in autumn town
AUTUMN GRASSES(Shibata Zeshin,
Autumn Grasses,
two-panel screen)
In fields of bush clover and hay-scent grassthe autumn moon takes refuge
The cricket's song is gold
Zeshin's loneliness taught him this
Who is coming?What will come to pass, and pass?
Neither bruise nor sweetness nor cool airnot-knowing
knows the way
And the moon?
Who among us does not wander, and flare
and bow to the ground?
Who does not savor, and stand open
if only in secret
taking heart in the ripening of the moon?
Margaret Gibson
From Autumn Grasses
by Margaret Gibson.
Copyright © 2003 by Margaret Gibson.
Reproduced with permission of Louisiana State University Press.
All rights reserved.
Labels: henri riviere, margaret gibson, poetry, seitei (shotei) watanabe, zeshin sabata
posted by lotusgreen at 12:33 PM
6 Comments:
Those two bottom pieces are just sublime.
seems to me you commented on watanabe seitei before--yeah, just checked--you did. isn't his stuff wonderful?
i love the second one from the bottom,i think it's not in right position,but it's still looks great!
should the two bottom ones switch?
i mean the second one from the bottom should be horizontal, if base on the direction of signature and seal.
Sorry about that!No need to change anything,they are great!
oh my! thank you hp. one time when i was publishing my magazine, i flipped an image so the people's heads would end up on the front. didn't even occur to me (how young i was) that i was also reversing all of that japanese language written all around the people. didn't really matter after all though because the japanese was of a sufficiently ancient nature that it couldn't be read ever right-way around....
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