SKKS XIV: 1307

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あはれとてとふ人のなどなかるらんものおもふやどのおぎのうは風

aware tote
tou hito no nado
nakaruran
mono’omou yado no
ogi no uwa kaze
O, how sad!
Why of visitors
Should there be not one?
In melancholy, where I dwell
The wind comes upon the bush-clover leaves.

The Monk Saigyō
西行

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