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== Notes ==
== Notes ==


;Read at the time of
:Some scholars read this phrasing to mean the poem was not actually part of the competition, but was simply read at the event. The poem does not appear in current manuscripts of the competition. However, there is enough textual variation in the preface that the wording alone does not definitively establish the circumstance.


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亭子院歌合の時よめる

Read at the time of the Retired Emperor Teiji Poetry Competition

伊勢

Ise

見る人もなき山里の桜花ほかの散りなんのちぞ咲かまし

miru hito mo
naki yamazato no
sakurabana
hoka no chiri-nan
nochi zo saka-mashi

Where no one sees
In the mountain village
The cherry blossoms
It's after the others fall
That they should come to bloom.

Notes

Read at the time of
Some scholars read this phrasing to mean the poem was not actually part of the competition, but was simply read at the event. The poem does not appear in current manuscripts of the competition. However, there is enough textual variation in the preface that the wording alone does not definitively establish the circumstance.

Other sources:

Analysis

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