Kanesuke-shū 48

Written on the edge of a folding screen by a painting of geese flying in the clouds, when His Majesty ordered a celebration for the Junior Principal Handmaid.

白雲の中にまがひてゆく雁もこゑはかくれぬ物にざりける

shirakumo no
naka ni magaite
yuku kari mo
koe wa kakurenu
mono ni zarikeru
Within the clouds, so white,
Entangled
Goes a goose,
Unable to conceal his cry
With anything at all!

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