行きやらぬ夢路をたのむ袂には
天つ空なる露やおくらむ
天つ空なる露やおくらむ
- Roma-ji
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Yukiyaranu yumeji o tanomu tamoto ni wa
amatsusora naru tsuyu ya okuramu - English Translation
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Trusting to a dream
That never reaches its end,
Along that dream path—
Upon my waiting sleeve
Does heaven’s dew fall and rest?
- Meaning
- Relying on a dream path that never reaches its end, I fall asleep; and upon my sleeve, soaked through when I wake, does the dew from the heavens fall?
- Commentary
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54. Trusting to a Dream Path
A certain man composed this poem for a woman who was cold and gave no response at all, though he pleaded his feelings.
Resigning himself to the thought that he cannot meet her in reality, he at least entrusts himself to dreams; and when he awakens with sleeves wet from tears, he speaks as though it were the dew of the heavens that has fallen upon them.
- Source
- Ise Monogatari
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