やよやまて山郭公事づてむ
我世の中にすみわびぬとよ
我世の中にすみわびぬとよ
- Roma-ji
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Yayo ya mate yamahototogisu kotozutemu
ware yo no naka ni sumiwabinu to yo - English Translation
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Ah, wait a while—
o cuckoo returning
to the mountain home;
bear a message for me:
I am weary of this world.
- Meaning
- Ah, wait a while, O cuckoo returning to the mountains; carry a message for me—that I have grown weary of living in this world.
- Commentary
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Book III, Summer Poems
A poem from the end of the cuckoo’s season.
It expresses a feeling of weariness with the world, though not in a deeply desperate sense.
- Author
- Mikuni no Machi
- Source
- Kokin Wakashu
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