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"Billion Mother" monument



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,