On A Summer Night Poem by Ki no Tsurayuki

On A Summer Night

Rating: 5.0


On a summer night,
I wonder if I should to bed, and then
A cuckoo
Gives a single cry and
Bright dawn breaks.

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Fabrizio Frosini 12 August 2016

this Tsurayuki's waka is from a poetry competition held by the Empress, in the Kanpyô period

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Fabrizio Frosini 12 August 2016

夏の夜のふすかとすれば郭公なくひとこゑにあくるしののめ natu no yo no Fusu ka to sureba Fototogisu naku Fito kowe ni akuru sinonome On a summer night, I wonder if I should to bed, and then A cuckoo Gives a single cry and Bright dawn breaks. Ki no Tsurayuki - 紀貫之 Kokinshū - KKS III: 156

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