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おしなべて五月のそらを見渡せば草葉も水もみどりなりけり

oshinabete satsuki no sora o miwataseba kusaba mo mizu mo midori narikeri

When the entire Fifth Month sky I gaze across, Blades of grass and water, too, Are green.

72[1]

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くるるかとみれば明けぬる夏の夜をあかずとや鳴く山郭公

kururu ka to mireba akenuru natsu no yo o akazu to ya naku yamahototogisu

Did you think ’twas sunset? When a glance would show the breaking dawn Of this summer night- Unsated by your song, do you sing on, Cuckoo in the mountains?

73[2]

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[1] Shinchokusenshū III: 152/Kokin rokujō I: 89

[1] Kokinshū III: 157, attributed to Mibu no Tadamine/Shinsen man’yōshū 57/Kokin rokujō VI: 4437