"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
Hermitage
Saigyō (1118-1190), Spring Showers in a Mountain Dwelling—written at Ōhara, tr. Burton Watson:
Curtained by spring showers
pouring down from the eaves,
a place where someone lives,
idle, idle,
unknown to others.
