When I hear the voice of the stag crying for his mate stepping through the fallen leaves deep in the mountains – then is the time that autumn is saddest.
Senior Assistant Minister Sarumaru
Translation from Mostow, Joshua S. Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1995.
When I hear the voice of the stag crying for his mate stepping through the fallen leaves deep in the mountains – then is the time that autumn is saddest.