Yukikurete       ko-no-shita kage o       yado toseba       hana ya koyoi no       aruji naramashi                    Taira-no Tadanori (1144-1184)       Surpris par la nuit       de l'ombrage de ces arbres       ferai mon abris       et lors des fleurs je ferai       mes hôtesses d'une nuit                    (trad. René Sieffert)       Nacht überfällt mich       so will ich unter dem Baum       Herberge nehmen       und die Blüten des Kirschbaums       soll'n heute Nacht mein Wirt sein                    (Übersetzer unbekannt)              Calligraphy by       Overtaken by darkness       I will lodge under       the boughs of a tree       flowers alone       host me tonight                    (transl. Yoel Hoffmann)       Now the night descends,       My hostelry is the shadow of a cherry tree.       My host; a flower.                    (translation found once on the WEB)       Were I,       still traveling as night falls,       to make a sheltering tree my inn,       then would my host tonight       be the blossoms themselves?              (transl. Royall Tyler, from WIKIPEDIA)