Sasameyuki♡Early Morning Open-Air Bath

拙記事 細雪♡早朝の露天風呂 2021-05-20 の英語版です

This is the English version of my previous article "Sasameyuki♡Early Morning Open-Air Bath".

『深夜の再放送♡細雪❄早朝の露天風呂』

Sasameyuki : The Fine Snowflakes 

It's been quite some time since I last visited a ski resort in Nagano Prefecture with some colleagues. Our family, including our small children, had to stay at a different hot spring inn because the other rooms were all fully booked. The next day, I woke up in the silence and looked at the clock. It was still just before five o'clock, so I snuck out and took an early morning soak in the open-air bath, just as the hot springs opened. I listened and watched the endless falling  fluffy snowflakes, Awayuki, and the sound of the water gushing forth endlessly. I was quite warmed by the rich fragrance seeping in from the cracks in the pure white rock bath, which was as white as human skin, when the fluffy snowflakes turned into fine snowflakes, Sasameyuki, and I stood up, ready to get out.

A figure suddenly appeared in the fine snowflakes,

The figure split into two,

And as the silhouette of a man and woman formed in the lightly falling powder snow, Konayuki.

I hastily put my body back into the bath.

The two people who were soaking side by side diagonally across from me,

Love is art.

The highest art created with flesh and blood.

Rikka, right?

Yes, Hassaku.

Beauty is not something to be thought about.

It can be felt immediately at a glance.

It's a very simple process.

As if to drown out Rikka and Hassaku's talkings,

The powder snow eventually turned into soft, fluffy cotton snow, Watayuki.

I had reached my limit.

The moment I stood up without any shame,

At the same time, or rather, just for a moment, the other two stood up first.

Love is art.

The highest art created with flesh and blood.

Rikka, right?

Yes, Hassaku.

Love is a play, isn't it?

Maybe we need to think about the plot.

As if that talking faded away, the cotton snow turned to large peony snowflakes, Botanyuki.

Hassaku, Rikka, and I, in that order, we walked up the narrow stairs to the indoor bath.

In front of me was Rikka's blurred secrète ... 

Looking up, we saw the large peony snowflakes falling endlessly like soft petals.

The large peony snowflakes soon grew into larger petal like snowflakes, Kabenyuki, enveloping the two of them.

Like the rich fragrance seeping through the cracks in the rock bath, as white as human skin, 

only its afterimage quietly disappeared into the petal like snowflakes.

FIN 

Sasameyuki : The Fine Snowflakes

XOXO

La réminiscence, ixprime 2021

Well then
See you again
Bonne nuit.

P.S.

沫雪 Awayuki: fluffy snowflakes 

細雪 Sasameyuki: fine snowflakes 

粉雪 Konayuki: powder snow 

綿雪 Watayuki: cotton snow 

牡丹雪 Botanyuki:  large, peony snowflakes 

花弁雪 Kabenyuki, Hanabirayuki: huge, petal like snowflakes 

六花 Rikka is another Japanese word of YUKI for snow.

八朔 Hassaku means snow in summer.

・・・

XOXO

La réminiscence, ixprime 2021