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.急度した宿もなくて夕乙鳥
kitto shita yado mo naku[te] yû tsubame
no definite place
to spend the night...
evening swallow
Or: "evening swallows." French translator Jean Cholley chooses the plural, arondes; En village de miséreux: Choix de poèmes de Kobayashi Issa (Paris: Gallimard, 1996) 135.
I prefer to picture a single swallow making its way across the evening sky: a lone traveler, like Issa.
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