When Ki no Tomonori had not yet been bestowed with any official position, in connection with this when he was asked how old he was and replied that he was forty.
今までになどかは花のさかずしてよそとせあまり年ぎりはする
| ima made ni nado ka Fa Fana no sakazusite yoso tose amari tosigiri Fa suru | Up to this moment Why is it that blossoms Have yet to bloom? After as much as forty years Absent a year they are… |
The Posthumous Chancellor
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かかる時あらじとおもへば一とせをすべては春になすよしもがな
| kakaru toki araji to omoeba hito tose o subete wa haru ni nasu yoshi mogana | Such times There cannot be, I feel, so A single year Entirely spring, O, if only I had cause to make it so! |
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まてといふにとまらぬ物としりながらしひてぞをしき春のわかれを
| mate to iu ni tomaranu mono to shirinagara shiite zo oshiki haru no wakare wa | Asking it to stay, when that It will not remain I know too well— And yet how strongly I regret Parting from spring… |
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[1] Shinkokinshū II: 172/Shinsen man’yōshū 269