Kokinshu #552

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    So was it because
I slept full of longing that
    I saw that person?
If I'd known it for a dream,
I would not have awoken!

—3 January 2011

Original by Ono no Komachi. One of Komachi's more straightforward poems, a direct statement relying on conception instead of wordplay (though note the multiple polysyllabic verbs). This appears in Tales of Ise as sent by an anonymous women to a man who no longer visited her, which changes what appears to be a wistful complaint into a pointed jab.


omoitsutsu
nureba ya hito no
mietsuramu
yume to shiraseba
samezaramashi o