MYS VI: 1001

In spring, the Third Month: a poem composed on an imperial visit to the Naniwa Palace.

大夫は御狩に立たし娘子らは赤裳裾引く淸き濱びを

masurawo pa
mikari ni tatasi
wotomera pa
aka mo susobiku
kiyoki pamabï wo
The sturdy men
Leave for the hunt;
The maidens
Trail the hems of scarlet skirts
Across the clean swept beach.

The above poem is by Akahito, Lord Yamabe.

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