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Is it then the moon

That has made me sad, as though

It had bade me grieve?

Lifting up my troubled face,

Ah! the tears, the (mournful) tears!

(ひゃく)(にん)(いっ)(しゅ) #86 by 西(さい)(ぎょう)(ほう)()

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86番 [嘆]{なげ}けとて
japanese:
- - - pos: verb
      text:
      - : なげ
      - 
      dictionary: 嘆く
    - pos: particle
      text: とて
      dictionary: https://kobun.weblio.jp/content/とて
  - - pos: noun
      text:
      - : つき
    - pos: particle
      text: やは
      dictionary: https://kobun.weblio.jp/content/やは
    - pos: noun
      text:
      - : もの
    - pos: particle
      text: 
  - - pos: verb
      text:
      - : おも
      - 
      dictionary: 思う
    - pos: verb
      text: する
      dictionary: 為る
- - - pos: verb
      text: かこち
      dictionary: https://kobun.weblio.jp/content/かこつ
    - pos: noun
      text:
      - : がほ
      dictionary: 
    - pos: verb
      text: なる
      dictionary: 
  - - pos: noun
      text: わが
      dictionary: 我が
    - pos: noun
      text:
      - : なみだ
    - pos: particle
      text: かな
      dictionary: 
image:
  file: card.jpg
  alt: 西行法師の歌のかるた札
  credit:
    name: Wikimedia Commons
    link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hyakuninisshu_086.jpg
english:
- Is it then the moon
- That has made me sad, as though
- It had bade me grieve?
- Lifting up my troubled face,
- Ah! the tears, the (mournful) tears!
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} #86 by [西]{さい}[行]{ぎょう}[法]{ほう}[師]{し}

[Notes on this poem]https://hyakuninisshu.jp/poem/86/