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Kokinshu #206
Tuesday, 14 February 2012 06:53 Written on the first wild goose.
It wasn't the one
I was waiting for, and yet
the voice this morning
of the first wild goose, calling --
wasn't it simply splendid?
matsu hito ni
aranu mono kara
hatsukari no
kesa naku koe no
mezurashiki kana
---L.
It wasn't the one
I was waiting for, and yet
the voice this morning
of the first wild goose, calling --
wasn't it simply splendid?
—22 January 2012
Original by Ariwara no Motokata. This brings us firmly back to the main chronological sequence, with the initial arrival of the geese mentioned in #191. Not a brilliant poem, but it's first Motokata's come even close to decent -- mark him as batting 1 for 5 with a single that dribbled just past the shortstop.matsu hito ni
aranu mono kara
hatsukari no
kesa naku koe no
mezurashiki kana
---L.