In This Endless Rain Poem by Ki no Tsurayuki

In This Endless Rain

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In this endless rain
You make the very sky resound,
Cuckoo.
What regrets have you,
To cry so all night long?

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Fabrizio Frosini 12 August 2016

Tsurayuki composed this waka on hearing a cuckoo sing

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Fabrizio Frosini 12 August 2016

五月雨のそらもとどろに郭公なにをうしとかよただなくらむ samidare no sora mo todoro ni Fototogisu nani wo usi to ka yotada nakuramu In this endless rain You make the very sky resound, Cuckoo. What regrets have you, To cry so all night long? Ki no Tsurayuki - 紀貫之 Kokinshū - KKS III: 160

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