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GSIS II: 115

Composed on fallen flowers on a mountain path.

櫻花道みえぬ迄ちりにけりいかゞはすべき志賀の山ごえ

sakurabana
miti mienu made
tirinikeri
ikaga Fa subeki
siga no yamagoe
Cherry blossoms
Hide the way
So many have fallen;
What am I to do,
On the path across the Shiga Mountains?

Tachibana no Narimoto
橘成元

GSS III: 117

After a man who was of a mind to become a monk had travelled to Yamato province and been there for some time, when a lady whom he had known before sent to him, enquiring how the cherry blossoms had been blooming lately.

みよし野の吉野の山の桜花白雲とのみ見えまがひつゝ

miyosino no
yosino no yama no
sakurabana
sirakumo to nomi
miemagaFitutu
In fair Yoshino
On Yoshino mountain,
The cherry blossom
Simply for clouds of white
I do always mistake!

Anonymous