間 Ma

Autumn · Leaves · 紅葉 momiji

The well-bucket taken away By the morning-glory— Alas, water to beg!

Fukuda Chiyo-ni

asagao ni · tsurube torarete · morai-mizu

Trans. Yone Noguchi, The Spirit of Japanese Poetry (1914), p. 50; Noguchi does not name the poet

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