KKS 42

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初瀬はつせにまうづる毎ごとに宿りける人の家に久しく宿らで、程経て、後に至れりければ、かの家の主あるじ、「かく定さだかになん宿りはある」と言ひ出して侍りければ、そこに立てりける梅の花を折てよめる

When he made visits to Hasudera, he stayed in a certain person's house, and he had not visited for a long time. After some time had passed he went there again, and the owner of the house said "This lodging has not changed," and [Tsurayuki] broke off a plum flower from a tree standing there, and read this

貫之

Ki no Tsurayuki

人はいさ心も知らず故郷は花ぞ昔の香に匂ひける

hito wa isa kokoro mo shira-zu furusato wa hana zo mukashi no ka ni nioi-keru

For people, well, I do not know their hearts In this old village It is the flowers' scent That smells the same as of old.

Notes

Other sources:

• Shūka daitai | Hyakunin isshu

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