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Tokeiji
Inscription on the Tomb of Reginald Horace Blyth (1898 -1964)
Photography by Museki Abe, Tokyo, JP

 

shizukasa ya iwa ni shimiiru semi no koe
In this hush profound,
...Into the very rocks it seeps--
......The cicada sound.

Matsuo Basho (tr. by Dorothy Britton)

*this haiku is not the tomb inscription.