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Rh to the interpretation of the Ise Monogatari and the Genji Monogatari, and wrote a number of other erudite treatises which are still valued by scholars. Like most of the Wagakusha, he was a poet, and has left both Tanka and Naga-uta, which in metre, diction, and sentiment are little more than echoes of the Manyōshiu. They are adorned with the same devices of pillow and pivot words and are in short the old wine in the old bottles. The following simple effusion is in its way not unpleasing:—

Bending its magic bow, The spring hath come: The eternal heavens, Likewise the ore-yielding earth, Are dim with haze; The snow begins to melt On the mountain's rim, And the ice dissolves From the surface of the pond; The nightingale's tender note Sounds (oh! how lovely!) From amid the first blossoms Of the plum branch. Now from the memory fade Our regrets for the bygone year. How many days must pass Before we can go forth into the meadows And pluck the young pot-herbs? When will the willow Flame into bud?