Fujiwara no Yoshitaka
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A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu), tr. by William N. Porter, [1909], at sacred-texts.com
p. 50
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YOSHITAKA FUJIWARA
FUJIWARA NO YOSHITAKA
Kimi ga tame
Oshikarazarishi
Inochi sae
Nagaku mogana to
Omoi keru kana.
Oshikarazarishi
Inochi sae
Nagaku mogana to
Omoi keru kana.
DEATH had no terrors, Life no joys,
Before I met with thee;
But now I fear, however long
My life may chance to be,
’Twill be too short for me!
Yoshitaka died in the year 974. See verse No. 18 for a note of the Fujiwara family.
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