From Cupped Hands Poem by Ki no Tsurayuki

From Cupped Hands

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From cupped hands
Droplets cloud
The mountain spring-
It's not enough-as from you
Am I parted.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Fabrizio Frosini 06 July 2016

waka composed on parting from someone with whom he had spoken by a rocky spring on the way through the Shiga mountains.

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Fabrizio Frosini 06 July 2016

むすぶてのしづくににごる山の井のあかでも人にわかれぬるかな musubu te no siduku ni nigoru yama no wi no akade mo Fito ni wakarenuru kana From cupped hands Droplets cloud The mountain spring- It’s not enough-as from you Am I parted. Tsurayuki - 貫之 KOKINSHŪ - KKS VIII: 404

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