KYS IX: 512

Composed on seeing cherry blossom unexpectedly at Ōmine.

もろともにあはれとおもへ山ざくらはなよりほかにしる人もなし

morotomo ni
aFare to omoFe
yamazakura
Fana yori Foka ni
siru Fito mo nasi
Won’t you as well
Feel kind,
O, mountain cherry?
For other than your blossom,
I have no acquaintances here at all…

Archbishop Gyōson

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