Kinkai wakashū 583

しながどりゐなののはらのささ枕まくらの霜ややどる月かげ

shinagadori
inano no hara no
sasamakura
makura no shimo ya
yadoru tsukikage
Upon waterbird-filled
Inano Plain, with
A pillow of bamboo—
And the frost upon my pillow is
The moonlight’s lodging…[i]

583


[i] See: Topic unknown. しながどりゐなのをゆけばありまやま夕ぎり立ちぬやどはなくして shinagadori / inano o yukeba / arimayama / yūgiri tachinu / yado wa nakushite ‘Through waterbird-filled / Inano I go, as / Upon Arima Mountain / Evening mist has risen, and / Me without a lodging…’ Anonymous (Shinkokinshū X: 910)

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