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MYS II: 141

Two poems composed by Prince Arima, on feeling sorrowful and tying the branches of a pine tree together.

磐白の浜松が枝を引き結びま幸くあらばまた帰り見む

ipasiro no
pamamatu ga e wo
pikimusubi
masakiku araba
kaperimimu
At Iwashiro,
A beach-pine’s branches
I draw and bind together;
If fortune favours me,
I’ll return to see them once more…

Prince Arima
有間皇子