Climbing Mount Kagu and Surveying the Land

Yamato has clusters of mountains
but closest to the city is heavenly Mount Kagu.
I climb, I stand and survey the land:
smoke rises in the countryside,
gulls rise over the lake.
A good land, this, the island of the dragonfly,
the land of Yamato.
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Emperor Jomei
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