“I sit at home
In our room
By our bed
Gazing at your pillow.”

—  Kakinomoto no Hitomaro

XXV, p. 27
Kenneth Rexroth's translations, One Hundred Poems from the Japanese (1955)

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Japanese poet 662–710

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