Kokinshu #475

(Topic unknown.)

    Isn't it always
like that in this world of ours:
    I long for someone
I cannot see any more
than I can the blowing wind.

—1 November 2010, rev. 20 November 2013

Original by Ki no Tsurayuki. Previously posted but slightly revised. More wind as symbols of rumors about one's beloved, here used indirectly. This, like the next couple poems, uses an old-fashioned style of direct statement of emotions, here bound up with a skillful use of image and symbol.


yo (no) naka wa
kaku koso arikere
fuku kaze no
me ni minu hito mo
koishikarikeri

---L.