Climbing Mount Kagu and Looking upon the Land

In Yamato, amid a ring of hills
stands Mount Kagu of Heaven,
and when I climb up to look on the land,
from the plain of the land, smoke rises and rises,
from the plain of the sea, birds rise and rise;
a splendid land, the dragonfly island,
the land of Yamato.
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Emperor Jomei
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