"The cloud-seas of the heavens are riled by waves.
The moon a ship rowed into hiding behind a forest of stars.''
This waka-style poem was written some 1,300 years ago. It is included in the "Manyoshu" ("A Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves"), the oldest extant collection of Japanese poems.
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