間 Ma

Summer · Fireflies · 蛍 hotaru

Over the summer moor,— our guide One shouldering fodder for his horse.

Matsuo Bashō

magusa ou · hito o shiori no · natsu-no kana

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 246; lines re-broken

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