Искусствоед
The Shōgun Minamoto no Sanetomo
If only the world
Would always remain this way,
Some fishermen
Drawing a little rowboat
Up the river bank.
(from "One Hundred Poems from the Japanese)
transl. by Kenneth Rexroth
Yo no naka wa
Tsune ni mogamo na
Nagisa kogu
Ama no obune no
Tsuna de kanashi mo
If only the world
Would always remain this way,
Some fishermen
Drawing a little rowboat
Up the river bank.
(from "One Hundred Poems from the Japanese)
transl. by Kenneth Rexroth
Yo no naka wa
Tsune ni mogamo na
Nagisa kogu
Ama no obune no
Tsuna de kanashi mo