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The guide was sent for and questioned, but he knew nothing. The gentleman in green had merely stopped to ask him the time. Tomarite mo Tsubasa wa ugoku Kocho kana! Little butterfly! Even when it settles Its wings are moving. Next morning it was snowing and bitterly cold. Snow in Japan, snow in April, snow upon the cherry trees, what hospitality was this?
A Lafcadio Hearn may write delightfully about that special seventeen syllable form of Japanese verse known as the hokku. Here is a hokku by Basho, one of the most skilled composers in that form. Waga tomo ni sen Neru kocho!" Wake up! "Clad in blue silk and bright embroidery At the first call of Spring the fair young bride, On whom as yet Sorrow has laid no scar, Climbs the Kingfisher's Tower.
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