Round Fifty-Nine

Left

夢よりもはかなき物は夏の夜のあかつきがたの別なりけり

yume yori mo hakanaki mono wa natsu no yo no akatsukigata no wakare narikeri

Far more than dreams, How fleeting, and piteous, is A summer night’s Dawn Parting.

170[i]

Right

うかりける人をはつせの山おろしよはげしかれとはいのらぬものを

ukarikeru hito o hatsuse no yama’oroshi yo hageshikare to wa inoranu mono o

A heartless Woman is as Hatsuse’s Mountain winds, Raging in the night, they say, and As unmoved by prayer…

118[ii]

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[i] GSS IV: 170: Topic unknown.

[ii] SZS XII: 708: Composed on the conception of love that is unrequited despite one’s prayers, when composing ten poems on love at the residence of Supernumerary Middle Councillor Toshitada.