Pine seedlings on the Day of the Rat (子日小松)

Left

ねの日する松の葉ごとにかぞふれば猶ぞつきせぬきみが千とせは

ne no hi suru matsu no ha goto ni kazoureba nao zo tsukisenu kimi ga chitose wa

On this Day of the Rat Every single pine needle I count, but Still the number would not exhaust The millennia of my Lord…

A Court Lady
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Right

はるかなる君がよはひにくらべむと子日の松をけふは引くかな

harukanaru kimi ga yowai ni kurabemu to ne no hi no matsu o kyō wa hiku kana

Distant is My Lord’s age: To what might it compare? Why The Rat Day pines that We pick today!

A Court Lady
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