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Distant rain, Ocean Beach, San Francisco: photo by Mila Zinkova, January 2006
The evenings of the ancients
Were like mine,
This evening of cold rain.
Rain falling on the streets of Kolkata: photo by Monster eagle, 2007
The winter rain
Shows what is before our eyes
As though it were long ago.
Evening rain at Azuma Shrine: AndÅ Hiroshige, from the series Eight views in the environs of Edo, between 1827-1840 (Japanese prints and drawings, Library of Congress)
This post dedicated to Don Wentworth
The evenings of the ancients / The winter rain: Yosa Buson (1716-1783), translated by Reginald Horace Blyth
The evenings of the ancients / The winter rain: Yosa Buson (1716-1783), translated by Reginald Horace Blyth