Thursday, April 23, 2020
A Thing of No Substance
A kyōka by Kino Sadamaru (1760-1841), tr. Burton Watson, From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986), p. 362:
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Though this body, I know,
is a thing of no substance,
must it fade, alas,
so swiftly,
like a soundless fart?
Labels: noctes scatologicae
