When I look abroad
Is the moon the same
That on Mount Mikasa rose,
In the land of Kasuga?
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (662 - 710) Japan
Translated by Clay MacCauley
Source: The English translation of Ogura Hyakunin Isshu from Hyakunin-Isshu (Single Songs of a Hundred Poets) and Nori no Hatsu-Ne (The Dominant Note of the Law) by Clay MacCauley, Kelly and Walsh, Ltd., 1917
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