奥山に
紅葉踏みわけ
鳴く鹿の
声きく時ぞ
秋はかなしき

Oku-yama ni
momiji fumi-wake
naku shika no
koe kiku toki zo
aki wa kanashiki

Autumn at its saddest—

Rustling through the leaves

and moving on alone

deep into the mountains,

I hear a lonely stag

belling for his doe.

–Sarumaru no Dayū猿丸大夫

Art by Kano Tan’yu