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For but one night's sake,

Short as is a node of reed

Grown in Naniwa bay,

Must I, henceforth, long for him

With my whole heart, till life's close?

百(ひゃく)人(にん)一(いっ)首(しゅ) #88 by 皇(こう)嘉(か)門(もん)院(いんの)別(べっ)当(とう)

Notes on this poem

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かりね
仮(かり)寝(ね)/刈(か)り根(ね)
ひとよ
一(ひと)夜(よ)/一(ひと)節(よ)
みをつくし
澪(みを)標(つくし)/身(み)を尽(つ)くし

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

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