No.4 Beauty Made Perfect
8th century
Beauty Made Perfect
When to Tago’s coast
I the way have gone, and see
Perfect whiteness laid
On Mount Fuji’s lofty peak
By the drift of falling snow.
Yamabe no Akahito (Akahito of Yamabe)
Tago no ura
Ni uchi-idete mireba
Shirotae no
Fuji no takane ni
Yuki wa furi-tsutsu.
About this poetry
At Salty Dog Digital we’ve decided to gradually republish Clay MacCauley’s translation of Single Songs of a Hundred Poets – a collection of japanese poetry from the seventh through thirteenth centuries. Sixty four of these poems are the rewards in our game fourtex zen.
No.5 The Stag's Cry in Autumn
No.3 A Song Of Longing