Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
The colored leaves
Have hidden the paths
On the
autumn mountain.
How can I find my girl,
Wandering on ways I do not know?
Aki yama no
Momiji wo shigemi
Mado inuru
Imo wo motomenu
Yama ji shirazu mo
- translated by Kenneth Rexroth
from One Hundred Poems from the Japanese