4380350A Hundred Verses from Old Japan — Poem 32William Ninnis PorterHarumichi no Tsuraki

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HARUMICHI NO TSURAKI

Yama gawa ni
Kaze no kaketaru
Shigarami wa
Nagare mo aenu
Momiji nari keri.


TSURAKI HARUMICHI

The stormy winds of yesterday
The maple branches shook;
And see! a mass of crimson leaves
Has lodged within that nook,
And choked the mountain brook.


The writer of this verse died in the year 864.