間 Ma

Autumn · Leaves · 紅葉 momiji

In autumn a cicada dead Beside the shell that it cast off.

Naitō Jōsō

nukegara ni · narabite shinuru · aki no semi

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 333; lines re-broken

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