Round One Hundred and Twenty

Left

あさぼらけおきつる霜の消えかへりくれまつほどの袖を見せばや

asaborake okitsuru shimo no kiekaeri kure matsu hodo no sode o miseba ya

With dawn’s first light The fallen frost Vanishes away; Waiting for the evening, for Then would I show you my sleeves…

239[1]

Right

はかなくもこんよをかねて契るかなふたたびおなじ身ともならじを

hakanaku mo kon yo o kanete chigiru kana futatabi onaji mi to mo naraji o

How unreliable to vow that In advance of the world to come We will be linked! For once more within the selfsame Flesh we might not be…

240[2]

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[1] Shinkokinshū XIII: 1189: Sent on the morning that the Sanjō Regent Junior Consort was presented at court.

[2] Senzaishū XV: 921: Topic unknown.