Ōmi no miyasudokoro uta’awase 15

Sand Pear Blossom

よの中をうしといひてもいづくにかみをばかくさむ山なしの花

yo no naka o
ushi to iitemo
izuku ni ka
mi oba kakusamu
yamanashi no hana
This mundane world
I hate, I say, yet
Somewhere
I would hide myself away among
The sand-pear blossoms.

15[i]


[i] This poem is included in Kokin rokujō (4268), with the headnote ‘Sand Pear’, and also in Mandaishū (2812) with the headnote, ‘From the Poetry Match at the Residence of the Ōmi Lady of the Bedchamber’.

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