Kokinshu #657
Monday, 4 April 2011 07:04 Topic unknown.
Guided by the flames
of a love without limits
I shall come at night,
for at least no one censures
traveling the path of dreams.
kagiri naki
omoi no mama ni
yoru mo komu
yumeji o sae ni
hito wa togameji
---L.
Guided by the flames
of a love without limits
I shall come at night,
for at least no one censures
traveling the path of dreams.
9-10 January 2011
Original by Ono ni Komachi. Pivot-word: omo(h)i = "longing" / hi = "flame" -- the fires of love treated as a physical, light-giving object. "For" and "traveling" are interpolations: the former is the implied relationship between the independent sentences, and the latter (or some synonym) is the implied-but-missing verb of the direct object "path of dreams".kagiri naki
omoi no mama ni
yoru mo komu
yumeji o sae ni
hito wa togameji
---L.
no subject
Date: 6 April 2011 20:23 (UTC)(Also, why doesn't the JTI text number the poems? Makes it much harder to cite.)
---L.