Hyakunin Isshu #41
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lnhammer And so I find that
I'm already being called
a person in love --
although I let no one know
I've started to feel this way.
koisu chou
waga na wa madaki
tachinikeri
hito shirezu koso
omoisomeshika
---L.
I'm already being called
a person in love --
although I let no one know
I've started to feel this way.
—22 February 1010
Original by Mibu no Tadami, son of the Tadamine of #30. Lots of archaic forms in this one: chou is a contraction of what is in modern form to iu ("so-called"), madaki is modern hayaku mo ("already"), and shirezu is modern shirarenai ("not able to know"/"not known"). And then there's that final verb, with its incipient and perfective aspects ...koisu chou
waga na wa madaki
tachinikeri
hito shirezu koso
omoisomeshika
---L.