Poems for folding screens.
とよ国のきくのそままつおいにけりしらずいく代の年かへにけむ
| toyokuni no kiku no somamatsu oinikeri shirazu ikuyo no toshi ka henikemu | In the land of Toyo The timber pines at Kiku Have grown old; I know not how many ages and Years they have passed through…[i] |
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[i] See: 豊洲 聞浜松 心裳 何妹 相云始 toyokuni no / kiku no hamamatsu / nemokoro ni / nani shika imo ni / ai’iisomekemu ‘As in the land of Toyo / At Kiku the beach-pines, / Sweetly, / Why has my darling / Begun to meet and talk with me?’ Kakinomoto no Hitomaro Collection (Man’yōshū XII: 3130)