Lord Kanehira, unexpectedly prevented from accompanying them, sent a poem instead:

Today a new beginning
For the small green pine
From Mount Fushimi:
May it flourish forever.
The poem GoFukakusa wrote in reply was:
Here at Mount Fushimi
It would grow forever,
May it flourish now
A thousand years beyond. [2.8]

sad girl



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