When The Spring Has Come Poem by Ki no Tsurayuki

When The Spring Has Come

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When the spring has come,
First flowering at my house
The plum blossoms:
In your thousandth year,
I see you with them in your hair.

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Fabrizio Frosini 15 July 2016

waka composed by Ki no Tsurayuki for the folding screen behind Prince Motoyasu at his seventieth birthday celebrations

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Fabrizio Frosini 15 July 2016

春くればやどにまづさく梅花君がちとせのかざしとぞ見る Faru kureba yado ni madu saku mume no Fana kimi ga titose no kazasi to zo miru When the spring has come, First flowering at my house The plum blossoms: In your thousandth year, I see you with them in your hair. Ki no Tsurayuki 紀貫之 KOKINSHŪ - KKS VII: 352

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