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Kinkai wakashū 689

歎きわび世をそむくべきかたしらずよしののおくも住みうしといへり

nagekiwabi
yo o somukubeki
kata shirazu
yoshino no oku mo
sumi’ushi to ieri
Griving and sorrowing,
From this world to withdraw,
I have no way, for
In the depths of Yoshino
To dwell is hard, they say. [i]

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[i] See: Topic unknown. みよしのの山のあなたにやどもがな世のうき時のかくれがにせむ miyoshino no / yama no anata ni / yado mogana / yo no uki toki no / kakurega ni semu ‘On Yoshino / Mountain’s yonder side / I would there were a house! / For when I do despise the world / There would I hide away!’ Anonymous (Kokinshū XVIII: 950)

SKKS I: 87

Composed as a spring poem, when he presented poems to the Poetry Office.

葛城やたかまの桜さきにけりたつたのおくにかかる白雲

kazuragi ya
takama no sakura
sakinikeri
tatsuta no oku ni
kakaru shirakumo
In Kazuragi,
On Takama peak the cherry
Has bloomed!
To the heart of Tatsuta
Cling clouds of white…[1]

Jakuren

A kuzushiji version of the poem's text.
Created with Soan.

[1] An allusive variation on KKS I: 59 and Wakan rōeishū II: 409/SKKS XI: 990.