MYS V: 905

[One of] three poems composed thinking fondly of his son, Furuhi.

若ければ道行き知らじ賄はせむ黄泉の使負ひて通らせ

wakakereba
miti yuki siradi
mapi pa semu
sitape nö tukapi
opite töporase
As he was so young
He will not know the way;
Take this gift,
Messenger of the realm below
And bear him on your back.

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