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Guard of Suma's Gate,

From your sleep, how many nights

Have you waked at cries

Of the plaintive sanderlings,

Migrant from Awaji's isle?

百(ひゃく)人(にん)一(いっ)首(しゅ) #78 by 源(みなもとの)兼(かね)昌(まさ)

Notes on this poem

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

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title: 百人一首 第78番 [淡]{あは}[路]{ぢ}[島]{しま}
japanese:
- - - pos: noun
      text:
      - 淡: あは
      - 路: ぢ
      - 島: しま
      dictionary: 淡路島
  - - pos: verb
      text: かよふ
      dictionary: 通う
    - pos: noun
      text:
      - 千: ち
      - 鳥: どり
      dictionary: 千鳥
    - pos: particle
      text: の
  - - pos: verb
      text:
      - 鳴: な
      - く
      dictionary: 鳴く
    - pos: noun
      text:
      - 声: こゑ
    - pos: particle
      text: に
- - - pos: noun
      text:
      - 幾: いく
      - 夜: よ
      dictionary: 幾夜
    - pos: verb
      text: ねざめ
      dictionary: 寝覚め
    - pos: verb
      text: ぬ
      dictionary: https://kobun.weblio.jp/content/ぬ
  - - pos: noun
      text:
      - 須: す
      - 磨: ま
      dictionary: 須磨
    - pos: particle
      text: の
    - pos: noun
      text:
      - 関: せき
      - 守: もり
      dictionary: 関守
image:
  file: card.jpg
  alt: 源兼昌の歌のかるた札
  credit:
    name: Wikimedia Commons
    link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hyakuninisshu_078.jpg
english:
- Guard of Suma's Gate,
- From your sleep, how many nights
- Have you waked at cries
- Of the plaintive sanderlings,
- Migrant from Awaji's isle?
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} #78 by [源]{みなもとの}[兼]{かね}[昌]{まさ}

[Notes on this poem]https://hyakuninisshu.jp/poem/78/