間 Ma

Spring · Blossoms · 桜 sakura

An ancient pond! With a sound from the water Of the frog as it plunges in.

Matsuo Bashō

furu ike ya · kawazu tobikomu · mizu no oto

Composed 1686; trans. W. G. Aston, A History of Japanese Literature (1899), p. 295

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