springtime

wisteria trellis at Kameido Tenjin

 

 

The temple bell stops.
But the sound keeps coming
out of the flowers.

 

Matsuo Basho

 

 

 

 

 

Its house abandoned,
the garden has become home
to butterflies.

 

Iio Sogi (1421-1502)

 


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