Saigyou Ayakashi

The story of the Saigyou Ayakashi And other poems

You ask me why I dwell by the great river; I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care. As the cool water flows down stream and is gone into the unknown, I have a world apart that is not among men.

He who casts himself away— has he truly cast himself away? The real castaway is one who casts nothing away at all.

Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.

The Saigyou Ayakashi and the Garden at Hakugyokurou

I crossed fields, and I crossed mountains, and then I crossed over once more. I crossed the land of the living's fence, and then I crossed over once more.

The one I met then for the first time was a season of spring speaking pleasant and high.

With a ton-shan-sharari, ton-sharari, sharari-sharari, the spring danced.

And with a "pleased to meet you", the petals danced too.

So I set to tend the garden, and to trim the trees, and the mischievous spring envelops me. The tender spring envelops me.

However.

That face she'll show every once in a while is like a half-open bud that has never known a full bloom.

A flower, please, a flower, please. A little flower to satisfy her. A flower, please, a flower, please. A garden of flowers to satisfy her. A flower, please, a flower, please. A field of flowers to satisfy her.

A world of flowers to satisfy her. A world of flowers to compliment her beauty.

With a ton-shan-sharari, ton-sharari, sharari-sharari, the spring danced.

And then the spring spoke.

If you shall be my spring..

...then I will be your flower.

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