旅の夜の久しくなればさ丹つらふ
紐解き放けず恋ふるこのころ
紐解き放けず恋ふるこのころ
- Roma-ji
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Tabi no yo no hisashiku nareba sanitsurau himo tokisakezu kouru konogoro
- English Translation
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The nights on my journey
have grown so long and many,
my cord of crimson
I have never once untied,
these days of longing for you
- Meaning
- The nights of my journey have grown so many that I have never untied my red cord, these days of longing for you.
- Commentary
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Book Twelve Thoughts Arising on Journeys 3144
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Thoughts Arising on Journeys"
With nights on the road growing many, the poet spends these days longing, never untying the red cord of his robe. Days of sleeping in his clothes on the journey are overlaid with longing for his wife. From here a series of poems on cords follows.
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, "tabi no yo no," means "the nights on the journey."
Line two, "hisashiku nareba," means "since they have grown long."
Line three, "sanitsurau," meaning "glowing red," is a pillow word for "himo," cord.
Line four, "himo tokisakezu," means "never untying my cord," the same expression as in poem 2975 in this book, referring to sleeping in one's clothes while traveling.
Line five, "kouru konogoro," means "these days of longing," ending on a noun.
- Author
- Unknown
- Source
- Manyoshu
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