[One of] two poems composed when they assembled at the residence of Junior Secretary of Ceremonial Otomo sukune Ikenushi for a banquet on the 23rd day.
初雪は千重に降りしけ恋ひしくの多かる我れは見つつ偲はむ
patuyuki pa O, first snows
Ōhara no Imaki
月夜よみ鳴く霍公鳥見まく欲り我れ草取れり見む人もがも
tukuyo yomi On a fair moonlit night
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しぐれ降る暁月夜紐解かず恋ふらむ君と居らましものを
sigure puru Showers fall
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A miscellaneous poem on spring.
久方之 天芳山 此夕 霞霏［］ 春立下
ひさかたの天の香具山この夕霞たなびく春立つらしも
pisakata no Upon eternal
ひさかたの天つしるしと水無し川隔てて置きし神代し恨めし
pisakata no The eternal
山辺にはさつ男のねらひ畏けどを鹿鳴くなり妻が目を欲り
yamabe ni pa In the mountain meadows
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[One of] Seven poems composed at a banquet at the residence of the Tachibana Minister of the Right.
この岡に小鹿踏み起しうかねらひかもかもすらく君故にこそ
kono woka ni Upon this hill
Kosobe no Shitsuma
春日野に煙立つ見ゆ娘子らし春野のうはぎ摘みて煮らしも
kasugano nio Above Kasuga Plain
百足らず八十隈坂に手向けせば過ぎにし人にけだし逢はむかも
momo tarazu Not reaching one hundred are
Osakabe no Tarimaro
[One of] Four poems composed by the Riverside Courtier on seeing the coffin of a lady in the pine groves of Himeshima in Wadō 4 [712].
妹もわれも清の河の川岸の妹が悔ゆべき心は持たじ
imo mo ware mo Both my darling and I, too,
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