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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.

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