A leaf whirls down whirls down, alackaday! A leaf whirls down upon the breeze.

Hattori Ransetsu

一葉散る 咄ひとはちる 風の上

hito-ha chiru · totsu hito-ha chiru · kaze no ue

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 245; Chamberlain does not name the poet; lines re-broken