Like his students, I worry always for the future; In the mountain hotel where hi once dwelled, there is no longer the sound of the wooden clogs; When the obasan sees me watching the view from the window, She vaguely reminisces about him.
跟他的學生一樣我常常擔憂未來的事那棟他寄居過的山鎮施舍聽不見木屐聲了看到我眺望窗景時