by Fujiwara no Tadamichi (1097 - 1164)
Translation by Kenneth Rexroth (1905 - 1982)
わたの原/ こぎ出でて見れば
Language: Japanese (日本語)
わたの原 こぎ出でて見れば 久方の 雲ゐいにまがうごう おきつしらなみ
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As I row over the plain
Language: English after the Japanese (日本語)
As I row over the plain Of the sea and gaze Into the distance, the waves Merge with the bright sky.
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Confirmed with Kenneth Rexroth, One Hundred Poems from the Japanese, New York : New Directions Books, 1964
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- by Kenneth Rexroth (1905 - 1982), no title, appears in One Hundred Poems from the Japanese, no. 75 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- a text in Japanese (日本語) by Fujiwara no Tadamichi (1097 - 1164)
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2026-07-04
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Word count: 21