Into the depths (Jingika book of the Senzaishū, SZS XX: 1278) - Priest En'i

Into the depths

I traversed the

Road of the kami,

And when the path led no higher –

Pine winds on the peak

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Priest En'i [Saigyō] (1118 - 1190) Japan

Translated by Donald Keene

Source: Poems of the Gods of the Heaven and the Earth, Christina E. Olinyk, University of Massachusetts Amherst dissertation, 2010