(488) word / tall

Tall: difficult to believe, hard to believe

→a tall tale

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September 2017
("What's Going On" Matsuyama International Center, Ehime)   

HAIKU　俳句

螽焼く爺の話しや嘘だらけ　　子規

   Inago yaku
   Ji no hanashi ya
   Uso darake

   grilling locusts
   an old man
   full of tall tales 

Season word: locust(螽　inago), autumn
Composed in 1898, at age 31
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