Kinkai wakashū 569

あづまぢのさやの中山こえていなばいとど都やとほざかりなん

azumaji no
saya no nakayama
koete inaba
itodo miyako ya
tōzakarinan
Upon eastland roads lies
Saya-no-Nakayama:
When I pass across it
How much the capital
Seems further away…[i]

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[i] See: 安都麻道乃 手児乃欲婢佐可 古要弖伊奈婆 安礼波古非牟奈 能知波安比奴登母 azumaji no/ tego no yobisaka / koete inaba / are wa koinamu na / nochi wa ainuru tomo ‘On eastland roads lies / Tego-no-Yobisaka: / When I pass across it, / How filled am I with yearning, / Even should we meet once more…’ (Man’yōshū XIV: 3477)

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