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Fifteen Poets of Modern Japan/Yaso Saijo

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Fifteen Poets of Modern Japan
translated by Glenn Arthur Hughes and Yowan T. Iwazaki
By the Sea by Yaso Saijo
4420121Fifteen Poets of Modern Japan — By the SeaGlenn Arthur Hughes and Yowan T. IwazakiYaso Saijo

Yaso Saijo

By the Sea

I count seven stars,
Nine golden lighthouses,
And numberless white oysters
Among the rocks.
But the love in my heart
Is single
And lonely.