Book #89. Saigyô, poems of a mountain home

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by #89. Burton Watson

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Catalog:
PL 788.5 .S213 1991  

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List of texts:

#79.
(edit)みちのべに / しみづながるゝ / やなぎかげ / しばし… michi nobe ni / shimizu nagaruru / yanagi kage / shibashi tot…
#95.
(edit)とにかくに / 厭はまほしき / 世なれども / 君が住む… tonikaku ni / itowamahoshiki / yo naredomo / kimi ga sumu nim…
#97.
(edit)月のゆく / 山に心を / ゝくりいれて / やみなるあと… tsuki no yuku / yama ni kokoro wo / wokuri irete / yami naru …

List of translations:

#87.
(edit)My love will end / in hopelessness— / these longing sighs / I…
#91.
(edit)In this mountain village / where I've given up / all hope of …
#96.
(edit)However looked at, / it's a world / to be loathed— / but as l…
#98.
(edit)My mind I send / with the moon / that goes beyond the mounta…
#99.
(edit)Even in a person / most times indifferent / to things around …
#102.
(edit)What else / could have made me / loathe the world? / The one …
#104.
(edit)It's hard to despise / the whole world / as a borrowed lodgin…
#106.
(edit)Because I heard you were someone / who had left the household…
#108.
(edit)Let me die in spring / under the blossoming trees, / let it b…
#110.
(edit)Live through the long years, / pine, and pray for me / in my …
#112.
(edit)Fishermen home from / their day's work: / on a bed of seaweed…
#114.
(edit)He who casts himself away— / has he truly / cast himself away…
#116.
(edit)Even a person free of passion / would be moved / to sadness: …
#119.
(edit)The sound of the water / is my companion / in this lonely hut…

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