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Though your promise was

"Like the dew on moxa plant"

And, to me, was life;

Yet, alas! the year has passed

Even into autumn time.

(ひゃく)(にん)(いっ)(しゅ) #75 by (ふじ)(わらの)(もと)(とし)

Notes on this poem

Translation by Clay MacCauley via Hyakunin-Isshu (Single Songs of a Hundred Poets), 1917

---
title: 百人一首 第75番 [契]{ちぎ}りおきし
japanese:
- - - pos: verb
      text:
      - : ちぎ
      - 
      dictionary: 契る
    - pos: verb
      text: おき
      dictionary: 置く
    - pos: verb
      text: 
      dictionary: 
  - - pos: noun
      text: させも
      dictionary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_princeps
    - pos: particle
      text: 
    - pos: noun
      text:
      - : つゆ
    - pos: particle
      text: 
  - - pos: noun
      text:
      - : いのち
    - pos: particle
      text: にて
      dictionary: https://kobun.weblio.jp/content/にて
- - - pos: noun
      text: あはれ
      dictionary: 哀れ
    - pos: noun
      text:
      - 今年: ことし
    - pos: particle
      text: 
  - - pos: noun
      text:
      - : あき
    - pos: particle
      text: 
    - pos: verb
      text: いぬ
      dictionary: https://kobun.weblio.jp/content/往ぬ
    - pos: verb
      text: めり
      dictionary: https://kobun.weblio.jp/content/めり
image:
  file: card.jpg
  alt: 藤原基俊の歌のかるた札
  credit:
    name: Wikimedia Commons
    link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hyakuninisshu_075.jpg
english:
- Though your promise was
- '"Like the dew on moxa plant"'
- And, to me, was life;
- Yet, alas! the year has passed
- Even into autumn time.
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
---

[百]{ひゃく}[人]{にん}[一]{いっ}[首]{しゅ} #75 by [藤]{ふじ}[原]{わらの}[基]{もと}[俊]{とし}

[Notes on this poem]https://hyakuninisshu.jp/poem/75/