Is it the river only?— or is the darkness itself drifting? . . . Oh, the fireflies! . . .

Fukuda Chiyo-ni

川ばかり 闇はながれて 蛍かな

kawa bakari · yami wa nagarete · hotaru kana

Trans. Lafcadio Hearn, Kottō (1902), p. 144; lines re-broken