On the death of Issa’s infant child:
Translated by Lewis Mackenzie:
露の世は露の世ながらさりながら
(Tsuyu no yo wa tsuyu no yo nagara sari nagara)
This dewdrop world —
Is a dewdrop world,
And yet, and yet . . .
On the death of Issa’s infant child:
Translated by Lewis Mackenzie:
露の世は露の世ながらさりながら
(Tsuyu no yo wa tsuyu no yo nagara sari nagara)
This dewdrop world —
Is a dewdrop world,
And yet, and yet . . .