Monday, December 31, 2007

A kind of fish

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On the way to work I was reading Japanese ghost stories and came across this poem:

Yoru bakari
Miru mono nari to
Omou-nayo!
Hiru sae yume no
Ukiyo nari-keri.

Think not that dreams appear to the dreamer
only at night: the dream of this world of pain
appears to us even by day.


Mitate no Kinko by Suzuki Harunobu (18th Century)

Jane Learns the Hula

2 comments:

Ogg the Caveman said...

Murst!

I particularly like the one with the scorpion being dragged for some reason.

Akubi said...

So do I. At first I thought it was a lobster which would fit into a seafood theme; however, a scorpion will do in a pinch.