Round One Hundred and Thirty-Five

Left

いかでかは思ひありともしらすべきむろの八島のけぶりならでは

ika de ka wa omoi ari to wa shirasubeki muro no yashima no keburi narade wa

In some way or other Of my passion I should tell you; For, in Muro, from Yashima Isle Rising smoke it is not!

269[1]

Right

うき人をしのぶべしとは思ひきやわが心さへなどかはるらん

ukibito o shinobubeshi to wa omoiki ya wa ga kokoro sae nado kawaruran

Of that heartless man I would secretly be fond, I thought, so why Does my heart, too, Seem to have changed?

270[2]

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[1] Shikashū VII: 188: Topic unknown.

[2] Senzaishū XV: 918: Composed as a love poem, when she presented a hundred poem sequence.