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Nakamaro views the moon in China |
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Abe no Nakamaro (A.D. 701-770) was sent to China to study and remained there until he died. One night he composed this poem to express his homesickness for Japan, “As I look out into the vast expanse, can this be the same moon that I saw rise in Kasuga behind Mount Mikasa?”
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