To go through this life, not meeting for even as short a time as the space between two nodes of a reed in Naniwa Inlet – is that what you are telling me?
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Translation from Mostow, Joshua S. Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1995.
To go through this life, not meeting for even as short a time as the space between two nodes of a reed in Naniwa Inlet – is that what you are telling me?