Until even now,
There can be no one at all
Who has not forgotten—
For each in different ways
Has lived on through passing years.
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After so many years have passed, surely there is no one who has not forgotten. Each of us has lived in our own way as the years have gone by.
- Commentary
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86. Each in Different Ways
There was once a young man and a young woman. They spoke together with affection, but fearing that their relationship might be discovered by their parents, they stopped meeting.
After several years had passed, the man sent this poem to the woman, hoping to fulfill the feelings he had long held.
In the end their relationship as lovers did not return, yet neither did they part completely, for both came to serve in the same residence.
In the poem the man expresses that he has never forgotten the woman he once loved.
The feelings of the young man and woman never came to fulfillment, and with time they lost the moment in which their love might have been realized. They cannot return to the relationship they once had, yet neither do they completely part from one another. The poem expresses the lingering emotions that remain between them.
- Source
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Ise Monogatari
- Other
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