GSS I: 12

A poem from the Poetry Contest held by the Empress Dowager during the reign of the Kanpyō emperor.

吹風や春立ち来ぬと告げつらん枝にこもれる花咲きにけり

Fuku kaze ya
Faru tatikinu to
tuketuran
eda ni komoreru
Fana sakinikeri
Is it the blowing breeze that
Spring’s arrival does
Announce?
For once tightly closed upon the branch
Blossom has bloomed.

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