forth with full hands so busily<\/p>\n<p>(Holding an umbrella in one hand, the other, carrying a suitcase)<br \/>\nLife is continuing here and there everywhere and all the way<br \/>\nLike the sun that is still rising and the earth that is still evolving around<br \/>\nI suddenly remember a person with rosy cheeks now<br \/>\nWith a glance so fleetingly<br \/>\nWhen I incidentally ask her how old she is<br \/>\nHer reaction is bestirred agitatedly<br \/>\nAnd she maintains her mood silently<\/p>\n<p>That startles me and puts me in an embarrassing mood the more<br \/>\nI wish that the length of the walking road could be a little more<br \/>\nSo I can prolong my talking and laughing with her happily<br \/>\nBut the wicked time pushes me into the train carriage so mercilessly<\/p>\n<p>I have barely time to wave goodbye and then am on my way<br \/>\nThe bus is heading towards the airport without delay<br \/>\nShe turns and walks away in a hurry<br \/>\nAnd it seems that there is something lingering so regretfully<br \/>\nWe are bidding farewell without knowing if there is a next time<br \/>\nMy beloved Tokyo, goodbye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Translated by H\u01b0\u01a1ng Cau Cao T\u00e2n from the Vietnamese version on 18 December 2021, in British Columbia, Canada Konnichiwa Narita. Hello how are you Princess of the Sea It is full of dew when the airport welcomes me Drops of dew are drizzling like those of Li\u00ean Kh\u01b0\u01a1ng Airport previously<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14133"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14139,"href":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14133\/revisions\/14139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}