Among my memories of this world, from whence I will soon be gone, oh, how I wish there was one more meeting, now, with you!
Izumi Shikibu
Translation from Mostow, Joshua S. Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1995.
Among my memories of this world, from whence I will soon be gone, oh, how I wish there was one more meeting, now, with you!