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           Otomo no Yakamochi (718-785)
                  Translated by Sam Hamill

First Line in Translation:     From outside my house,
First Line in Original:     Wa ga yado no

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It can be found, for example, in:

  • Hamill, Sam, trans. Only Companion (Revised expanded edition). Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1997.