Tower in Fukushuen, Kumemura, Okinawa

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Perilous High Tower

Xu Baoguang 1671-1740 This Typhoon          lugs the rain                  under its arm, The high tower         like some stage drama                 swings and sways. No matter if I hang onto          bannister or bookcase, It's as if          I were rafting                  on the raging sea!

Wēilóu

Xú Bǎoguāng 1671-1740 Jùfēng xié yǔ lāi, Wēilóu jù yáodàng. Bùài yǐ kǎn shū, Rú zài hǎi chá shàng.

Translator:

Dongbo 東波

Notes: Late summer every year the Ryukyus are visited by devastating typhoons. Xu Baoguang must have lived through a few!

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Fukushuen 福州園

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