by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Translation by Harold G. Henderson
Loneliness
Language: English after the English
No sky at all no earth at all — and still the snowflakes fall...
Confirmed with Harold Gould Henderson, Intro to Haiku; An Anthology of Poems and Poets from Basho to Shiki, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012, p.174
Text Authorship:
- by Harold G. Henderson , "Loneliness" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in English by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [text unavailable]
Based on:
- a text in Japanese (日本語) by Kajiwara Hashin (b. 1864) [text unavailable]
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