flowers blossoming
in autumn fields-
when I count them on my fingers
they then number seven
秋の野に咲きたる花を
指および折りかき数ふれば七種ななくさの花

-Yamanoue-no-Okura (山上憶良 660–733).
Man'yōshū (万葉集), poem 1537.
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