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ROM pain and sorrow all around There ’s no escape, I fear; To mountain wilds should I retreat, There also I should hear The cry of hunted deer.

Toshi-nari was a celebrated poet and nobleman in the reign of the Emperor Gotoba. He, however, gave up his position at Court and entered the church in the year 1176. He was the father of the writers of and, and died in the year 1204, at the age of ninety-one.