A Hundred Verses from Old Japan/Poem 50

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50


FUJIWARA NO YOSHITAKA

Kimi ga tame
Oshikarazarishi
Inochi sae
Nagaku mogana to
Omoi keru kana.


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YOSHITAKA FUJIWARA

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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