Kokinshu #172

(Topic unknown.)

    Only yesterday
we transplanted the seedlings.
    All of a sudden
the rice leaves are rustling
and the autumn winds blowing.

—5 November 2011

(Original author unknown.) "Rustling" is not a perfect translation, as it can imply drier leaves than the susurrating of soyogu, but it's the closest English equivalent without resorting to direct onomatopoeia. Compare the timeslip to #116.


kinô koso
sanae torishika
itsu no ma ni
inaba soyogite
akikaze no fuku

---L.