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Kinkai wakashū 663

For a painting on a sliding door where there was a pine growing on the crags.

岩のうへにおふる小松の年もへぬいく千代までと契り置きけん

iwa no ue ni
ouru komatsu no
toshi mo henu
ikuyo made to
chigiri okiken
Atop the crag
Growing, a pine seedling: that
‘Twould pass through the years,
Until it reach however many ages—
It seems a vow was made.

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