Sunday, January 30, 2011

Buson: Winter Rain


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Distant rain, Ocean Beach, San Francisco: photo by Mila Zinkova, January 2006





The evenings of the ancients
Were like mine,
This evening of cold rain.




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Rain falling on the streets of Kolkata: photo by Monster eagle, 2007





The winter rain
Shows what is before our eyes
As though it were long ago.






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Evening rain at Azuma Shrine
: Andō Hiroshige, from the series
Eight views in the environs of Edo, between 1827-1840 (Japanese prints and drawings, Library of Congress)


This post dedicated to Don Wentworth

The evenings of the ancients / The winter rain
: Yosa Buson (1716-1783), translated by Reginald Horace Blyth