A morning glory
       closing up in the daytime
              the lock on my gate
asagao ya / hiru wa jō orosu / mon no kaki

*

To my brushwood door
       fallen tea leaves for my tea
              swept here by the storm

shiba no to ni / cha o konoha kaku / arashi kana

*

In my hermitage
       a square of light on the floor
              the window-shaped moon

waga yado wa / shikkakuna kage o / mado no tsuki

*

The east and the west
      the melancholy all one
              the autumnal wind

higashi nishi / awaresa hitotsu / aki no kaze

*

For today at least
       let us all be the aged
              The first winter rains
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