"Lament!" does it say? Is it the moon that makes me dwell on things? – No, and yet, look at the tears flowing down my reproachful face!
Master of the Law Saigyō
Translation from Mostow, Joshua S. Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1995.
"Lament!" does it say? Is it the moon that makes me dwell on things? – No, and yet, look at the tears flowing down my reproachful face!