Ise Shū 27

The following year on the Fifth Day of the Fifth Month, on hearing a cuckoo call

しでの山越えて來つらん郭公戀しき人の上語らなん

side no yama
koete kituran
Fototogisu
koFisiki Fito no
uFe kataranan
The mount of death:
Oh, that you’d come from there,
Cuckoo.
Then of my darling boy,
You could give me news.

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