Round Twelve

Left

かずならばかからましやは世中にいとかなしきはしづのをだまき

kazu naraba kakaramashi ya yo no naka ni ito kanashiki wa shizu no odamaki

If I were as other folk, then I would not be treated so! In this mundane world A thread of sorrow winds on The bobbin of my sorry lot!

23[i]

Right

あきしのやと山の里やしぐるらんいこまのたけに雲のかかれる

akishino ya toyama no sato ya shigururan ikoma no take ni kumo no kakareru

In Akishino On the houses at the mountain’s hem Showers must be falling, for The mount of Ikoma Is covered o’er with cloud.

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[i] SKKS XV: 1425/1424 When the parents of a woman with whom he had been conversing secretly heard about it and forbade it.

[ii] SKKS VI: 585 Topic unknown.