無き

Japanese

Kanji in this term
無
な Grade: 4
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [na̠kʲi]

Noun

無(な)き • (naki)

-less, lacking, nonexistent
- 1993, Hosai Ozaki, translated by Hiroaki Sato, Right under the big sky, I don't wear a hat: the haiku and prose of Hosai Ozaki, Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press:
  
  わが家(や)の冬木二三本(ふゆぎにさんほん)
  家(いえ)のぐるり落葉(らくよう)にして顔出(がおだ)してゐる
  墓原(はかわら)花(はな)無(な)きこのごろ
  wagaya no fuyugi nisan hon
  ie no gururi rakuyō ni shite gao dashite iru
  hakawara hana naki kono goro
  At my house a few winter trees
  With dead leaves all around his house, poking his face out
  The grave-field flowerless these days

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