ながらふるほどは憂けれど行きめぐり
今日はその世に逢ふ心地して
今日はその世に逢ふ心地して
- Roma-ji
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Nagarauru hodo wa ukeredo yukimeguri
kyō wa sono yo ni au kokochi shite - English Translation
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To go on living
is a wretched thing, and yet,
the year coming round,
today I feel as though I
had met that world once again
- Meaning
- To go on living is a wretched thing; and yet, the year having come round, today I feel as if I had met those days again.
- Commentary
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Part One: Sakaki
Fujitsubo answered him with this poem. That day she put all thought of what had passed between them aside and kept the observances, wet with snowmelt. Later, past the tenth of the twelfth month, the lectures were held, and on the closing day she suddenly took vows.
"Nagarafuru" is to go on living, and states how hard survival is. "Coming round" is the year turning to the same day again, taking up his "this day has come." "That world" is the years while the late Emperor lived. To his lament that no date can be set for a reunion she answers that the anniversary is itself the reunion—a reply with the weight of faith behind it.
- Author
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Source
- Genji Monogatari
- Other
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- Do you take the tears of these days when we do not meet and I hold back for nothing more than the rain that falls from a common sky
- This day of parting has come round to us again, but the one I knew— when may I count on the time when I shall go and meet her
- Though I set my heart on the cloud-dwelling where the moon lives, and follow, shall I not still go straying in the darkness of this world
- In the general wretchedness of things I turn away from the world, and yet when shall I be done with turning my back on it