SIS XI: 629

見ぬ人のこひしきやなぞおぼつかな誰とかしらむゆめに見ゆとも

minu Fito no
koifsiki ya na zo
obotukana
tare to ka siramu
yume ni miyu tomo
An unseen lady
Do I love, but why?
How strange it is—
Is there any might know,
Though I glimpse her in my dreams…[i]

[i] Taken from Sahȳōe no suke sadafumi uta’awase (28) where it is attributed to Ōshikōchi no Mitsune.

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