KKS XVIII: 971

When making preparations to return to the capital after he had been living at Fukakusa for a while, he composed this poem and sent it to someone there.

年をへて住みこし里をいでて去なばいとど深草野とやなり南

tosi wo Fete
sumikosi sato wo
idete inaba
itodo fukakusa
no to ya narinamu
The years have passed
Dwelling in this house;
Were I to leave and go away
How lush and thick would the grasses of Fukakusa-
Returning to fields-become?

Ariwara no Narihira
有原業平

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