これやこのあまの羽衣むべしこそ
君がみけしとたてまつりけれ
君がみけしとたてまつりけれ
- Roma-ji
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Kore ya kono ama no hagoromo ube shi koso
kimi ga mikeshi to tatematsurikere - English Translation
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Is this indeed
the robe of feathers
of a heavenly maid?
No wonder it was worn
by one such as you.
- Meaning
- Is this indeed the feathered robe of a heavenly maiden? No wonder it was worn by one such as you.
- Commentary
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Episode Sixteen: "Folding the fingers"
Ki no Aritsune, who had served three reigns, lost in political strife and fell into poverty, forced to live in hardship.
Accustomed to an elegant life, he knew little of the world’s common ways and suffered greatly.
At last, even the wife who had long shared his life became a nun and left him.
This poem is Aritsune’s reply to the poem sent by his friend together with robes and bedding for a nun, which had said, "If the years alone, saying ten, have passed four times, how many times in that while has she relied upon you and come to you?"
- Source
- Ise Monogatari
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