Hyakunin Isshu #83
Tuesday, 31 August 2010 07:20![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lnhammer In this world of ours
there is indeed no path out.
Even lost in thought
in the depths of the mountains
I seem to hear the stag cry!
yo no naka yo
michi koso nakere
omoiiru
yama no oku ni mo
shika zo naku naru
---L.
there is indeed no path out.
Even lost in thought
in the depths of the mountains
I seem to hear the stag cry!
—21-25 August 2010
Original by Fugiwara no Toshinari, father of Teika (#97) and uncle and adoptive father of Jakuren (#87); he is also known as Shunzei using an alternate pronunciation of the kanji of his personal name. "Out" is another omitted-but-understood word. This would be the same sika deer heard in #5; by including this poem, Teika probably intended a deliberate echo.yo no naka yo
michi koso nakere
omoiiru
yama no oku ni mo
shika zo naku naru
---L.