Kinkai wakashū 9

The Day of the Rat

いかにして野中の松のふりぬらんむかしの人はひかずや有りけん

ika ni shite
nonaka no matsu no
furinuran
mukashi no hito wa
hikazu ya ariken
Why is it that
Upon the plain a pine tree
Has grown so old?
Did folk long ago
Fail to pull it up, I wonder?
A kuzushiji version of the poem's text.
Created with Soan.

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