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A pine-cricket All in vain is chirping now, In my weed-grown house. Shōhaku	Autumn (pine-cricket). It chirps in vain because she does not hear it. The house is deserted.
On the mountain I staked out Now lodges only the moon. Sōgi	Autumn (moon). Links to loneliness of preceding verse. Pun: “shines clear” for “lodges.”
I awake from sleep To the tolling of the bell, My dreams unfinished. Sōchō	His plans for the future are interrupted.
I have piled upon my brow The frosts of night after night. Shōhaku	With age his hair turns white, as he remembers as he lies awake at night.

Translated by Donald Keene