Toward the Waking Morning - Sow the Seeds Beneath the Rising Dipper

Early March on the Sendai Plain.
Morning light slowly unfolds over rice fields not yet filled with water.

The low sound of soil being turned.
Frost lingering along narrow field paths.
An eastern wind carrying the scent of the sea.

As the Big Dipper rises,
it quietly announces the moment of awakening.

Toward a future not yet visible,
when the eastern wind begins to blow, we will sow the seeds.

"Toward the Waking Morning" is a gentle song of early spring -
a quiet promise beneath the northern sky.