間 Ma

Summer · Fireflies · 蛍 hotaru

A show’r, and skill of every sort In things to put upon the head.

Nakagawa Otsuyū

yūdachi ya · chie sama-zama no · kaburi-mono

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 341; lines re-broken

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