Yamato Sanzan

"Poem of the Three Mountains" by
Naka no-Oe (son of Jomei).
who later became Emperor Tenji

That Kaguyama vies with Miminashi

Unebi made the object of their lust

Seems thus to have been since the age of the gods

Things having been so in times long past

It is natural, perhaps, in our own fleeting world

That men contend for wives

Man'yoshu 13


3 1 -Syllable "answering poem" (hanka)

When Kaguyama and Miminashiyama

Faced each other in duel

'Twas I namikunihara

Where [the god of Abo] came to referee

Man'yoshu 14



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