Poem by Sangi no Takamura (Ono no Takamura), from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)
Katsushika Hokusai Japanese
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The poem by Sanmi Takamura (802–852) reads:
O'er the wide, wide sea, towards its many distant isles,
rowing I set forth.
This, to all the world proclaim, O ye boats of fisher folk!
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