間 Ma

Summer · Fireflies · 蛍 hotaru

She wraps up rice-cakes, while one hand Restrains the hair upon her brow.

Matsuo Bashō

chimaki yū · katate ni hasamu · hitai-gami

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 247; lines re-broken

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