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Japanese



つひにゆく道とはかねて聞きしかど
      昨日けふとは思はざりしを  


Tsui ni yuku michi towa kanete kikishikado
      kinō kyō towa omowazarishi wo




At last time        
We would go that way
I have heard.       
Yestereday and today
I didn't think.     



This poem is said to be his last one.


9 Jul 2009 


Ariwara no Narihira

31 Letters

Poetry

Verse in the Universe