“This morning I will not
Comb my hair.
It has lain
Pillowed on the hand of my lover.”

—  Kakinomoto no Hitomaro

XX, p. 22
Kenneth Rexroth's translations, One Hundred Poems from the Japanese (1955)

Original

Asa ne gami Ware wa kezuraji Utsukushiki Kimi ga ta makura Fureteshi mono wo

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