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A well-known section of the ''Tales of Ise'' describes a trip taken by a minor official and his guests to Nunobiki Falls , near Kobe . They begin a poetry-writing contest, to which one of the guests, a commander of the guards, contributes: :Which, I wonder, is higher- :This waterfall or the fall of my tears :As I wait in vain, :Hoping today or tomorrow :To rise in the world. The minor official offers his own composition: :It looks as though someone :Must be unstringing :Those clear cascading gems. :Alas! My sleeves are too narrow :To hold them allTranslation by Helen McCullough, quoted in Morse, 42.. NOTES REFERENCES
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