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Hyakunin Isshu: poem 61 (Ise no Tayū [Ise no Taifu]・inishie no)

After many, many years, eight-fold cherries of the capital in Nara, now bloom inside the nine-fold palace.*

Hyakunin Isshu: poem 77 (Retired Emperor Sutoku・se wo hayami)

Swift waters parted by the jagged rocks are joined at river’s end.