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Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 91

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しぬる命いきもやすると心みに玉のをばかりあはむといはなむ

shinuru inochi
iki mo ya suru to
kokoromi ni
tama no o bakari
awamu to iwanamu
I have died for love of you, but
Might life return?
Try, if only as
A fragile jewelled thread, and
Say that you will meet with me!

Okikaze
176[1]

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あかずして別れしよひのなみだ川よどみもなくもたぎつ心か

akazushite
wakareshi yoi no
namidagawa
yodomi mo naku mo
tagitsu kokoro ka
Still hungering for you
When we parted that night, did
The river of my tears
Not in a trickle, but
In a torrent run through my heart?

177


[1] Kokinshū XII: 568; a minor variant of this poem also occurs in Kokin rokujō (V: 3207): しぬるいのちいきもやすると心みに玉のをばかりあひみてしかな shinuru inochi / iki mo ya suru to / kokoromi ni / tama no o bakari / aimiteshi kana ‘I have died for love of you, but / Might life return? / Try, if only as / A fragile jewelled thread, and / Make an attempt to meet me!’

SIS VIII: 445

Written on the rocks by the waterfall at Provisional Middle Councillor Atsutada’s mountain retreat at Nishi-sakamoto.

音羽川せき入れて落す瀧つせに人の心のみえもするかな

otoFagaFa
seki’irete otosu
taki tu se ni
Fito no kokoro no
mie mo suru kana
On Otowa River
A barrier is placed to drop
A cataract in torrents
And, your heart, perhaps,
Reveal!

Ise
伊勢