Translation #87.

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by #22. Burton Watson

Text:
My love will end
in hopelessness—
these longing sighs
I bring on myself
are empty as the cicada's shell

Original text:

#86.
(edit)むなしくて / やみぬべきかな / 空蝉の / この身から… Munashikute / yaminubeki kana / utsusemi no / kono mi kara ni… by #86 Saigyô .

References.

Books:

#89.
Available on page 178 of Saigyô, poems of a mountain home.

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