 | (Selected Poems of Masaoka Shiki, Translated by Janine Beichman) |  |
病む我をなぐさめがほに開きたる牡丹の花を見れば悲しも
yamu ware o
nagusamegao ni
hirakitaru
botan no hana o
mireba kanashi mo
as if to cheer me
on my bed of pain,
the peony spreads
its petals wide and
seeing this I grieve
| (Selected Poems of Masaoka Shiki, Translated by Janine Beichman) | |