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lnhammer ([personal profile] lnhammer) wrote2011-07-29 07:12 am

Kokinshu #117

Written while making a pilgrimage to a mountain temple.

    I found lodgings here,
and the night I spent sleeping
    in these spring mountains,
even inside my dreams
the flowers were scattering.

—18 July 2011

(Original by Ki no Tsurayuki.) Another slippage, of state rather than time.


yadori shite
haru no yama-be ni
nutaru yo wa
yume no uchi ni mo
hana zo chirikeru


---L.