Hyakunin Isshu #50
Saturday, 26 June 2010 08:43![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lnhammer Even this poor life
that once I would not have been
sorry to lose,
now for your sake I can
only wish that it last long.
kimi ga tame
oshikarazarishi
inochi sae
nagaku mogana to
omoikeru kana
---L.
that once I would not have been
sorry to lose,
now for your sake I can
only wish that it last long.
—24 June 2010
Original by Fujiwara no Yoshitaka, son of Koretada (#45), written as a morning-after poem. Why he once valued his life so little is not stated and long-debated -- the most common reading is that he would have given his life to see her, but despair he couldn't see her seems more likely to me. Either way, I tried to keep the ambiguity.kimi ga tame
oshikarazarishi
inochi sae
nagaku mogana to
omoikeru kana
---L.