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A royal song on the beginning of spring by the Nijō Empress Consort
Spring has arrived
before the snow has gone;
perhaps now
the warbler’s frozen tears
will melt away at last?
—Fujiwara no Takaiko (translated by Torquil Duthie)
—found in The Kokinshū: Selected Poems (2023; this poem ca. 875)