Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 16

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かかる時あらじとおもへば一とせをすべては春になすよしもがな

kakaru toki
araji to omoeba
hito tose o
subete wa haru ni
nasu yoshi mogana
Such times
There cannot be, I feel, so
A single year
Entirely spring,
O, if only I had cause to make it so!

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Right

まてといふにとまらぬ物としりながらしひてぞをしき春のわかれを

mate to iu ni
tomaranu mono to
shirinagara
shiite zo oshiki
haru no wakare wa
Asking it to stay, when that
It will not remain
I know too well—
And yet how strongly I regret
Parting from spring…

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[1] Shinkokinshū II: 172/Shinsen man’yōshū 269

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