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Saturday, July 22, 2006

Rice tax is the half of harvest

1814 52 years old.

一茶
枯々や俵の山になく烏
karegare ya tawara no yama ni naku karasu

David’s English
winter withering
on a pile of rice bags
the crow caws

sakuo Renku
米の半分年貢で取られ
kome no hanbun nengu de torare

the half of the harvest
robbed as rice-tax

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