Kenneth Rexroth's translation of Yosano Akiko tanka vii

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Akiko Yosano

Yosano Akiko's tanka, which is vii on page 9 in the Kenneth Rexroth "100 More" volume of Japanese poetry in translation, in the original is :

とき髪に
室むつまじの
百合のかをり
消えをあやぶむ
夜の淡紅色よ

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