2015-10-12

Masahide

an scioból
dóite go talamh -
feicim an ghealach anois

Barn's burnt down --
now
I can see the moon.

Masahide (1657? - 1723)
English version by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto
from Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter, Translated by Lucien Stryk / Translated by Takashi Ikemoto