Dezasseis luas jà passaram
e ainda não consegui
sair de Sarashima
- Basho trans. Joaquim M. Palma
At Obusate I will fall
with no one there at all
to see me
a tree in an aging forest
- The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考, Narayama-bushi kō) 1958
- A Medieval Japanese Woman's Travel Diary
