Tag Archives: Kume

Eikyū hyakushu 458

Lacking a Glimpse of Love Letters 不見書恋

かづらきやくめの岩ばしふみみねどわたりがたしと空にしりつつ

kazuragi ya
kume no iwabashi
fumi minedo
watarigatashi to
sora shiritsutsu
At Kazuragi stands
Kume’s broken stony bridge:
No sight of letters from you, yet
How hard it is to cross – that
The skies do ever know…

Nakazane

Sanekata Shū 249

Sent to a lady when I had heard that another man had written to her while she was in the birthing hut.

うしろめた一言主やいかならむたへまにわぶる久米の岩橋

usirometa
Fitokotonusi ya
ika naramu
taFe ma ni waburu
kume no iFabasi
Uneasy am I:
The Master of a Single Word
Is up to something…
Our time apart is a rift as in
Kume’s unfinished bridge of stone.