間 Ma

Autumn · Leaves · 紅葉 momiji

A hundred tendrils, yea! and all From the same vine that is their heart.

Fukuda Chiyo-ni

hyakunari ya · tsuru hitosuji no · kokoro yori

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 348; lines re-broken

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