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Japanese
Pronunciation
Noun
無き • (naki)
- -less, lacking, nonexistent
1993, Hosai Ozaki, translated by Hiroaki Sato, Right under the big sky, I don't wear a hat: the haiku and prose of Hosai Ozaki, Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press:
- わが家の冬木二三本
家のぐるり落葉にして顔出してゐる
墓原花無きこのごろ- wagaya no fuyugi nisan hon
ie no gururi rakuyō ni shite gao dashite iru
hakawara hana naki kono goro - At my house a few winter trees
With dead leaves all around his house, poking his face out
The grave-field flowerless these days