Though I grieve, there is no help; Vainly I long to see her. Men tell me that my wife… — Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Though I grieve, there is no help; Vainly I long to see her. Men tell me that my wife is In the mountains of Hagai- Thither I go, Toiling along the stony path; But it avails me not, For of my wife, as she lived in this world, I find not the faintest shadow.
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Anonymous. 1000 Poems from the Manyoshu: The Complete Nippon Gakujutsu Shinko Translation, selected and translated by Iwanami Shoten. Dover Publications, 2005, bk. 2, poem 210-2.
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Man'yōshū. Compiled by Otomo no Yakamochi. c. 759, bk. 2, poem 210-2.
