[Lika_k]

Ōtomo no Yakamochi
The cry of the stag
Is so loud in the empty
Mountains that an echo
Answers him as though
It were a doe.

(from "One Hundred Poems from the Japanese)

transl. by Kenneth Rexroth

Yama biko no
Ai to yomu made
Tsuma goi ni
Ka naku yama be ni
Hitori nomi shite

@темы: japanese, o, 8, eastern