Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Reading on a Winter Night
Kan Chazan (1747-1827), "Reading on a Winter Night," tr. Donald Keene, World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867 (New York: Grove Press, 1978), p. 550:
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Snow has engulfed the mountain house; shadows of trees lie deep.
Bells at the eaves are motionless; the night is perfectly still.
As I quietly put away my pile of books, I ponder what I have read:
One thread of blue lampwick and ten thousand years of thoughts.
