SKKS I: 38

When he composed a fifty poem sequence for the Monk Prince Shukaku.

春のよの夢のうきはしとだえしてみねにわかるゝよこ雲のそら

haru no yo no
yume no uki hashi
todaeshite
mine ni wakaruru
yokogumo no sora
A Spring night’s
Floating bridge of dreams
Is broken –
Split by the peaks,
The long clouds trail across the sky.

Fujiwara no Sada’ie
藤原定家

An image of a bridge crossing a late to mountains surrounded by clouds with the moon setting.

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