This body
grown fragile, floating,
a reed cut from its roots...
If a stream would ask me
to follow, I'd go, I think.
(Tr. Hirshfield & Aratami)
More heart-wrenching than
To sear my body with live coals
Against my flesh,
Bidding farewell on Miyakoshima's shore
As you part for the capital.
(Tr. Sarah M. Strong)
Since this body
was forgotten
by the one who promised to come,
my only thought is wondering
whether it even exists.
(Tr. Hirshfield & Aratami)
Y halo thar Ono no Komachi. It seems I turn to you whenever I am in pain about these sorts of things :(
grown fragile, floating,
a reed cut from its roots...
If a stream would ask me
to follow, I'd go, I think.
(Tr. Hirshfield & Aratami)
More heart-wrenching than
To sear my body with live coals
Against my flesh,
Bidding farewell on Miyakoshima's shore
As you part for the capital.
(Tr. Sarah M. Strong)
Since this body
was forgotten
by the one who promised to come,
my only thought is wondering
whether it even exists.
(Tr. Hirshfield & Aratami)
Y halo thar Ono no Komachi. It seems I turn to you whenever I am in pain about these sorts of things :(