lnhammer: animation of the kanji for four seasonal birds fading into each other in endless cycle (Japanese poetry)
lnhammer ([personal profile] lnhammer) wrote in [community profile] poetree 2012-06-17 09:30 pm (UTC)

My favorite poem of the week:

Written on seeing autumn leaves within the sacred fence when he passed by a god's shrine.

chihayaburu
kami no igaki ni
hau kuzu mo
aki ni wa aezu
utsuroinikeri 		    Even the kudzu
creeping within the precinct
    of the mighty gods --
it cannot, against autumn:
it also has changed colors.

Original by Ki no Tsurayuki.

---L.
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