SKKS III: 192

One morning, when she was in seclusion at Kamo, she heard a cuckoo calling:

ほとゝぎすみ山いづなるはつこゑをいづれのやどのたれかきくらん

hototogisu
miyama izunaru
hatsu koe o
izure no yado no
tare ka kikuran
A cuckoo
Emerging from the mountains:
His first call:
Where’s the house and
The one who’ll hear it, I wonder?

Ben no Menoto

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