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looks like waves in the spring wind that has crossed the channel of the year.\r\n\r\n\r\n武家六歌仙　鎌倉右大臣\r\nBuke Rokkasen　Kamakura Udaijin\r\nKamakura Minister of the Right from the Six Immortal Warrior Poets \r\n\r\nPoem 1: 江州高島　文鎮舎蟹雄\r\nBunchinsha Kanio from Takashima in Goushuu\r\n\r\nUp and down the row\r\nof warriors’ houses, all spruced up\r\nwith new year pines,\r\na flurry of activity\r\nin dapper, dappled robes.\r\n\r\nmononofu* no/ ya nami tsukurou/ kadomatsu ni\r\narare komon no/ medatsu kamishimo\r\n\r\nものゝふ*の　家な三徒くらふ　門松尓\r\nあら連小紋の　め多つ上しも\r\n\r\n\r\n*mononofu is a 枕詞 for "ya" arrow. \r\n**this poem is adapted from a poem (honkadori) collected in the Kinkai wakashuu 金槐和歌集 as below::\r\n\r\n武士の　矢並つくろふ　籠手の上に　あられたばしる　那須のしのはら\r\nmononofu no/ yanami tsukurou/ kote no ue ni/ arare tabashiru/ nasu no shinohara\r\n\r\n(Hails are hard hitting the gauntlet (bracer) of a warrior when he tries to straighten out the arrows in a quiver in the bamboo grass field in Nasu.)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nPoem 2: Bunbunsha 文々舎　　\r\n\r\nToshi no nada/ koe kishi kesa no/ haru kaze ni\r\nnami no yoru miyu/ noki no aoyagi\r\n\r\nThe spring winds that have blown\r\nthrough the end of year\r\nto this morning, make waves,\r\nseen past the green-leaf willow\r\nnear the eaves.\r\n\r\n年の灘　こえ来し介さの　春風に\r\n浪のよる見由　軒の青柳\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n