The long summer is finally over and autumn is here. For the first time in a long time, I feel like opening a book called Ooka Shin's "Occasional Songs".
For me, autumn is when I remember this song. In "Occasional Songs", the following haikai appears next to this poem.
It is a witty parody by Otomo Oemaru, a haiku poet of the late Edo period.
On the other hand, the haikai of Ueshima Onitsura, a haiku poet of the early Edo period, is a head-on confrontation.
It must have been hot in the beginning of autumn in the Edo period. The hot and irresistible feeling is conveyed.
Although it was later than his time, there is a record that the temperature rose to about 34 degrees Celsius in the 1800s, when thermometers began to be used in Japan.
`I think it's a good root cause analysis. Unlike in the Edo period, more than 90% of households with two or more people in Japan now have air conditioners.
However, the number of people who died from heat stroke exceeded 1,200 every year in the three years until last year.
On the other hand, summer in Europe was also hot. How did Europeans survive the summer without air conditioners?