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MYS X: 2182

比日之 暁露丹 吾屋前之 芽子乃下葉者 色付尓家里

このころのあかときつゆにわがやどのはぎのしたばはいろづきにけり

kono koro no
akatoki tuyu ni
wa ga yado no
pagi no sitaba pa
irodukinikeri
Around thus time near
Dawn, the dewfall on
My dwelling’s
Bush clover underleaves
Has changed their hue!

Anonymous

A kuzushiji version of the poem's text
Created with Soan.

MYS XIX: 4171

In Kanpyō-Shōhō 2 [750], on the 24th day of the Third Month, it would be near to the beginning of summer in the Fourth Month, so he composed these two poems when, on the evening of the 23rd day,  he suddenly thought of a cuckoo calling at dawn.

常人も起きつつ聞くぞ霍公鳥この暁に来鳴く初声

tunepito mo
okitutu kiku zo
pototogisu
kono akatoki ni
kinaku patugowe
The folk of this world
Remain awake and listen for
The cuckoo
With the dawn today
To arrive and give his first call.

Ōtomo no Yakamochi