Love and Smoke, for a Fifty Poem Sequence at the residence of the Lay Priest Prince of the Second Order.

うらみじな難波のみつにたつけぶり心からたくあまのもしほ火

uramiji na naniwa no mitsu ni tatsu keburi kokoro kara taku ama no moshiobi

I cannot hate her, can I? From Naniwa harbour The smoke arising is Kindled in my heart as Fisherfolk’s seaweed-salt fires…[i]

Consultant Masatsune

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[i] An allusive variation on KKS XVII: 894.