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Originally Posted by hyperborealis
The hundred-fold palace!
even in the shinobu-grass
on its old eaves,
I find a past for which
I long yet ever more.
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Love the poem and I don't recall it being one used during Uta Koi. I think it would also appeal to those of us with a love of nostalgia and history.
And also it really does go well with the Empress comments about each card taking you back a thousand years.
Since watching Chihayafuru and Uta Koi, I think not just about the poems but about those who wrote them. We don't know them personally but they are immortalized by those poems. Whatever lives they lead (good or bad) isn't it nice to leave a stamp on the world like that so you will not be forgotten.
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The eight-petalled cherries
From the Nara capital
of the ancient past
today nine layers thick
have bloomed within your court!
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This is also lovely in how it celebrates both contributions of the past and the ones of the present.