わするらむと思ふ心のうたがひに
ありしよりけに物ぞかなしき
ありしよりけに物ぞかなしき
- Roma-ji
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Wasururamu to omou kokoro no utagai ni
arishi yori ke ni mono zo kanashiki - English Translation
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In doubting heart
that thinks I would forget—
that very doubt
makes all the more
my sorrow deeper than before.
- Meaning
- That doubting heart which thinks I would forget you—because of that very doubt, my sorrow is even deeper than before.
- Commentary
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Episode Twenty-One: "If I go forth and leave"
There were a man and a woman who loved one another and had no thought of turning their hearts elsewhere, yet over some trifling matter their married life became burdensome.
The woman left the house without telling him where she was going.
This poem conveys that the man truly cherished the woman who departed.
To have one’s feelings doubted by the person with whom one shared a heart is perhaps more painful than her very absence.
- Source
- Ise Monogatari
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