Curio No. 32

 

 From One Hundred Poems From Old Japan 

Minamoto no Muneyuki 

These mountain huts and hamlets
are lonelier by far
when winter comes around
Just as the grass has withered,
friends too have vanished—so it seems

yamazato wa
fuyu zo sabishisa
ma sari keru
hitóme mo kusa mo
karenu to omoeba 

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