百人一首 #45 by 謙徳公
Translation by Clay MacCauley via Hyakunin-Isshu (Single Songs of a Hundred Poets), 1917
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title: 百人一首 第45番 あはれとも
japanese:
- - - pos: noun
text: あはれ
dictionary: 哀れ
- pos: particle
text: と
- pos: particle
text: も
- - pos: verb
text: いふ
dictionary: 言う
- pos: verb
text: べき
dictionary: 可き
- pos: noun
text:
- 人: ひと
- pos: particle
text: は
- - pos: verb
text:
- 思: おも
- ほえ
dictionary: https://kobun.weblio.jp/content/思ほゆ
- pos: particle
text: で
- - - pos: noun
text:
- 身: み
- pos: particle
text: の
- pos: adverb
text: いたづらに
dictionary: 徒に
- - pos: verb
text: なり
dictionary: 成る
- pos: verb
text: ぬ
dictionary: https://kobun.weblio.jp/content/ぬ
- pos: verb
text: べき
dictionary: 可き
- pos: particle
text: かな
dictionary: 哉
image:
file: card.jpg
alt: 謙徳公の歌のかるた札
credit:
name: Wikimedia Commons
link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hyakuninisshu_045.jpg
english:
- Sure that there is none
- Who will speak a pitying word,
- I shall pass away.
- Ah! my death shall only be
- My own folly's (fitting end).
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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