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"Blue-gray Fuji, salted with snow, long angle of repose to my left . . . I never seem to look upon the same mountain twice.  
You change as much as I myself, yet you remain what you are."
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<B><I>田子の浦に<BR>
打ち出でてみれば<BR>
白妙の<P>

富士の高嶺に<BR>
雪はふりつつ</I><P>

<A HREF="ohi-04.jpg" target="_blank">- 山辺赤人</A></B>
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<B><I>Tago no Ura ni<BR>
Uchi idete mireba<BR>
Shirotae no<P>

Fuji no takane ni<BR>
Yuki wa furi tsutsu</I><P>

- Yamabe no Akahito (700-736)</B>
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<B><I>When I take the path<BR>
To Tago's coast, I see<BR>
Perfect whiteness laid<P>

On Mount Fuji's lofty peak<BR>
By the drift of falling snow.</I><P>

- trans. after MacCauley</B>
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The poem and translation are taken from the University of Virginia's e-text presentation of the 
<A HREF="http://jti.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/hyakunin/index.html">Ogura Hyakunin Isshu</A>.<P> 

Tago beach, along the Tokaido Road, is noted for its view of the mountain.  While villagers fish in the bay, others gather 
salt on the beach.<P>
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