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THE FIRST ADVISER OF STATE TSUNE-NOBU

DAI-NAGON TSUNE-NOBU

  Yūsareba
Kado-da no inaba
  Otozurete
Ashi no maroya ni
Aki kaze zo fuku.

THIS autumn night the wind blows shrill,
  And would that I could catch
Its message, as it whistles through
  The rushes in the thatch
  And leaves of my rice-patch.

Tsune-nobu, a member of the Minamoto family, was famous as a man of letters in the eleventh century, and died in the year 1096.


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