Jidai fudō uta’awase 111

Round One Hundred and Eleven

Left

うしといひて世をひたすらにそむかねば物おもひしらぬみとや成りなん

ushi to iite
yo o hitasura ni
somukaneba
mono’omoi shiranu
mi to ya narinan
How hard it is, you say, but
This mundane world, earnestly
You are unable to abandon, so
Gloomy thoughts unknown
To you seem, do they not?

221[1]

Right

われゆゑのなみだとこれをよそにみばあはれなるべき袖のうへかな

ware yue no
namida to kore o
yoso ni miba
aware narubeki
sode no ue kana
Should my
Tears she
View from afar,
Would she pity them
Resting atop my sleeves!

222[2]


[1] Motosuke-shū 214: Sent to a certain person.

[2] Senzaishū XII: 757: Topic unknown.

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