the milky way
at midnight
a drunkard dances
about Santōka's alcoholism he struggled with this problem for a good deal of his life. On several occasions he was even arrested for public drunkenness and vagrancy.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
in a slight different translation: '' ama no kawa mayonaka no yoidore wa odoru'' '' beneath the River of Heaven / the drunkard dances all night '' (the 'River of Heaven' is the Milky Way for the Japanese people)