KKS 62+63

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桜の花の盛りに、久しく訪はざりける人の来たりける時によみける

Read when, amidst the full bloom of the cherry blossoms, someone who had not visited for a long time came

よみ人しらず

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あだなりと名にこそたてれ桜花年にまれなる人も待ちけり

ada nari to
na ni koso tatere
sakurabana
toshi ni mare naru
hito mo machi-keri

Inconstant and flighty
Is their reputation, but
The cherry blossoms
They seem to have waited
For one who rarely comes.

返し

Response

業平朝臣

けふこずはあすは雪とぞ降なましきえずは有とも花とみましや

kyō ko-zu wa
asu ha yuki to zo
furi-na-mashi
kiezu wa ari tomo
hana to mi-mashi ya

If I'd not come today
Tomorrow they'd have fallen
As if they were snow.
Though they would not have melted,
I wouldn't see them as flowers.

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