Tag Archives: guardsmen

Kinkai wakashū 596

Composed one morning when I couldn’t see my attendants, after returning from the same pilgrimage

旅をゆきし跡のやどもりおのおのにわたくしあれや今朝はいまだこぬ

tabi o yukishi
ato no yadomori
onoono ni
watakushi are ya
kesa wa imada konu
When on my travels I have gone,
Do all my remaining guardsmen
Each and every one
Have their own concerns, that
They have yet to come this morning?

596