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Sunday, 25 July 2021

Wishes are fulfilled - Fujiwara no Tokifusa

Wishes are fulfilled
In these rushing waters of the god
Whose divine descent
Provides mankind with a Lordly Boat
To cross to a Further Shore.

Fujiwara no Tokifusa (11th century) Japan
Translated by Christina E. Olinyk
Source: Poems of the Gods of the Heaven and the Earth, Christina E. Olinyk, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Masters Thesis, 2010

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