間 Ma

Summer · Fireflies · 蛍 hotaru

The dream I dreamt has faded, but The iris keeps its colours yet.

Ōme Shūshiki

mishi yume no · samete mo iro no · kakitsubata

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 344; lines re-broken

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