無き

Japanese

Kanji in this term
無
な Grade: 4
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [na̠kʲi]

Noun

無(な)き • (naki) 

1. -less, lacking, nonexistent
   • 1993, Hosai Ozaki, translated by Hiroaki Sato, Right under the big sky, I don't wear a hat: the haiku and prose of Hosai Ozaki, Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press:

     わが家(や)の冬木二三本(ふゆぎにさんほん)
     家(いえ)のぐるり落葉(らくよう)にして顔出(がおだ)してゐる
     墓原(はかわら)花(はな)無(な)きこのごろ

     wagaya no fuyugi nisan hon
     ie no gururi rakuyō ni shite gao dashite iru
     hakawara hana naki kono goro

     At my house a few winter trees
     With dead leaves all around his house, poking his face out
     The grave-field flowerless these days