How Hollow Poem by Ono no Komachi

How Hollow

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How hollow
Are tears upon a sleeve
In gemlets;
For mine cannot be dammed
As a surging flood!

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Fabrizio Frosini 24 June 2016

おろかなる涙ぞそでに玉はなす我はせきあへずたきつせなれば oroka naru namida zo sode ni tama Fa nasu ware Fa sekiaFezu tagituse nareba How hollow Are tears upon a sleeve In gemlets; For mine cannot be dammed As a surging flood! Ono no Komachi 小野小町 [from KOKINSHŪ - KKS XII: 557]

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