明日よりは恋ひつつ行かむ今夜だに
早く宵より紐解け我妹
早く宵より紐解け我妹
- Roma-ji
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Asu yori wa koitsutsu yukamu koyoi dani hayaku yoi yori himo toke wagimo
- English Translation
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From tomorrow on
I'll go my way in longing;
tonight at least,
early, from the evening on,
untie your sash, my love
- Meaning
- From tomorrow I will be on my way, longing for you; tonight at least, untie your sash early in the evening, my darling.
- Commentary
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Book Twelve Dialogue Poems 3119
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Dialogue Poems"
A man, about to leave on a journey and long for his wife, asks her to untie her sash early tonight so they may sleep together. With the woman's reply in the next poem, it forms a question-and-answer pair.
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, "asu yori wa," means "from tomorrow."
Line two, "koitsutsu yukamu," means "I will go on my way longing," and the poem pauses here.
Line three, "koyoi dani," means "tonight at least."
Line four, "hayaku yoi yori," means "early, from the evening."
Line five, "himo toke wagimo," means "untie your sash, my darling," asking to sleep together on the eve of his departure.
- Author
- Unknown
- Source
- Manyoshu
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