“The colored leaves
Have hidden the paths
On the autumn mountain.
How can I find my girl,
Wandering on ways I do not know?”

XXIII, p. 25
Kenneth Rexroth's translations, One Hundred Poems from the Japanese (1955)

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Aki yama no Momiji wo shigemi Mado inuru Imo wo motomenu Yama ji shirazu mo

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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.”

Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (662–710) Japanese poet

XVII, p. 19
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