Kokinshu #434
Friday, 16 August 2013 06:58 (Hollyhock, katsura)
If in the future
because of other eyes the days
we meet are seldom,
would you then become convinced
of my hard-heartedness?
hitome yue
nochi ni au hi no
harukeku wa
wa ga tsuraki ni ya
omoinasaremu
---L.
If in the future
because of other eyes the days
we meet are seldom,
would you then become convinced
of my hard-heartedness?
—12 July-13 August 2013
(Original author unknown.) Same two topics hidden in similar ways, giving the flip side. To keep it as gender-neutral as the previous, I read the implied pronoun as "you," but absent this context "he" or "she" is more likely.hitome yue
nochi ni au hi no
harukeku wa
wa ga tsuraki ni ya
omoinasaremu
---L.