Pirus in flore.

-- Prima Pars --

Pirus in flore,
sub Lunae luce mulier
litteras legit.

Sub pirifloribus
in lunisplendore ea
litteras legit.

[Yosa Buson #205.]
nashi no hana / tsuki ni fumi yomu / oñna ari.

"pear's blossom(s) / in Moon(-light) letter(s) reading /
woman there-is."
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-- Secunda Pars --

Ver prope praeter,
tamen tergiversatur
cerasifloribus.

[Yosa Buson #214.]
yuku haru ya / shun-jun to shite / oso-zakura.

"going spring -- / of go-back-go-around doing /
late (-blooming) - cherry-blossoms (-/trees)."

tergiversatur = "turns his/her/its back" >
seeks/finds excuses not to do or become something,
tarries, dawdles, hesitates.
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-- Tertia Pars --

Cuculus parvus
lineam penicilli volat
trans Heian Urbem.

[Yosa Buson #236.]
hototogisu / Heiañ-jô wo / suji-kaï ni.

"little-cuckoo / Heian(-capital) - above (acc.) /
line/streak - stroke-of-a-brush by/-ly > diagonally."
場 jô = place, grounds // 上 jou = above; (prefix) governmental, imperial.

Heian-kyô (= Kyôto) founded in 794 by Emperor Kammu.
Capital until 1868. Yosa Buson lived from 1716 till 1783.
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Translations: 白狐