Two poems composed by a maiden of the Yosami, the wife of Hitomaro, Lord Kakinomoto, after his death.
今日今日と我が待つ君は石川の峽に交りてありといはずやも
kepu kepu tö wa ga matu kimi pa isikapa nö kapi ni mazirite ari tö ipazu ya mo |
‘Will it be this day, or this day?’ The man I’m waiting for Ishikawa’s Pass has entered Can’t you say? |