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Love 59

Left.

我袖にむなしき浪はかけそめつ契もしらぬ床の浦風

wa ga sode ni
munashiki nami wa
kakesometsu
chigiri mo shiranu
toko no urakaze
Upon my sleeves,
Vacantly, waves
Have begun to break;
All unknowing of our vows is
The wind cross Bedding Bay…

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Right.

白玉の緒斷の橋の名もつらしくだけておつる袖の涙に

shiratama no
odae no hashi no
na mo tsurashi
kudaketeotsuru
sode no namida ni
White jewels on
Broken-thread Bridge –
The name does pierce my heart;
A scattered fall of
Tears upon my sleeves.

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Love 56

Left (Tie).

世とゝもに吹上の濱のしほ風に靡く眞砂のくだけてぞ思ふ

yo to tomo ni
fukiage no hama no
shio kaze ni
nabiku masago no
kudakete zo omou
Long lasting as the world,
Upon the beach at Fukiage
By the tide-borne wind
The streaming sands
Are shattered as my thoughts of you.

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Right

住の江の松のねたくやよる浪のよるとはなげき夢をだに見で

sumi no e no
matsu no netaku ya
yoru nami no
yoru to wa nageki
yume o dani mide
The Suminoe
Pines: how I envy them! Roots
Washed by waves,
My night is sunk in sorrow,
Lacking e’en a glimpsed dream.

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Love 52

Left (Win).

松が根をいそべの浪のうつたえにあらはれぬべき袖の上かな

matsu ga ne o
isobe no nami no
utsutae ni
arawarenubeki
sode no ue kana
The pine trees’ roots
By stony shore bound waves
Are struck, and
Must stand revealed
Upon my sleeves.

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Right

初雁のとわたる風のたよりにもあらぬ思ひを誰につたへん

hatsukari no
towataru kaze no
tayori ni mo
aranu omoi o
tare ni tsutaen
The first, returning goose,
Borne before the gate of heaven, of the unseen wind
Is no harbinger;
Just so the fires of my love:
To whom should I reveal them?

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Spring 14

Left (Tie).

網代木に櫻こませば行春のいさよふ浪をえやはとゞむる

ajirogi ni
sakura komaseba
yuku haru no
isayou nami o
e ya wa todomuru
Can stakes of fish traps,
Mixed with cherry petals,
Departing spring’s
Impeded waves
Bring to a halt, perhaps?

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Right

あはれいかに霞も花もなれなれて雲しく谷に歸る鶯

aware ika ni
kasumi mo hana mo
narenarete
kumo shiku tani ni
kaeru uguisu
O, however much
The hazes and the blossoms
We have come to love,
To the cloud-strewn valleys
The warbler does return.

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