Round Ninety-Five

Left

かぎりなくむすびおきつる草枕いつこのたびをおもひわすれん

kagirinaku musubi’okitsuru kusamakura itsu kono tabi o omoiwasuren

Beyond all limits were The ties laid down between Our grassy pillows, so When this journey Might we ever be able to forget?

189[1]

Right

おほ井河ふるきながれを尋ねきてあらしの山のもみぢをぞみる

ōigawa furuki nagare o tazunekite arashi no yama no momiji o zo miru

The River Ōi: This ancient flow Have I come to visit, and Around the mount of storms, Scarlet leaves I see!

190[2]

---

[1] Shinkokinshū XII: 1150: Sent to a lady he had been seeing secretly on the morning after he had returned home, after they had met at a temporary lodging.

[2] Goshūishū VI: 379: Composed in the Tenth Month of Jōhō 3 [1076] when the reigning emperor had made a progress to the River Ōi to go hunting.