Jidai fudō uta’awase 41

Round Forty-One

Left

むらさきの色にこころはあらねどもふかくぞ人をおもひそめつる

murasaki no
iro ni kokoro wa
aranedomo
fukaku zo hito o
omoisometuru
The violet[i]
Hue is in my heart
Nowhere to be found
Yet deeply have you
Started to stain my thoughts.

81[ii]

Right

しのぶるに心のひまはなけれどもなほもる物はなみだなりけり

shinoburu ni
kokoro ni hima wa
nakeredomo
nao moru mono wa
namida narikeri
Secretly longing,
My heart has cracks
Not a one, yet
Still leaking out are
My tears.

82[iii]


[i] The colour violet (murasaki), was renowned as being particularly deep, so the implication is that Daigo’s love is deeper than the deepest dye.

[ii] SKKS XI: 995: Sent to the Chūjō Junior Consort.

[iii] SKKS XI: 1037: Hidden love, when he composed a Hundred Poem Sequence.

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