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lnhammer ([personal profile] lnhammer) wrote2010-09-04 08:29 am

Hyakunin Isshu #84

    If I should live on,
will I come to think fondly
    of this time as well?
-- just as, yes, I now cherish
a world I once saw as harsh.

—25 August 2010

Original by Fujiwara no Kiyosuke, son of Akisuke (#79).


nagaraeba
mata konogoro ya
shinobaren
ushi to mishi yo zo
ima wa koishiki


---L.