Kugutsu
Kugutsu
The Puppeteers
These were a [wanderer-like] people who wandered about Japan making a living by singing and dancing, operating puppets, and performing feats of magic.
Ceaseless wanderers from of old, the puppeteers,
Over all the earth searching ever a new home.
They pitch their tents and sing in the night to the mountain moon;
Restless they seek new paths; I see their smoke in the spring fields.
Youth in the bright capital, their women pampered favorites;
The years of age alone, watching over a hut of thatch.
The traveler passing far off casts suspicious eyes
At the white hair, the vacant, wrinkled face.
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Fujiwara no Tadamichi (1097-1164)
translated by Burton Watson
Anthology of Japanese Literature ​
compiled and edited by Donald Kenne
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History
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