百人一首 #44 by 中納言朝忠
Translation by Clay MacCauley via Hyakunin-Isshu (Single Songs of a Hundred Poets), 1917
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title: 百人一首 第44番 [逢]{あ}ふことの
japanese:
- - - pos: verb
text:
- 逢: あ
- ふ
dictionary: 会う
- pos: noun
text: こと
dictionary: 事
- pos: particle
text: の
- - pos: verb
text:
- 絶: た
- え
dictionary: 絶える
- pos: particle
text: て
- pos: particle
text: し
dictionary: https://kobun.weblio.jp/content/し
- pos: adjective
text: なく
dictionary: 無し
- pos: particle
text: は
- - pos: adverb
text: なかなか
dictionary: https://kobun.weblio.jp/content/なかなか
- pos: particle
text: に
- - - pos: noun
text:
- 人: ひと
- pos: particle
text: を
- pos: particle
text: も
- pos: noun
text:
- 身: み
- pos: particle
text: を
- pos: particle
text: も
- - pos: verb
text:
- 恨: うら
- み
dictionary: 恨む
- pos: verb
text: ざら
dictionary: ず
- pos: verb
text: まし
dictionary: https://kobun.weblio.jp/content/まし
image:
file: card.jpg
alt: 中納言朝忠の歌のかるた札
credit:
name: Wikimedia Commons
link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hyakuninisshu_044.jpg
english:
- If a trysting time
- There should never be at all,
- I should not complain
- For myself (oft left forlorn),
- Or of her (in heartless mood).
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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