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Kokinshu #47
Saturday, 8 January 2011 08:27 (from the same contest)
Seeing them scatter
ought to be the end of it.
These plum blossoms!
-- nothing can keep their perfume
from lingering on my sleeves.
chiru to mite
arubeki mono o
ume no hana
utate nioi no
sode ni tomareru
---L.
Seeing them scatter
ought to be the end of it.
These plum blossoms!
-- nothing can keep their perfume
from lingering on my sleeves.
—31 October 2010
Original by Sosei. Another unmarked flower, which here pretty much can only be an exclamation. (Well, it could also be direct address, but that personification just makes me snicker.)chiru to mite
arubeki mono o
ume no hana
utate nioi no
sode ni tomareru
---L.