Kaoru Iino – Japanese Tanka

Kaoru Iino – Country Director, Japan  . IE Business School | IE University.

Reading:

Japanese Tanka  by Shikino Miko (志貴皇子) , (8th century).

Beside a fall

Where water strikes the rocks

Brocken sprouted

Ah spring has come

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石ばしる　垂水の上の　さ蕨の　萌え出づる春に　なりにけるかも
Iwabashiru Tarumino Ueno Sawarabino Moeizuru Haruni Narinikerukamo