Tokyo monotagori

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Tokyo monotagori

Ku injak tanah Edo ini
berbaur harapan dan impian
terpupuk sejak dua darsawarsa lalu.

Titip-titip rindu
undang semula memori itu:
sekeluarga mengadap peti televisyen
saksi suka dan duka
lihat bobrok dan gemilang
tonton satu perjalanan
tiga perempuan satu nama
membina kehidupan.

Sumimasen, sumimasen…
kamu Kobayashi Ayoko?
geleng kepala
awak Tanaka Yuko?
geleng lagi
anda Otowa Nobuko?
lagi geleng.

Ku cari lagi srikandi
di celah pencakar langit Shinjuku
di tengah kesibukan Marunouchi
di dalam kemewahan Ginza
di balik kecanggihan Akihabara
di mana dikau, srikandiku?
makin kemaruk aku.

Selaut manusia yang dilewati
sedikit demi sedikit; sana dan sini
muncul kesantunannya
hadir kecantikannya
datang kecerdikannya
tampil kecekalannya
dibawa bayu dingin Februari.

Sumimasen, sumimasen…
Oshin desu ka
lagi geleng kepala.

Ku batal niat cari srikandi
tika langkah sampai ke Harajuku
fahamlah aku, sedarlah aku
Edo juga seperti Kuala Lumpur:
kian luluh kulitnya
makin garau suaranya
di celah muda mudi Edo
yang pancawarna, pelbagai bentuk rupa
terbit bisikan sayu
sayonara Oshin-san.


Hasmi Haron
Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA
Februari 2006

Nota Kaki

1. Sajak ini dikarang setahun selepas lawatan sambil belajar penulis ke Tokyo, Jepun yang dibiayai oleh Kerajaan Jepun, menerusi Japan International Cooperation Agency, JICA.

Photolog: Tokyo Disneyland 2010

Where: Tokyo Disneyland, Tokyo
When: 1 October 2010
Time: 15:00 - 20:30
With whom: Liza and the two Razaks.

Alhamdulillah, managed to be like a kid for the whole afternoon. I did not try all rides because all of them had long queues. The two Razaks and I had to be selective. Liza was too lazy to queue so she decided to spend her time at the sourvenir shop. And guess what, she went home earlier.

If I'm not mistaken, I was the last person in the group to leave the theme park. It was all because I wanted to wait for the fireworks. And guys.. the fireworks at the end of the day was awesome. Totally awesome.

Photolog: Tokyo Story 2010

Praise to Allah, I was blessed with another chance of going to Tokyo, Japan. My first visit to the capital city of Japan was in February 2005 on an invitation by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). This time around, I was part of a benchmarking project to study the Japanese landscape of development finance.

We arrived at the Narita International Airport on 26 September 2010, early in the morning. Luckily, a delegation from SME Corp. was in the same flight as us. Dato' Hafsah was so kind and generous to assist us to get to city centre safely. In fact, she, her team and her daughter were very sweet and kind to bring us around to a few places as far as Ueno. Thank you, Dato'. Really, really appreciate it.



Ginza


Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building Observatory


Meiji Jingu (Meiji Shrine)


Harajuku

Roppongi & Tokyo Tower


Imperial Palace & Diet Building


The Financial District


Euno



Tsukiji Fish Market


Omote Sando





Leaving Tokyo