Eikyū hyakushu 252

The Ninth Day of the Ninth Month

老いはてて露のしるしもなき身にはなほやをりてん長月の菊

oihatete
tsuyu no shirushi mo
nakimi ni wa
nao ya oriten
nagatsuki no kiku

Greatly aged,
The dew is a sign of
What is gone;
Should I yet pick
A chrysanthemum in the Ninth Month?

Daishin
大進

Waka Poetry