#160 Autumn is especially depressing in human villages deep in the mountains..
| Size： | about 36×9 cm |
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| Dressing： | framed |
What verse?
| verse: | Wakeiri te, dare ka ha hito no, tadunu beki, iwa kage kusa no, shigeru yamadi wo |
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| (imho): | Will someone climb over the rocks and cut through the grass and seek me out and ask me? That could never happen. |
| poet: | Saigyo |
| in: | 1190? |
Note
The “hito” which means someone must be Saigyo himself. He liveed alone and quietly in a mountain village “yamazato”, and had no friends to talk to. I wonder if he once in a while looked objectively at himself enduring the loneliness and decided to compose this poem with self-mockery and love for him.