Kokinshu #574
Thursday, 3 March 2011 07:13![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lnhammer Topic unknown.
It seems that dew falls
on the path of dreams as well:
all through the night
as I traveled back and forth,
my sleeves got soaked -- and are not dry.
yumeji ni mo
tsuyu ya okuramu
yo mo sugara
kayoeru sode no
hijite kawakanu
---L.
It seems that dew falls
on the path of dreams as well:
all through the night
as I traveled back and forth,
my sleeves got soaked -- and are not dry.
—11 November 2010
Original by Ki no Tsurayuki. The witty part being that sleeves can, of course, also be wet from crying -- and, indeed, tsuyu ("dewdrops") is conventional metonymy for tears.yumeji ni mo
tsuyu ya okuramu
yo mo sugara
kayoeru sode no
hijite kawakanu
---L.