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Sunday, 3 September 2023

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

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

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