Tangled Hair

みだれ髪 — 50 tanka · Morphological analysis and multi-language search

Source: A Girl with Tangled Hair by Akiko Yosano,
translated by Jane Reichhold & Machiko Kobayashi (2014)

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Tanka 1 · p.27 · ENJI-MURASAKI - LIPSTICK-RED LAVENDER

夜の帳にささめき尽きし星の今を下界の人の髪のほつれよ

bedroom curtains / the lovers' talk ends / now a star / one person of this earth / has stray hairs at the temple

Tanka 2 · p.27

歌にきけな誰れ野の花に紅き否むおもむきあるかな春罪もつ子

ask among poems / who denies a bright red / to field flowers / a girl is also attractive / with her sin of scarlet

Tanka 3 · p.28

髪五尺ときなば水にやはらかき少女(おとめ)ごころは秘めて放たじ

hair five feet / long loosened in water / softly sways / as does a young girl's heart / unable to free itself

Tanka 4 · p.28

血ぞもゆるかさむひと夜の夢のやど春を行く人神おとしめな

blood burning / will lend to one's night / a lodging for dreams / for one passing in spring / the gods will not scorn

Tanka 5 · p.29

椿それも梅もさなりき白かりきわが罪問はぬ色桃に見る

pure white camellias / the same as ume plums that / do not allow my love / what never blames my sin / is only the color of peach

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