Feb
5
2009
Ono no Komachi
夢ぢには
あしもやすめず
かよへども
うつつにひとめ
見しごとはあらず
Though I go to you
ceaselessly along dream paths,
the sum of those trysts
is less than a single glimpse
granted in the waking world.
Ono no Komachi
Translated by Zoltan Barczikay
From Wikipedia
Ono no Komachi (小野 小町 or おののこまち) (c. 825 — c. 900) was a famous Japanese Continue reading
