Letter(s)

[okuri]

このひらは/みえるたけなく/むかしいな きせつまっても/まじめなのうか

a pasture without/ any bamboo growing/ yet: inexcusable waiting for the right season/ earnest farmers face the earth

[ Those who can read Japanese may notice that it's written entirely in hiragana, with no kanji at all. Similarly, it's not too hard to recognize that it's a tanka, a type of Japanese poetry.]