みだれ髮

庫裏の藤に春ゆく宵のものぐるひ

御經のいのちうつつをかしき


Evening of departing spring -
How alive!
- the sutra
chanted by that insane girl
under the temple wisteria.

Yosano Akiko (trans. Sanford Goldstein & Seishi Shinoda)