恋ひつつも今日は暮らしつ霞立つ
明日の春日をいかに暮らさむ
明日の春日をいかに暮らさむ
- Roma-ji
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Koitsutsu mo kyō wa kurashitsu kasumi tatsu asu no haruhi o ika ni kurasamu
- English Translation
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Though I long for you,
I have lived out this one day;
where the haze arises,
on tomorrow's day of spring
how shall I get through the day?
- Meaning
- Longing for you, I have somehow lived through today—but how shall I get through tomorrow's long spring day, when the haze will rise?
- Commentary
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Book Ten Spring Love Poems 1914
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Love Expressed Through Haze"
This poem has somehow endured one day of longing, but is at a loss how to spend tomorrow's long spring day, and it closes the group on haze. Contrasting today and tomorrow, it expresses the pain of a longing with no end in sight. Like 1894 and 1911, it laments spending a long spring day in longing.
In the first line, "koitsutsu mo," "tsutsu" marks continuation and "mo" carries a concessive nuance: even while longing.
In the second line, "kyō wa kurashitsu," "tsu" marks completion, and the poem breaks here.
The third line, "where haze rises," modifies "spring day," evoking its length.
The fourth line, "tomorrow's spring day," is set against today.
In the last line, "ika ni kurasamu," "mu" is conjecture, closing with a heart at a loss over how to spend tomorrow.
- Source
- Manyoshu
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