KKS XIII: 671

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風ふけば浪打岸の松なれやねにあらはれて泣きぬべら也

kaze Fukeba
nami utu kisi no
matu nare ya
ne ni araFarete
nakinuberanari
When the wind does blow,
Waves strike the shorebound
Pines—am I such, I wonder?
Wave-washed roots exposed,
With seeming weeping…

Anonymous

Some people say this poem is by Kakinomoto no Hitomaro.

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