Kokinshu #347
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lnhammer Composed [by the emperor] in the Ninna Era when celebrating the seventieth year of Archbishop Henjô.
It happens that way --
by some way or another
time flows ever on.
Oh, would that there be a means
to meet in your eight-thousandth year!
kaku shitsutsu
to ni mo kaku ni mo
nagaraete
kimi ga yachiyo ni
au yoshi mogana
---L.
It happens that way --
by some way or another
time flows ever on.
Oh, would that there be a means
to meet in your eight-thousandth year!
—9 December 2012
Original by [Emperor Kôkô]. The birthday party was held in the Twelfth Month of 885. (Not that it has any bearing on the the sentiment, but both died within five years.) Lost in translation: "happens" is in a frequentive conjugation.kaku shitsutsu
to ni mo kaku ni mo
nagaraete
kimi ga yachiyo ni
au yoshi mogana
---L.