間 Ma

Summer · Fireflies · 蛍 hotaru

’Tis evening, and in serried file Stand the bare pinnacles of cloud.

Mukai Kyorai

yūgure ya · hage narabitaru · kumo no mine

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 331; lines re-broken

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