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Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 82

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かけつればちぢのこがねも数しりぬなど我が恋のあふばかりなき

kaketsureba
chiji no kogane mo
kazu shirinu
nado wa ga koi no
au bakari naki
Strung together, they are, so
Even thousand thousand gold
In number I do know;
Why, with my love is there
Simply meetings none?

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君こふる涙の床にみちぬれば身をつくしとぞ我はなりぬる

kimi kouru
namida no toko ni
michinureba
mi o tsukushi to zo
ware wa narinuru
Loving you
With tears my bed
Has completely filled, so
A channel buoy, exhausted,
Have I become.

Okikaze
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[1] Kokinshū XII: 569/ Kokin rokujō III: 1961

SIS IX: 552

In the Tenryaku period, when the Ichijō Regent [Fujiwara no Koretada] was Head Chamberlain, His Majesty lost his belt to him while playing go. The games continued, and Koretada’s losses mounted, so His Majesty composed this poem to ask for the return of his belt.

白浪の打ちやかへすと待つほどに浜の真砂の数ぞ積もれる

siranami no
uti ya kaFesu to
matu Fodo ni
Fama no masago no
kazu zo tumoreru
Wondering when the whitecaps
Will return, and
While waiting
The grains of sand upon the beach
Increase in number!

Emperor Murakami