The summer grasses

夏草や 兵どもが 夢の跡

Natsu kusa ya/ Tsuwamono domo ga/ Yume no ato

The summer grasses.

All that remains

Of warriors’ dreams.

*Hiraizumi prospered as the independent country from Japan centered on Kyoto. However in the late Heian Period, the Kamakura government destroyed it.