Sanekata Shū 47

On going somewhere with the Minor Controller of the Right and seeing a cart loaded with brushwood going by:

春樵りの柴積み車牛よはみ誰がふるさとの垣根しめしぞ

Faru kori no
sibatumiguruma
usi yoFami
ta ga Furusato no
kakine simesi zo
Cut in springtime is
The brushwood – piled upon the cart with
Such feeble oxen – o, cruel world –
Whose house
Has taken it for a fence?

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