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71. The First Adviser of State Tsune-nobu: Dai-Nagon Tsune-nobu

A Hundred Verses from Old Japan · 1 passage

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Yūsareba Kado-da no inaba Otozurete Ashi no maroya ni Aki kaze zo fuku. THIS autumn night the wind blows shrill, And would that I could catch Its message, as it whistles through The rushes in the thatch And leaves of my rice-patch. Tsune-nobu, a member of the Minamoto family, was famous as a man of letters in the eleventh century, and died in the year 1096.

Source: Internet Sacred Text Archive, file shi/hvj/hvj072.htm.

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