The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse by Geoffrey Bownas & Anthony Thwaite

Author:Geoffrey Bownas & Anthony Thwaite
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141931890
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2009-08-11T04:00:00+00:00

All were moved by this same sadness and wept, their tears falling on the dried rice and making it sodden…

They continued on their journey and came to a wide river, called the Sumida, which divides the provinces of Musashi and Shimōsa. As they stood in a listless huddle on the bank, thinking sadly about the great distance they had come, the ferryman shouted at them, ‘Come aboard quickly, for the sun is setting.’ They went on board and were about to cross, each of them thinking forlornly about his friends and dear ones in the capital. It chanced that just at the time a bird was sporting on the water and eating fish. The size of a snipe, it had white feathers and a red beak and legs. It was not a bird known in the capital so that, as they were none of them familiar with it, they asked the ferryman, who replied, ‘This is the Capital Bird.’ Hearing this, one of them recited:

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