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Sugawara no Michizane Stampa Michizane composes a poem about the moon and plum flowers.

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Sugawara no Michizane was a renowned scholar and artist. He was posthumously named Tenjin, the god of calligraphy and literature. When he was eleven years old, he wrote the following poem, in classical Chinese form: “The moon shines like snow/and the plum flowers seem reflected stars/ah! the golden mirror of the moon passes on top/on when the aroma in the jade room fills the garden.”
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Title: Sugawara no Michizane Stampa Michizane composes a poem about the moon and plum flowers.
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Sugawara no Michizane was a renowned scholar and artist.
He was posthumously named Tenjin, the god of calligraphy and literature.
When he was eleven years old, he wrote the following poem, in classical Chinese form: “The moon shines like snow/and the plum flowers seem reflected stars/ah! the golden mirror of the moon passes on top/on when the aroma in the jade room fills the garden.
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