Mountain Home

“Oh to have a home

In such a quiet leafy spot,

Yearns the city man;

Yet he never builds a hut

In mountain country!"

Okuma Kotomichi (1798-1868)

(tr. from the Japanese by Yukuo Uyehara and Marjorie Sinclair)

“Wa ga yado wo

Koko ni mo ga na to

Miyakobito

Ii no mi iite

Sumanu yamazato.”