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A strange old man
Stops me,
Looking out of my deep mirror.

— Kakinomoto no Hitomaro One Hundred Poems from the Japanese (1955)

Masu kagami
Soko naru kage ni
Mukai ite miru
Toki ni koso
Shiranu okina ni
Au kokochi sure

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XXII, p. 24

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