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Kokinshu #288
Tuesday, 14 August 2012 07:04 (Topic unknown.)
Shall I push through them
to visit you once again?
-- for all that I look,
the colored autumn leaves have
fallen and concealed the path.
fumiwakete
sara ni ya towamu
momijiba no
furikakushiteshi
michi to minagara
---L.
Shall I push through them
to visit you once again?
-- for all that I look,
the colored autumn leaves have
fallen and concealed the path.
—7 August 2012
(Original author unknown.) Set by the editors as a response to the previous -- to bring this out, I added an interpretive "you" that I'd likely leave out if detached from this context. Regardless, it's poor excuse-making, weakened all the more by being ambiguously marked as possibly a rhetorical question (and they, as a rule, expect a negative answer).fumiwakete
sara ni ya towamu
momijiba no
furikakushiteshi
michi to minagara
---L.