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YOSHITAKA FUJIWARA

FUJIWARA NO YOSHITAKA

  Kimi ga tame
Oshikarazarishi
  Inochi sae
Nagaku mogana to
Omoi keru kana.

DEATH had no terrors, Life no joys,
  Before I met with thee;
But now I fear, however long
  My life may chance to be,
  ’Twill be too short for me!

Yoshitaka died in the year 974. See verse No. 18 for a note of the Fujiwara family.


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