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SKKS I: 87

Composed as a spring poem, when he presented poems to the Poetry Office.

葛城やたかまの桜さきにけりたつたのおくにかかる白雲

kazuragi ya
takama no sakura
sakinikeri
tatsuta no oku ni
kakaru shirakumo
In Kazuragi,
On Takama peak the cherry
Has bloomed!
To the heart of Tatsuta
Cling clouds of white…[1]

Jakuren

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

[1] An allusive variation on KKS I: 59 and Wakan rōeishū II: 409/SKKS XI: 990.