SIS II: 98

From a folding screen in the Engi period.

山里に知る人も哉郭公鳴きぬと聞かば告げに來るがに

yamazato ni
siru Fito mo gana
Fototogisu
nakinu to kikaba
tuge ni kuru ga ni
Oh, that in the mountains
Lived someone that I knew!
The cuckoo
Would he hear call
And then come and tell me!

Tsurayuki
貫之

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