KKS XX: 1092

An Eastern poem, from the province of Michinoku.

もがみ河のぼればくだるいな舟のいなにはあらずこの月ばかり

mogamigaFa
noboreba kudaru
inabune no
ina ni Fa arazu
kono tuki bakari
On the River Mogami
Going upstream and down
Are the rice-boats;
Not a grain of truth –
Only this moonlight is the cause…

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