Songs of a Cowherd/Spring Shore

by Itō Sachio

 1901 

Spring Shore

(February 23 at the plum garden in Sugita)

Were it not for my love
Who awaits me at home,
I, too, would be a hunter by the sea
Searching for shells!^[1]

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1. To go shell-gathering at low tide in early spring is one of the annual events in Japan.