Kinkai wakashū 592

Composed when at the edge of dawn haze swept across the eightfold tideways and they seemed as one with the sky.

空やうみ海やそらともみえわかぬ霞も浪もたちみちにつつ

sora ya umi
umi ya sora to mo
miewakanu
kasumi mo nami mo
tachimichinitsutsu
Sky or sea,
Sea or sky,
I cannot tell apart—
The haze and the waves, both
Ever rise together…

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