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Monday, August 04, 2008

maiden flowers

一茶 1815年
寝むしろやたばこ吹かける女郎花
nemushiro ya tabako fukakeru ominaeshi

David’s English
sleeping mat--
pipe smoke wafts over
the maiden flowers

by Issa, 1815 , http://cat.xula.edu/issa/

sakuo Haiga

2 comments:

Pris said...

This is beautiful!!

Unknown said...

Thank you Pris san for your comment.
I like this ku very much.
Each of three lines perfectly is independent as well as they sound each other in one story.

sakuo.