The color of the flowers has faded indeed in vain have I passed through the world while gazing at the falling rains.
Ono no Komachi
Translation from Mostow, Joshua S. Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1995.
The color of the flowers has faded indeed in vain have I passed through the world while gazing at the falling rains.