KKS I: 55

Composed on seeing cherry trees in the mountains.

見てのみや人にかたらむさくら花てごとにおりていへづとにせん

mite nomi ya
Fito ni kataramu
sakurabana
tegotoni orite
iFeduto ni sen
Should I this simple sight
Describe to folk?
Cherry blossoms
Plucked by hand
Would be taken as a gift.

The Monk Sosei
素性法師

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