[Lika_k]

Lady Izumi Shikibu
I go out of the darkness
Onto a road of darkness
Lit only by the far off
Moon on the edge of the mountains.

(from "One Hundred Poems from the Japanese)

transl. by Kenneth Rexroth

Kuraki Yori
kuraki michi ni zo,
Irinu beki,
Haruka ni terase
Yama no ha no tsuki

@темы: 10, i, japanese, eastern, 11