APR 15, Japan Visit: around Matsumoto

 

a small shrine on a steep hillside

poem inscribed on a boulder

a tiny spring drips into this grotto

another poetic offering

  

good wishes from the afterlife

central portion of Honshu, Japan's main island,
as 'covered' in our trip

CLASSIC JAPANESE HAIKU, in translation

o, snail

climb Mount Fuji

but slowly, slowly!

Kobayashi Issa

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