“I send you a box
Of glowing pearls.
Wear them with irises
And orange blossoms.”
—Yakamochi, translated by Kenneth Rexroth, One Hundred Poems From The Japanese, 1955.
“I send you a box
Of glowing pearls.
Wear them with irises
And orange blossoms.”
—Yakamochi, translated by Kenneth Rexroth, One Hundred Poems From The Japanese, 1955.