Poem by Abe no Nakamaro, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)
Katsushika Hokusai Japanese
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Abe no Nakamaro (698–770) composed this poem in China, in his longing for home:
Amanohara
furisake mireba
Kasuga naru
Mikasa no yama ni
ideshi tsuki ka mo
It might be the moon that shone
above Mount Mikasa in Nara
that I see in this faraway land
when now I look
across the vast fields of the stars.
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