On Mount Ogura’s Peak

We present this work in honor of the 1,075th anniversary of the poet’s death.

Ki no Tsurayauki
Japanese
872 – 945

 

On Mount Ogura’s
Peak, he is wont to stand:
The belling stag
Has passed many an autumn;
The number? No one can tell.

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