Japan in Cherry Blossom Time (2007) on our YT Haiku Society travels.
Petals carpeted the walkways and blew into corners!
yo no naka wa/ mikka minu ma ni/ sakura kana
Ah, this world of ours:
just three days I don't look out---
and cherry blossoms!
Oshima Ryota
(1718-1787)
Traditional Japanese Poetry; an anthology;
translated, with an Introduction by Steven D. Carter,
Stanford University Press, 1991, page 403.
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