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Sanekata Shū 54

When Controller Tametō had begun to cease visiting Nagayori’s house, at the turning of the year, His Majesty provided a strip of his own clothing as an offering for the Miyanome festival; Tametō was visibly moved, so I composed:

あめに在す笠間の神のなかりせば古りにし仲をなに頼まゝし

ame ni masu
kasama no kami no
nakariseba
Furinisi naka wo
nani tanomamasi
Should the heaven-dwelling
God of Kasama
Fail to come,
To return things to what once they were:
How should I request it?