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lnhammer ([personal profile] lnhammer) wrote2011-08-08 07:08 am

Kokinshu #122

(Topic unknown.)

    Though there's no tiring
of their glorious color
    in the springtime rains,
even the scent is lovely:
the kerria blossoms.

—22 July 2011

(Original author unknown.) The unmarked flowers could also be an address, but, just -- no. Too silly. The phrasing implies that the rains brings out the color.


harusame ni
nioeru iro mo
akanaku ni
ka sae natsukashi
yamabuki no hana


---L.