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Let's Get to Rowing

by Nukata
(638? - 710?) Timeline

English version by
Edwin A. Cranston

Original Language
Japanese
Buddhist
7th Century

At Nikitatsu
We have waited for the moon
Before boarding our boat;
Now the tide is in at last --
Come, let's get to rowing

 

 

 

Themes

  Moon
 
 
 
 



 

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