uchi-kawashi

Updated: July 1, 2026

And the conventional and pictorial character of the literary form is illustrated again in the lines: Shira-kumo ni Hane uchi-kawashi Tobu kari no Kazu sae miyuru Aki no yo no tsuki! which the same eminent scholar translates: "The moon on an autumn night making visible the very number of the wild-geese that fly past with wings intercrossed in the white clouds."

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era