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In the empty mountains
The leaves of the bamboo grass
Rustle in the wind.
I think of a girl
Who is not here.

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

Sasa no ha wa
Miyama mo saya ni
Sayagedomo
Ware wa imo omo
Wakare kinureba

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Source: XVII, p. 19
Work: One Hundred Poems from the Japanese, 1955
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