間 Ma

Autumn · Leaves · 紅葉 momiji

A rough sea, and the Milky Way Stretching across to Sado’s isle.

Matsuo Bashō

araumi ya · Sado ni yokotau · ama no gawa

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 322; lines re-broken

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