Thirty casual poems at my grass hut (27):

No color is to show

As the mind for people,

Except for seeing

Dews and frost forming.

 

 

Sōan-no gū-ei sanjisshu (27):

Kokoro-tote

Hito-ni misu-beki

Iro-zo naki

Tada tsuyu-shimo-no

Musubu-nomi mite

 

 

 

草庵之偶詠三十首 (27):

心とて

人に見すべき

色ぞなき

只露霜の

結ぶのみ見て

 

 

 

 

                  Photo by James Stanfield, National Geographic

Photograph by Nellie Bunce, National Geographic