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Seeing Off Manshu To The Eastern Sea

Liu Yazi 1887-1958 Red lanterns green wine, how many drunken words? Ocean surf Heaven's squall, thousand mile trip. Sure it's high spring already mid April, Under cherry blossoms you'll catch koto tunes.

Sòng Mànshū Dōngdù

Liǔ Yàzǐ 1887-1958 Hóngdēng lǜ jiǔ jǐ jù zuì, Hǎishuǐ tiān fēng wànlǐ xíng. Zhèngshì yángchūn jiù sān yuè, Yīnghuā cóng lǐ fǎng diào zhēng.

Translator:

Dongbo 東波

Notes: This poem was written in Shanghai in 1912 as Liu Yazi was seeing off his friend Su Manshu to Tokyo by ship. Su Manshu, with a Japanese mother and a Chinese father had spent his school years in Yokohama and Japan, and was returning to visit his mother.

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