百人一首 #15 by 光孝天皇
Translation by Clay MacCauley via Hyakunin-Isshu (Single Songs of a Hundred Poets), 1917
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title: 百人一首 第15番 [君]{きみ}がため
japanese:
- - - pos: noun
text:
- 君: きみ
- pos: particle
text: が
- pos: noun
text: ため
dictionary: 為
- - pos: noun
text:
- 春: はる
- pos: particle
text: の
- pos: noun
text:
- 野: の
- pos: particle
text: に
- pos: verb
text:
- 出: い
- でて
dictionary: 出る
- - pos: noun
text:
- 若: わか
- 菜: な
- pos: verb
text: つむ
dictionary: 摘む
- - - pos: noun
text: わが
dictionary: 我が
- pos: noun
text:
- 衣: ころも
- 手: で
- pos: particle
text: に
- - pos: noun
text:
- 雪: ゆき
- pos: particle
text: は
- pos: verb
text:
- 降: ふ
- り
dictionary: 降る
- pos: particle
text: つつ
image:
file: card.jpg
alt: 光孝天皇の歌のかるた札
credit:
name: Wikimedia Commons
link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hyakuninisshu_015.jpg
english:
- It is for thy sake
- That I seek the fields in spring,
- Gathering green herbs,
- While my garment's hanging sleeves
- Are with falling snow beflecked.
translation:
author: Clay MacCauley
site:
name: Hyakunin-Isshu (Single Songs of a Hundred Poets), 1917
link: https://jti.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/hyakunin/macauley.html
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