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SCSS III: 192

A poem for a folding screen on the occasion of a Junior Consort’s entrance to the palace in Kangi 1.

風そよぐならのを川の夕ぐれはみそぎぞ夏のしるしなりける

kaze soyogu
nara no ogawa no
yūgure wa
misogi zo natsu no
shirushi narikeru
Whispers on the wind
Through the oaks at Nara stream
Of an evening:
Lustrations, alone, of summer
Are the sign.[i]

Ietaka, Senior Third Rank

A kuzushiji version of the poem's text.
Created with Soan.

[i] An allusive variation on SKKS XV: 1376.