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Kokinshu #55
Monday, 24 January 2011 07:01 Written on seeing mountain cherries.
If we only gaze,
how could we tell people about
these cherry blossoms?
Let every hand gather some
as souvenirs for home.
mite nomi ya
hito ni kataramu
sakurabana
te-goto ni orite
iezuto ni semu
---L.
If we only gaze,
how could we tell people about
these cherry blossoms?
Let every hand gather some
as souvenirs for home.
—11 November 2010.
Original by Sosei. As you may have noticed from previous poems, Sosei liked rhetorical questions. Contrast with #54, where the blossoms are unobtainable.mite nomi ya
hito ni kataramu
sakurabana
te-goto ni orite
iezuto ni semu
---L.