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- Makura no Soshi
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
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
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
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