
枯朶に烏のとまりけり秋の暮
枯れ枝に鴉のとまりけり 秋の暮
(かれえだにからすのとまりけりあきのくれ)
Kareeda ni
Karasu no tomarikeri
Aki no kure
#1 trans
On a bare branch
A crow is perched -
Autumn evening
#2
On the dead limb
squats a crow -
autumn night *
#3
On a bare branch
a crow has alighted
autumn evening.
#4
A crow
has settled on a bare branch
Autumn evening
#5
On a withered branch,
A crow has stopped
Autumn's eve
#6
A lone crow
sits on a dead branch
this autumn eve
* My copy ISBN13: 9780140444599 has this second translation.