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 | (Selected Poems of Masaoka Shiki, Translated by Janine Beichman) |  |
薩摩下駄足にとりはき杖つきて萩の芽摘みし昔おもほゆ
Satsuma geta
ashi ni torihaki
tsue tsukite
hagi no me tsumishi
mukashi omōyu
I remember plucking
buds of bush clover
long ago with
Satsuma geta on my feet and
a walking stick in my hand
| (Selected Poems of Masaoka Shiki, Translated by Janine Beichman) | |