Fujiwara no Masatsune (Asukai Masatsune)
From Yoshino
Mountain the autumn
Wind blows. Night wanes.
The village grows cold.
Fuller's mallets sound*.

(from "One Hundred Poems from the Japanese)

transl. by Kenneth Rexroth

Miyoshino no
Yama no aki kaze
Sayo fukete
Furusato samuku
Koromo utsunari

* "Fuller's mallets sound" refers to the beating of cloth in cold water, at the stream's edge — one of the conventional signs of Autumn common to both Chinese and Japanese poetry, in Chinese, "wen han ch'u", "hear cold mallet".