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Hyakunin Isshu #26
Wednesday, 24 February 2010 08:55 You autumn-bright leaves
on Ogura Mountain's slopes --
if you had a heart,
this once, you would wait to fall
until the Emperor comes.
ogurayama
mine no momijiba
kokoro araba
ima hitotabi no
miyuki matanan
---L.
on Ogura Mountain's slopes --
if you had a heart,
this once, you would wait to fall
until the Emperor comes.
—21 February 2010
Original by Fujiwara no Tadahira, writing as prime minister at the behest of retired emperor Uda to invite to the current reigning emperor, Daigo, to visit. Another one that has an omited-but-understood word needed to explain what's being talked about: in this case, "fall":ogurayama
mine no momijiba
kokoro araba
ima hitotabi no
miyuki matanan
---L.