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A Hundred Verses from Old Japan · 33 of 101

32. Tsuraki Harumichi: Harumichi no Tsuraki

Tsuraki Harumichi

Harumichi No Tsuraki

Yama gawa ni Kaze no kaketaru Shigarami wa Nagare mo aenu Momiji nari keri.

THE stormy winds of yesterday The maple branches shook; And see! a mass of crimson leaves Has lodged within that nook, And choked the mountain brook.

The writer of this verse died in the year 864.