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"The young gentlemen who had stayed out in the fields now arrived and presented their token gift of small birds attached to a hagi frond. The wine went round and round until the riverbank became such a threat that in their drunkenness they all spent the day at the villa instead."\r\n\r\nFrom Royall Tyler's translation of The Tale of Genji, Viking Penguin Books 2001\r\n\r\nNo ni tomari nuru kindachi kotori shirushi bakari hikitsuke sasetaru ogi no eda nado tsuto ni shite (maireri). O'omiki amata tabi jun naga(rete kawa no wata)ri ayauge nareba yoi ni (magirete o)hashi (mashi ku)rashitsu.\r\n野尓とま里怒るきん多ちこと利しるしは可里ひきつけさせたる於きの衣多なとつとにして（参れり）　於ほ見き阿ま多ゝひすんなか（れて川のわた）里阿や宇遣な礼八よひ尓（紛れてお）はし（まし暮）らし川\r\n\r\n野にとまりぬる君達、小鳥しるしばかりひきつけさせたる荻の枝など苞にして参れり。大御酒あまたたび順流れて、川のわたりあやふげなれば、酔ひに紛れておはしまし暮らしつ。\r\n\r\nhttp://jti.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/genji/original.html