間 Ma

Summer · Fireflies · 蛍 hotaru

My razor, in a single night, Is rusted by the rains of June.

Nozawa Bonchō

kamisori ya · ichiya ni sabite · samidare

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 339; Chamberlain names the poet “Hanchō”; lines re-broken

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