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Mimakusao moyasubakarino harunohini yodonosaenado nokorazaruramu

On a spring day with fire enough only to burn a little fodder, how is it that not even the sleeping chamber was left standing?

Makura no Soshi - Sei Shōnagon

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Chikaekimi tōtōmino kamikakete mugenihamanano hashimizarikiya

Swear it, then — by the god of Tōtōmi. Do you really say you never so much as saw the bridge of Hamana?

Makura no Soshi - Sei Shōnagon

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Ōsakawa munenomitsuneni hashiraino mitsukuruhitoya aramutoomoeba

At Ōsaka my heart races and races — like the running spring there — for I keep thinking someone may come upon us.

Makura no Soshi - Sei Shōnagon

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Omoidani kakaranuyamano sasemogusa tarekaibukino satowatsugeshizo

The mugwort of a mountain I never even thought of — who was it, then, that spoke of Ibuki to you?

Makura no Soshi - Sei Shōnagon

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