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Deep in the night, the houses among the trees silently stand under the round, misty moon. Sasaki Nobutsuna wrote:
"The circle moon in the sky...The houses sunk in silencebehind the doors."
I used to think that Dr. Sasaki was a very pompous scholar of Man'yoshu, a collection of poems of the 8th century. When I read this poem, however, I was delighted to note a relaxed quality reminiscent of a nursery song.
In "The Misty Moon," I wanted to paint a landscape to suggest the atmosphere that the poem describes.