間 Ma

Spring · Blossoms · 桜 sakura

Coming to see the flow’rs, I sleep Beneath the flowers, being free.

Yosa Buson

hana ni kite · hana ni ineburu · itoma kana

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 353; lines re-broken

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