A tanka, a 5-7-5-7-7 syllable count poem, by Lady Ise, a Heian era poet. The Naniwa mentioned in the poem, according to that node, was the name of the fief in the area of what is now Osaka.

I hear they are rebuilding
Nagara Bridge in Naniwa.
What is left
For me now
To compare myself to?

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