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Kokinshu #181
Tuesday, 20 December 2011 07:13 Topic unknown.
No, I shall not meet
the man who might come tonight,
lest I also would
then have to wait as long as
the next Tanabata.
koyoi komu
hito ni wa awaji
tanabata no
hisashiki hodo ni
machi mo koso sure
---L.
No, I shall not meet
the man who might come tonight,
lest I also would
then have to wait as long as
the next Tanabata.
—19 December 2011
Original by Sosei, writing in a female persona who uses the story -- well, I'm not sure whether to call this metaphoric dressing or sympathetic magic. But it's about herself, rather than Orihime, though "her" point is "as above, so below." The conjunction of consequence (here "lest") is omitted but understood. On the other hand, my "next" is merely interpretive and "long" somewhat understates the strength of the prolonging of hisashi.koyoi komu
hito ni wa awaji
tanabata no
hisashiki hodo ni
machi mo koso sure
---L.