Ⓐ Consciousness Revolutions 🏴A memorial to poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist, social reformer Yosano Akiko (late Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa eras) in Zenrin-ji temple garden in Kyoto. One of her poems, "Cowardice", is below, including an English translation.
卑怯
その路をずつと行くと
死の海に落ち込むと教へられ、
中途で引返した私、
卑怯な利口者であつた私、
それ以来、私の前には
岐路と
迂路とばかりが続いてゐる。
Cowardice
If I followed that road to the end,
I would come to the sea of death, they told me,
and so from halfway along, I turned back,
being me, weak and rational.
Since then all the paths I have roamed
were entangled, and crooked, and forsaken.
