Hyakunin Isshu #10

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    This, then, is the place--
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.