Once, when he had gone hunting in the company of Prince Koretaka, they dismounted by the banks of a river called Ama no Gawa (River of Heaven), and while they were tippling, the Prince commanded that Narihira offer him a wine cup with a poem expressing the feelings of a hunter arriving at the river of Heaven, so he composed the following:
| kari kurasi tanabatatume ni yado karamu ama no kaFara ni ware Fa kinkeri |
While hunting night is falling, So from the Weaver Maid Let us beg lodging For to the Riverbank of Heaven Have we come! |
Ariwara no Narihira
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