間 Ma

Summer · Fireflies · 蛍 hotaru

A summer room where, lying down, I see the clouds as they go past.

Shida Yaba

yuku kumo o · nete ite miru ya · natsu-zashiki

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 336; lines re-broken

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