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Kokinshu #109
Saturday, 9 July 2011 09:44 Written on the bush warbler singing.
Flowers scattering
in the wind of his own wings
flitting branch to branch:
who is he trying to blame
with his crying out so much?
kozutaeba
ono ga hakaze ni
chiru hana o
tare ni oosete
kokora nakuramu
---L.
Flowers scattering
in the wind of his own wings
flitting branch to branch:
who is he trying to blame
with his crying out so much?
—3 July 2011
Original by Sosei. If it didn't introduce my own metaphor, one that distracts from the wing-wind, I might have gone for "crying up a storm" in the last line.kozutaeba
ono ga hakaze ni
chiru hana o
tare ni oosete
kokora nakuramu
---L.