Wednesday, January 22, 2014

御殿 (Goten)

The ancient fortress, safe house
For the travelling shogun, is now
Overgrown with suburban trees
Shading where samurai would allow
Servants, messengers, and petitioners
To enter with a kowtow,
A once fearful place, now softened
By plum blossoms on the bough...


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