🍂 Ryōkan: In the scenery of spring …#

Birds of the Seasons by Toshi Yoshida, 1977#
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3 In the scenery of spring,
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5 nothing is better, nothing worse;
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7 The flowering branches are
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9 of themselves, some short, some long.
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12 Ryōkan
13 Haiku: Spring, 1950
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15 Translation by Reginald Horace Blyth
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Footnotes#
This poem by Ryōkan was quoted by Alan Watts[1] in one of his lectures[2]; this was what originally motivated me to look for it in full and reproduce it here. The source of the painting is not related to Ryōkan[3].
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