Translation #116.

(edit)

by #22. Burton Watson

Text:
Even a person free of passion
would be moved
to sadness:
autumn evening
in a marsh where snipes fly up

Original text:

#115.
(edit)こゝろなき / 身にも哀は / しられけり / しぎたつさ… Kokoro naki / mi nimo aware wa / shirarekeri / shigi tatsu sa… by #115 Saigyô .

References.

Books:

#89.
Available on page 81 of Saigyô, poems of a mountain home.

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