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Yōzei’in miko futari uta’awase 14

Left

はるのよのあかぬわかれのあかつきはちへのにしきをたつにざりける

haru no yo no
akanu wakare no
akatsuki wa
chie no nishiki o
tatsu ni zarikeru
After a spring night,
Unsatisfied, parting at
The dawn,
Sewn a thousandfold, the brocade
Through which I go!

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Right

あけぬてふこゑもなみだももろともにうちいづるからにそでぞぬれける

akenu chō
koe mo namida mo
morotomo ni
uchi’izuru kara ni
sode zo nurekeru
‘Tis dawn, say
Birdsongs and tears
Both,
Bursting out, so
My sleeves are soaked!

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MYS XX: 4475

[One of] two poems composed when they assembled at the residence of Junior Secretary of Ceremonial Otomo sukune Ikenushi for a banquet on the 23rd day.

初雪は千重に降りしけ恋ひしくの多かる我れは見つつ偲はむ

patuyuki pa
tipe ni purisiki
kopisiku no
opokaru ware pa
mitutu sinopamu
O, first snows
Fall a thousandfold!
For love
Lies heavy on me, and
Gazing on you, I will remember her…

Ōhara no Imaki