“Two Young Women on a Verandah Watching Plovers,” from the series Stylish Six Poetic Immortals (Fūryū rokkasen: Ki no Tomonori, jū)
Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章 Japanese
Not on view
Yū sareba
Sao no kawara no
kawakaze ni
tomo madowashite
chidori naku nari
As evening descends
on the banks of Sao River,
plovers cry out, as though
they’ve lost a friend
in the wind across the river.
[Signed] Ki no Tomonori
(ca. 850–ca. 904)
—Trans. John T. Carpenter
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