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Kinkai wakashū 676

宮ばしらふとしきたてて万代に今ぞさかえんかまくらの里

miyabashira
futoshiki tatete
yorozuyo ni
ima zo sakaen
kamakura no sato
The shrine pillars[i]
Stand firm, that
For ten thousand ages
Shall it flourish as now,
The estate of Kamakura!

676


[i] The shrine Sanetomo is referring to here is the Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine in Kamakura (see poem 623). This burned down in 1191, but was then reconstructed by Minamoto no Yoritomo (Higuchi 2016, 208).