Sanekata Shū 338

Going to the New Rice Festival in the evening, a lady’s face was open to view, so I concealed it with my sleeves; on descending from the cart, she said:

ひかげかくしゝ袖ぞわすれぬ

Fikage kakusisi
sode zo wasurenu
Garlanded with sunlight vine, and hidden by
Those sleeves, I never shall forget…

I replied:

おほぞらのくもの浮きたる身なれども

oFozora no
kumo no ukitaru
mi naredomo
Within the boundless skies,
A drifting cloud

Is my state, yet…

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