Otata mo aru hi wa kite kureru yama no aki fukaku
Otata will come again
one day
late fall in the mountains
— Santoka, as translated by Burton Watson
As Watson notes, “Otata was a woman who went around selling fish in the area of Santoka’s cottage in Matsuyama.”
An e-zine of haiku and other short poems, ‘Otata’ appears on the last day of the month.
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