おのがじし人死にすらし妹に恋ひ
日に異に痩せぬ人に知らえず
日に異に痩せぬ人に知らえず
- Roma-ji
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Onogajishi hito shini surashi imo ni koi hi ni ke ni yasenu hito ni shiraezu
- English Translation
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Each in their own way,
it seems, people come to die;
longing for my love
I grow thinner day by day,
and no one knows of it
- Meaning
- It seems each of us dies in our own way; longing for my beloved, I grow thinner day by day, without anyone knowing.
- Commentary
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Book Twelve Expressing Thoughts Directly 2928
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Expressing Thoughts Directly"
Observing that each person seems to die for a reason of their own, the poet says he grows thinner day by day from love. Wasting away for love is portrayed as a quiet path toward death.
The poet is unknown. Book Twelve, titled the second part of "Love Poems Exchanged Old and New," gathers love poems by people whose names have not come down to us, arranged by category.
Line one, "onogajishi," means "each in one's own way."
Line two, "hito shini surashi," means "people seem to die," and the poem pauses here.
Line three, "imo ni koi," means "longing for my beloved."
Line four, "hi ni ke ni yasenu," means "I have grown thinner day by day."
Line five, "hito ni shiraezu," means "unknown to others," expressing the pain of a hidden love, as in poem 2905 in this book.
- Author
- Unknown
- Source
- Manyoshu
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