Text #101.

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by #19. Saigyô (西行法師)

Season:
N/A  
Subject:
Rejection, Love lost  
Commentary:
From "One Hundred and Ten Love Poems"

--Could this be why Saigyô became a monk? No one knows...
Japanese:
何事に
つけてか世をば
いとはまし
うかりし人ぞ
今はうれしき
Romanization:
Nanigoto ni
tsukete ka yo wo ba
itowamashi
ukarishi hito zo
kyô wa ureshiki
Translation #102:
What else
could have made me
loathe the world?
The one who was cruel to me
today I think of as kind

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