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Color of the flower

Has already passed away

While on trivial things

Vainly I have set my gaze,

In my journey through the world.

百(ひゃく)人(にん)一(いっ)首(しゅ) #9 by 小(お)野(のの)小(こ)町(まち)

Notes on this poem

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ふる
経(ふ)る/降(ふ)る
ながめ
眺(なが)め/長(なが)雨(め)

Translation by Clay MacCauley via Hyakunin-Isshu (Single Songs of a Hundred Poets), 1917

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