Songs of a Cowherd/A Keeper of the Hills

by Itō Sachio

A Keeper of the Hills
1905

Warabi of Kamifusa oft says:
“Mine is the soul of the cryptomeria.
Soothed is my soul with its sight;
Joyous is my heart with the hills.
Yearly I plant eight thousand cryptomeria.
Thus I shall end my life,
I, a keeper of the hills.”