Girl with your basket,
with your pretty basket,
with your shovel,
with your pretty shovel,
I want to ask your home.
Tell me your name!
This land of Yamato,
seen by the gods on high—
it is all my realm,
in all of it I am supreme.
I will tell you
my home and my name
Emperor Yūryaku (雄略天皇, Yūryaku-tennō) (418 - 479) Japan
Translated by Ian Hideo Levy
Source: The Ten Thousand Leaves A Translation of the Man'yōshū, Japan's Premier Anthology of Classical Poetry, Vol. 1, Ian Hideo Levy, Princeton University Press, 1981
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