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Kokinshu #183
Saturday, 24 December 2011 07:33 Written on the Eighth.
So starting today
I must wait impatiently
though the entire
year that is now to come for
yesterday's Tanabata.
kyô yori wa
ima komu toshi no
kinô o zo
itsu shika to nomi
machiwatarubeki
---L.
So starting today
I must wait impatiently
though the entire
year that is now to come for
yesterday's Tanabata.
—22 December 2011
Original by Mibu no Tadamine. The arc rounds out with a morning-after poem, de rigueur in court circles after a tryst. "Tanabata" is not explicit (more literally, it's "await the yesterday of the year to come"), and while the clarification was entirely necessary, it seems to flow better for it.kyô yori wa
ima komu toshi no
kinô o zo
itsu shika to nomi
machiwatarubeki
---L.