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恋しきに侘びてたましひまどひなば空しきからの名にやのこらむ
koishiki ni wabite tamashii madoinaba munashiki kara no na ni ya nokoramu | If, for love of you and Suffering, my soul Should wander in confusion, As an empty husk— Would that be my reputation? |
190[1]
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あかずして今朝のかへりぢおもほえず心をひとつおきてこしかば
akazushite kesa no kaeriji omohoezu kokoro o hitotsu okitekoshikaba | Still hungering for you On my way home this morning, I felt nothing In my heart, but that one feeling Placed there, so… |
191
[1] Kokinshū XII: 571/Shinsen man’yōshū 219/Kokin rokujō IV: 1983