SKKS XX: 1969

In a hundred poem sequence, on the spirit of calming the heart every day in the early morning.

しづかなるあか月ごとに見わたせばまだふかきよの夢ぞかなしき

shizukanaru
akatsuki goto ni
miwataseba
mada fukaki yo no
yume zo kanashiki
How peaceful is
Every single dawn;
I gaze out, yet
Still in the depths of night
I dream–a grief, indeed.

Princess Shokushi
式子内親王

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