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Thursday, July 30, 2009

Faces of Japan

A poem by Ono no Komachi - 9th Century

Yumeji ni wa
Ashi mo yasumezu
Kayoedomo
Utsutsu ni hitome
Mishigoto wa arazu

Though I go to you
ceaselessly along dream paths,
the sum of those trysts
is less than a single glimpse
granted in the waking world.

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