Mountains of Ōmi—
Ah, how it rises full upright,
Where we see the years foretold:
The thousand years of our lord!
Ōtomo no Kuronushi (9th century) Japan
Translated by Edwin Cranston
Source: Poems of the Gods of the Heaven and the Earth, Christina E. Olinyk, University of Massachusetts Amherst dissertation, 2010
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