【*Note】" Where Spring is" written by Soji Momota and composed by ShinKusakawa. This is the song of the gradiation ceremony (1953, Showa 28) when I was in the first grade of Kawakami Daini Elemen- tary School in Nagano Prefecture. The composer Shin Kusakawa was from Nagano Prefecture. That may be the reason why the graduation song was his song, but the Daini Elementaly School was brave enough to work on new postwar school education. I am fortunate to have met Kaeko Higuchi, the best teaxher in my life, when I entered this elementary school.
【Haiku】
Yosamu ni mo tsubaki no tsubomi fukuramite
The camellia buds swelled Even in the a little cold in the early spring
Ochikochi no niwa no kaboku ni mebuki kana
Oh! it's a bud on the flowers and trees in the garden here and there