The flowing river wraps around Kokura Castle like'n oldén days,
And ownerless place, the croaking crow welcomes when th'guest're approaching.
Cheonsugak(Tenshugaku) has lost it's grandeur, and it's faded away the splendid days,
Yet, it's become a rest-place where cicadas' crying and dragonflies' dancing.
(13th, Jun.,2023, Kinsley Lee)
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Author:
Kinsley Lee (Pseudonym) (
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- Comment from author about the poem: Kokura Castle(Kokurajo) is located in Kita-Kyushu which is the Kushu(Japan) . The around the castle is now became park for all. I translated a poem which I wrote in Chinese Traditional poem for five years before.
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Good write K.
Hi! Orchidee
Thank you for your kind comments. Have a nice day!
from Nobunaga to Yoshimune
from warlords to reformists
the era of shogunate military prowess
to a Japan, with a stunted army
yet once more, change has began
old castles, watch
as nature's music and light serenades
a new generation, that have forgotten
will soon remember, that culture
of Busho warrior as their inheritance
and the horrors of battle, it promises
for future generations...
HI! L. B.
Hi! Thank you for your kind comments and your interesting in Oriental history. Thank you so much. Have nice day!
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