Jidai fudō uta’awase 84

Round Eighty-Four

Left

見るゆめにうつつのうさもわすられておもひなぐさむ程ぞはかなき

miru yume ni
utsutsu no usa mo
wasurarete
omoinagusamu
hodo zo hakanaki
Being seen in a dream, then
Reality’s cold cruelties
I will forget, and
Be comforted
For a brief, empty moment.

167[1]

Right

いきてよもあすまで人はつらからじこの夕暮をとはばとへかし

ikite yo mo
asu made hito mo
tsurakaraji
kono yūgure o
towaba toe kashi
Living in this world
I shall do until the morrow, for his
Cruelty I would endure no longer;
On this evening
Should he call, ’twould be the right one.

168[2]


[1] A minor variant on SKKS XV: 1384.

[2] SKKS XIV: 1329: From a hundred poem sequence.

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