SKKS I: 94

When he presented a fifty-poem sequence.

たづねきて花にくらせる木のまよりまつとしもなき山のはの月

tazunekite
hana ni kuraseru
ko no ma yori
matsu to shimo naki
yama no ha no tsuki
I came searching
Blossom all day long
Between the trees, when
Though I’d not awaited it, saw
The moon upon the mountains’ edge.

Fujiwara no Masatsune

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