Word: kakinomoto
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...discovered that the teacher's mother - a city social worker - was a Hyakunin Isshu fan. She humored me by asking me to recite the beginning of one of the poems to see if she could finish it. I proudly trotted out the third poem, in which the 7th century Kakinomoto no Hitomaro uses the metaphor of a mountain pheasant's dragging tail ("The long tail/ of the copper pheasant") to evoke the wistfulness of a long, lonely night. The elderly Mrs. Ueda picked up without hesitation on the third line - "drags on and on" - and ended the poem with...
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