[Text of the poem in Japanese]
[Japanese text in English transliteration]
kumo no mine
ikutsu kuzurete
tsuki no yama
[English translation by Donald Keene]:
The peaks of clouds
Have crumbled into fragments—
The moonlit mountain!
Source of the text - Matsuo Bashō, The Narrow Road to Oku, translated by Donald Keene. Tokyo, New York: Kodansha International, 1996, pages 108, 115.
TJB: Skyfall. With seasonal awareness & a strong cut, the poem not only describes but also enacts the disillusion of clouds, replaced by a mountain.
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