“I am that one person
Who eats his breakfast,
Gazing at morning nothing.”

Classical Japanese Database, Translation #174 http://carlsensei.com/classical/index.php/translation/view/174 (Translation: Reginald Horace Blyth)
Individual poems
Original: (ja) 朝顔に
我は飯食ふ
男かな
Original: (ja) asagao ni
ware wa meshi kû
otoko kana

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Japanese poet 1644–1694

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