間 Ma

Spring · Blossoms · 桜 sakura

You little sparrows left without A mother, come and play with me.

Kobayashi Issa

ware to kite · asobe ya oya no · nai suzume

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 357; lines re-broken

Leave a word