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Poems cited

Kokinshū: A Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern, Book IV, Autumn I, translated by Laurel Rasplica Rodd

170 Composed as he accompanied some of the court gentlemen on an excursion to the Kamo River on the first day of autumn.

kawa kaze no                   how cool the breeze

suzushiku mo aru ka       from the river    I feel the

uchiyosuru                        refreshing chill

nami to tomo ni ya         of near-approaching autumn

aki wa tatsu ran               roll in with each rising wave

Ki no Tsurayuki

The Kamo River flowed just east of the capital. “Tatsu” (to rise; to begin) serves to link the waves and autumn, which began with the lunar Seventh Month.

 

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