Like the fire the guardsman kindles, guarding the imperial gates: at night, burning, in the day, exhausted, over and over, so I long for her.
Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu
Translation from Mostow, Joshua S. Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1995.
Like the fire the guardsman kindles, guarding the imperial gates: at night, burning, in the day, exhausted, over and over, so I long for her.