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岩根踏み重なる山はなけれども逢はぬ日数を恋や渡らん
iFane Fumi
Crag trodden
The Elder Maiden of Sakanoue
Sad thoughts.
夕凝りの霜置きにけり朝戸出にいたくし踏みて人に知らゆな
yupu kori no With the evening chill
朝戸出の君が足結を濡らす露原早く起き出でつつ我れも裳裾濡らさな
asa tode no
In the morning, opening the door
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro Collection
On parting.
朝戸出の君が姿をよく見ずて長き春日を恋ひや暮らさむ
asa tode no
In the morning, opening the door
A poem composed when the officials of the government headquarters in Dazai had visited the palace at Kashii, and halted their mounts on the shore at Kashii on the way home, in the winter, Eleventh Month, Jinki 5 [729].
いざ子ども香椎の潟に白栲の袖さへ濡れて朝菜摘みてむ
iza kodomo
Hey, fellows all!
Ōtomo no Tabito
[One of] ten personal laments.
捨てて後は紛れし方は覚えぬを心のみをは世にあらせける
sutete nochi wa
Having been abandoned
Saigyō
[One of] ten poems on love.
さりと夜とほのかに人を見つれども覚えぬ夢の心地こそすれ
sari to yo to
So it was that with the night
Saigyō
我見ても類覚えぬ月の夜はふりぬる人ぞ待つ問はれける
ware mitemo
I see it yet,
Minamoto no Yorimasa
Love in the middle of the day.
契りおきしほどは近くやなりぬらむしをれにけりな朝顔の花
tigiri okisi
Does our promised
When someone was holding a plant-matching contest, and plants like morning glories were being compared, and a mirror blossom lay near her.
まけがたの耻かしげなる朝顏を鏡草にも見せてける哉
makegata no
The loser
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'Simply moving and elegant'