“In the empty mountains
The leaves of the bamboo grass
Rustle in the wind.
I think of a girl
Who is not here.”

XVII, p. 19
Kenneth Rexroth's translations, One Hundred Poems from the Japanese (1955)

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“In the empty mountains
The leaves of the bamboo grass
Rustle in the wind.
I think of a girl
Who is not here.”