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Kinkai wakashū 466

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三熊野のうらのはまゆふいはずとも思ふ心の数をしらなん

mikumano no
ura no hamayū
iwazu tomo
omou kokoro no
kazu o shiranan		At fair Kumano,
Lilies on the beach
Say nothing, yet
The yearnings in my heart for you
In number I would have you know![1]

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[1] An allusive variation on: [One of] Four poems by Hitomaro, Lord Kakinomoto. み熊野の浦の濱木綿百重なす心は思へど直に逢はぬかも mikumano no / ura no hamayū / momoe nasu / kokoro wa omoedo / tada ni awanu kamo ‘At fair Kumano / Lilies on the beach / A hundred deep / My heart’s yearning, but / Never will we meet.’ (MYS IV: 496)

Teika-kyō Hyakuban Jika Awase

Love 73

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Left (Tie).

さぞなげく戀をするがの字津の山うつゝの夢のまたしみえねば

sazo nageku
koi o suruga no
utsu no yama
utsutsu no yume no
mata shi mieneba		 Grieving as he
In love by Suruga’s
Utsu Mountain,
When reality is but a dream
I never will see more.

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Right (Tie).

はまゆふやかさなる山の幾重ともいさしら雲のそこの面影

hamayū ya
kasanaru yama no
ikue tomo
isa shirakumo no
soko no omokage		 How many lily leaves of
Overlapping mountain
Folds I have crossed
I know not, yet on the distant clouds’
Surface do I still see her face.

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Teika-kyō Hyakuban Jika Awase

Summer 20

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Left (Win).

蘆の屋のかりねの床のふしのまにみじかく明る夏の夜な夜な

ashi no ya no
karine no toko no
fushi no ma ni
mijikaku akuru
natsu no yonayona		 Out cutting reeds,
Upon a fleeting bed
I lie; between one reed-knot and another,
So brief comes the dawn
Each passing night in summer.

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Right

うちなびくしげみが下のさゆり葉のしられぬほどにかよふ秋風

uchinabiku
shigemi ga shita no
sayuriba no
shirarenu hodo ni
kayou akikaze		 Aflutter
Beneath the growth
Lilies,
Unknown to all,
Are passed by an autumn breeze.

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