Kinkai wakashū 441

おく山のすゑのたつきもいさしらず妹にあはずて年のへゆけば

okuyama no
sue no tatsu ki mo
isashirazu
imo ni awazute
toshi no heyukeba

Deep within the mountains’
End stand trees—of them, too,
What’s to become, I know not, for
I cannot meet my darling, and
The years drag on…

441

Waka Poetry