Round One Hundred and Forty-Seven

Left

うつろはでしばししのだの森を見よかへりもぞするくずのうらかぜ

utsurowade shibashi shinoda no mori o miyo kaeri mo zo suru kuzu no ura kaze

Turn not! And For a while on Shinoda Forest rest your gaze! For it may return again: The breeze ‘neath the arrowroot leaves.

293[1]

Right

きえぬべき露の我が身の置所いづれの野べの草葉なるらん

kienubeki tsuyu no wa ga mi no okidokoro izure no nobe no kusaba naruran

Surely to vanish As the dewdrops is my lot, and The place I fall Will be in some meadow Among the blades of grass, no doubt…

294[2]

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[1] Shinkokinshū XVIII: 1820: After Izumi Shikibu had been abandoned by Michisada, Akazome Emon heard that almost immediately Prince Atsumichi had begun to visit her, and sent her this.

[2] Shokukokinshū XV: 1422: Topic unknown.