KKS X: 435

Kutani (a flower)

ちりぬればのちはあくたになる花を思ひしらずもまどふてふかな

tirunureba
noti Fa akuta ni
naru Fana wo
omoFisirazu mo
madoFu tefu kana
When they fall
They’ll be just trash
These blossoms:
It knows that not,
That dizzied butterfly.

Archbishop Henjō
僧正遍照

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