Among my miscellaneous poems
世にふればうきことの葉の数ごとにたえず涙の露ぞおきける
| yo ni fureba uki koto no ha no kazu goto ni taezu namida no tsuyu zo okikeru | Living in this world, My words of grief Number the same as My ceaseless tears, Falling as dewdrops.[i] |
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[i] See: Topic unknown. よにふればうさこそまされみ吉野の岩のかけ道ふみならしてむ yo ni fureba / usa koso masare / miyoshino no / iwa no kakemichi / fuminarashitemu ‘Living in this world / Brings only an excess of grief; / Upon fair Yoshino’s / Steep and rocky trails / Would I set my feet.’ Anonymous (Kokinshū XVIII: 951)