間 Ma

Summer · Fireflies · 蛍 hotaru

Such heat that, when the child I bear Upon my back plays with my hair,......

Shiba Sonome

ōta ko ni · kami naburaruru · atsusa kana

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 344; lines re-broken

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