Abe no Nakamaro

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Abe no Nakamaro by Ogura Hyakunin Isshu

When I look abroad
O'er the wide-stretched "Plain of Heaven,"
Is the moon the same
That on Mount Mikasa rose,
In the land of Kasuga?

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