Kokinshu #236
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lnhammer (from the same contest)
Rather than gazing
all by myself into space,
would that I could
transplant those maidenflowers
to the dwelling where I live.
hitori nomi
nagamuru yori wa
ominaeshi
waga sumu yado ni
uete mimashi o
---L.
Rather than gazing
all by myself into space,
would that I could
transplant those maidenflowers
to the dwelling where I live.
—15 April 2012
(Original by Mibu no Tadamine.) And the maidenflower contest ends with a return home from viewing them -- though the effect of finality is mitigated by the next poems.hitori nomi
nagamuru yori wa
ominaeshi
waga sumu yado ni
uete mimashi o
---L.