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​"Billion Mother" monument

大きな自然石に敏の筆跡で彫られた「十億の母」の和歌
敏の筆跡が残る「十億の母」の歌碑
竹垣で囲まれた「十億の母」の歌碑

   Probably a billion

   people have a billion

    mothers of their own,

    is there any mother else

    better than my mother?

                          Haya

  Haya Akegarasu composed this Tanka

poetry, when his mother died. After the

death of father at the age of ten, Haya was brought up entirely by his mother. With thanks and sorrow, here is expressed a deep relation to her, through blood and Buddha as well. This simple poetry has become a most famous one, in ten thousand of Haya's Tanka.  

 Translated by T, A,

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