翻訳の言語: 英語
Rumor of a ghost
Coming back from the Buddhist funeral of his late father Dazai Kenji (magistrate of the Dazaifu area), Minamoto Toshiyori, a poet of the 12th century, saw a Biwa hÅshi (a blind Buddhist monk traveling in the city of Biwa) while coming through Chikuzen Ashiya (currently Ashiya in the Fukuoka prefecture) and he wrote the following poem: