This is how I set out to bury the dust of the last dead man.
If you are going to use my translation, please credit both the original poet and the translator. If not in the story, after the story:
Both victor and vanquished are dewdrops
in which flashes of lightning
briefly illuminate the void.
—Ôuchi Yoshitaka, translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
If you are going to use my translation, please credit both the original poet and the translator. If not in the story, after the story:
Both victor and vanquished are dewdrops
in which flashes of lightning
briefly illuminate the void.
—Ôuchi Yoshitaka, translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch