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A Hundred Verses from Old Japan · 65 of 101

64. The Assistant Imperial Adviser Sada-yori: Gon Chū-nagon Sada-yori

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The Assistant Imperial Adviser Sada-yori

GON CHŪ-NAGON SADA-YORI

Asaborake Uji no kawagiri Tae-dae ni Araware wataru Seze no ajiro-gi.

SO thickly lies the morning mist, That I can scarcely see The fish-nets on the river bank, The River of Uji, Past daybreak though it be.

The writer was the son of the author of verse No. 55; he died in the year 1004. The River Uji is in the Province of Omi, and drains into Lake Biwa. Seze is a village on the lake-side, and a suburb of the larger town of Otsu. The poet, looking across the river, can hardly make out the fish-nets on the shore at Seze, because of the rising morning mist.