Hyakunin Isshu #10
Wednesday, 15 July 2009 08:12![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lnhammer This, then, is the place--
Travelers and returners,
Both unknown strangers
And those who know each other,
Parting at Meetinghills Gate.
---L.
Travelers and returners,
Both unknown strangers
And those who know each other,
Parting at Meetinghills Gate.
—14 July 2009
A translation, based on ponies and discussion here, of Semimaru's poem from 100 Poems by 100 Poets. "Meetinghills" is the literal meaning of Ausaka (modern Osaka), a road station in a pass northeast of the Heian Japan capital of Kyoto.---L.