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GSIS I: 120

Composed on the conception of gazing at mountain cherries in the distance, when people were drinking wine and composing poetry at the residence of the Minister of the Centre.

高砂の尾上のさくらさきにけりと山のかすみたたずもあらなん

takasago no
wonoFe no sakura
sakinikeri
toyama no kasumi
tatazu mo aranan
On Takasago’s
Heights the cherries
Have bloomed;
O, I wish the haze around the nearby peaks
Would not rise at all!

Lord Ōe no Masafusa

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