Round Forty-Five

Left

ありはてぬいのちまつまの程ばかりうきことしげくおもはずもがな

arihatenu inochi matsu ma no hodo bakari uki koto shigeku omowazu mogana

To reach the very end of Life—awaiting that I spend my time, but simply Upon its flourishing cruelties I wish I did not have to dwell!

89[i]

Right

後の世をなげくなみだといひなしてしぼりやせましすみ染の袖

nochi no yo o nageku namida to iinashite shibori ya semashi sumizome no sode

In my life to come brings These grieving tears— Should that be my excuse,as I wring out My ink-dyed sleeves?

90[ii]

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[i] KKS XVII: 965: Composed when he had lost his office.

[ii] SKKS XII: 1102: Composed on the conception of hidden love, when various people were ordered to produce hundred poem sequences by the Lay Priest and Former Regent, when he was Minister of the Right.