Summer · Fireflies · 蛍 hotaru
Haply the summer grasses are A relic of the warriors’ dream.
夏草や 兵どもが 夢の跡
natsu-gusa ya · tsuwamono-domo ga · yume no ato
Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 305; lines re-broken
Summer · Fireflies · 蛍 hotaru
夏草や 兵どもが 夢の跡
natsu-gusa ya · tsuwamono-domo ga · yume no ato
Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 305; lines re-broken