Dogen’s Doei (道元道詠): Poems in the Way, 18

 

Poem made on “going,standing, sitting, and lying down:

 

Not aware of protecting,

But not useless is

The scarecrow standing

In the paddy in mountains.

 

 

Gyō-jū-za-ga-wo eizu

 

Mamorutomo

Oboenu nagara

Oyamada-no

Itazura-naran

Kagashi-nari-keri

 

 

詠行住坐臥

 

守るとも

覚えぬながら

小山田の

いたずらならん

かがし成りけり

 

 

 

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