宿貸さば一夜は寝なむおほかたの
花に移らぬ心なりとも
花に移らぬ心なりとも
- Roma-ji
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Yado kasaba hitoyo wa nenamu ōkata no
hana ni utsuranu kokoro nari tomo - English Translation
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If you lend me a
lodging, I will sleep one night—
even though my heart
is not one that turns aside
to the common run of flowers
- Meaning
- If you lend me a lodging I will sleep one night, even though mine is not a heart that turns to the common run of flowers.
- Commentary
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Part Three: Kagero
Kaoru's poem closes the set on the maiden flower. He lets the challenge pass and answers lightly that if a lodging is offered he will stay. His mind, though, is with the people he lost at Uji, and directly afterwards he sits alone in the autumn dusk and thinks back over what became of the three sisters.
Yado kasaba is if you lend me lodging, taking up her tabine shite. Hitoyo wa nenamu is that he will stay a single night. "The common run of flowers" are ordinary ones, women he cares nothing for. He appears to accept while stating flatly that his heart does not move, and even in play he keeps his line.
- Author
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Source
- Genji Monogatari
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