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駒なべてめも春の野にまじりなむ若菜摘みつる人は有りやと

koma nabete me mo haru no no ni majirinamu wakana tsumitsuru hito wa ari ya to

Mounts all over The springtime meadows before my eyes Are mixed; A’plucking of fresh herbs, Are there folk there, I wonder?

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鶯の谷よりいづる声なくは春くることを誰かつげまし

uguisu no tani yori izuru koe naku wa haru kuru koto o tare ka tsugemashi

If the bush-warbler From the valleys Did not sing his song, That spring is coming Would anyone announce it at all?

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[1] Shisen manyōshū 13; Kokin rokujō II: 1137, ‘Springtime meadows’

[2] A minor variant of this poem occurs in Kokinshū (I: 14), attributed to Ōe no Chisato: 鶯の谷よりいづる声なくは春来ることを誰かしらまし uguisu no / tani yori izuru / koe naku wa / haru kuru koto o / tare ka shiramashi ‘If the bush-warbler / From the valleys / Did not sing his song, / That spring is coming / Would anyone realise at all?’; also Shinsen man’yōshū 261.