Kakinomoto no Asomi Hitomaro Poems

Lamplit
Akashi: to your great strait
I enter in, and on the selfsame day
Will I row on, parting,
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My grey-dappled steed
Strides swiftly and
Amongst the clouds
My beloved's home
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Of Inabi field,
That I could ne'r pass by,
Was I thinking when,
My beloved
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I feel my body must soon rest
among the rocks of Kamo's hill.
Not knowing my sad fate, alas,
my wife will still await me!
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On Tsunu's coast close by the waters of Ihami
where men say there is no sheltering bay
or salty flats that furnish shell fish,
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Eighty warriors,
On Uji river,
To the fish nets
Drifting waves:
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In Iwami,
From the heights of Tsuno Mountain,
Even through the trees,
My waving sleeves,
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On peak cradled
Hatsuse Mountain,
Remote upon the slopes,
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On the sea of the heavens
Waves of cloud arise,
The moon-a boat-
Amongst a forest of stars
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Peacefully, our Sovereign rules all
beneath the sky, but over no land fairer
than mountain studded Kafuchi.
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