ara tōto / aoba wakaba no / hi no hikari
Awe inspiring! / on the green leaves, budding leaves / light of the sun. (© Haruo Shirane)
Ah, awesome sight! / on summer leaves and spring leaves / the radiance of the sun! (© Helen Craig McCullough)
O holy, hallowed shrine! / How green all the fresh young leaves / In the bright sun shine! (© Dorothy Britton)
O glorious / green leaves young leaves' / sun light (© Cid Corman and Kamaike Susume)
As all begins afresh, / On the green leaves, on the young leaves / The brightness of the sun. (© Earl Miner)
It is with awe / That I beheld / Fresh leaves, green leaves, / Bright in the sun. (© Nobuyuki Yuasa)
How awe-inspiring! / On the green leaves, the young leaves / the light of the sun. (© Donald Keene)
so holy: / green leaves, young leaves, / in sun’s light (© David Landis Barnhill)
how holy a place ... / green leaves, young leaves, and through them / the sunlight now bursts (© Tim Chilcott)
how glorious! The green leaves, young leaves / the sun sparkling (© Haider A. Khan & Tadashi Kondo)
Ah, holiness - / Upon leaves young, leaves green / Sun’s glow. (© Takafumi Saito & William R. Nelson)
how glorious / young green leaves / flash in the sun (© Jane Reichhold)
how solemn! / green leaves, young leaves, and through them / the rays of the sun (© Makoto Ueda)
ara umi ya / Sado ni yokotau / Ama-no-gawa
A wild sea! / And stretching across to the Island of Sado / the Galaxy. (© R.H.Blyth – I volume)
A wild sea, / and stretching out towards the Island of Sado / the Milky Way. (© R.H.Blyth- – II volume)
So wild a sea - / and, stretching over Sado Isle, / the Galaxy . . . (© Harold G. Henderson)
A wild sea– / stretching to Sado Isle / the Milky Way. (© Haruo Shirane)
the rough sea – / flowing toward Sado Isle / the River of Heaven (© Makoto Ueda)
The rough sea– / extending toward Sado Isle, / the Milky Way. (© Makoto Ueda)
The great Milky Way / Spans in a single arch / The billow-crested sea, / Falling on Sado beyond. (© Nobuyuki
Yuasa)
Wild the rolling sea / over which to Sado Isle / lies the Galaxy. (© Kenneth Yasuda)
High over wild the seas, / surrounding Sado Island, / the River of Heaven (© Sam Hamill)
Across the wild sea / Stretches the Isle of Sado / As does the River of Heaven. (© Thomas McAuley)
turbulent sea; / over Sado Isle / the River of Heaven (© Michael Haldane)
Tumultuous seas: / spanning the sky to Sado Isle, / the Milky Way.(© Helen Craig McCullough)
O'er wild ocean spray / All the way to Sado Isle / Spreads the Milky Way! (© Dorothy Britton)
wild seas / to Sado shoring up / the great star stream (© Cid Corman & Kamaike Susume)
The wild dark ocean: / Streaming over it to Sado Island, / The river of stars. (© Earl Miner)
Turbulent the sea - / across to Sado stretches / The Milky Way. (© Donald Keene)
stormy sea – stretching out over Sado, / Heaven’s River (© David Landis Barnhill)
the fierce sea - / stretching across to Sado Island / the milky way (© Haider A. Khan & Tadashi Kondo)
A surging sea . . . / reaching over Sado Isle / the Galaxy (© Soichi Furuta)
A rough rolling sea - / Above Sado Island / Lies the River of Heaven. (© Takafumi Saito & William R. Nelson)
SEAS ARE WILD TONIGHT... / STRETCHING OVER / SADO ISLAND / SILENT CLOUDS OF STARS (© Peter
Beilenson)
Waves scaling / Sado Island - / heaven’s stream. (© Lucien Stryk)
billow-crested seas! / flowing towards Sado Isle / heaven's Milky Way (© Tim Chilcott)
a rough sea / stretching over to Sado / heaven’s river (© Jane Reichhold)