Round Eighty-Six

Left

あふことをまつに月日はこゆるぎのいそにいでてやけふはうらみん

au koto o matsu ni tsukihi wa koyurugi no iso ni idete ya kyō wa uramin

For a meeting I have waited days, months And more, so to Koyurugi’s Rocky shore should I go out And gaze with hatred at the beach?

171[1]

Right

しぬばかりなげきにこそはなげきしかいきてとふべき身にはあらねど

shinu bakari nageki ni koso wa nagekishika ikite toubeki mi ni shi araneba

Death alone My worry for you Might have brought me in my grief; Should one ask if you’re alive— I am not such a one.

172[2]

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[1] A minor variant on GSS XIV: 1049.

[2] Goshūishū XVII: 1001: When the earlier Nijō Minister [Fujiwara no Norimichi (996-1075)] recovered after having been ill for days, he said to her, ‘Why didn’t you ask after me?’ and she composed.